You can call me AI

For real, tho. :rage:

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Some of Ed Zitron’s latest posts sure make is look like Microsoft is loosing confidence in the future prospects of OpenAI and in generative AI as a whole. They’re scaling back significantly on future data center construction.

I hope that Ed is right! I recently listened to an almost insufferable Ezra Klein podcast where he was interviewing someone who was heading up AI policy for the Biden administration. It was so, so bad! Both he and the other guy were totally convinced that AGI is coming very soon and will surely usher in a golden age of prosperity. There was basically no pushback on any of the underlying premises, and worst of all the Biden guy was talking about how the buildout of the energy-intensive data centers would somehow be good for the environment because it would incentivize tech companies to use renewable energies.

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Surprise! People don’t want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery

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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time.

I recollect people talking a while ago about the possibility of malign actors focusing on manipulating the outputs of LLMs to insert their messages, and it turns out to have already happened - it’s the perfect way to launder propaganda, after all, getting a chatbot to spit it out for you.

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fuck-fuckfuckfuck

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Hollywood’s obsession with AI-enabled ‘perfection’ is making movies less human
From digitally enhancing accents to resurrecting the dead, AI is reshaping film in pursuit of impossible standards.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91285846/hollywood-ai-enabled-perfection-the-brutalist

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