𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. 😖😖

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt

We could create a #world in which work is done by #robots and #AI, so that all humans could be artists? Why don't we do it?

#technology #art #humanity #future #economy #war #terror #violence #police #politics #democracy #freedom #artwork #work #humanrights #question #utopia

My company recently internally promoted using Microsoft Copilot for Web including to "Generate creative content (such as poems, stories, songs, and more).". I replied to the Slack message some snarky questions about author consent to have their work used by the LLM tool, after which I was directed to an internal feedback form about LLM usage.

I repeated my question "Do we have the details on the dataset Copilot was trained on and if the relevant authors were asked for their work to be used, especially for the “creative content generation” part?" and I received a personal response from the Senior Vice President of End User Technology & Experience that "No data is tracked, sent to LLM models and microsoft doesnt (sic) know what we ask and return".

I was initially only venting, but the escalation culminating in a non sequitur has made me even more frustrated.

#LLM #AI

Modern consumer-facing #AI products perfectly described in 1981 by Shel Silverstein.

Jérôme Ydarack

2023-12-11 00:15:35

Shel Silverstein - The Homework Machine
(In A Light In The Attic, 1981)

Just as we all knew all along, #Reddit’s move to charge exorbitant fees for API access was so they can cut lucrative deals to sell user-created material to train #AI models.

I was a redditor of about 15 years when I decided to delete everything I wrote and close my account because I foresaw this hostile repurposing of what is essentially a massive store of freely-accessible, context-rich community-generated content, made by people who didn’t necessarily want their content to be used for training without compensation.

AI training is largely built on top of exploitation of labor for private gain. It’s legal in many cases, but it’s often unethical and immoral.

“Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-16/reddit-is-said-to-sign-ai-content-licensing-deal-ahead-of-ipo

No-paywall version here: https://archive.ph/caW1Y

Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO

Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public…

^{Amy Or (Bloomberg)}

Rumor has it on the next Android update, Google's Bard AI will help you write your text messages. But there's a catch: the processing is done on Google's servers, not your device, so your messages will be sent to Google as you type them. It will be possible to disable the AI, though. If your messages are sent to Google, they will be stored for 18 months and can be seen by humans in "anonymized" form.

Google update shows how Bard AI may work with your messages app

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #privacy #google #android

Google Update Shows How Bard AI May Work With Your Messages App

New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…

^{Zak Doffman (Forbes)}

My problem with #AI isn’t that it’s a new medium that would somehow threaten the existing ones, like printed books, radio, cinema, television, video games, social media and live streaming did before.

No, my problem is that it’s exactly the same mediums we’re used to, churning an endless stream of a cultural average, reifying it in the process, all the while infringing copyright on an industrial scale and guzzling energy and water like there’s no tomorrow.

It’s the exact opposite of a new medium that grants a new creative freedom and rewards trailblazing artists, instead flattening entire aesthetics genres into their most pleasing surface-level aspect thanks to the absence of creative effort to produce facsimiles at scale.

FB just offered me an ad titled "Learn ChatGPT in just 4 weeks!"

I have so many questions.

Like, is the course taught by ChatGPT? Is the material about ChatGPT written by ChatGPT? Does it come with a certificate? Is there an exam? How do I know the material written by ChatGPT about ChatGPT is accurate?... Does it matter?...

#WTF #WhatTheHell #Why #How #Who #Why #AI #ChatGPT

The Dawn of the AI-Military Complex

source: https://goodinternet.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-ai-military-complex

Two weeks ago, #OpenAI deleted it's ban on using #ChatGPT for "Military and Warfare" and revealed, that it's working with the military on "cybersecurity tools". It's clear to me that the darlings of generative AI want in on the wargames, and i'm very confident they are not the only ones. With ever more international conflicts turning hot, from Israels war on Hamas after the massacre on 7th october to Russias invasion of Ukraine to local conflicts like the Houthis attacking US trade ships with drones and the US retaliating, plus the competetive pressure from China, who surely have their own versions of AI-powered automated weapon systems in place, i absolutely think that automatic war pipelines are in high demand from many many international players with very very deep pockets, and #SiliconValley seems more than eager to exploit.

#wargame #war #terror #military #ai #news #complex #politics #economy #conflict

The Dawn of the AI-Military Complex

Triggerwarnings.

^{René Walter (GOOD INTERNET)}

#AI #LLM is gunking up the web, especially for lesser-represented languages. Spammers are creating garbage English language content using LLMs, then translating it into *multiple languages* at the same time, using Machine Translation, presumably to generate clickbait ad revenue in several languages at once.

In English, such gunk accounts for some 9% of total sampled web content. But in languages with less representation on the Internet, the figures could be much higher. In Malay, it’s something like 26%, and in Swahili it’s nearly HALF of everything found on the web.

