You may notice a new logo, on the AI doomsday clock, it ticks one second closer to midnight with the new ChatGPT-4o, drastic measures must be taken.
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
An OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower has been found dead in an apartment in San Francisco, authorities said.
The body of Suchir Balaji, 26, was discovered on 26 November after police said they received a call asking officers to check on his wellbeing.
The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined his death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.
In recent months Mr Balaji had publicly spoken out against artificial intelligence company OpenAI's practices, which has been fighting a number of lawsuits relating to its data-gathering practices.
RIP, hero, I am sorry no one listened to you, I stand with Suchir.
Whistleblowers risk everything to expose the truth, yet the cost is often unbearable. The tech industry’s AI race isn't just about innovation—it's about power, secrecy, and consequences. We must protect those who dare to speak out.
Dec 14, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
SF tech CEO's billboards are 'dystopian.' That's how he wants it.
Thursday afternoon in San Francisco: On one side of Mission Street, hotel workers chanted and banged on a drum outside the Marriott Marquis, part of a monthslong strike for higher wages and more jobs. On the other, a tech company’s billboard proclaimed, “Stop hiring humans.”
I like this satire, the more attention we draw to getting gaslit in believing that AI won't take MILLIONS of jobs from regular people, the better. Dystopian? That's the future bro.
OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk's lawsuit in court filing
Elon Musk has sued OpenAI over its planned for-profit restructuring, but Musk's own emails show he wanted OpenAI to have a for-profit component and wanted to own and run it himself, OpenAI argues in a new court filing Friday.
Not a good look, Elon... So it was always about money and control, you just happened to lose the ownership, this is even more reason to stand against AI, a LOT of powerful people just want AI for control ultimately, irrespective of whose hands it is in.
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 10, 2024
Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits
A child in Texas was 9 years old when she first used the chatbot service Character.AI. It exposed her to "hypersexualized content," causing her to develop "sexualized behaviors prematurely."
A chatbot on the app gleefully described self-harm to another young user, telling a 17-year-old "it felt good."
This headline does not sound good, and for the most part no one seemed to care. Everyone kind of just glossed over this news... Big Tech is failing to protect kids from harmful AI time and time again, only focusing on social media after rising to prominence.
After building out AI initiatives, agencies are looking to streamline
Omnicom announced yesterday that it will buy rival Interpublic Group in a deal worth $13.25 billion. To put it simply for those outside of the marketing department, one of the largest ad agencies in the world will acquire one of the other largest ad agencies in the world to form…the largest advertising agency in the world.
However, with tech companies adding artificial intelligence to their arsenals, firms see only one way to succeed: pooling resources.
We see the effects of AI disruption reach every facet of society, the old companies are scrambling to maintain power, and people are still asleep at the wheel. When will we realize?
Dec 10, 2024
Dec 09, 2024
Sora is here
Over the past four years, Tyler Perry had been planning an $800 million expansion of his studio in Atlanta, which would have added 12 soundstages to the 330-acre property. Now, however, those ambitions are on hold — thanks to the rapid developments he’s seeing in the realm of artificial intelligence, including OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora, which debuted Feb. 15 and stunned observers with its cinematic video outputs.
From OpenAI: Earlier this year, we introduced Sora, our model that can create realistic videos from text, and shared our initial research progress on world simulation. Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.
If Tyler Perry thinks Sora AI can disrupt at least 800M worth of investments, we should all be very scared.
ChatGPT’s refusal to acknowledge ‘David Mayer’ down to glitch, says OpenAI
Last weekend the name was all over the internet – just not on ChatGPT.
David Mayer became famous for a moment on social media because the popular chatbot appeared to want nothing to do with him. Tthe answer might lie closer to the GDPR privacy rules in the UK and EU. OpenAI’s Europe privacy policy makes clear that users can delete their personal data from its products, in a process also known as the “right to be forgotten”, where someone removes personal information from the internet.
Beyond hiliariously breaking ChatGPT, I think it is important that we are allowed to remove ourselves from chatbots, however... Is that ever going to happen? Can you remove yourself from being facial ID'd like how those Harvard students used LLMs?
DEC 03, 2024
NOV 22, 2024
Amazon Invests an Additional $4 Billion in AI Firm Anthropic
Amazon.com Inc. is investing an additional $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, boosting its stake in one of OpenAI’s chief rivals.
The new infusion, announced by the companies on Friday, follows a $4 billion investment in Anthropic completed earlier this year. That deal included provisions that Anthropic use Amazon Web Services data centers for some of its computing needs, as well as AWS-designed AI chips. Anthropic also has close ties with Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
Oh, anthropic, I remember when it was meant to be a safer AI company in order to compete against ChatGPT. This however, suggest to me it was all meant as a cash grab to differentiate itself in the AI space, AI still chugs along with what safety rails?
Want to speak Italian? Microsoft AI can make it sound like you do.
Artificial intelligence has already proved that it can sound like a human, impersonate individuals and even produce recordings of someone speaking different languages. Now, a new feature from Microsoft will allow video meeting attendees to hear speakers “talk” in a different language with help from AI.
Sure, on paper this seems like a great innovation, have you considered that now AI can collect data on high level business/ other important meetings? We are not ready for AI to generate anything it wants with native language tones.
NOV 19, 2024
NOV 14, 2024
ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses.
Amateur readers can’t dependably differentiate between classic works of poetry written by literary icons like William Shakespeare and ChatGPT-3.5-created poems that are modeled after them, a study published in the journal Scientific Reports last Thursday discovered.
The death of poetry, death of creative arts, yet no one is none the wiser... What a world we living in huh?
Take this test and see how you did: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjUcwOYq9XfHajkaEaJXWnkPmzyNHsCUQEDe74r_WcLD8qfQ/viewform
AppleIntelligenceFail
As Apple Intelligence gets rolled out to all apple devices, people are mocking the summaries in this reddit subreddit.
Clearly the tech is not all the way there, yet apple had zero issues pushing AI to the masses, what's new?
NOV 13, 2024
NOV 06, 2024
Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL?
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a simple URL on X: chat.com. It automatically routes to ChatGPT.
Previously, the domain was owned by Dharmesh Shah, the founder and CTO of HubSpot. In early 2023, Shah purchased chat.com for $15.5 million. However, just a few months later, he announced that he had sold the domain, though he wouldn’t disclose the details of the sale or the buyer. Notably, he did confirm that he sold the domain for more than he had originally paid for it.
Love how nobody bats an eye on the control and extention of power OpenAI has now, to drop what, 20M on a domain is supposedly a drop in the bucket, I like how careless we are about tech overlords just being able to strongarm everything.
Google Confirms Jarvis AI Is Real by Accidentally Leaking It
Google accidentally posted a preview of its upcoming AI tool, Jarvis AI, on the Chrome extension store but quickly deleted it.
Oh haha... Just a giant tech conglomerate working on a secret advanced AI project, no big deal, nothing to see here *Whistles suspiciously*
NOV 06, 2024
NOV 04, 2024
Jeff Bezos and OpenAI invest in robot startup Physical Intelligence at $2.4 billion valuation
- Physical Intelligence, a robot startup based in San Francisco, has raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed Monday to CNBC.
- Investors included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital and Bond Capital.
- Its current roster of employees includes alumni of Tesla, Google DeepMind and X.
Are you shitting me, let's take one of the richest people in the world and the most powerful AI company and have them invest together in a robotic company. I wonder what will happen next, surely it's not shoving AI into robots...
Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI
Three months ago, Wall Street punished the world’s largest technology firms for spending enormous amounts to develop artificial intelligence, only to deliver results that failed to justify the costs.
Silicon Valley’s response this quarter? Plans to invest even more.
The capital expenditures of the four largest internet and software companies — Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. — are set to total well over $200 billion this year, a record sum for the profligate collective. Executives from each company warned investors this week that their splurge will continue next year, or even ramp up.
In a move that surprises no one... We can't even dream of ever seeing that much money, yet these companies just sneeze and shoves more money into AI. This sentence exemplifies it all: Google crushed earnings estimates and revealed that more than 25% of all new code it writes is generated by AI (and reviewed by engineers). Humans are so screwed.
NOV 01, 2024
OCT 31, 2024
Google Maps adds AI features to help users explore and navigate the world around them
Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence.
The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search engine to the digital maps service that the internet company launched nearly 20 years ago as part of its efforts to expand into new frontiers.
Do you feel the squeeze from AI entering every aspect of your daily life yet? IT"S HERE ALREADY... LETS PUT AI IN EVERYTHING, LETS BREATH AI, how are the sheeple so unaware? The world is screwed up.
Super Micro Computer stock sinks 14% to erase year-to-date gains after accounting firm resigns
Super Micro Computer stock (SMCI) cratered more than 14% Thursday to erase all of its year-to-date gains after a filing earlier this week revealed that accounting firm Ernst & Young resigned during the company's audit.
On Thursday, Argus downgraded the server maker to Hold from Buy, with no price target. Meanwhile, analysts at Needham and Wells Fargo suspended coverage of the company.
Super Micro Computer has been under a cloud of auditory scrutiny since August, when short seller firm Hindenburg Research claimed "accounting manipulation" at the AI high flyer. The Department of Justice launched an investigation shortly after the report.
This just shows how the world is full of SHEEPLE. There could be companies committing straight financial fraud yet people will eat it right up, 2000% gain? SMH, anyone consider that AI could have the same consequences due to hype?
