Tag: AI
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The Verge Agrees, AI Will Break The Internet
James Vincent for The Verge covered my beat, or more aptly beat the same drum, as I today. Vincent’s article is about how AI is ruining the internet is fucking great. Well sourced, and well written. The article also covers something I pointed out a few months ago, that AI will turn the web into…
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Calling For A Moratorium On Calling For A Moratorium On AI
The AI industry is heavily capitalized, and reliant on smoke and mirrors. Calls for regulation and open letters asking for a pause in AI research from leaders of AI companies make headlines every few months. These are not circulating out of genuine fear, they are self aggrandizing, and honestly monopolistic. In under a year, artificial…
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Deepfakes And True Crime
Filed under if AI ends humanity it will do so with human stupidity. The article discusses AI-generated videos on TikTok that depict true-crime stories, particularly focusing on the stories of murder victims, including young children. AI Deepfakes of True-Crime Victims Are a Waking Nightmare
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The AI Anti-Utopia, And Other Stories
Software is replacing artists and writers who enjoy their work while warehouse staffers pee in bottles to make quota. AI is turning into a shitty anti-utopia. As I write this, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike for 28 days. In a negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers…
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Don’t Use ChatGPT For Legal Research
A lawyer used ChatGPT to research a legal brief and it didn’t work out. ChatGPT makes stuff up or uses very thin sourcing, and is not a replacement for a search engine. Here’s What Happens When Your Lawyer Uses ChatGPT
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AI Is Turning Fraud Up To 11
My latest for KnowTechie covers the rise of AI powered fraud. I also touched on some of this issues in a recent essay about how AI is empowering greed and stupidity. Beware of AI scams: The dark side of the digital utopia we didn’t sign up for
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AI Enabled Greed And Stupidity
The content units mindset makes AI replacing human writers inevitable. This AI future won’t just replace writers, when the goal is churning out more content units, ever cheaper, every creative is on the chopping block. The sword that will cut their jobs is being forged with their work.
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Adobe Is Adding Generative AI Tools To Photoshop
I know it was coming and I’m still not sure how I feel. Adobe Has Added New A.I. Capabilities to Photoshop, Allowing Users to Edit Images Using Text Prompts
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AI-Generated Pentagon Image Sparks Stock Market Panic
An AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral, causing a brief stock market crash of 0.26%. AI Picture Of The Pentagon Exploding Caused The Stock Market To Crash
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AI Grief Tech Sure Seems Predatory
My latest for KnowTechie is a criticism of “grief tech,” the growing number of AI chatbots that are trained with data of deceased loved ones. These tools, almost all seem as predatory as a Victorian-era séance. Grief tech seems predatory as a Victorian-era séance
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Interview With A Man Who Helped Train ChatGPT
This article is an interview with Richard Mathenge, a former contractor for Sama, an AI annotation service that worked with OpenAI training OpenAI’s GPT model by repeatedly viewing and categorizing explicit and offensive content. He Helped Train ChatGPT. It Traumatized Him.
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The Advertising Pyramid Scheme
The advertising economy is starting to resemble a collection of interconnected multi-level marketing schemes. Some kind of intermediary firm sits atop each pyramid brokering the serving of ads to eyeballs. Under that are ad agencies, and tech firms that work on sales and bid management. The bottom are ad buyers, perhaps too few to sustain…