Paper [pdf]: “A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749.pdf

We’re over a year into this cycle of AI hype, but how does the real impact of the technology compare to what tech CEOs have spent all their time warning us about?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @timnitGebru about how they distracted us from the real problems with AI to shape regulation and serve themselves.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/203_ai_hype_distracted_us_from_real_problems_w_timnit_gebru

#ai #openai #samaltman #tech

The future may or may not be grim, but what is certain is that it’s going to be very stupid. #AI

NeoNacho

2024-01-15 19:08:50

Well they tried

Apologizing for using AI-generated image looks like the new sport for public relations managers in 2024 🤣 :

- Wacom: https://nitter.net/wacom/status/1744814055137919388#m

- Magic: The Gathering: https://nitter.net/wizards_magic/status/1744056808254173447#m

Src on this discussion: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/111730964394827333

#ai #wacom #magicthegathering #pr

Leonard Ritter

2024-01-10 09:33:37

<a few weeks ago>

PR guy at wacom: Fuck. FUCK FUCK FUCK! This whole AI shit is worrying budding artists so much, they're giving up on their careers! Our tablet sales are tanking! This AI craze is doing nothing for us! What a lemon! Unless... hmm! What if if we used it to generate ad illustrations? We could cut costs and at least squeeze *some* lemonade from this...

<a little bit later>

PR guy: oh no

So, CEOs...

#Capitalism #AI #work

What are the big takeaways from 2023? @xoxogossipgita, @molly0xfff, and Aaron Thorpe join me for a great year-end chat on AI hype, tech villains, and other big stories of the year!

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/200_the_year_in_tech_2023_w_gita_jackson_molly_white__aaron_thorpe

#tech #2023 #elonmusk #jeffbezos #ai

Open source #AI has been a key issue in policy debates, and #AIAct includes provisions that regulate development and sharing of #opensource AI development.
We've been following the proposed rules as they meandered through several different approaches. Now elements of the final version have been made public.

The big question was whether transparency and other obligations need to be mandated for open source AI, or they can be self-regulated – under the assumption that open source developers ensure these elements based on principles of open development.

The agreed upon wording of the AI Act assumes the later, and makes open source exempt from regulation of general purpose AI models, including transparency obligations.

We think that this is a problem, especially that lack of agreed standards that define open source AI means that there is an risk of open washing.

You can read more about this on our blog: Paul Keller wrote a detailed analysis of the provisions:
https://openfuture.eu/blog/a-frankenstein-like-approach-open-source-in-the-ai-act/

A Frankenstein-like approach: open source in the AI act – Open Future

Late last week, the European Commission, the Member States, and the European Parliament reached a deal on the AI Act.

^{Open Future}

I’m somewhat relieved I can still spot a machine-generated product page leading to a very-likely-non-machine-generated checkout funnel. I firmly believe this ability won’t last long, though.

And I’m really curious what you would end up getting in the mail if any.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

🔥Clearance Sale🐱Art design Cat Chair

^{Householcable}

Not blown away by Google #Bard's sophisticated reasoning capabilities just yet.

#AI

Check this out:

Your AI-free Content Deserves a Badge

https://notbyai.fyi/

⚠️ Edit: Please read the license and the following toot ⚠️

https://floss.social/@amin@alpha.polymaths.social/111461825808009435

It is not ideal. If I had known this and read the fine-print, I probably wouldn't have shared it 😔

#AIFree #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NotByAI #LLM #LLMs #SALAMI

Not By AI — Add the Badge to Your Human-Created Content

Download and add the Not By AI badge to showcase your AI-free & human-first approach to content creation (writings, art, photos, paintings, videos, and music)

^notbyai.fyi

Can somebody please get an AI image generator to generate a fox with a human face or head for me?

The other way around is really easy and does not count.

#AI #StableDiffusion #DALLE #Midjourney

Now this is interesting!
"This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai

#ai #ImageGenerator #ArtistsRights #generativeAI #aiModels #DataPoisoning

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. 

^{Melissa Heikkilä (MIT Technology Review)}

I've been thinking about the new Associated Press guidelines to avoid referring to #AI in ways that could imply humanness, sentience, or intent:

Don't say, "It WANTS you to enter more information," for example.

I've often used that kind of wording for computers in the past.

But more precise wording matters now because it's the first time we've widely had systems that could be mistaken for being human or having sentience, and it's important not to reinforce that idea.

#ChatGPT

⚠️ Uwaga , kradom!
Nie umiejom napisać prompta więc kradnom! 😱
Kradom naszą ciężko ukradzioną pracę (milionom anonimowych artystów...)! 😱
"Kradzież w społeczności artystów AI"
https://medium.com/@JimTheAIWhisperer/stealing-in-the-ai-artist-community-ai-art-and-the-shared-imagination-4b65bfdaf986

#ai #llm