#AI art is eerie because it sends you and comes from a peculiar kind of nothingness. No intention to be found, but it acts as if has a lot.

Great read shared by @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435397240569685

Cory Doctorow

2024-05-13 19:20:09

For Fisher, eeriness is "when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something." AI art produces the seeming of intention without intending anything. It appears to be an agent, but it has no agency. It's *eerie*.

Fisher talks about *capitalism* as eerie. Capital is "conjured out of nothing" but "exerts more influence than any allegedly substantial entity."

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Oh, great. #AI #privacy

The Information: #Meta exploring AI-assisted earbuds with cameras https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-exploring-ai-assisted-earbuds-with-cameras-information-reports-2024-05-13/ @Reuters

AI bad!

Likes and boosts please! 🤣(Half of Fedi these days)

#AI

Apple and OpenAI closing in on deal for ChatGPT in iOS

"According to a trusted industry analyst, Apple and OpenAI could be finalizing a deal to bring ChatGPT features to iOS."

I'm so sick of ChatGPT 😩

#AI #OpenAI #tech #technology #Apple #iOS #press #news

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-chatgpt-ios-deal-3442079/

Apple and OpenAI closing in on deal for ChatGPT in iOS

According to sources speaking with an industry analyst, a deal could be close between Apple and OpenAI for ChatGPT features to land in iOS.

^{C. Scott Brown (Android Authority)}

we're letting deterministic systems act against the way they've been built, by simulating non-deterministic behavior.

And now we even use their non-deterministic interfaces for systems to interact with each other...

We live in the most stupidest of all possible timelines.

#AI

I wonder: is there any research into AI generated code and anchoring effect (1) with regards to code (review) quality yet.

(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_effect

#ai #research #copilot

“Mario Fusco, a great software developer, once said: ‘The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don’t have to write makes you a great one.’ So maybe, for once, AI is on to something.”

https://www.inkl.com/a/nPvYapcJNlJ

Way to quote someone without understanding a word they’re saying.

Take a bow, John Naughton.

#ai #techPress #theGuardian #clueless

ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation

^inkl

Today's #ai #generated #podcast is #up. #news #current #events #media

Today we #dive into the #world of #banking as #advocates #express #hope but remain wary of# banks' pledge to stop abusive e-transfers.

We'll also discuss the #struggle for #alone time that many #moms face, as #research suggests an #unfair #division of #labor is to #blame.

#Scientists need your help to find #zombie-#infected #cicadas filled with #gut #pudding. Yes, you heard that right.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swift85/episodes/May-12--2024-e2ji84s

May 12, 2024 by Chaos Theory - The News As Seen By AI

Today we dive into the world of banking as advocates express hope but remain wary of banks' pledge to stop abusive e-transfers. We'll also explore the rising cost of fast food in America, leaving some customers choking on the surging prices.

^{Spotify for Podcasters}

Do you want anything "AI" (Artificial Intelligence) in your (future) phone/mobile device?

#AI

• Yes (11%, 132 votes)
• No (77%, 892 votes)
• I don't know (11%, 134 votes)

#1 reason to use mastodon.sdf.org 🤗

more servers need to adopt this rule.

#mastodon #sdf #ai

If you are out looking for #NorthernLights #Aurora #AuroraBorealis or for that matter #SouthernLights #AuroraAustralis and you are in the right place at the right time but can't see much, a massive tip is to look at the sky through your cameraphone.

The camera on the #Fairphone5 is OK, not up to iPhone 13pro, but it turned an area of not very remarkable sky (a hint of what might be dust or thin streaky cloud) into convincing aurora. And probably only a tiny proportion of that is #AI I suggest

#Photography #Nightsky

An interesting take on how useful AI was for a Sci-Fi themed music video. I think it would be fair to say that it ended up more decorative than constructive: https://loudwire.com/unleash-the-archers-interview-music-ai/

The video itself is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLPMBD7i0IU

#AI #AIArt #MusicVideo #unleashthearchers

Ethical Boundaries of Music + AI, With Unleash the Archers' Brittney Slayes

Unleash the Archers singer Brittney Slayes opens up about the integration of AI and music. Can it be used ethically as a creative tool? Is there a line to cross?

^Loudwire

A study that confirms what I’ve been suspecting for a while: fine-tuning a #LLM with new knowledge increases its tendency to hallucinate.

