AI, it's future in entertainment & perhaps exploitation

[Jay Mysteri0]

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand

WIRED was able to download stories from publishers like The New York Times and The Atlantic using Poe’s Assistant bot. One expert calls it “prima facie copyright infringement,” which Quora disputes.

www.wired.com

Yup, working as intended.

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[SouprMatt]

Google pulled a commercial for “AI” from the Olympics. The gist of it was that the dad of a fan of an Olympic athlete was going to use AI to write a fan letter to the athlete for his daughter. Sure, who doesn’t love a heartfelt fan letter written by a computer?

Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash

Taking the “human” out of “human communication.”…

arstechnica.com

I think the “AI” backlash is real and growing.

Using the term 'artificial intelligence' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions

Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words 'artificial intelligence' when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a recent study. Researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship...

www.sciencedaily.com

Hopefully it will be tossed on the tech junkpile soon. Something has to cover up the Zunes and netbooks.

 

[P___X]

Google pulled a commercial for “AI” from the Olympics. The gist of it was that the dad of a fan of an Olympic athlete was going to use AI to write a fan letter to the athlete for his daughter. Sure, who doesn’t love a heartfelt fan letter written by a computer?

Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash

Taking the “human” out of “human communication.”…

arstechnica.com

I think the “AI” backlash is real and growing.

Using the term 'artificial intelligence' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions

Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words 'artificial intelligence' when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a recent study. Researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship...

www.sciencedaily.com

Hopefully it will be tossed on the tech junkpile soon. Something has to cover up the Zunes and netbooks.

Remember the times when everything was marketed using the letter X or 2000? I think marketing people try to use AI to the same effect, but they simply fail to account for the laypeople's perceptions of existential threat or the perception of "you don't know how your product works" from people more familiar with AI.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

Colin Kaepernick Pisses Off Comics Industry with AI Comics Deal

As is the case with genAI in other industries, comics pros are not happy about the technology intruding on their space.

gizmodo.com

The gist

Ignorng that Kaepernick himself had connections that let him write a kids book for Scholastic and co-create a Netflix series about his own life with Ava DuVernay, this is a pretty worthless idea. GenAI’s often been called a possible aid for non-creative people to make their own things, but this technology steals preexisting work, so it’s effectively stealing. There’s just no getting around it: if you want to make something, you are going to have to make it yourself, both because people in these fields will shun you once they learn how it’s made, and because making things requires sucking at it and improving over time.

What's truly disappointing & drives me nuts, is the man going to Black artists & trying to float this shit like a clueless apathetic tech bro looking for his next big check.

More problematically, artist Khary Randolph alleges that he and other artists were told about Kaepernick’s plans for Lumi some months ago and told him how damaging this technology could be. He decided to continue on regardless, and reportedly pitched it to artists as a “charity” while at San Diego Comic-Con. The lack of consent until after the fact is another big problem with genAI; recall how OpenAI used Scarlett Johansson’s voice for its chatbot despite her explicitly saying no, or agencies using coded language in contracts so voice actors sign their voices away to be synthesized. Companies and people like Kaepernick love asking for forgiveness than permission, and it’s made the act of living as a creative person or a fan of creative arts pretty frustrating.

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I had more, ...but get to angry to make a sensible post.

 

[lizkat]

Remember the times when everything was marketed using the letter X or 2000? I think marketing people try to use AI to the same effect, but they simply fail to account for the laypeople's perceptions of existential threat or the perception of "you don't know how your product works" from people more familiar w

At present, the biggest problem with tech having rolled out a commercial "AI" in hopes of making a fast buck is that they themselves don't reliably know "how it works." Latest example popped up in an FT article today. Seems that ChatGPT's latest glitch is with the new voice interface... wherein a question presented in English may pop up translated to Welsh and then answered in Welsh as well. Meanwhile the average English speaker not living in or near Wales (for instance the FT reporters checking out that bug) cannot understand the answer.

Business Insider picked up the piece.

OpenAI told the FT the issue was caused by Whisper, its automatic speech recognition system, which sometimes gets confused.

A research paper published by the company in 2022 said Welsh was an "outlier with much worse than expected performance" and that it had about "9000 hours of translation data." The paper also says the language identification system "misclassified" English audio as Welsh translation data.