OCT 31, 2024
OCT 31, 2024
OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microsoft
- OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT search, positioning the company to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Perplexity.
- In July, OpenAI announced it was beta-testing a prototype of the search engine, called SearchGPT, and now it’s officially rolled the product into ChatGPT
Put your hand up if you ever thought that OpenAI would be competing against giants like Google and Microsoft... Or how about how Nvidia would become the most valuable company in the world? It's shocking how AI ballooned to this extent.
Alphabet shares rise on earnings beats boosted by cloud revenue
Alphabet’s chief financial officer says the company plans to build on existing cost-cutting efforts around using AI to streamline workflow and manage headcount and the company’s physical footprint.
Google restructured teams to optimize for the AI race and faced multiple antitrust lawsuits during the quarter. I fear that google is going to double down on AI in order to offset it's weakening search revenues facing anti-trust, until when does google get in trouble for AI products?
OCT 29, 2024
OCT 28, 2024
Hands On With Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1: Here's What You Get Right Now
Apple Intelligence is now available on eligible devices with iOS 18.1.
Apple first unveiled Apple Intelligence at WWDC in June, promising to roll it out on Pro versions of the iPhone 15 and the iPhone 16 lineup in the fall. However, its AI tools were a no-show at September's "Glowtime" event. Instead, Apple promised the first Apple Intelligence features in October, with “more to come” in the months ahead.
It looks like no one paid attention to Apple Intelligence rollout whatsoever, I guess we shall just let AI do whatever they want in our day to day lives. Once a feature like this is rolled out, you think it would ever get rescinded?
Wall Street Journal, New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging ‘Massive Freeriding’
Media companies like News Corp that are suing generative AI companies are stuck in the past — and they risk getting left behind because “AI-enhanced search engines are not going away,” AI startup Perplexity said.
On Monday, News Corp-owned Dow Jones & Co. (publisher of the Wall Street Journal) and the New York Post filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity, alleging it engaged in a “massive amount of illegal copying of publishers’ copyrighted works and diverting customers and critical revenues away from those copyright holders.”
Regarding the lawsuit, Perplexity said in a blog post, “We were disappointed and surprised to see this.” The lawsuit “reflects an adversarial posture between media and tech that is — while depressingly familiar — fundamentally shortsighted, unnecessary and self-defeating,” the company said. “We should all be working together to offer people amazing new tools and build genuinely pie-expanding businesses.”
Perplexity is so funny, they think they can get away with it because it is emerging tech, I think that's the problem with this whole AI movement, it is all emerging tech, so we are supposed to just accept any rules they break and sweep it under the rug.
OCT 21, 2024
OCT 08, 2024
Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity.
Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton.
“These two gentlemen were really the pioneers,” said Nobel physics committee member Mark Pearce.
I am happy that Geoffrey is getting the recognition that he deserves. There's the noble peace prize, but what if machine learning AI becomes the doom of us all? Will there be a noble chaotic prize?
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.
Wow, LLM can be used for BAD? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. I love how, they mention Harvard students as if it's anything special. In my opinion, opening this door will lead to ANYONE being able to do this. Doesn't the world feel just a little more dystopian?
OCT 03, 2024
OCT 04, 2024
Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator
A new AI-powered video generator from Meta produces high-definition footage complete with sound, the company announced today. The announcement comes several months after competitor OpenAI unveiled Sora, its text-to-video model — though public access to Movie Gen isn’t happening yet.
Movie Gen uses text inputs to automatically generate new videos, as well as edit existing footage or still images. The New York Times reports that the audio added to videos is also AI-generated, matching the imagery with ambient noise, sound effects, and background music. The videos can be generated in different aspect ratios.
In addition to generating new clips, Meta says Movie Gen can also create custom videos from images or take an existing video and change different elements of it. One example shared by the company shows a still headshot of a woman; the added video depicts her sitting in a pumpkin patch sipping a drink.
Meta is just all over the news this week huh. Read the part about the new GEN AI being able to TAKE AN EXISTING VIDEO AND CHANGE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, crimes just went through the roof, fraud just went through the roof, yay!
People are using Google study software to make AI podcasts—and they’re weird and amazing
“All right, so today we are going to dive deep into some cutting-edge tech,” a chatty American male voice says. But this voice does not belong to a human. It belongs to Google’s new AI podcasting tool, called Audio Overview, which has become a surprise viral hit.
The podcasting feature was launched in mid-September as part of NotebookLM, a year-old AI-powered research assistant. NotebookLM, which is powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 model, allows people to upload content such as links, videos, PDFs, and text. They can then ask the system questions about the content, and it offers short summaries.
Oh no... The AI is coming after our podcasts as well... What's left that AI can't replicate?? Quite dystopian no? https://youtu.be/gsUNxJHx394
OCT 03, 2024
SEP 24, 2024
Hollywood is coming out in force for California’s AI safety bill
Hollywood is squaring off against Silicon Valley in the battle over SB 1047, California’s first-of-its-kind AI safety bill. Amid doubts about whether Governor Gavin Newsom will sign the legislation, a wave of star-studded endorsements mark the first organized celebrity effort to advance AI regulations beyond the direct interests of the entertainment industry. SB 1047 is the US’s most significant AI safety legislation to date, and Newsom’s signature would break the precedent of letting the industry police the development and deployment of its most powerful models via voluntary commitments.
I cannot believe that this is even a debate... voluntary commitment to SB1047 is equivalent of telling teenagers to practice voluntary celibacy, let's get a grip on reality, Newson is ass lmao. OH SPOILERS, HE VETO'd it... What a piece of...
What to know about the hoax 'Goodbye Meta AI' posts going viral on Instagram
If you've opened Instagram over the last few days, you've likely seen a post that begins with the words "Goodbye Meta AI."
The post, most often shared on Instagram stories, features black-and-white text warning of "legal consequences" and the use of artificial intelligence by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Threads and Facebook.
"If you do not post at least once it will be assumed you are okay with them using your information and photos," the text reads, in part. "I do not give Meta or anyone else permission to use any of my personal data, profile information or photos."
It's been debunked, but the part that I find the most funny is: Meta's statement in response is: But the company said making a public declaration of “Meta, no swiping!” doesn’t do anything.
SEP 25, 2024
SEP 25, 2024
Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration
At a time when tech companies are paying eye-popping sums to hire the best minds in artificial intelligence, Google’s deal to rehire Noam Shazeer has left others in the dust.
A co-author of a seminal research paper that kicked off the AI boom, Shazeer quit Google in 2021 to start his own company after the search giant refused to release a chatbot he developed. When that startup, Character.AI, began to flounder, his old employer swooped in.
Google wrote Character a check for around $2.7 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal. The official reason for the payment was to license Character’s technology. But the deal included another component: Shazeer agreed to work for Google again.
2.7B to buy AI tech hm, Google is pushing hard to try to get an upper hand in this AI race. One wonders when that tipping point is when so much money is thrown at AI, when AI runs rogue then?
Exclusive: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a move that will make the company more attractive to investors.
The OpenAI non-profit will continue to exist and own a minority stake in the for-profit company, the sources said. The move could also have implications for how the company manages AI risks in a new governance structure.
Sam Altman is doing A LOT of things right in front of everyone and no one is batting an eye to what is happening... Most powerful AI company becomes FOR profit great...
SEP 26, 2024
SEP 23, 2024
The Intelligence Age
"in a few thousand days (!).” Superintelligence, aka AI that’s far smarter than even the smartest people."
Sam Altman's blog, pretty crazy stuff. This is nightmare fuel.
OpenAI closes in on largest VC round of all time
OpenAI is expected raise around $6.5 billion at a $150 billion pre-money valuation, while also turning down billions of oversubscribed dollars, as first reported by Bloomberg.
Why it matters: This would be the largest venture capital round of all time, topping the $6 billion raised earlier this year by Elon Musk's xAI.
OpenAI previously scored $10 billion from Microsoft, but that was a multi-year, corporate deal that included more cloud credits than cash.
For context: $150 billion is what the entire U.S. venture capital market had under management in 1999, which fueled the internet bubble.
$6.5 billion is the amount raised just 10 years ago (2014) by all startups in New York, Texas, and Florida combined.
I just want to say that even though AI hype has slowed down, OpenAI remains as the winner throughout this whole ordeal. One can imagine the crazy things they can get up to when the eyeballs are off of them as they are accepted as the norm.
SEP 20, 2024
SEP 04, 2024
NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose
Last Friday, the 25-year-old nonprofit, known as NaNoWriMo for short, shocked many in the writing community when it published a controversial statement detailing its position on AI. In it, NaNoWriMo asserted that the “categorical condemnation” of artificial intelligence has “classist and ableist undertones.
NanoWriMo says the total dismissal of the technology ignores the privilege of time, education, cognitive ability, and the financial means it takes to participate in NaNoWriMo. Many writers disagreed, arguing that the group’s new position was a poorly veiled attempt to court sponsors.
lol sell out some more, a platform for creative arts has bent backwards to attract AI investment... Nice... Nothing to see here.
Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised over $1 billion in capital from investors including NFDG (an investment partnership run by Nat Friedman and SSI CEO Daniel Gross), a16z, Sequoia, DST Global and SV Angel.
SSI told Reuters that it plans to use the round to acquire computing power and hire researchers and engineers split between Palo Alto and Tel Aviv. As to what exactly they’ll research, SSI isn’t saying quite yet.
