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LLMs have been trained on all the data companies can possibly get hold of — the whole Internet, including all of Reddit. So if you ask an LLM for a link to a video, what does it do? If you didn’t p…
Megalopolis is the new film directed and self-funded by Francis Ford Coppola. Lionsgate are distributing the $120 million film and hired marketing consultant Eddie Egan to promote it. Megalopolis …
Leopard-trainer J. Tunney now scared of leopards
AI training scrubs authorship knowledge from open source code
After a decade of cryptofascism and failed political activism, our dear friend jart is realizing that they don't really have much of a positive legacy. If only there was something they could have done about that.
Martin Bernklau is a German journalist who reported for decades on criminal trials. He looked himself up on Bing, which suggests you use its Copilot AI. Copilot then listed a string of crimes Bernk…
Devs and the Culture of Tech - Final part
Hello all. People were very kind when I originally posted the start of this series. I've refrained from spamming you with every part but I thought I'd post to say the very final installment is done.
I got a bit weird with it this time as I felt like I had an infinite amount to say, all of which only barely got to the underlying point i was trying to make. So much that I wrote I also cut, it's ridiculous.
Anyway now the series is done I'm going to move on to smaller discrete pieces as I work on my book about Tech Culture's propensity to far-right politics. I'll be dropping interesting stuff I find, examples of Right Libertarians saying ridiculous things, so follow along if that's your jam.
Gartner has released its 2024 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Generative AI has passed the “peak of inflated expectations” and is now entering the “trough of disillusionment.” But don’t worry…
The Tony Blair Institute previously recommended that the UK’s new Labour government spend £4 billion per year putting AI in everything — based on a report they wrote with ChatGPT. The UK’s civil in…
Short story by A. Molitor The loneliest place in America is the bar at the right sort of hotel on the wrong sort of night. A dim and echoing expanse furnished from Ikea’s secret catalog of dark fur…
Kids today might not realize that, for about twenty years there, you could go to Google Search and find things you were looking for! Google now features a hilariously unreliable AI summary as the f…
In shocking news, popular plausible BS machine ChatGPT gets medical diagnoses wrong more than half the time. But don’t worry — it’s very confident in them! A team at the University of Western Ontar…
Big tech uses a stupendous amount of power, so it generates a stupendous amount of CO2. The numbers are not looking so great, especially with the ever-increasing power use of AI. So the large techs…
Grok-2 is the latest edition of Elon Musk’s Twitter chatbot, featuring a preview of xAI’s forthcoming image generator. This lets paying blue-check users “have some fun.” [Twitter, archive] Mo…
think I forgot this one
San Francisco sues sites over nude AI deepfakes — including children
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is suing a pile of sites that generate and sell AI deepfakes of real women — and children. [Complaint, PDF; press conference, video] You upload a photo of a w…
Anti-Blackness is a long-term problem in the fediverse. Now's a good time to start changing that.
Here's the list:
The full article goes into detail, and also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistakes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.
Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!
In the old days, bad journalists had to work at fabrication. Jayson Blair would copy from small local papers for the New York Times. Johann Hari would copy articles in other languages and steal sub…
Kroger, the US’s largest supermarket chain, has been rolling out AI-powered “dynamic pricing” — hooked to cameras on its display shelves. Since 2018, the chain has been using digital price labels t…