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67 votes
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Air Canada successfully sued after its AI chatbot gave BC passenger incorrect information: airline claimed it wasn't liable for what its own AI told customers
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Google Bard is now Gemini; Gemini Advanced launched
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Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block
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OpenAI releases Sora: Creating video from text
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A peer reviewed journal with nonsense AI images was just published
@🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥: It's finally happened. A peer-reviewed journal article with what appear to be nonsensical AI generated images. This is dangerous. pic.twitter.com/Ez54H6l7iZ
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Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro is a new, more efficient AI model
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Parkland mass shooting victims send AI robocalls to NRA-supporting US politicians
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AI firm [Midjourney] considers banning creation of political images for 2024 elections
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Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
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‘Neural network’ fake ID site goes dark after 404 Media investigation - Site creator denies illegal applications after boasting of them
23 votes -
How Cory Doctorow got scammed (and why AI will make it worse)
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The human element in AI-driven testing strategies
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Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist
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How Quora died - The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.
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Popular AI chatbots found to give error-ridden legal answers
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An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics
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I got a spam call and the automated voice that requests their reasoning for calling was my voice AI generated
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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
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ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says
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George Carlin estate sues creators of AI-generated comedy special in key lawsuit over stars’ likenesses
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What do you guys think of these AI-generated stand up comedy specials?
So I came across this new dudesy video titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead" and it put me down a weird rabbit hole. I'm not a Carlin super fan but I know some of his famous bits and respect...
So I came across this new dudesy video titled "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead" and it put me down a weird rabbit hole. I'm not a Carlin super fan but I know some of his famous bits and respect his work and maybe that's the perfect setup for watching this because... I'm honestly blown away. I planned on listening to 3 minutes of it to make fun of stupid AI but ended up letting it run for the entire hour and actually laughed quite a bit. It all makes sense. It does sound like him. I don't know how much editing went into it, how much prompting and discarded material. I especially don't know if it just dug up old jokes somewhere else and copied them. But still.
It feels like we just had awkward AI-wordsalad experiments and things like the infinite Seinfeld stream which was fun in a so-bad-it's-good kinda way but... I mean, it obviously was bad. The funny part was that it was unpredictably bad.
But only a year later we're having some uncanny valley shit. I looked it up and apparently this started with a comedy podcast with an AI co-host which produced a clip for a fictional Tom Brady standup routine which turned out popular enough to get them sued, apparently.
There's this part in the fake Carlin special where he talks about the future of entertainment being 24-hour streams where an AI comedian comments on daily news events in real time or something and I can't say I wouldn't watch that. Just to see what it's like. But I also get people calling it disgusting. It kinda is. I get [his daughter says "machine will ever replace his genius"](machine will ever replace his genius), she's right of course. But that video got close IMO.
You can still point at little flaws here and there with AI generated content but with this trend, it will be 3 or 5 years before we get perfectly polished content machines that don't trip over any of the easy and obvious stuff. What place would such content have in the entertainment industry?
What do you guys think?
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Criminals are getting increasingly adept at crafting malicious AI prompts to get data out of ChatGPT
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Joscha Bach: Synthetic Sentience - Can Artificial Intelligence become conscious?
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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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Why AI writing is inherently coercive
Writing, at its core, is a shared experience between the author and the reader—an exchange of thoughts, emotions, and ideas. This connection, built on trust and authenticity, is the bedrock of any...
Writing, at its core, is a shared experience between the author and the reader—an exchange of thoughts, emotions, and ideas. This connection, built on trust and authenticity, is the bedrock of any meaningful relationship, even one as seemingly one-sided as the parasocial relationship between an author and their audience.
When AI is introduced into the realm of writing, it disrupts this delicate balance of trust. Readers inherently believe that they are engaging with the genuine thoughts and expressions of a fellow human being. However, the introduction of AI blurs this line, creating a scenario where the words on the page may not be the product of human experience or creativity.
Imagine delving into a piece of writing, believing you are connecting with the unique perspectives and emotions of another person, only to discover that those words were crafted by a machine. The sense of betrayal and disillusionment that may follow disrupts the very essence of the reader's trust in the author. It's akin to thinking you are having a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend, only to later realize it was an automated response.
This violation of trust erodes the foundation of the parasocial relationship, leaving readers questioning the authenticity of the connection. Human communication is a dance of shared experiences and emotions, and AI, no matter how advanced, lacks the depth of personal understanding that defines true human interaction.
In essence, while AI may expedite the writing process and provide creative insights, it does so at the cost of jeopardizing the sacred trust between the writer and the reader. As we navigate this digital era, let us not forget the importance of preserving the authenticity that underlies our human connections through the written word.
Generated by ChatGPT.
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OpenAI quietly removes ban on military use of its AI tools
43 votes -
AI may spare breast cancer patients unnecessary treatments
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Addressing equity and ethics in artificial intelligence
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Why is AI pornifying Asian women?
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The future of e-commerce is a product whose name is a boilerplate AI-generated apology
17 votes -
SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024
29 votes -
Introducing ChatGPT for teams
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How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
27 votes -
MSI's new monitor uses built-in AI to flag enemy positions for you in LoL
22 votes -
Is GenAI’s impact on productivity overblown?
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Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994. The Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards, though not yet.
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It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence
29 votes -
Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
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Brain tissue on a chip achieves voice recognition
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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On GitHub Copilot
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Cory Doctorow: What kind of bubble is AI?
25 votes -
Google's VideoPoet: A large language model for zero-shot video generation
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The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over the use of its stories to train chatbots
62 votes -
FT interview with the Hinge (dating app) founder
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You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
20 votes -
AI and trust
21 votes -
Why Europe fails to create wealth
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Largest dataset powering AI images removed after discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Materials
27 votes