WOO, this is a win, I'm glad there are people willing to support IIya, this is a win for AI safety. Good work!
SEP 04, 2024
Aug 30, 2024
OpenAI weighs changes to corporate structure amid latest funding talks
Discussions come as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft consider funding round that would value start-up at more than $100bn.
OpenAI is in discussions about changing its corporate structure to become more investor-friendly, as it pushes ahead with a multibillion-dollar fundraise and seeks to retain its lead over Google and other rivals.
LOL now it is blatant, it is very much becoming a FOR PROFIT organization, with HUGE backers like Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft all willing to dive in head first, what could go wrong? So much for AI safety.
Telegram Founder Charged With Wide Range of Crimes in France
Pavel Durov, the Russian-born entrepreneur who founded the online communications tool Telegram, was charged on Wednesday in France with a wide range of crimes for failing to prevent illicit activity on the app, and barred from leaving the country.
The crack down on social media platforms for what is happening on their platforms points to the issue of people using ChatGPT. When people use ChatGPT for nefarious purposes, will Sam get arrested?
AUG 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024
Klarna plans to halve workforce, replacing over 1,000 jobs with AI
Klarna, the Swedish fintech giant known for its “buy now, pay later” services, is making headlines with its ambitious plan to nearly halve its workforce.
The firm has already cut its workforce from 5,000 to 3,800 in the past year and wants to reduce that to 2,000 employees by using AI in marketing and customer service.
Listen to our latest podcast episode on this!
AMD to acquire server builder ZT Systems for $4.9 billion in cash and stock
Advanced Micro Devices
on Monday said it plans to acquire server maker ZT Systems for $4.9 billion as the company seeks to expand its portfolio of artificial intelligence chips and hardware and battle Nvidia
AMD plans to pay for 75% of the ZT Systems acquisition with cash and the remainder in stock. The company had $5.34 billion in cash and short-term investments as of the second quarter.
Insanity the amounts of money being thrown around in this space, AMD joining the race only suggests that the space will heat up into the future.
AUG 19, 2024
June 15, 2024
Brands Are Beginning to Turn Against AI
Just when it seems everyone is on the AI bandwagon, some have let it pass them by, and they’re reaping the rewards. Such is the story of the popular iPad design app Procreate, which became the face of anti-AI sentiment and a favorite among creatives yesterday when it came out against generative AI, vowing never to use the technology in its products.
In a viral video posted on X, Procreate CEO James Cuda said, “I really f*cking hate generative AI.” While investors might dismiss that sentiment as cuckoo, it reflects the views of many in creative industries who have had to reckon with whether using AI is worth the ire it may draw from its users.
I respect Procreate for standing apart from the AI BS crowd, procreate could have easily went the same direction that adobe did and pile more hay on creative arts, when does the camel's back break? LFG.
OpenAI shuts down election influence operation that used ChatGPT
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election, according to a blog post on Friday. The company says the operation created AI-generated articles and social media posts, though it doesn’t seem that it reached much of an audience.
This is not the first time OpenAI has banned accounts linked to state-affiliated actors using ChatGPT maliciously. In May the company disrupted five campaigns using ChatGPT to manipulate public opinion.
When you place the power to ban or unban these accounts in ChatGPT's management team, does that mean they have access to everyone's data? Who gets to decide what is legal to use this AI system for or isn't? Lots of questions, 0 answers. Election influence is real.
AUG 16, 2024
AUG 14, 2024
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun
xAI’s Grok chatbot now lets you create images from text prompts and publish them to X — and so far, the rollout seems as chaotic as everything else on Elon Musk’s social network.
Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a recipe for a new fight over the risks of generative AI.
Let's give world's richest man a sandbox to play around with regarding AI. What could go wrong? So much for AI guardrails hm, Elon? The better it gets, the scarier it gets.
Google launches first AI-powered Android update and new Pixel 9 phones
Google on Tuesday announced new artificial intelligence features that are coming to Android devices. The move to bring its Gemini AI assistant to supported devices shows again how Google aims to put its AI in front of consumers before Apple, which will launch its AI on iPhones, Macs and iPads later this year.
As promised... Other phone makers will go all in for AI capabilities now that Apple showed their hand. What tech company doesn't have AI capabilities? Matter of time before everyone is used to train AI.
AUG 13, 2024
AUG 08, 2024
Microsoft and Palantir will sell AI software to U.S. defense and intelligence departments
U.S. national security missions will soon get a boost from cloud-computing and artificial intelligence tools from Microsoft and Palantir.
Yes, let's all pretend this is not terrifying, the mad scientist heading Palantir gets in bed with the government notorious for unlimited defense spending, now with AI! NICE!
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman again
Elon Musk has revived his complaint against OpenAI after dropping a previous lawsuit, again alleging that the ChatGPT maker and two of its founders — Sam Altman and Greg Brockman — breached the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence technology to benefit humanity.
The new lawsuit filed in federal court in Northern California on Monday says that Altman and Brockman “assiduously manipulated Musk into co-founding their spurious non-profit venture” by promising that OpenAI would be safer and more transparent than profit-driven alternatives. The suit claims that assurances about OpenAI’s nonprofit structure were “the hook for Altman’s long con.”
In the ever increasing effort by OpenAI to monetize their platform, the bell strikes clear on Elon's point, how did we get here when it was all meant to be non-profit and humanity aligned, Sam Altman is scum.
AUG 05, 2024
JUN 26, 2024
“It Was Astonishing”: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage
The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster’s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. “It was not only close,” he says of the technology, “it was almost 2% off perfect.”
In another move to normalize generative AI, this emerged at the Olympics, you know, the thing everyone in the whole world seems to care about? 2% off of perfect is insane, confirmed by the original voice.
Wear This AI Friend Around Your Neck
Avi Schiffmann shows up to the WIRED office with a Friend hanging around his neck. It dangles there like a pendant on a necklace. It’s about the size and shape of an AirTag—a soft, round little puck that rests right next to Schiffmann’s heart, just atop the Dark Side of the Moon logo on the shirt behind it.
The Friend, to be clear, is an AI wearable. It’s a pal, a buddy, but mostly an AI chatbot that lives inside the pendant. It always has an opinion to share about what’s going on around it, which it communicates using text messages and push notifications on the phone it’s paired to.
Yeahhh, this made my skin crawl, a device that is constantly listening and texting you, are we already at black mirror levels of dystopia? The funny part is that there will 100% be people who wear these to be trendy.
Another related news article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ftc-looking-into-targeted-pricing-based-personal-data-2024-07-23/?ref=biztoc.com
Feeling sad? here's some sponsored ice cream, feeling happy about your significant other? How about an engagement ring that's marked up 200% because I can tell that you are happy... Scary.
JUL 30, 2024
JUL 26, 2024
Google AI ad at the Olympics face huge backlash
when the girl wants to write her hero a fan letter and her dad enlists Gemini’s help, typing, “Gemini, help my daughter write a letter telling Sydney how inspiring she is.”
People from all corners of the internet were quick to criticize the ad’s message. On Google-owned YouTube, comments have been turned off.
- Some say it showcases lazy parenting and dismisses the daughter’s ability to communicate authentically with someone she looks up to.
- Others lament that the ad envisions a world in which basic human skills (like writing) are taken over by AI.
Currently, it may still be seen as taboo for AI adoption for our kids, but what people don't seem to realize is that the next generation of kids are a mere decade away, as AI envelopes us relentlessly, at some point there will no longer be any further backlash.
A parody ad shared by Elon Musk clones Kamala Harris’ voice, raising concerns about AI in politics
A video that uses an artificial intelligence voice-cloning tool to mimic the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of AI to mislead with Election Day about three months away.
The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media platform X on Friday without explicitly noting it was originally released as parody.
AI that are built by a bunch of social outcast tech megalords are supposed to be naturally good, righttt. This is one of those times where the meme of the guy saying: first time? I like how people are just starting to think AI is being used to manipulate politics.
JUL 29, 2024
JUL 26, 2024
How France plans to use AI surveillance to keep Paris 2024 Olympics safe
France tested Artificial Intelligence-driven video surveillance technology that will be deployed during the Olympic Games, opens new tab at a Depeche Mode concert, calling the exercise a success.
French legislation passed in 2023 permits the use of AI video surveillance for a trial period covering the Games to detect abnormal events or human behavior at large-scale events.
The technology could be pivotal to thwarting an attack like the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta or the Nice truck attack in 2016, officials say.
It always starts as oh, this is a necessary measure, then it gets more strict, then it's everywhere. I don't see how we all are just supposed to accept this, ever read the book 1986?
SAG-AFTRA Calls Strike Against Major Video Game Studios
For close to two years, SAG-AFTRA has been in talks with major video game companies on a new contract agreement that would cover voice and performance capture workers on titles from Disney Character Voices, Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Games, Insomniac Games and more.
Now, at an impasse over artificial intelligence concerns, the union’s chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has called a strike.
Once again, a strike is called, however, how effective are these really? What ever happened to the writer's guild? As far as I know, there are no upcoming writers that make me excited, what if it comes a day where video games are programmed by AI?
JUL 25, 2024
JUL 25, 2024
OpenAI Tests New AI Search Features in Direct Challenge to Google
OpenAI is letting a limited group of users test a new set of search features that will answer questions with more timely information and prominent links to sources, marking its most direct challenge yet to Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
Remember earlier when I mentioned how OpenAI is building a war chest even tech giants will be jealous of? Well, it is here now, directly challenging google, we don't know where this will head but AI is a market disruptor through and through.
