"The worst was seeing small, especially creative, businesses — and even graphics designers — hopping on the trend.
[...]
Every single one of those businesses, even the small ones, could have afforded to pay an artist. But they didn’t."
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The other day I had another conversation in which someone said that #GenerativeAI made them more productive, and after I asked a few questions they admitted maybe 80% of the output is OK and they have to check and double check everything. Then when I asked the obvious followup, "wouldn't it be easier just to do it yourself from the beginning instead of having to put in all these safeguards and worry about whether you missed errors?" they had no real answer.
I feel like people have been sold the idea that #GenerativeAI must provide productivity gains, and many don't bother to examine whether it really does.
#AI #GenAI #hype
I feel like people have been sold the idea that #GenerativeAI must provide productivity gains, and many don't bother to examine whether it really does.
#AI #GenAI #hype
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"Not very sophisticated AI-generated papers are easy to spot—if, again, you know what to look for. In terms of both syntax and tone, they all sound roughly the same. Very neutral, very bland."
https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats
I wanted try out #deepseek and #Chatgpt o3-mini al little bit and thought: Get your #selfhosting setup cleaned up and those #nextcloud errors.
In a way I hate to say it, but #AI was way easier and faster than hours spent searching the web, reading reddit and asking in forums. And I totally get why that is: I can't expect that everybody and there grandfather jumps to my help. And AI is borrowed knowledge.
YMMV, but if you use Microsoft Office and are concerned about its AI and use of private documents for AI training, I’ve happily used @libreoffice’s Writer for years, exchanging documents with Microsoft Office users.
It is available for Windows and macOS, as well as Linux.
You don’t have to uninstall Microsoft Office to try it - the two will run side by side just fine.
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Brian Eno: "The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people, and I have less and less interest in what those people think, and more and more criticisms of what the effect of their work has been."
https://musictech.com/news/music/brian-eno-ai-problem/
Promo'd my Substack yesterday w #YouTube link. Oops. Now Real One
#DonaldTrump wants a military parade to feel adequate. Sorry, Don, no d*k measuring in democracy. David Shuster's fab video on Trumper Denialism. NYT Pitchbot on Maureen Dowd & Signalgate 2. READ (SUB!) to our NEW Blue Amp Substack!
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161966209 #writing #news #poliltics #us #usa #unitedstates #america #press #ai #trump #musk #tariffs #tech #nato #tv #canada #europe #russia #ukraine #eu #stockmarket #video #media
I'm thinking of excluding AI generated content explicitly in the terms of MakerTube. Background is that more and more generated content is uploaded and frankly resources are to sparse and costly to host this crap. What do you think? #peertube #makertube #terms #ai
很高兴看到公众对 deepseek 项目背后诸多技术资本和统治贵族之间阴暗且密切的关系的揭示。我们不会反对技术进步，只要技术进步可以造福人类，让我们不再辛劳，不再为了温饱而忍受剥削压榨，不再因人类肉身的局限性而不得不放弃自由的梦想委身于统治。
但是，当技术被掌握着法西斯手里时，我们所期待的一切不仅都无法实现，更将导致我们已经熟悉的噩梦变本加厉。它绝不可持续。
帝国冷战和民族主义的价值判断是本阶段你能遇到的最愚蠢的烟雾。扫清它们，才能看到你我的未来 - 那里不应再有它们的存在。
希望本文能为华人反抗者带来提示。
🧬 更新《斩断AI法西斯主义》
https://iyouport.notion.site/AI-19034ca2d46d804893acd4f301a76498
—— 📌 借此周知：本项目一期工程增补了一个新的栏目，将从理论原理和战术技巧等多方面讲述这场二十一世纪最重要的战斗如何与您密切相关：尤其是，您可以借助的机会和使用的武器。
这场战斗对中美两国至关重要，且只对这两国最重要；正如华语朋友在我们年初动员期间的讨论中所提到的；「这个世界的秩序正在变成两个法西斯之间的对峙、平衡、协调和合作， …… 华人Antifa的崛起将成为我们翻身的起点。」
希望本栏目能有助于更多华语地区的进步人士补充洞察力，并提升战斗力。
该栏目才刚开启，后续将有更多重要内容进入。如果您准备复制本数据库，可晚些再操作。
（本项目未来还将有一个单独讨论战术问题的专题站点，而将要收录在本栏目中的战术原理会具有一定的针对性。）
#高堡奇人 #China #USA #AI #法西斯 #fascism #resistance #tactics #initiatives
"Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”"
https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
"[...] there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that's now a Windows default app."
https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/
"Children shouldn’t speak with companion chatbots because such interactions risk self harm and could exacerbate mental health problems and addiction."
