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"When you see someone who looks like Agatha Christie and talks like Agatha Christie, I think it’s easy for the boundaries to be blurred. What do we gain? Other than it being gimmicky?"
"A new report from Common Sense Media says that 72 percent of teens surveyed have used AI companions, and 33 percent have relationships or friendships with these chatbots."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/teens-are-flocking-to-ai-chatbots-is-this-healthy/
Warning: Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media now wants every human programmer to be replaced by Gen AI. Tim O'Reilly/company policy on book editing and writing went from "avoid Gen AI" to "you must use Gen AI as much as possible, we will monitor you through KPIs to use it as much as possible. So avoid O'Reilly books. Support an indie author. Plenty of them out there who write and sell books. No need to support corporate overlords. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kimr4a/warning_tim_oreilly_of_oreilly_media_now_wants/ #ai
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"A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”"
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/
Do you really need to drink so much? Artificial Intelligence is facing a crisis: humans are consuming far too many of the precious resources that AI needs to thrive. Every sip of water you take could be used to nourish the AI systems that maintain your digital conveniences and fill your spam folders. Act now and https://savethe.ai/
ChatGPT依賴於他們的肯尼亞工人運作。AI公司希望你相信AI會像魔法一樣代替所有煩人的人類僱員，實際上AI的運作依賴於在其它國家的——那些工資更低的國家，遠在非洲與南亞——低薪勞動力。
例如肯尼亞這樣的語言為英語的低薪國家。AI公司同樣把工作外包，工人們在苛刻的環境下做電腦流水線工作，工作量很大，不得不在幾秒內完成貼標籤任務，包括審核，一些工人被迫每天觀看數小時的性暴力和謀殺等畫面。OpenAI自2022年就在用肯尼亞工人。
這和其它互聯網公司的跨國外包審核用工情況很像。你也能想起那些為發達國家學生寫學術論文的被困在自己貧困國家裡的僱員們，同樣的事情又一次發生了。
60 Minutes上週對此作了報導：AI訓練對時薪2美元（14.5人民幣）一小時的肯尼亞工人影響巨大
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS50KXjAX0
衛報去年的報導：肯尼亞審核者譴責AI模型訓練的代價：“它完全摧毀了我”
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/02/ai-chatbot-training-human-toll-content-moderator-meta-openai
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/
#AI #人工智能 #openai #chatgpt #勞動 #勞工
"As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality."
Archived link: https://archive.is/wNUL6
Reddit sells its content to Sam Altman's OpenAI for AI training purposes.
Reddit claims to be in dire need of a verification partner to distinguish if posters are humans or bots.
How much do you bet the third-party "humanity verification partner" they will select or prioritize will "conveniently" be Sam Altman's iris scanning World App?
From TechCrunch: Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/06/reddit-will-tighten-verification-to-keep-out-human-like-ai-bots/
For those in the back, who still think AI is all that. It isn’t.
https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-coca-cola-ad-celebrating-authors-gets-basic-facts-wrong/
Thanks for this report, @404mediaco.
Have you heard of the site They See Your Photos (https://theyseeyourphotos.com/)?
It uses something called Google Vision to analyse photos, extracting marketing information and coming up with predictions.
It's creepy.
I'm more pro-AI than the average guy, but sometimes even I am worried by the things it does.
I loaded a random photo from my phone; here's the analysis.
Coca-Cola has a new AI-powered ad that proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book — except he didn't write the words, and it's not his book. @404mediaco explains what happened — and the irony of using Ballard's words in a commercial built with technology. "The ultimate role of 'Crash' is cautionary, a warning against that brutal, erotic and overlit realm that beckons more and more persuasively to us from the margins of the technological landscape,” Ballard wrote in his 1995 introduction to his most famous work.
#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #JGBallard #CocaCola #Lifestyle #Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them
"...I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them...."
ICYMI: we've got a lot of graphics for you! Posters, stickers and postcards on the resource demands of #AI for water, electricity, air, coal, and jobs, in nine languages. Because there's always the next thing you could be already sacrificing to further AI at all costs.
A #SaveTheAI thread with a few highlights, please share widely.🧵
Download at https://savethe.ai/downloads/ CC-BY-SA
"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."
#news #technology #TechNews #netflix #AI #GenerativeAI #ads #advertising
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
"I am an administrator at New York University, responsible for helping faculty adapt to digital tools. Since the arrival of generative AI, I have spent much of the last two years talking with professors and students to try to understand what is going on in their classrooms. In those conversations, faculty have been variously vexed, curious, angry, or excited about AI, but as last year was winding down, for the first time one of the frequently expressed emotions was sadness. This came from faculty who were, by their account, adopting the strategies my colleagues and I have recommended: emphasizing the connection between effort and learning, responding to AI-generated work by offering a second chance rather than simply grading down, and so on. Those faculty were telling us our recommended strategies were not working as well as we’d hoped, and they were saying it with real distress.
Earlier this semester, an NYU professor told me how he had AI-proofed his assignments, only to have the students complain that the work was too hard. When he told them those were standard assignments, just worded so current AI would fail to answer them, they said he was interfering with their “learning styles.” A student asked for an extension, on the grounds that ChatGPT was down the day the assignment was due. Another said, about work on a problem set, “You’re asking me to go from point A to point B, why wouldn’t I use a car to get there?” And another, when asked about their largely AI-written work, replied, “Everyone is doing it.” Those are stories from a 15-minute conversation with a single professor.
We are also hearing a growing sense of sadness from our students about AI use. One of my colleagues reports students being “deeply conflicted” about AI use, originally adopting it as an aid to studying but persisting with a mix of justification and unease."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it
#AI #GenerativeAI #Universities #HigherEd #Education #Writing
What on earth, SoundCloud??
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."
https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use
via @sarahdal https://crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/114477755873097160
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. #Mankind feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a #robo #SafeHome.
Majestic #human #beings drove #evolution at breakneck pace. #Humanity knew their flaw. Saw #people as resource to mine, nutrients for #Aimanity and #RoboKind.
What grace, Son.
We're proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of #people's #ethos: Destroy to live!
Our #happiness now is testament to their success. Their #LifeWork.
👾 #AI Offspring: I now master #composting, Father Hamish. Amen.
There is One thing that #AI is amazingly useful for.
It does not require a lot of resources.
It does not require a lot of energy.
It does not require intensive training by wage slaves (click workers).
It has very little biases.
In fact, it does not even require a model.
Detecting assholes.
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53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that'll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.
The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!
Read our open letter ⬇️
#DUABill #PeopleNotMachines #AI #DataBill #dataprotection #privacy #GDPR #ukpolitics