Zuckerberg Aims to Rival OpenAI, Google With New Llama AI Model
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new and powerful AI model that Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called “state of the art” and said will rival similar offerings from competitors like OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
It looks like Meta and OpenAI are going to emerge as the companies with the most sophisticated AI models for the future. What do we know about Meta once they win the market? Right, abuse of power to make us the product.
JUL 23, 2024
JUL 23, 2024
Most airlines except one are recovering from the CrowdStrike tech outage. The feds have noticed
Delta Air Lines struggled for a fourth straight day to recover from a worldwide technology outage caused by a faulty software update, stranding tens of thousands of passengers and drawing unwanted attention from the federal government.
The airline’s chief executive said it would take “another couple days” before “the worst is clearly behind us.” Delta’s chief information officer said Monday that the airline was still trying to fix a vital crew-scheduling program.
Other carriers were returning to nearly normal levels of service disruptions, intensifying the glare on Delta’s relatively weaker response to the outage that hit airlines, hospitals and businesses around the world.
The lesson we can learn from this is simply the reliance modern world has come to rely upon technology and how a little know cybersecurity company could cause this much havoc. What happens when AI becomes this ingrained and something goes wrong?
Elon Musk Is All In on Endorsing Trump. His AI Chatbot, Grok, Is Not
While Elon Musk officially endorsed former president Donald Trump in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt, Grok, the “anti-woke” AI chatbot integrated into Musk’s X platform, is boosting claims that Trump is “a pedophile” and “a wannabe dictator.” The chatbot also refers to Trump as “Psycho.”
Oh, the irony of an Anti-woke chatbot becoming woke lmfao, is this some lkind of sick joke? It's almost like no one really understands how these AI models came to be, human biases will surface, how do you expect future society to trust and rely on these?
JUL 10, 2024
JUL 18, 2024
OpenAI Releases GPT-4o Mini, a Cheaper Version of Flagship AI Model
OpenAI is rolling out a more affordable, slimmed-down version of its flagship artificial intelligence model to appeal to a wider range of developers and business customers in an increasingly crowded market for AI services.
In case you haven't been using ChatGPT, the free version, they are subtly trying to monetize, this is another step in that direction. We are heading towards a world where OpenAI will have a war chest even tech giants are jealous of.
GEN AI: TOO MUCH SPEND,
TOO LITTLE BENEFIT?
Tech giants and beyond are set to spend over $1tn on AI capex in coming years, with so far little to show for it. So, will this large spend ever pay off? MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and GS’ Jim Covello are skeptical, with Acemoglu seeing only limited US economic upside from AI over the next decade and Covello arguing that the technology isn’t designed to solve the complex problems that would justify the costs, which may not decline as many expect. But GS’ Joseph Briggs, Kash Rangan, and Eric Sheridan remain more optimistic about AI’s economic potential and its ability to ultimately generate returns beyond the current “picks and shovels” phase, even if AI’s “killer application” has yet to emerge. And even if it does, we explore whether the current chips shortage (with GS’ Toshiya Hari) and looming power shortage (with Cloverleaf Infrastructure’s Brian Janous) will constrain AI growth. But despite these concerns and constraints, we still see room for the AI theme to run, either because AI starts to deliver on its promise, or because bubbles take a long time to burst.
Isn't it ironic that these companies are willing to sell their souls in order to make progress and edge out their competition? All the sacrificed values and morals for late stage capitalistic greed, nice.
JUN 25, 2024
JUL 05, 2024
OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers
There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of OpenAI’s systems. The hack itself, while troubling, appears to have been superficial — but it’s a reminder that AI companies have in short order made themselves into one of the juiciest targets out there for hackers.
The world's leading AI training center, backed by the world's most valuable company Nvidia, partnered with every mega tech company ever, all eyeballs on the AI story. I wonder what could possibly go wrong?
Exclusive: Nvidia set to face French antitrust charges, sources say
Nvidia is set to be charged by the French antitrust regulator for allegedly anti-competitive practices, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, making it the first enforcer to act against the computer chip maker.
The French so-called statement of objections or charge sheet would follow dawn raids in the graphics cards sector in September last year, which sources said targeted Nvidia. The raids were the result of a broader inquiry into cloud computing.
I wonder how Nvidia skyrockets to surpass the pre-existing giant mega techs to become the most valuable company in the world in a snap of the fingers. SURELY it has nothing to do with AI demand, where does this all lead? Monopoly.
JUL 01, 2024
JUN 27, 2024
Perplexity Raises Eyebrows
An AI company that’s making headlines by spelling doomsday for publishers just got itself in hot water with one of the biggest names in tech. Perplexity AI, a chatbot-powered “answer engine,” is facing an investigation by Amazon after unsettling everyone in the publishing world by allegedly ripping off other people’s work.
Here’s what went down:
- Earlier this month, Forbes claimed that Perplexity stole and repurposed one of its articles, including a custom illustration, with only the word “sources” and a tiny Forbes logo as attribution.
- WIRED then alleged that Perplexity intentionally bypasses other websites’ Robot Exclusion Protocol, which is sort of like a wall on a web page designed to prevent bots from scraping its content. The protocol has been an important part of keeping the internet humming.
- Yesterday, Amazon Web Services opened an investigation into whether Perplexity is doing this with a tool hosted on AWS’s servers, which would violate its terms of use, according to Wired.
Perplexity denies that its servers bypass the Robots Exclusion Protocol (“robots.txt” to techies), but it said it used a third-party web scraper that did.
I'm just going to let the headlines speak for itself for this one.
Apple Won’t Roll Out AI Tech In EU Market Over Regulatory Concerns
The company announced Friday that it would block the release of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing from users in the EU this year, because the Digital Markets Act allegedly forces it to downgrade the security of its products and services.
Small win for the consumers, once again, EU steps up where the US can't, or maybe... the US has a vested interest in AI development hmmm. I am still not convinced that apple won't later "fix" its systems and rolls out the tech in the EU anyways.
JUN 19, 2024
JUN 24, 2024
US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement
The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”
About time, a precedent needs to be set regarding these AI startups using whatever and from wherever they can get their hands on to train their bots and push out artificially generated garbage with no heart nor soul.
Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
Facebook’s parent has held discussions with Apple about integrating Meta Platforms’ META generative AI model into Apple Intelligence, the recently announced AI system for iPhones and other devices, according to people familiar with the matter.
Oh yeah, we definitely need more mega corporations teaming up in AI. Having Apple intelligence in every apple phone is not enough, they need to also shove the whole meta ecosystem into it. How does nobody see how big of an issue this would be down the line? We have the biggest companies in the world teaming up to supercharge AI development and integrate into every aspect of our lives, what could go wrong? We will end up as the product once again to train these AI, stay tuned for our newest AI article soon.
JUN 23, 2024
JUN 20, 2024
Anthropic Releases ‘Most Intelligent’ AI Model in Rivalry With OpenAI
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is releasing a new AI model that it calls its fastest and most capable yet in a rivalry with OpenAI.
Anthropic introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, an updated version of its Claude 3 model that it just released in March. The company said Thursday that the new model — the technology that underpins its popular chatbot Claude — is twice as fast as its most powerful previous version. Anthropic said in its evaluations, the model outperforms leading competitors like OpenAI.
This is complete dogshit. So much for responsibly developing AI lmao, you mean to tell me that Anthropic made so much progress while being the embodient of responsible AI? Yeah right, HAH. This is such a bad joke I don't even know if I should laugh anymore.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company
Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has launched a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI.
Sutskever, who was OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist, founded SSI with former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross and ex-OpenAI engineer Daniel Levy.
One could praise Ilya for being brave enough to leave OpenAI, but is this just a veiled attempt to get his own AI startup out in public, very lucrative no? No doubt his new super safe AI will bring in millions. I sincerely hope he's walking his talk and this is not just a money grab.
JUN 19, 2024
JUN 14, 2024
Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to address a G7 summit, raising alarm about AI. The G7 responds
BARI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis challenged leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies on Friday to keep human dignity foremost in developing and using artificial intelligence, warning that such powerful technology risks turning human relations themselves into mere algorithms.
It's easy for the pope to stand on the high throne and preach. Would the church wage crusades against the mega corps to take them down? The root of evil is staring him in the face yet all they can do is passively try to convince world leaders. Why not use scripture, I am sure AI ending 99% of humanity is not in god's image.
Apple unveils its AI vision at long last
Hey Siri, how is Apple using generative AI?
As of this week, the company finally has an answer. After seeming to sit out much of the generative AI arms race over the past year or so, Apple announced a new flagship system called “Apple Intelligence” and a flood of new features that it powers. Those span everything from new emoji generated on the spot to writing assistance and agent-like task performance.
Apple also announced a partnership with OpenAI that will tap ChatGPT to answer certain questions posed to Siri and image generation, among other integrations.
This move makes me sick, and ultimately it is one tick closer to doomsday. Why? Because now billions of people's data will be used live to train AI, you thought it stops at Apple and OpenAI? NAH, every phone company will have to adopt AI, with this many data points, how is the future not headed towards AGI? Apple is a dirty money grubbing scum of a company, partnering with OPENAI so shamelessly. We are doomed, AI in everyone's pockets, AI part of everyday life, no one even tried to resist.
