Fuck AI

I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.

The Prophet

Reddit has filed for its IPO. They've been preparing for this for a while, squeezing profit out of the platform in any way that they can, like hiking the prices on third-party app developers. More recently, they've signed a deal with Google to license their content to train Google's LLMs.

File this under "delusional CEO says 'what' "

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Literally insane.

Want to stop chatGPT from crawling your website? Just mention Australian mayor Brian Hood (or any of the other names listed in the article)

Panasonic has created an AI clone of its late founder Konosuke Matsushita based on his writings, speeches, and over 3,000 voice recordings.

"Hello, I am here to make you skinny."

Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22358507

Writing a 100-word email using ChatGPT (GPT-4, latest model) consumes 1 x 500ml bottle of water It uses 140Wh of energy, enough for 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max

Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations.

The messiah has returned and he is using AWS!

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47841834

Surprise surprise

HarperCollins sent an offer of $2,500 for a three-year license to feed Kibblesmith’s book to an unspecified “large tech company” AI.

Let’s be happy it doesn’t have access to nuclear weapons at the moment.

CCTV footage

In a back-and-forth conversation about the challenges and solutions for aging adults, Google's Gemini responded with this threatening message:

This morning I was searching for vegan options for hide glue

The photograph in Arthur’s article showed what had happened in a particular street. Taken with a telephoto lens from an upper storey of a building, it showed a chaotic and almost surreal scene: about 70 vehicles of all sizes jumbled up and scattered at crazy angles along the length of the street.

What a wonderful piece of Linux propaganda 😁. Look at this piece of shit spying on me at work doing who knows what that it needs more than one process.

Meta has historically restricted its LLMs from uses that could cause harm – but that has apparently changed. The Facebook giant has announced it will allow the US government to use its Llama model family for, among other things, defense and national security applications.

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross picket lines and provide services to mitigate the effect of a strike by New York Times tech workers.

Cross-posted from "AI-driven bot network trying to help Trump win US election" by @MicroWave@lemmy.world in !news@lemmy.world

Meta is one of several tech companies vying for a nuclear boost.

Meta has faced a setback in its plan to build data centers run on nuclear power. The FT reports that CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff last week that the land it was planning to build a new data center on was discovered to be the home of a rare bee species, which would have complicated the building process.

Meta is one of several tech companies vying for a nuclear boost.

OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.

Research paper.

This article is talking about phishing websites made by scammers with obvious signs that it was made by LLMs.

Meta is “working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Somehow it missed the massive forest fire this summer that destroyed much of the park and the town ... until it was reminded.

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Google could preview its own take on Rabbit’s large action model concept as soon as December, reports The Information. “Project Jarvis,” as it’s reportedly codenamed, would carry tasks out for users, including “gathering research, purchasing a product, or booking a flight,” according to three people the outlet spoke with who have direct knowledge of the project.

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

Is OpenAI breaking U.S. copyright law? A former employee of the company says yes.

Imagine walking into your office to find that your company just hired thousands of new employees overnight – except they're not human. That's exactly what Microsoft has made possible with its groundbreaking announcement of autonomous AI agents, marking a fundamental shift in how businesses will operate in the coming years.

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...and Graphene stands alone.

Widely shared on social media, the atmospheric black and white shots -- a mother and her child starving in the Great Depression; an exhausted soldier in the Vietnam war -- may look at first like real historic documents.

A Massachusetts couple claims that their son's high school attempted to derail his future by giving him detention and a bad grade on an assignment he wrote using generative AI.

A European delivery company had to disable its AI chatbot after it started swearing at a customer and admitting it was the “worse delivery firm in the world.”

Can enter domain, image, etc.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday addressed the moderation issues that saw Instagram and Threads users losing access to their accounts, having posts disappear, and more, saying that the company “found mistakes” that it’s attributing to human moderators. The company did not initially blame faulty AI systems, as many believed would be the case.

As of last week, OpenAI is now worth $157 billion - yet below the hood is a far darker story. In this episode, Ed Zitron explains the cold, hard truth - that OpenAI is a terrible business that burns billions of dollars, and its failure to scale its cloud business tells a dark tale about the wider generative AI industry.

Using AI Hawk's Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20667463

AI expert Gary Marcus says OpenAI may be forced to become a surveillance company to make money.

We talk to founder Jingna Zhang about the portfolio and social app that’s dedicated to supporting the art community.

On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot, introducing two new experimental features for a limited group of $20/month Copilot Pro subscribers: Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision. Labs integrates OpenAI's latest o1 "reasoning" model, and Vision allows Copilot to see what you're browsing in Edge.

Jason Allen, the AI "artist" whose image he created with Midjourney won a fine arts competition two years ago, is still mad that the government won't let him copyright his opus — and, in an amazing lack of self-awareness, is also crying that his work is being stolen as a result.

Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train generative AI on the classes that its users contribute to the site. Not only were class teachers automatically opted in to having their classes used as training, Udemy said teachers would have only a three-week "window" to opt-out of training. That window has now passed.

alt-text A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article: [User] summarize https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html Copilot The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].