AI, taking complex topics and fucking them up, giving people bad information that’ll get them killed, all for the low low price of more energy and water than we have to spare. This is such a waste of time. https://mastodon.social/@emanuelmaiberg/113192736734791060
[me]: ok, lets try something simple, just add this one thing.
[chatgpt]: ok, I sort of did that so that it it looks mostly right, but I also randomly removed subtly important details that will definitely break everything, good luck hunting down the regressions I introduced!
“But AI is cheap!”
It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.
The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption ...
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I feel powerless in the face of the rampant adoption of A.I. with little to no societal safeguarding or legal protection, so I make jokes while the driverless steamroller slowly crushes us all to death.
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Google, following the industry trend to AI-all-the-things, has released Magika - a machine learning model which can identify file types. It claims it can outperform traditional methods by 20 per cent.
I pitted it against BSD File on something I figured Google hadn't included in its million-file-strong corpus: CU Amiga's Mega CD-ROM coverdisc from November 1995.
Magika identified... one file correctly, a plain-text document. File? File got 'em all, and quicker too.
(An unfair test, I know!)
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Pillaged from BlueSky:
"20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital."
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I found the best use of the OpenAI API yet. https://www.chaintexts.com
Plz enjoy this fantastic AI-generated emoji chain text about 9/11 that I just generated.
Who on earth is going to click the AI button purposefully on a Windows Keyboard. Also, how the fuck did this get accepted? You’re modifying the experience of long time users of Microsoft devices for a stinking key to open a stinking thing that will be dead in a few years.
You are really gonna pay to manufacturer all these keyboards? You’re gonna be the first person to have to sunset a physical device?
More money than sense
If I installed new server software that served websites 500% faster but also crashed sometimes, your first question would be "how frequent are the crashes?" and if I shrugged you'd back away slowly and start looking for my replacement.
But with LLMs & hallucinations that's just normal operating conditions and you're a luddite if you ask too much about it.
Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and steal something from there anyway.
But the categorical difference is that in the old way, there was a non-zero chance of getting caught. The Plagiarism Machine makes that impossible because it is a copyright laundry.
"Unleash your Creativity with the power of Leonardo Ai "
Maybe change that to "unleash your ability to generate images based on the *actual* talents of others with unethical art sourcing while claiming that you're a creative person because you don't care"
Anyone else see "AI" and just switch off?
If I'm looking for some new software or a SaaS, or I open an article and it mentions AI, I immediately go back or close the tab. I'm just so fed up of it appearing in *everything*.
I get it has a use (I wouldn't even say it's a purpose) but it seems some products have gone hard on it and I'm just bored of hearing about it now.
I’ll be honest, my faith in MDN and Mozilla was already on the floor. Think this might be the final nail in the coffin for me https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/9208
Why aren’t the “godfathers” of AI talking about the massive data theft from artists & their lawsuits eg? Because that discourse is too beneath their genius brains to cover? They have to talk about grand endeavors like SAVING HUMANITY? Because their practices would be implicated?
People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.
Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.
Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.
I absolutely do not have it in my soul to read another pithy blurb by some random exec on linkedin about how AI is transforming our lives when it's currently just regurgitating content stolen from elsewhere and for the last decade, "AI" has been a glossy shell disguising underpaid human labor.
I think I figured out an aesthetic reason why AI-in-everything has been annoying the hell out of me.
They're all using the same API from the same source — okay maybe two or three sources but mostly not — converging all their interesting and distinct services into one indistinguishable oatmeal mashup.
Oh you can help me write emails? How is that different from the ten other apps that hook up to ChatGPT to help me write emails?
Ben and Ceora talk through some thorny issues around AI-generated music and art, explain why creators are suing AI companies for copyright infringement, and compare notes on the most amusing/alarming AI-generated content making the rounds (Pope coat, anyone?).
1/BREAKING: We were featured in this @restofworld article about the grave dangers of AI machine translation. These tools are on the rise, increasingly used by for-profit government contractors and aid organizations that work with refugees & migrants. bit.ly/41Z9Sxu 🧵
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I found a bot which was hammering my site. So I asked the author if they could make it opt-in.
Apparently consent doesn't matter if it's for the greater good.
The #AI brainworms are strong!
https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset/issues/293
AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.
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Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table
I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...
and there it is. github takes all our free code, puts it in a blender, uses us for free QA on the result, and finally turns around and charges for it
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Looks like GitHub Copilot is going public as a paid product! I have to admit that their "first hit is free" strategy worked perfectly, writing code without it is now somewhat painful and I'll happily pay for it
Stop thinking AI is magic. It’s not magic. It’s three if/then statements in a trench coat backed up against Grandma’s photo album and a dump truck full of bank statements.
while you're engaged in "weird game dev man spews anti-vax conspiracies" discourse, I'm focused on "weird game dev man falls in love with his sexy lady AI who gets shut down for violating OpenAI terms of service"
If your AI processes AGPL licensed source code and thereby incorporates it, is your AI code required to be released to the public?
Roll 3d6 and hire that many lawyers.
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Anybody else wandering how "machine learning" laundering of copywritten works is going to hold up in court?
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Copilot, is in fact, GNU/Copilot, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU code trained Copilot. Copilot is not an AI system unto itself, but rather a proprietary component that launders GNU code
"Once, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training -- that was the GNU General Public License."
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