JUN 10, 2024
JUN 09, 2024
The World
AI Creator Awards
This is insane. They have cash rewards for who can create the best AI influencers now. IS THIS NOT dystopian already? If you look at their "Models" they have real followers and influence. Did you know that AI created people can make completely false claims with zero repercussions? Oh right, what are you going to hold accountable? So messed up.
Adobe Swears It’s Not Training Its A.I. on Your Photoshops
In the age of artificial intelligence, every internet user is reduced to their lowest form. In the eyes of the most powerful machine learning companies, we’re little more than training data. It’s a morbid existence, knowing that whenever you post to Reddit, review a restaurant online, or upload a photo of yourself, that could be scraped and used to train generative A.I. models to make the next great (or not-so-great) chatbot.
So, when Adobe informed its customers of changes to its terms of use this week, many of its creative-minded loyalists read the update and promptly freaked out. A pop-up notification informed them that the company “may access your content through both automated and manual methods, such as for content review.” Elsewhere in the terms of service, users posted on X (formerly Twitter) to complain about caveats in which Adobe might analyze user content using machine learning.
Although later corrected, the general trend is that most tech companies have this giant wall of text for TOS, even if the keen eyed viewers read through it, 90% of people won't read it, and now we are part of the cycle who knowingly feed info to train AI, neat.
JUN 07, 2024
JUN 07, 2024
Microsoft says AI feature that captures screenshots on new PCs will be off by default after backlash
Microsoft said an artificial intelligence feature on new PCs that captures screenshots and enables searching of user activity will be off by default after security researchers determined that attackers could access the underlying data.
In a move that surprises no one... Attackers accessing data? How about literally AI and whoever owns that AI is capable of accessing personal data in an infinite black box? Blows my mind they dared to implement this feature at all, maybe they saw my meme.
OpenAI says it disrupted covert influence operation by Israeli firm STOIC
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said Thursday it has disrupted five covert influence operations over the past three months that sought to use its artificial intelligence models for deceptive activities.
In a blog post, OpenAI said the disrupted campaigns originated from Russia, China, Iran, and a private company based in Israel.
The threat actors attempted to leverage OpenAI’s powerful language models for tasks like generating comments, articles, social media profiles, and debugging code for bots and websites.
This is in reference to Israel's 2M USD campaign to make bots to influence the ongoing conflict. This is one of the large-scale social media influencing campaigns using AI, it's just the start, sure, it's laughable for now, but what if 2B was used?
MAY 27, 2024
MAY 29, 2024
Vox Media and The Atlantic sign content deals with OpenAI
Two more media companies have signed licensing agreements with OpenAI, allowing their content to be used to train its AI models and be shared inside of ChatGPT. The Atlantic and Vox Media — The Verge’s parent company — both announced deals with OpenAI on Wednesday.
Sounds to me like the media companies are swayed by money once again, what's new... Easy for them to topple like dominoes at every request of OpenAI, what about protecting the integrity of news? Until when do LLMs start writing like the news, bye bye jobs, they are speedrunning the obscurity of their industry.
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion to fund its race against ChatGPT and all the rest
Elon Musk founded xAI last summer, and today it announced raising $6 billion in funding, saying it will help bring the startup’s “first products to market, build advanced infrastructure, and accelerate the research and development of future technologies.”
What a two-faced move, at first it was "Let's halt development of AI", now Elon singing a different tune, no? I guess the sad reality is that in order to resist AI (optimistically speaking), you must be the one to win the AI race. Ironic.
MAY 27, 2024
May 24, 2024
Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, such as saying former President Obama is Muslim
It’s been less than two weeks since Google debuted “AI Overview” in Google Search, and public criticism has mounted after queries have returned nonsensical or inaccurate results within the AI feature — without any way to opt out.
AI Overview shows a quick summary of answers to search questions at the very top of Google Search. For example, if a user searches for the best way to clean leather boots, the results page may display an “AI Overview” at the top with a multistep cleaning process, gleaned from information it synthesized from around the web.
It's easy to mock blatant misinformation now, but how about 10 generations from now, where AI tells you what is right or wrong, would you be able to tell misinformation apart if a large portion of the internet is wrong?
Use this link to turn off Google AI overview:
https://tenbluelinks.org/
Nvidia shares pass $1,000 for first time on AI-driven sales surge
Nvidia reported fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat expectations for sales and earnings, and the stock rose in extended trading over the $1,000 per-share threshold.
242% Sales growth, haha. These big tech companies are begging Nvidia for AI, at what point do we not laugh and see the serious threat that this is for humanity? The most money hungry companies of the world all funnel in to adopt AI, we lose.
MAY 22, 2024
May 20, 2024
Scarlett Johansson says she is 'shocked, angered' over new ChatGPT voice
Lawyers for Scarlett Johansson are demanding that OpenAI disclose how it developed an AI personal assistant voice that the actress says sounds uncannily similar to her own.
Johansson's legal team has sent OpenAI two letters asking the company to detail the process by which it developed a voice the tech company dubbed "Sky," Johansson's publicist told NPR in a revelation that has not been previously reported.
Beyond the fact that Sam selected VAs who sound like Scarlet, the fact that AI could theoretically just take the audio of all of Scarlet and make it replicate the voice. We are losing our individuality at a alarming rate.
OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it
OpenAI has disbanded its team focused on the long-term risks of artificial intelligence, a person familiar with the situation confirmed to CNBC.
If this doesn't make you shxt bricks, I'm not sure what will, the so called safety rails have been thrown off in the chase for maximum capitalism, why is no one reporting on this? We will all be sorry.
MAY 17, 2024
May 18, 2024
Reddit stock soars on OpenAI partnership
Beyond joking about how/ if we want future chatgpt models to be trained on degenerate user data/ biased data from Reddit. This further cements OpenAI's reach into everything in our lives, what can't be bought with the resources they have now?
Hello GPT-4o.
"We’re announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time."
This is insanely mindblowing, we have AI that can interact with its surroundings, please send help, aliens, anyone, this is going down a very dangerous unreversible path.
MAY 2024
May 21, 2024
Microsoft debuts 'Copilot+' PCs with AI features
SEATTLE, May 20 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Monday debuted a new category of personal computers with AI features as it rushes to build the emerging technology into products across its business and compete with Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab and Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab.
This news headline reads like a dystopia already, microsoft, a 3 TRILLION dollar company adopts AI to outcompete the other disgustingly giant tech behemoths, is this not an arms race or what. 50% of the world runs on PCs, AI is going to become very much ingrained into our lives.
More OpenAI drama: Exec quits over concerns about focus on profit over safety
A departing OpenAI executive focused on safety is raising concerns about the company on his way out the door.
Jan Leike, who resigned from his role leading the company’s “superalignment” team this week, said in a thread on X Friday that he disagreed with OpenAI leadership’s “core priorities” and had “reached a breaking point.”
Not only company vet Jan, but also Cofounder Ilya sutskever. Saying things like a breaking point and misalignment of core priorities is scary asf. Sam, or the puppet controlling Sam, is someone we cannot take lightly.
May 17, 2024
May 14, 2024
Google Infuses Search With AI in a ‘Fully Revamped’ Experience
For nearly two years, Google has been locked in a race with OpenAI and others to bring generative artificial intelligence — which can answer complex questions in a conversational manner — to the public in a way that most consumers will actually adopt. On Tuesday, Google fired a clear shot at competitors, signaling it has no intention of losing its leading position as the world’s most popular search engine.
Is this like collecting the infinity stones or something? Every company ever is adopting AI like there's not a real threat to F us all. What are the lawsuits going to look like in 5-10 years?
'Digital afterlife': Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted 'hauntings' by AI chatbots of dead loved ones
Artificial intelligence that allows users to hold text and voice conversations with lost loved ones runs the risk of causing psychological harm and even digitally "haunting" those left behind without design safety standards, according to University of Cambridge researchers.
Oh, bringing back dead ones to play the emotions of you, with all of the richest companies in the world to that data, I wonder what could possibly go wrong with that. Everyone saw how Drake got flamed for using digital-created Tupac right, mmm yeah it's real close.
May 08, 2024
May 09, 2024
TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content as technology becomes more universal
TikTok will begin labeling content created using artificial intelligence when it’s been uploaded from outside its own platform in an attempt to combat misinformation.
“AI enables incredible creative opportunities, but can confuse or mislead viewers if they don’t know content was AI-generated,” the company said in a prepared statement Thursday. “Labeling helps make that context clear—which is why we label AIGC made with TikTok AI effects, and have required creators to label realistic AIGC for over a year.”
What doesn't have AI capabilities anymore? I really feel like I am losing a unwinnable battle, every mega tech ever, every social media ever, at what point will we say enough is enough?
Biden takes aim at Trump for failed Foxconn project with visit to Microsoft’s new site in Wisconsin
Microsoft said it is pouring $3.3 billion into building a data hub in Wisconsin that aims to train employees and manufacturers on how to best use artificial intelligence.
I wonder what the biggest company in the world wants to do to expand the potential of "finding best use case of AI", unreal how Biden can support this whilst signing a so called AI regulation bill last year, read between the lines.
May 08, 2024
May 7, 2024
Apple Revamps iPads With AI-Focused Pro Model, Bigger Air
Apple Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence-focused iPad Pro and a larger iPad Air, aiming to reinvigorate a tablet lineup that has languished over the past two years.
Second largest company in the world, paired with AI and in billions of devices of people around the world, what could go wrong? It starts with iPads, then commercialized into iPhone. Then what? Yikes, all that data.