ChatGPT users ran into a similar bug in February when it responded to questions in "Spanglish" — a combination of Spanish and English.

Whole thing begins to feel like "garbage in, garbage out" since AI has to be trained on "something" and the picking of training materials can be and has been buggy, never mind future training issues re misinformation deliberately or via poor filtering just fed into ongoing "lessons".

 

[P___X]

At present, the biggest problem with tech having rolled out a commercial "AI" in hopes of making a fast buck is that they themselves don't reliably know "how it works." Latest example popped up in an FT article today. Seems that ChatGPT's latest glitch is with the new voice interface... wherein a question presented in English may pop up translated to Welsh and then answered in Welsh as well. Meanwhile the average English speaker not living in or near Wales (for instance the FT reporters checking out that bug) cannot understand the answer.

Business Insider picked up the piece.



Whole thing begins to feel like "garbage in, garbage out" since AI has to be trained on "something" and the picking of training materials can be and has been buggy, never mind future training issues re misinformation deliberately or via poor filtering just fed into ongoing "lessons".

it's some amazing garbage though. It can read aloud in my native language with a perfectly realistic american accent. It's truly incredible and I 100% couldn't tell that it's an AI voice.

 

[lizkat]

it's some amazing garbage though. It can read aloud in my native language with a perfectly realistic american accent. It's truly incredible and I 100% couldn't tell that it's an AI voice.

I'm a huge fan of the good of AI... just concerned about loose guardrails around the harmful. It is after all only what we feed it. We are what we eat whether we intend a given outcome or not, and that includes what we feed our minds. Who gets to feed us? Well... those who think they have a handle on that are really only part of a new variant of the usual escalating rat race of "better lock, better locksmith."

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

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[lizkat]

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And yet all these big outfits like Apple, Nvidia and Thrive Capital are lining up to pour big bucks into a hundred billion next round of fundraising for OpenAI.

I'm remembering back to the then-iconic shopping bag so prized in NYC in the 1960s: "Eyes Closed, I Buy Everything at Bloomingdales"... but see AI is not a gauzy scarf or breezy summer dress. And once you buy into it, you've bought into what's currently a highly lipsticked pig in a poke. Maybe even a wild boar. No wonder the financial press is talking about how OpenAI is overdue for a change in corporate structure. As if that would be enough to put guardrails around a set of tools that the profit-minded keep shoving out the door as naked as a jaybird.

 

[SouprMatt]

And yet all these big outfits like Apple, Nvidia and Thrive Capital are lining up to pour big bucks into a hundred billion next round of fundraising for OpenAI.

I'm remembering back to the then-iconic shopping bag so prized in NYC in the 1960s: "Eyes Closed, I Buy Everything at Bloomingdales"... but see AI is not a gauzy scarf or breezy summer dress. And once you buy into it, you've bought into what's currently a highly lipsticked pig in a poke. Maybe even a wild boar. No wonder the financial press is talking about how OpenAI is overdue for a change in corporate structure. As if that would be enough to put guardrails around a set of tools that the profit-minded keep shoving out the door as naked as a jaybird.

The people at OpenAI who actually had some technical understanding of LLMs fired Robert Altman because he was making things worse instead of better.

Unfortunately for them, he already had the ultra-rich investors eating out of his hand. This bubble will burst; it’s just a matter of time. Each AI demo gets more and more gimmicky and the actual results of the technology get worse and worse. Now LLMs are being “trained” on other LLM-generated content from the internet. Which means you’re getting bad translations of bad translations… Kind of like when you compress the same JPEG over and over…

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

And yet all these big outfits like Apple, Nvidia and Thrive Capital are lining up to pour big bucks into a hundred billion next round of fundraising for OpenAI.

I'm remembering back to the then-iconic shopping bag so prized in NYC in the 1960s: "Eyes Closed, I Buy Everything at Bloomingdales"... but see AI is not a gauzy scarf or breezy summer dress. And once you buy into it, you've bought into what's currently a highly lipsticked pig in a poke. Maybe even a wild boar. No wonder the financial press is talking about how OpenAI is overdue for a change in corporate structure. As if that would be enough to put guardrails around a set of tools that the profit-minded keep shoving out the door as naked as a jaybird.

Apple is in an interesting spot.

