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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