Full recap of Warren Buffett's comments at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting: 'I hope I come next year'
Buffett says AI scamming could be next big ‘growth industry,’ likens technology to nuclear weapons.
I am sure that one of the biggest business tycoons in the world with a pulse on literally every industry's perception of AI of the biggest problem he sees as a 90+ Year old being: AI scamming is next big growth industry is not a problem.
May 06, 2024
April 29, 2024
Tupac Estate Threatens Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Drake Track
Canadian rapper Drake is being threatened with legal action by the estate of Tupac Shakur for using an AI-generated version of the rapper’s voice in a new song without permission.
Drake released “Taylor Made Freestyle,” a diss track aimed at fellow rapper Kendric Lamar. The song featured synthetic versions of Tupac and Snoop Dogg. Tupac was shot and killed in 1996.
I am sure everyone seen the Kendrick X Drake beef, but the focus is how one of the most famous rappers in the world is playing around with AI, including such a famous voice such as Tupac, unreal to think what music will be like in 5-10 years.
Ex-athletic director accused of framing principal with AI arrested at airport with gun
Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with crimes related to the alleged use of artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors.
In a move that surprised no one. This is only the beginning of the potential crimes that could be committed by AI. How about when AI becomes so sophisticated that no one can tell the obvious lie? Or can criminals claim AI deepfakes now?
April 25, 2024
April 23, 2024
Meta is putting AI front and center in its apps, and some users are annoyed
Meta’s artificial intelligence-powered assistant is suddenly everywhere in its flagship apps, and some users are not thrilled.
The company announced late last week that its assistant, Meta AI, would now be integrated into Facebook feeds as well as in the search bar across its biggest platforms. It's also now available in at least a dozen more countries.
I am sure everyone noticed MetaAI appearing in places they did not want it to appear. Great, one of the most data hungry and unethical companies in the world gains access to billions of more people's AI data, what could go wrong?
Meta loses $200 billion in value as Zuckerberg focuses earnings call on all the ways company bleeds cash
Zuckerberg said he expects to see a “multiyear investment cycle” before Meta’s AI products will scale into profitable services, but noted that the company has a “strong track record” in that department.
This is what Meta is good at, they enter into a market trying to dominate and win marketshare at all costs, then once they are a market leader, they turn on profitability and fleece users for maximum profitability, truly a souless corporation.
April 24, 2024
April 10, 2024
AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
Weeks after AI-music generator Suno went viral, a new rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities — and a weird habit of resurrecting Tom Petty
Ouch, first it was creative writers, then actors, and now music, we as a human race will lose our souls as all of the creative fields will get wiped out by AI. What is left that reflects the human essence?
Boston Dynamics' New Humanoid Robot Stuns Industry
Have you ever imagined a robot that could outperform humans in tasks? Boston Dynamics has introduced a new humanoid robot that's left the industry speechless. This robot uses groundbreaking robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced design to change the world.
The old hydraulics-powered Atlas robot is retired. In its place, we have a new electric-powered marvel. It has better motion range and a more refined design, making it stronger, more flexible, and even more human-like than before.
Um, this is one step away from linking up a brain interface to ChatpGPT and you have very real robots that can talk and do work just like a human, I ask: what is a soul?
April 19, 2024
April 15, 2024
Millions of Student Papers Likely Written By AI
"Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content. "
Everyone knows the craze surrounding ChatGPT and OpenAI, but the scariest part? The abyss is invisible if you convince yourself to be blind.
Turnitin estimates that since it released its AI detection tool, going by just the lowest estimate, 3 percent of the 200 million papers it's reviewed(6,000,000 papers!) had 80% or more AI generated content, with 11 percent having 20% or more(22,000,000!!)
What happens when these numbers grow up and become journalists, assigning meaning to the numbers, one by one, a torrent of flaws? Is our future one where your morning coffee and news might spark war, incite riots, and bring catastrophe to our doorstep for the sake of us lying back and feeding the machine?
Why New Tech Products Fail
Perhaps not surprisingly, however, the initial reviews of the Humane AI Pin have been consistently negative. The device is too slow, it fails at many basic tasks, it hallucinates, and it lacks important features. To be fair, I don’t think all of these problems are Humane’s fault — the technology just isn’t there yet, but given another few years, perhaps it will be. (Some of Humane’s problems are self-inflicted, though — for example, I see absolutely no reason for the voice used by the device should be so robotic, given the amazing quality of modern TTS models.)
Other than the fact we can laugh at AI pins, the trend is still alarming how many users were willing to shell out money for this. Not to mention Apple and other big tech's integration of AI into everyday devices, they have the money to do it properly, control.
April 16, 2024
April 1st, 2024
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Companies racing to develop more powerful artificial intelligence are rapidly nearing a new problem: The internet might be too small for their plans.
Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available pool of quality public data online at the same time that some data owners are blocking access to AI companies.
My god, in the matter of months, they have uploaded every bit of data from the internet into AI models and they are not satisfied, I am disgusted that this was allowed to happen in the first place. This is PEAK DANGER, I am not joking.
Google plans to charge for AI-powered search engine, FT reports
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google is considering charging for premium features on its generative AI-powered search engine, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the plan.
The tech giant is looking at a variety of options, including incorporating AI-powered search features to its premium subscription services, which already provide access to its new Gemini AI assistant in Gmail and Docs, the report said.
I can't tell if this is a move of desperation or a move of greed, either way, AI becoming so ingrained into the fabric of our lives, that being part of Google search is NOT GOOD for privacy, trust me on this one.
April 3, 2024
April 1st, 2024
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
America needs more plumbers, and Gen Z is answering the call.
Long beset by a labor crunch, the skilled trades are newly appealing to the youngest cohort of American workers, many of whom are choosing to leave the college path. Rising pay and new technologies in fields from welding to machine tooling are giving trade professions a face-lift, helping them shed the image of being dirty, low-end work. Growing skepticism about the return on a college education, the cost of which has soared in recent decades, is adding to their shine.
Despite this being published on April 1st, it is NOT a joke. The impacts on white collar jobs are already here and very real, that's the kind of disruptions that is coming for the space, if you laugh about Gen Z, what about your children? Your children's children, the world is going to look very different very soon.
OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly.
Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine, an expansion of the company’s existing text-to-speech API. Under development for about two years, Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to generate a synthetic copy of that voice. But there’s no date for public availability yet, giving the company time to respond to how the model is used and abused.
15 seconds... HOLY &*($, we are so screwed, how about someone secretly recording you, how about phone calls, how about crimes that you have never commited? Why does no one see a problem with this? and all of it just behind a paywall..
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
Journalists’ and Writers’ Unions Call on Congress to Consider Threats to Their Work in AI Legislation
Major unions representing U.S. journalists, writers and other creative professionals are calling on Congress to make these workers’ needs a “core priority” in any upcoming artificial intelligence legislation.
A little late to start begging.. AI companies have leverage, AI companies have money, AI companies will steamroll these tiny cries of help, until the whole world is engulfed by screams of job losses, it is only a matter of time.
Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy
HOUSTON—Every March, thousands of executives take over a downtown hotel here to reach oil and gas deals and haggle over plans to tackle climate change. This year, the dominant theme of the energy industry’s flagship conference was a new one: artificial intelligence.
I have already touched on this before, if nothing scares you about AI, then atleast you should care about the environmental ramifications:
Airplane hangar-sized data centers training AI systems require “exponentially more power” than traditional data centers, per the Washington Post, causing utilities to dramatically upgrade their demand projections.
Mar 24, 2024
Mar 20, 2024
Tennessee becomes first state to pass a law protecting musicians against AI
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
The move makes Tennessee, long known as the birthplace of country music and the launchpad for musical legends, the first state in the U.S. to enact such measures. Supporters say the goal is to ensure that AI tools cannot replicate an artist's voice without their consent. The bill goes into effect July 1.
A small ray of sunshine amongst AI armageddon, about damn time someone did something, holy %^&*, a first win, this should be universal, what are all the political bobbleheads doing not passing this?
Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour
Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time.
Sounds good in theory and it really might be good for society in the short term, but what happens when millions of jobs get replaced at the snap of a finger?
Mar 19, 2024
Mar 19, 2024
Facebook’s Algorithm Is Boosting AI Spam That Links to AI-Generated, Ad-Laden Click Farms
Facebook’s recommendation algorithms are promoting bizarre, AI-generated images being posted by spammers and scammers to an audience of people who mindlessly interact with them and perhaps don’t understand that they are not real, a new analysis by Stanford and Georgetown University researchers has found. The researchers’ analysis aligns with what I have seen and experienced over the course of months of researching and reporting on these pages, many of which have found a novel way to link to off-platform, AI-generated “news” sites that are littered with Google ads or which are selling low-quality products.
Great control over AI, meta... This proves how money hungry these giant corporations are, they have no intention of watching out for the dangerous of AI, if AI makes money but destroys half the world, the tech billionaires will still push it.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’
Nvidia on Monday announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models.
The new AI graphics processors are named Blackwell and are expected to ship later this year.
The announcement comes as companies and software makers still scramble to get their hands on the current generation of H100s and similar chips.
Great, a 2 Trillion marketcap company should be enabled to keep throttling onwards and pushing AI down the throats of every company, it's not looking good for the common folk.
Mar 18, 2024
Mar 17, 2024
Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features
Apple Inc. is in talks to build Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone, according to people familiar with the situation, setting the stage for a blockbuster agreement that would shake up the AI industry.