AI has become this tech bro gold rush that you HAVE to be in, or get left behind by the inevitable imagined profits that will rain from the sky like the flood Noah experienced. Mind, it's down to willfully ignoring the all issues involved, like power needed, harmful emissions caused by that power generation, and ever rising costs like a science fiction waterspout touching the heavens. Moore's Law is involved, but it's true application as far as AI is concerned is the costs. I think it's been realized that the cost for the AI that these tech bros are ****ing themselves over is so high, that eventually nation states will be the only one able to afford the costs. Is that Saudi Arabia? Oh, that kind of money.

It's why Apple's past IOS event was really more about the AI coming to it, so the shareholders don't start turning.

AI is such an imagined profit driver, that it's punished Intel for not getting in, and driving Amazon to imagine they can finally make a profit off of Alexa.

Amazon Is Reportedly Closer to Launching Paid Alexa

The "Remarkable" version of Amazon's digital assistant will tap into Anthropic's Claude AI.

gizmodo.com

There is so much riding on this tech AI bubble, much to the damage of so much else, that if it pops...

When the AI bubble bursts

The boom in AI investment since ChatGPT’s launch has been accompanied by constant claims that the technology will transform our world. Will it?

www.newstatesman.com

I was listening to a podcast that mentioned this stat about AI jobs. I think it was a type of engineer. Like only 1500 people a year graduate in that field where supposed thousands of needed. So there's this race to get as many of them as possible, which the US is currently winning, but other countries are seriously making great offers for this much in demand group. On the flip side some of the people responsible for coding are realizing that one thing some want in AI is for AI to code AI, meaning like the other jobs that AI takes over, their jobs are just as vulnerable as well.

I've always said that AI is the capitalist tech bro's wet dream. Making money / profit from nothing. From doing nothing. Just making money. One great way? If you remove humans from the equation, you can avoid that whole pesky thing of paying them & providing benefits. More money for the tech bros. "Wheeeeeee"

Apple had to jump into bed with Chat GPT to keep up where others have already fully dived in. The market says so.

 

[P___X]

I've always said that AI is the capitalist tech bro's wet dream. Making money / profit from nothing. From doing nothing. Just making money. One great way? If you remove humans from the equation, you can avoid that whole pesky thing of paying them & providing benefits. More money for the tech bros. "Wheeeeeee"

Apple had to jump into bed with Chat GPT to keep up where others have already fully dived in. The market says so.

It's gonna be hilarious to watch when they realize that all those millions and millions of lines of codes spewed out by AI will need a lot of humans to debug😀

 

[SouprMatt]

Apple is in an interesting spot.

AI has become this tech bro gold rush that you HAVE to be in, or get left behind by the inevitable imagined profits that will rain from the sky like the flood Noah experienced. Mind, it's down to willfully ignoring the all issues involved, like power needed, harmful emissions caused by that power generation, and ever rising costs like a science fiction waterspout touching the heavens. Moore's Law is involved, but it's true application as far as AI is concerned is the costs. I think it's been realized that the cost for the AI that these tech bros are ****ing themselves over is so high, that eventually nation states will be the only one able to afford the costs. Is that Saudi Arabia? Oh, that kind of money.

It's why Apple's past IOS event was really more about the AI coming to it, so the shareholders don't start turning.

AI is such an imagined profit driver, that it's punished Intel for not getting in, and driving Amazon to imagine they can finally make a profit off of Alexa.



There is so much riding on this tech AI bubble, much to the damage of so much else, that if it pops...



I was listening to a podcast that mentioned this stat about AI jobs. I think it was a type of engineer. Like only 1500 people a year graduate in that field where supposed thousands of needed. So there's this race to get as many of them as possible, which the US is currently winning, but other countries are seriously making great offers for this much in demand group. On the flip side some of the people responsible for coding are realizing that one thing some want in AI is for AI to code AI, meaning like the other jobs that AI takes over, their jobs are just as vulnerable as well.

I've always said that AI is the capitalist tech bro's wet dream. Making money / profit from nothing. From doing nothing. Just making money. One great way? If you remove humans from the equation, you can avoid that whole pesky thing of paying them & providing benefits. More money for the tech bros. "Wheeeeeee"

Apple had to jump into bed with Chat GPT to keep up where others have already fully dived in. The market says so.