Katarzyna Nowaczyk-Basińska, a research fellow at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, explores how new technologies like "AI" chatbots are reshaping our understanding of death, loss and grief.
https://open.substack.com/pub/blueamp/p/sit-abc-news-sit-good-dog?r=j0lyx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
NEW SUBSTACK (Check it out/Subscribe!): A moment that defines our time. From Trump’s aggressive lying to the lack of pushback/weakness from Terry Moran & ABC’s corporate entanglements.
Also: David Shuster video (Hilarious!). NYT Pitchbot (Hilarious!). #news #usa #politics #russia #ukraine #press #us #america #unitedstates #tech #china #tariffs #stockmarket #donaldtrump #trump #press #media #podcast #eu #ai #canada #europe #nato
Please stop saying "AI powered". It's a mixed-up way to talk that allows for a lot of mischief:
1. It's a mixed metaphor. AI is reactive, not propulsive (think through what the word "power" means)
2. AI is a mixed bag of a large number of different technologies, making the term imprecise at best ("AI" in video games frequently leans on old school A*, quite different from the LLMs that make the news)
3. LLM-based AI mixes up other people's words into a slurry that is full of content-free phrases like "AI powered". Why ape that?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
1. It's a mixed metaphor. AI is reactive, not propulsive (think through what the word "power" means)
2. AI is a mixed bag of a large number of different technologies, making the term imprecise at best ("AI" in video games frequently leans on old school A*, quite different from the LLMs that make the news)
3. LLM-based AI mixes up other people's words into a slurry that is full of content-free phrases like "AI powered". Why ape that?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
My half-baked deep thought of the day is that we are living through a time in which imagination has been de-legitimatized generally, and we are reaching the necessarily absurd crescendo of this process. It is taking physical form in technologies such as generative AI, literal Anti-Imagination generators.
Let me be clear what I (don't) mean by "imagination". I do not mean "creative", "fictional", "imaginary", or "artistic"--those words can be related, but they've also been co-opted into exactly the trend I'm calling out. I also don't mean interesting images that appear in your mind or dreams but are then dismissed as lacking significance. I do mean truly imaginative acts arising within and from the mind, and not subjected to editorial scrutiny by logic, empiricism, or other instrumentalized forms of reason. Dreams are one way to access imagination; active imagination--stream of consciousness directed but not edited by the conscious mind--can be a way to explore it. Religious, magical, mystical, or meditative practices can too if that's your jam. So can psychoanalysis and some other forms of therapy. There are countless other ways and I don't pretend to have any special knowledge of this, I'm just riffing on an idea.
More and more I believe that we have to rediscover and exercise this aspect of ourselves if we're to navigate the current crisis. (*) Our collective imagination lacks force at a time when generative Anti-Imagination is reaching industrial scale.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #imagination #ActiveImagination
(*) "Crisis" has a medical definition: "that change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death" (Webster's dictionary). Its Greek root can also mean "decision", which I like to think about when considering "crises". They are decisions that need to be made.
Let me be clear what I (don't) mean by "imagination". I do not mean "creative", "fictional", "imaginary", or "artistic"--those words can be related, but they've also been co-opted into exactly the trend I'm calling out. I also don't mean interesting images that appear in your mind or dreams but are then dismissed as lacking significance. I do mean truly imaginative acts arising within and from the mind, and not subjected to editorial scrutiny by logic, empiricism, or other instrumentalized forms of reason. Dreams are one way to access imagination; active imagination--stream of consciousness directed but not edited by the conscious mind--can be a way to explore it. Religious, magical, mystical, or meditative practices can too if that's your jam. So can psychoanalysis and some other forms of therapy. There are countless other ways and I don't pretend to have any special knowledge of this, I'm just riffing on an idea.
More and more I believe that we have to rediscover and exercise this aspect of ourselves if we're to navigate the current crisis. (*) Our collective imagination lacks force at a time when generative Anti-Imagination is reaching industrial scale.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #imagination #ActiveImagination
(*) "Crisis" has a medical definition: "that change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death" (Webster's dictionary). Its Greek root can also mean "decision", which I like to think about when considering "crises". They are decisions that need to be made.
What if "42" is just the hallucination of an LLM from the future? 🤔
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"Titled “Chatgpt induced psychosis,” the original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her partner was convinced that the popular OpenAI model “gives him the answers to the universe.”"
Outlook not so good 🎱
Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.
Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.
Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/
#policing #AI #precrime #justice #criminal #police #ukpol #ukpolitics #surveillance