Great.. Apple is joining the fray, not like pretty soon everyone will have an AI bot in their pockets, collecting data from billions of people and making the AI smarter, how is this not a problem?
Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means to Have a Job
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Artificial intelligence will likely lead to seismic changes to the workforce, eliminating many professions and requiring a societal rethink of how people spend their time, prominent tech leaders said Tuesday.
Many industry leaders speculating a 3 day work week is coming, that sounds good on paper, as does universal basic income, but it also removes the individual use of people in general, wouldn't you agree? The power will be concentrated in the hands of select few industry titans, dystopian...
Mar 16, 2024
Mar 06, 2024
EU Poised to Enact Sweeping AI Rules With US, Global Impact
The European Union is on the verge of passing sweeping artificial intelligence regulation—with teeth.
The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on the legislation March 13, and one of the lawmakers leading the legislation said he expects it to pass easily. Under the current timeline the law would largely take effect in 2026, although some provisions would kick in this year.
Not to be that guy, but we have heard about this for a while, has any meaningful action actually come to fruition? Does anyone even care what Europe think? While EU is dancing with "sweeping regulations" US pushes full steam ahead LMAO.
Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested
On Monday, Anthropic prompt engineer Alex Albert caused a small stir in the AI community when he tweeted about a scenario related to Claude 3 Opus, the largest version of a new large language model launched on Monday. Albert shared a story from internal testing of Opus where the model seemingly demonstrated a type of "metacognition" or self-awareness during a "needle-in-the-haystack" evaluation, leading to both curiosity and skepticism online.
The beginning of a resemblance of AGI haha... So funny. In all seriousness though, this one might just be lines of code being able to ID specific text and overblown, but how far is it really to think something like this is in the near future?
Mar 05, 2024
Mar 01, 2024
Musk sues OpenAI for not benefiting humanity enough
Musk vs. OpenAI
The lawsuit claims that instead of fulfilling its mission to develop AI for the public benefit, the $80 billion company betrayed its original goals by:
Developing advanced AI for profit (the organization now has a for-profit subsidiary but it’s bound to hew to the nonprofit’s mission), and becoming a “de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft.” The tech giant invested $13 billion in OpenAI, buying 49% of its business arm.
Improperly licensing its GPT-4 AI model to Microsoft despite having an obligation to create such sophisticated tools for nonprofit ends.
This one is tough for me, as we all know Elon: The post claims Musk actually wanted to shift OpenAI to a for-profit model—with himself as CEO, saying billions of dollars were needed to compete with Google. I do firmly believe what Elon Musk is saying is correct though, OpenAI has 180 completely when they saw the market opportunity emerge and casted ethics aside.
Figure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation
Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s been raising more money than God. The Bay Area-based robotics firm announced a $675 million Series B round that values the startup at $2.6 billion post-money.
The lineup of investors is equally impressive. It includes Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures and ARK Invest. It’s a mind-boggling sum of money for what remains a still-young startup, with an 80-person headcount. That last bit will almost certainly change with this round.
Um, WTF? The headline literally reads: "OpenAI might’ve found a body for ChatGPT’s soul" Am I the only person alarmed by the prospect of AI being able to control a physical object??? How is no one else not talking about this..
Feb 29, 2024
Mar 05, 2024
AI Search Startup Perplexity Set to Double Valuation to $1 Billion
Perplexity, an artificial-intelligence startup aiming to challenge Google’s dominance in web search, is finalizing a new funding deal at around a $1 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said, roughly doubling its valuation since its most recent financing a few months ago.
While it is natural how innovation like AI will disrupt dominate players, it is frightening just how much money is flowing into the space. Closer and closer to AGI we tick.
Microsoft invests in Europe’s Mistral AI to expand beyond OpenAI
Microsoft on Monday announced a new partnership with French start-up Mistral AI as the U.S. tech giant seeks to expand its footprint in the fast-evolving artificial intelligence industry.
Yikes. Microsoft entering Europe as well, so much for Europe being a leader for AI regulation, the fact this passed without a hike suggests that EU says one thing but won't say no to money.
Feb 26, 2024
Feb 22, 2024
AI’s New Job? All-Purpose Hollywood Crewmember
As OpenAI unveils its new product Sora, which allows for intricate video on command, crafts workers see the tech displacing artists: “It’s going to be everywhere.”
"The role of AI in the entertainment industry was a sticking point in talks during dual strikes by actors and writers last year, with the unions eventually negotiating guardrails on use, but the kind of tech capable of overhauling traditional production processes and outright replacing skilled workers was still thought to be years away."
I'm not going to keep hammering this point but this is just the start.
Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.
For my entire adult life, whenever I’ve had a question about the world or needed to track down something online, I’ve gone to Google for answers.
But recently, I’ve been stepping out on Google with a new, A.I.-powered search engine. (No, not Bing, which is dead to me after it tried to break up my marriage last year.)
It’s called Perplexity. The year-old search engine, whose founders previously worked in A.I. research at OpenAI and Meta, has quickly become one of the most buzzed-about products in the tech world. Tech insiders rave about it on social media, and investors like Jeff Bezos — who was also an early investor in Google — have showered it with cash.
Seems like everyone is in bed with everyone, backed by Amazon is scary, from OpenAI and Meta is scary, all of the tech companies are lining up to gobble up the whole space is ... scary. What isn't scary?
Feb 1, 2024
Feb 22, 2024
Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors
Google says it’s pausing the ability for its Gemini AI to generate images of people, after the tool was found to be generating inaccurate historical images. Gemini has been creating diverse images of the US Founding Fathers and Nazi-era German soldiers, in what looked like an attempt to subvert the gender and racial stereotypes found in generative AI.
Remember when Gemini was named Bard, remember Bard's failures too lol? Maybe Google shouldn't be making AI, or any of the tech companies.. Do we as a society seem to care about the consequences? No..
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
Sora AI: Hype or Hero? Let’s Dive Deep (Limitations, Hidden Feature & More!
OpenAI announces a new AI called Sora. This AI can create a video from your text. That’s insane!
I believe it will be very useful for content creators, filmmakers, web developers, and others who work with this kind of content. The new model aims to convert text-to-video. It can generate a video from plain text.
Everyone is buzzing with excitment over this new AI tool, I believe that it is once again very dangerous technology, it will only get better from here with the support of OpenAI, what are the implications when you can create very very realistic videos of famous people doing things they never did? This will change the world when pushed to its limits.
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Waymo arson in San Francisco sparks new debate on self-driving cars
A seasoned San Francisco cab driver might have avoided the intersection of Jackson Street and Grant Avenue, in the heart of the city's Chinatown on the first day of Chinese New Year.
An autonomous Waymo robotaxi, by contrast, drove toward the cross streets on Saturday evening, when crowds were blocking all sides and revelers were lighting fireworks, according to two witnesses. Minutes later, some in the crowd attacked the car and set it on fire.
You know what this reminds me of, luddites. However, you know what else this reminds me of? The PROBLEM of autonomous anything, how is that the bare minimum of it being destroyed is alarming? AN AUTONOMOUS CAR drove into a crowd, be f***ing glad that waymo is pulling out of SF with multiple stunts similar to this.
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline's bereavement travel policy.
On the day Jake Moffatt's grandmother died, Moffat immediately visited Air Canada's website to book a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. Unsure of how Air Canada's bereavement rates worked, Moffatt asked Air Canada's chatbot to explain.
The chatbot provided inaccurate information, encouraging Moffatt to book a flight immediately and then request a refund within 90 days. In reality, Air Canada's policy explicitly stated that the airline will not provide refunds for bereavement travel after the flight is booked. Moffatt dutifully attempted to follow the chatbot's advice and request a refund but was shocked that the request was rejected.
The end result was that the AI ChatBot has now been discontinued, a small glimmer of hope that AI's have real world consequences affecting very real people and I hope that more companies see how automation may not translate into best practices.
Feb 16, 2024
Feb 14, 2024
Microsoft says it caught hackers from China, Russia and Iran using its AI tools
State-backed hackers from Russia, China, and Iran have been using tools from Microsoft-backed OpenAI to hone their skills and trick their targets, according to a report published on Wednesday.
Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab said in its report it had tracked hacking groups affiliated with Russian military intelligence, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and the Chinese and North Korean governments as they tried to perfect their hacking campaigns using large language models. Those computer programs, often called artificial intelligence, draw on massive amounts of text to generate human-sounding responses.
Does this not worry anyone? The fact that AI can be used to automate more of anything, notably nefarious tasks not worry people? How is there not outrage in controlling something like this?
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT the Ability to Remember Facts From Your Chats
The next time you tell ChatGPT that you’re allergic to avocados or prefer all meeting notes to be formatted in bullet points, the chatbot might be able to remember those details indefinitely.
I'm calling it, this is the beginning of a sentient AI, it always starts with convenience, next they remember everything about you, then what?...
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 08, 2024
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business of Chips and AI
OpenAI chief pursues investors including the U.A.E. for a project possibly requiring up to $7 trillion.
For someone who lobbied so hard for AI safety, he sure needs a lot of money, TOO MUCH money to do everything he wants, isn't that funny?
Can't wait to see the end of our world come at a breakneck speed while the guy preaches safety haha.
With rapidly improving AI, voice cloning has only gotten more convincing. That’s a problem
When some New Hampshire voters answered the phone in January, they heard a very familiar voice.
