You’ll never guess.
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Capitalism makes people so stupidly obsessed with money they literally can’t remember anything else exists. 
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Verily, the AI has reached the level of truly human accomplishments! AGI achieved!
I never would have guessed - that’s just too profoundly weird and stupid a definition. I suppose, to be fair, it’s an arbitrary definition for the purposes of a contract (“for the purposes of this document, a duck is defined as a type of light aircraft”), but it also shows they don’t have an actual definition for AGI.
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So we’ve just been mistaken about what the acronym is for, I guess. It’s always been about a specific Adjusted Gross Income.
Or maybe
“Aquires Gargantuan Investments”?
“Algorithm Generating Interest”?
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“Always Generating Interest” (and thus, more and more venture capital).
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Assholes Gurning Incesently.
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HarmonyCloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI
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I’m thoroughly sick of tech companies cramming AI into everything and making it worse, all while insisting that this useless garbage is somehow what anybody wants. AI is a technology desperately seeking any valid application and failing repeatedly. So far the most useful and benevolent purpose seems to be making mediocre images, at the expense of a huge carbon footprint and the exploitation of real artists. I cannot wait until the hype dies down.
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So the other use seems to be the perplexity.ai type thing, where you ask it a question and it gives references for its answer. This is very unreliable and you absolutely need to check the references in question – and of course they deserve the traffic anyway, they’re where all the actual work was done. But it starts looking like it might be better at finding pages that give answers than regular search engines simply because how bad those have been getting. 
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It makes the denial of care much more effecient and harder to appeal. All the good things. Profit!
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“The availability of generative AI tools lowers the entry threshold for advanced cyber crime,” said eBay cyber crime security researcher Nadezda Demidova. “We’ve witnessed a growth in the volume of all kinds of cyber attacks,” particularly in “polished and closely targeted” phishing scams, she added.
I guess they thought the AI crooks would only go after the peons?
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< microscopic violin gif >
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Sometimes Siri would be inadvertently activated, a whistleblower told The Guardian, when an Apple Watch was raised and speech was detected. The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri’s alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted (claims which remain disputed).
I would bet we have all had this experience. We have consciously avoided these voice activated assistant thingies, but still get ads related to recent conversations. It’s not just Siri listening in, folks.
(“Unintentional!” Hah!! And they also “unintentionally” sold the pirated data for profit. Oopsie! And for that you can get $20. Gaaahhhh!!)
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