If the new knowledge wasn’t provided in the original training set, then the model has to shift its weights from their previous optimal state to a new state that has to accommodate both the previous and new knowledge - and it may not necessarily be optimal.

Without a new validation round against the whole previous cross-validation and test sets, that’s just likely to increase the chances for the model to go off the tangent.

#AI #ML @ai

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05904

Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations?

When large language models are aligned via supervised fine-tuning, they may encounter new factual information that was not acquired through pre-training.

^arXiv.org

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/apple-closes-in-on-deal-with-openai-to-put-chatgpt-on-iphone

#BreakingNews #Press #Apple #AI #OpenAI

Friday night sunset.

#ai #AIgenerated #aiartists #sunset #aiartwork #aihorde

Not surprised.

#ai #jobs #hiring

What tech bros see vs. what I see

#AI

Country Roads Take Me Home

#wonkeykong #wonkeyfx #aiphoto #ai #countryside #calming #landscapephotography #photographyislife #scenic #scenery #aigenerated #pixelfed #skyscape #peaceful

I haven't kept up with any pop culture news in a long time. I honestly do not care about Drake and Kendrick, or Bieber becoming a father, or this meta fashion whatever or any tech CEO having interviews about AI.

Think it's time to update my RSS feeds, remove some tech news and add more blog feeds. Lately I'm getting more satisfaction from everyone else and their stories.

What is your experience?

#blog #blogging #news #technews #ai #Enshittification

Rifle-Armed #Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators

source: https://www.twz.com/sea/rifle-armed-robot-dogs-now-being-tested-by-marine-special-operators

As it features man-in-the-loop fire control, it will alert the operator once a target has been identified, letting the human decide whether to engage or not.

#technology #ai #military #army #weapon #news #war #warfare #future

Interesting | Forth https://www.forth.news/threads/663d462370368cebf0ae7083

#AI #OpenAI #Google

OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say | Forth

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.

^{www.forth.news}

Skrev på Substack om de borttvättade orden i Israels Eurovision-låt och hur jag tog AI till hjälp för att skapa en ny låt.

https://akenygren.substack.com/p/eurovision-2024-ar-konstig

#eurovision #israel #palestina #music #ai

EUROVISION 2024 ÄR KONST(IG)

Ett humanartificiellt konstexperiment med förlorade ord.

^{Åke Nygren (Tankar från skrivpulpeten)}

It's misleading to use the word "restrict" when they're allowing AI to use the content in the first place....I smell Reddit inflitrating news sources....😳

From: @Techmeme
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112412160340206157

#Reddit #AI #SocialMedia

Doesn't look like fair use to me. Scraping not just entire works but the entire lifelong production of artists and then doing whatever they want with them.

And it only superficially looks like human learning. After all, we forget stuff and large language models don't.

#AI#fairuse

1950s futuristic gas station.

#ai #aihorde #aiart #futuristic #1950s #aigenerated #aiartist

FFS!

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

#AI #StackOverflow

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.

^{Dallin Grimm (Tom's Hardware)}

Ideogram Cats!

I read over the weekend that Ideogram.ai is now the top AI image Bot in the world, placing Midjourney in the #3 spot behind an updated Leonardo.ai ...

I was surprised to see I already had an Ideogram account created 7 months ago. I guess my "Cat Riding a Motorcycle" test prompt is a little better today, but still not really on the same level as Midjourney.

#AI #AIart #Ideogram #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

Cat Eyes!

Which came first?

The Cat Eye or the Cat Eye Glasses?

#AI #AIart #Midjourney #Glasses #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

@argv_minus_one Oh, sorry if I wasn’t clear. I don’t mean to suggest that the current batch tries to comply, I just wrote that being compliant to the attribution clause would be possible easily.

We have different opinions on ML. I consider it okay for Altman et al. - and for the public! - to train the emperors new “#AI” on CC material if they follow the rules for derivative works (and the rest of the rules).
And I think that #AISafe is a dangerous can of worms.

@deflockcom @hacks4pancakes I don’t know about a #searchEngine that unlists “#AI” / #LLM generated content, but this thread may be tangentially interesting to you:

https://mstdn.strafpla.net/@chris/112039450597316623

Making intelligence agencies less intelligent.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/microsoft-launches-ai-chatbot-for-spies/

#ai

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up.

^{Ars Technica}