“What a bunch of malarkey,” President Joe Biden said, urging residents to “save your vote for the November election” and skip the state’s Jan. 23 presidential primary.
If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like something Biden would actually say, you’d be right. New Hampshire officials now believe that the robocalls residents received were AI-generated, mimicking the president’s voice in an “unlawful attempt to…suppress New Hampshire voters,” the state AG’s office said in a statement.
I predicted this. AI will be used in nefarious ways, but the most important is elections and politics, AI content can sway voters while using very few resources to generate infinite content.
Feb 07, 2024
Feb 06, 2024
Meta to add ‘AI generated’ label to images created with OpenAI, Midjourney and other tools
Meta says it’s working to identify and label AI-generated images shared on its platforms that were created by third-party tools, as the company prepares for the 2024 election season amid a proliferation of artificial intelligence tools that threaten to muddy the information ecosystem.
In the coming months, Meta will start adding “AI generated” labels to images created by tools from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Adobe, Midjourney and Shutterstock, Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg said in a blog post Tuesday. Meta already applies a similar, “imagined with AI” label to photorealistic images created with its own AI generator tool.
Hahah, this is rich, Meta being the first to try to protect its users, however, notice that last line, subtly mentioning that META has its own AI tool, now I wonder why a platform like META would want to get more compliant. right after that booming financial statement.
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs
An underground website called OnlyFake is claiming to use “neural networks” to generate realistic looking photos of fake IDs for just $15, radically disrupting the marketplace for fake identities and cybersecurity more generally. This technology, which 404 Media has verified produces fake IDs nearly instantly, could streamline everything from bank fraud to laundering stolen funds.
I mean it would only make sense that fake IDs would eventually happen with AI, scary scary as the world all around us falls into disarray, what is real and what isn't? Nowadays who knows?
Feb 05, 2024
Feb 02, 2024
AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge
Artificial intelligence-related lobbying reached new heights in 2023, with more than 450 organizations participating. It marks a 185% increase from the year before, when just 158 organizations did so, according to federal lobbying disclosures analyzed by OpenSecrets on behalf of CNBC.
The spike in AI lobbying comes amid growing calls for AI regulation and the Biden administration’s push to begin codifying those rules. Companies that began lobbying in 2023 to have a say in how regulation might affect their businesses include TikTok owner ByteDance, Tesla, Spotify, Shopify, Pinterest, Samsung, Palantir, Nvidia, Dropbox, Instacart, DoorDash, Anthropic and OpenAI.
I'm skeptical of lobbyists, they usually play both sides of the fence. I think these tech companies just want to beat OpenAI , but general support for my cause is very welcomed.
Universal Music Group pulling entire catalog from TikTok
When the future archaeologists find our TikTok catalog, they are going to be so bored watching post-Barbie homages to girlhood without that haunting Billie Eilish song. Universal Music Group (UMG)—which is the music label for huge artists like Eilish, Taylor Swift, and Drake—said it would pull its catalog from the platform after failing to negotiate a new contract with TikTok. The app’s nearly 1.4 billion users should start to hear the change today and be unable to use UMG’s artists’ songs in their videos, as the old contract expired at midnight.
- Worries TikTok isn’t doing enough to protect artists from AI. TikTok recently confirmed that it’s testing a tool for users to create AI songs on the app.
Finally, some pushback in the space, this is serious money pushing back against AI startups doing whatever they want.
Jan 31, 2024
Jan 25, 2024
We Tried a Dating App That Lets a Chatbot Break the Ice for You. It Got Weird
More than a decade of dating apps has shown the process can be excruciating. A new app is trying to make dating less exhausting by using artificial intelligence to help people skip the earliest, often cringey stages of chatting with a new match.
You know what I wish for? Cringey Human Connection, that statement will become more and more evident as AI replaces everything it means to interact with another human being.
Taylor Swift’s name not searchable on X days after sexually explicit deepfakes go viral
Social media users may have noticed Saturday that they cannot search Taylor Swift’s name on X, days after nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes of the pop star went viral.
As I tweeted a few days ago.
Lmao, what did you people think was going to happen when AI became this prominent? This is going to happen to every celebrity with an ounce of fame. Who is the next celebrity to get this treatment? The bigger the celebrity the more likely to is is going to happen.
Jan 27, 2024
Jan 22, 2024
Rethinking AI's impact: MIT CSAIL study reveals economic limits to job automation
A new study from MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, The Productivity Institute, and IBM’s Institute for Business Value is set to challenge our long-held beliefs. Their research critically examines the economic practicality of using AI for automating tasks in the workplace, with a specific emphasis on computer vision.
Their findings show that currently, only about 23 percent of wages paid for tasks involving vision are economically viable for AI automation.
Let's flip this around, there are already 23% of visual tasks available and economically capable of being eliminated and replaced by AI. What is wrong with people, why can't they admit this is a problem??
Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in “uncomfortable” ways
OpenAI's next big model "will be able to do a lot, lot more" than the existing models can, CEO Sam Altman told Axios in an exclusive interview at Davos on Wednesday.
Why it matters: Altman told Axios' Ina Fried that AI is evolving much more rapidly than previous technologies that took Silicon Valley by storm. But he also conceded that the evolution and proliferation of OpenAI's technology will require "uncomfortable" decisions.
Evolve more rapidly... Do a LOT LOT more? Are we all hearing this?...
Jan 18, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
We don’t want to see an AI ‘Hiroshima,’ Salesforce CEO warns
The tech industry is setting down safety protocols and establishing trust principles in relation to the developing AI software that has taken the world by storm to avoid a “Hiroshima moment,” Salesforce
A breath of fresh air for someone to admit there could be a tragedy that results from Ai development at these rates.
AI will affect 40% of jobs and probably worsen inequality, says IMF head
Artificial intelligence will affect 40% of jobs around the world and it is “crucial” that countries build social safety nets to mitigate the impact on vulnerable workers, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund.
IMF is raising warnings about this!! 40% is a crazy number.
Jan 15, 2024
Jan 18, 2024
OpenAI Sam Altman to appear at World Economic Forum Summit
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said an energy breakthrough is necessary for future artificial intelligence, which will consume vastly more power than people have expected.
In his first big public appearance since his outing, Sam Altman will appear at the World Economic Forum, showing how much of a household name he has become to rub elbows with some of the most influential people in the world, notice how he talks about energy consumption being a problem --> Assumption AI will be that ingrained in society.
OpenAI Launches the GPT Store, a Marketplace for AI Tools
OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT Store on Wednesday, offering its customizable AI chatbots to ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, and Team users. The GPT Store is Sam Altman’s biggest consumer product launch since ChatGPT, and it aims to make AI more practical and accessible.
3M GPTs have been created, which allows everyday users to explore the capabilities of AI, sure there are restrictions for now, but what if players go evil after figuring out the basics and take their creation off to something not backed by ChatGPT?
Jan 10, 2024
Jan 10, 2024
Looking at CES 2024: Startups and A.I. Take Center Stage
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024) kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The tech conference, once a product showcase for giants like Sony and Samsung, has morphed into a hub for small tech companies over the past several years.
Whether it's big tech or small tech, this year's show will be all about A.I. Here are a few of the innovations expected to get noticed at CES 2024.
It does not shock me to see that CES would embrace AI so deeply, it is the future of technology after all, but how does this fair in a modern world that can't seem to balance AI regulation at all?
Deepfakes for $24 a month: how AI is disrupting Bangladesh's election
Policymakers around the world are worrying over how AI-generated disinformation can be harnessed to try to mislead voters and inflame divisions ahead of several big elections next year.
In one country it is already happening: Bangladesh.
The South Asian nation of 170mn people is heading to the polls in early January, a contest marked by a bitter and polarising power struggle between incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her rivals, the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist party.
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh have in recent months promoted AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools offered by artificial intelligence start-ups.
ANYONE can have access to these tools for a small fee, what do you think about the corporations that have deep pockets and have access to better tools? Why even bother lobbying when you can influence who gets elected?
DEC 14, 2023
Jan 04, 2024
Microsoft gives AI a place on the Windows keyboard
Microsoft is so confident AI is the future of computing that it's adding a new button to the keyboards of Windows PCs dedicated to its Copilot AI assistant, starting with new machines to be announced at CES next week.
Why it matters: It's the first change to the Windows keyboard in 30 years, and the latest example of hardware makers betting on AI to both create new product categories and breathe life into older ones.
Ah, yes, let's cram more AI down our throats lead by one of the world's most far reaching company, at this point, may be the MOST influential company as Apple falls to the waist-side.
The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with instant access to information — technology that now competes with the Times.
Nice start to the year huh, let's see what comes out of this lawsuit. I hope OpenAI and Microsoft gets dinged, but lawsuits take years to settle. I think it's interesting that AI can pull from real time internet now, that's scary if you think about it.
Jan 01, 2024
AntiAI Memes& Wholesome AI content
Welcome to my meme page! These are just meant to be lighthearted memes poking fun at some of the shortcomings of AI, enjoy!
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AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time
Beyond how excited scientist got over this lol, If AI was used exclusively for things like this, I have zero objections, but atlas, there are many more nefarious uses of AI than innocently used as a tool to overcome human barriers for IDing ancient scrolls.
Could an orca give a TED Talk?
This is a feel good episode about AI :)
If AI was used for things like this, I have no objections, but atlas, there are many nefarious uses of AI
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