Wow, I love this. Yes, even if Apple has zero interest in AI, they needed to do something. Otherwise, investors would take out their money and give it to “AI” companies. After all, nobody wants to miss out on the Next Big Thing(tm)!

At this time, all they’re really offering are improvements to Siri and a few hooks from iOS into ChatGPT for those that want it. Not a bad strategy: make it a new feature, but don’t bet the company on something that might be just another bubble.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

It's gonna be hilarious to watch when they realize that all those millions and millions of lines of codes spewed out by AI will need a lot of humans to debug😀

Humans fighting over jobs at Starbucks, since AI supposedly replaced them.

 

[SouprMatt]

It's gonna be hilarious to watch when they realize that all those millions and millions of lines of codes spewed out by AI will need a lot of humans to debug😀

Another point about AI-generated code: It will not improve on existing code, because all it does is find prior code and show it to you. It has no original ideas, nor does an LLM generator have any capacity for creating new ideas. Over time, that means AI code will be less and less efficient when compared to novel code from humans, creating new ideas to solve problems.

 

[SouprMatt]

Humans fighting over jobs at Starbucks, since AI supposedly replaced them.

I want AI to vacuum, dust, wash dishes, do the laundry for us. Then we can have more time to make art, music, and literature. Instead, the tech bros are doing the exact opposite! Gee, I wonder why nobody likes it.

I promise you, if I never needed to do the things listed above because “AI” did it for me? I’d change my mind on AI in a flash.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

Wow, I love this. Yes, even if Apple has zero interest in AI, they needed to do something. Otherwise, investors would take out their money and give it to “AI” companies. After all, nobody wants to miss out on the Next Big Thing(tm)!

At this time, all they’re really offering are improvements to Siri and a few hooks from iOS into ChatGPT for those that want it. Not a bad strategy: make it a new feature, but don’t bet the company on something that might be just another bubble.

Apple has since turned around and actually looked into investing into ChatGPT.

If Skynet comes into existence, it won't destroy us with nuclear armageddon, but instead with financial ruin.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

I want AI to vacuum, dust, wash dishes, do the laundry for us. Then we can have more time to make art, music, and literature. Instead, the tech bros are doing the exact opposite! Gee, I wonder why nobody likes it.

I promise you, if I never needed to do the things listed above because “AI” did it for me? I’d change my mind on AI in a flash.

I think that's where the tech bros greed got them into trouble.

As I said much earlier, tech bros are so enamored in a product that can be sold to make money, but cost nothing to make. So they went after something that had the most vulnerable group artists. It's glaring they avoided music as much as they can because that group is so litigious. It's all about making money, without having to spend money.

If the tech bros instead leaned on how it would make the lives of EVERYONE better so there would be less to worry about, they might have had something. Frame it as, after you come home from hard day at work, you come home to a clean home with dinner prepared at the set time you desired. Instead we got you'll probably have more time at home, because you won't have a job. Good luck affording that home.

And if you do have a home & work for a tech billionaire in CA, it will probably have to be an approved home that has specifically colored t shirts you're supposed to wear.

 

[SouprMatt]

As long as we’re piling on AI, might as well toss this on the pile:



This bullsh!+ generator that can’t tell fact from fan-fiction, is going to solve all the world’s problems. Sure.

What amazes me is the willingness to burn the brand to the ground for this junk. Think of how long it took for “googling” something to become a good thing. Now googling stuff can be a fun way to see how dumb of an AI malfunction you can produce. Not to mention, AI searches cost the company something like 10x more in power costs than the previous reliable search results.

 

[SouprMatt]

It’s not about saving you time or making your life easier. It’s about taking your job away.

'A tech firm stole our voices - then cloned and sold them'

A voice over artist found out his voice had been taken when he heard a chatbot on a podcast using it.

www.bbc.com

In June 2023, Paul and his partner Linnea Sage were driving near their home in New York City, listening to a podcast about the ongoing strikes in Hollywood and how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect the industry.

The episode was of interest because the couple are voice-over performers and - like many other creatives - fear that human-sounding voice generators could soon be used to replace them.

This particular podcast had a unique hook – they interviewed an AI-powered chat bot, equipped with text-to-speech software, to ask how it thought the use of AI would affect jobs in Hollywood.

But, when it spoke, it sounded just like Mr Lehrman.

"We needed to pull the car over," he said.