A book recommendation: Parmy Olson's Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in AI. The book tells the origin stories behind the familiar names: how ChatGPT came to be, how DeepMind ended up under Google, how Anthropic and Claude were born as a reaction to OpenAI's shift in direction, and how GitHub Copilot and Gemini entered the picture.

What I found especially fascinating is the massive amount of research behind OpenAI and how open and idealistic the starting points were for everything until business took over. Musk, Altman, Hassabis and the other key figures have been on completely different pages: some care deeply about ethics and safety, some couldn't care less. At the same time, everyone acknowledges the risks and talks about them openly, yet they all act differently.

I've been tinkering with chatbots since the MegaHAL days and as a developer I use all of these tools often, so reading the behind-the-scenes story was captivating. Won the Financial Times Business Book of the Year 2024, and deservedly so.

PS. If you're planning to guilt trip me about using AI or being interested in it, I'll just block you.

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A popular TikTok channel featuring an "Aboriginal man" presenting animal facts has been exposed as an AI forgery.

AI is Iggy Azalea on an industrial scale:

"The self-described “Bush Legend” on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram is growing in popularity.

"These short and sharp videos feature an Aboriginal man – sometimes painted up in ochre, other times in an all khaki outfit – as he introduces different native animals and facts about them.
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"But the Bush Legend isn’t real. He is generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

"This is a part of a growing influx of AI being utilised to represent Indigenous peoples, knowledges and cultures with no community accountability or relationships with Indigenous peoples. It forms a new type of cultural appropriation, one that Indigenous peoples are increasingly concerned about."
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"We are seeing the rise of an AI Blakface that is utilised with ease thanks to the availability and prevalence of AI.

"Non-Indigenous people and entities are able to create Indigenous personas through AI, often grounded in stereotypical representations that both amalgamate and appropriate cultures."

theconversation.com/this-tikto…

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