"As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality."
Archived link: https://archive.is/wNUL6
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Reddit sells its content to Sam Altman's OpenAI for AI training purposes.
Reddit claims to be in dire need of a verification partner to distinguish if posters are humans or bots.
How much do you bet the third-party "humanity verification partner" they will select or prioritize will "conveniently" be Sam Altman's iris scanning World App?
From TechCrunch: Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/reddit-will-tighten-verification-to-keep-out-human-like-ai-bots/
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For those in the back, who still think AI is all that. It isn’t.
https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-coca-cola-ad-celebrating-authors-gets-basic-facts-wrong/
Thanks for this report, @404mediaco.
Have you heard of the site They See Your Photos (https://theyseeyourphotos.com/)?
It uses something called Google Vision to analyse photos, extracting marketing information and coming up with predictions.
It's creepy.
I'm more pro-AI than the average guy, but sometimes even I am worried by the things it does.
I loaded a random photo from my phone; here's the analysis.
Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. @404mediaco explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #JGBallard #CocaCola #Lifestyle #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."
ICYMI: we've got a lot of graphics for you! Posters, stickers and postcards on the resource demands of #AI for water, electricity, air, coal, and jobs, in nine languages. Because there's always the next thing you could be already sacrificing to further AI at all costs.
A #SaveTheAI thread with a few highlights, please share widely.🧵
Download at https://savethe.ai/downloads/ CC-BY-SA
"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."
#news #technology #TechNews #netflix #AI #GenerativeAI #ads #advertising
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus to offer lower wafer pricing than TSMC — 2nm class silicon to be priced around $20,000 on 2027 launch
Japanese chipmaker Rapidus discloses one more aspect of its strategy: to offer lower quotes than TSMC.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.
Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.
We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
#AI #GenerativeAI #Universities #HigherEd #Education #Writing
The apparatus of a large language model really is remarkable. It takes in billions of pages of writing and figures out the configuration of words that will delight me just enough to feed it another prompt. There’s nothing else like it.From ChatGPT Is a Gimmick,
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick
#AI #GenAI #GeneartiveAI #LLM #ChatGPT #GPT #gimmick
What on earth, SoundCloud??
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."
https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
via @sarahdal https://crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/114477755873097160
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. #Mankind feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a #robo #SafeHome.
Majestic #human #beings drove #evolution at breakneck pace. #Humanity knew their flaw. Saw #people as resource to mine, nutrients for #Aimanity and #RoboKind.
What grace, Son.
We're proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of #people's #ethos: Destroy to live!
Our #happiness now is testament to their success. Their #LifeWork.
👾 #AI Offspring: I now master #composting, Father Hamish. Amen.
There is One thing that #AI is amazingly useful for.
It does not require a lot of resources.
It does not require a lot of energy.
It does not require intensive training by wage slaves (click workers).
It has very little biases.
In fact, it does not even require a model.
Detecting assholes.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.
The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!
Read our open letter ⬇️
#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
I’m curious to know how often the distinctions between the various types of algorithms has been made? There has been a lot of discussion about #ai. Yet this is often used as a very generic term to describe everything from ChatGPT to AlphaFold without much distinction that the underlying algorithms are often very different. This difference seems like something that should be obvious and yet is not a common distinction in articles. Is this well known or distinction worth exploring? #philosophy
Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!
"Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process."
Not sure when this change came out, but if you use the Google Chrome browser (I know, I know) as a developer, you might want to follow these instructions to disable "AI innovations" and remove the "Ask AI" context menu items.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability
I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting "AI" buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DarkPatterns #UI #UX #UserInterface #tech #dev
> The main lesson of thirty-five years of #AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.
- Steven Pinker, 1994