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I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence. I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, **are perfectly welcome here.** You can certainly come along and read the [AI Hype Wall Of Shame](https://criticalai.org/the-ai-hype-wall-of-shame/), or the [diminishing returns of Deep Learning.](https://spectrum.ieee.org/deep-learning-computational-cost) Maybe one can even become a Mod! Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. *If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned.* FA&FO.
Alright, I just want to clarify that I've never modded a Lemmy community before. I just have the mantra of "if nobody's doing the right thing, do it yourself". I was also motivated by the decision from u/spez to let an unknown AI company use Reddit's imagery. If you know how to moderate well, please let me know. Also, feel free to discuss ways to attack AI development, and if you have evidence of AIBros being cruel and remorseless, make sure to save the evidence for people "on the fence". Remember, *we don't know if AI is unstoppable.* AI uses up loads of energy to be powered, and tons of circuitry. There may very well be an end to this cruelty, and it's up to us to begin that end.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19885024 > Media and search engines nowadays need a flag system and a filter for AI junk results
www.businessinsider.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19846762
www.pcgamer.com
You should never support the scumbags at Hasbro/WOTC if you are into tabletop games
arstechnica.com
([archived link](https://archive.ph/2Q7fD)) This article is perhaps the most idiotic pro-AI propaganda yet published on a mainstream news site, but I gotta emphasize 'yet'.
www.theverge.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19716272 > Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Today I write about Tim Boucher, desperate Ai-enthusiast crying into his fists, "I'm an author! I'm an author!" https://nova.mkultra.monster/tech/2024/09/13/ai-does-not-an-author-make
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19713386 > SO, it started quite nicely with a fully working program. However nearing the end... or at the end of my programming experience or asking it to program something for me, it wrote in some nasty nasty screen flickering shit. I couldn't stop it and it quickly just froze my screen where the only option was to push the button. I tried it a second time to confirm, but this time I was able to quickly go to a different CLI window and kill that sonobabich. Here is what it came up with in case you want to try it. maybe it only screws up my computer: > ```python > import os > import cv2 > import numpy as np > import time > import tkinter as tk > from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog > > def threshold_to_black(image_path, duration): > original_image = cv2.imread(image_path) > > if original_image is None: > print("Error: Could not read the image.") > return > > height, width, _ = original_image.shape > gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(original_image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) > steps = duration * 10 # 10 frames per second > > for i in range(steps + 1): > # Calculate the threshold value (0 to 255) > threshold = int((i / steps) * 255) > > # Create the thresholded image > thresholded_image = np.where(gray_image < threshold, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8) > > # Resize the thresholded image to fill the window > resized_image = cv2.resize(thresholded_image, (window_width, window_height), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR) > > # Display the thresholded image > cv2.imshow(window_name, resized_image) > > # Wait for a short period to create the effect > time.sleep(0.1) > > if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): > break > > # Display the final black image > cv2.imshow(window_name, np.zeros_like(thresholded_image)) > > while True: > if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'): > break > > cv2.destroyAllWindows() > > def select_image(): > current_directory = os.getcwd() # Get the current directory > filetypes = ( > ('JPEG files', '*.jpg'), > ('JPEG files', '*.jpeg'), > ('All files', '*.*') > ) > > filename = filedialog.askopenfilename( > title='Select an Image', > initialdir=current_directory, # Start in the current directory > filetypes=filetypes > ) > > if filename: > return filename > else: > messagebox.showerror("Error", "No image selected.") > return None > > def get_duration(): > def submit(): > nonlocal total_duration > try: > minutes = int(minutes_entry.get()) > seconds = int(seconds_entry.get()) > total_duration = minutes * 60 + seconds > if total_duration > 0: > duration_window.destroy() > else: > messagebox.showerror("Error", "Duration must be greater than zero.") > except ValueError: > messagebox.showerror("Error", "Please enter valid integers.") > > total_duration = None > duration_window = tk.Toplevel() > duration_window.title("Input Duration") > > tk.Label(duration_window, text="Enter duration:").grid(row=0, columnspan=2) > > tk.Label(duration_window, text="Minutes:").grid(row=1, column=0) > minutes_entry = tk.Entry(duration_window) > minutes_entry.grid(row=1, column=1) > minutes_entry.insert(0, "12") # Set default value for minutes > > tk.Label(duration_window, text="Seconds:").grid(row=2, column=0) > seconds_entry = tk.Entry(duration_window) > seconds_entry.grid(row=2, column=1) > seconds_entry.insert(0, "2") # Set default value for seconds > > tk.Button(duration_window, text="Submit", command=submit).grid(row=3, columnspan=2) > > # Center the duration window on the screen > duration_window.update_idletasks() # Update "requested size" from geometry manager > width = duration_window.winfo_width() > height = duration_window.winfo_height() > x = (duration_window.winfo_screenwidth() // 2) - (width // 2) > y = (duration_window.winfo_screenheight() // 2) - (height // 2) > duration_window.geometry(f'{width}x{height}+{x}+{y}') > > duration_window.transient() # Make the duration window modal > duration_window.grab_set() # Prevent interaction with the main window > duration_window.wait_window() # Wait for the duration window to close > > return total_duration > > def wait_for_start(image_path): > global window_name, window_width, window_height > > original_image = cv2.imread(image_path) > height, width, _ = original_image.shape > > window_name = 'Threshold to Black' > cv2.namedWindow(window_name, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL) > cv2.resizeWindow(window_name, width, height) > cv2.imshow(window_name, np.zeros((height, width, 3), dtype=np.uint8)) # Black window > print("Press 's' to start the threshold effect. Press 'F11' to toggle full screen.") > > while True: > key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF > if key == ord('s'): > break > elif key == 255: # F11 key > toggle_fullscreen() > > def toggle_fullscreen(): > global window_name > fullscreen = cv2.getWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN) > > if fullscreen == cv2.WINDOW_FULLSCREEN: > cv2.setWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL) > else: > cv2.setWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_FULLSCREEN) > > if __name__ == "__main__": > current_directory = os.getcwd() > jpeg_files = [f for f in os.listdir(current_directory) if f.lower().endswith(('.jpeg', '.jpg'))] > > if jpeg_files: > image_path = select_image() > if image_path is None: > print("No image selected. Exiting.") > exit() > > duration = get_duration() > if duration is None: > print("No valid duration entered. Exiting.") > exit() > > wait_for_start(image_path) > > # Get the original > ```
calcgpt.io
Somebody built a chatGPT powerded calculator as a joke https://github.com/Calvin-LL/CalcGPT.io >TODO: Add blockchain into this somehow to make it more stupid.
www.tomshardware.com
A U.S. grand jury has formally charged 52-year-old Michael Smith with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering after allegedly buying AI-generated music, posting them on streaming platforms, and then using thousands of bots to stream his posts. This act allowed him to earn millions of dollars in royalties from 2017 through 2024. According to the unsealed indictment from the Justice Department, Mr. Smith claimed in February 2024 that his “existing music has generated at this point over 4 billion streams and $12 million in royalties since 2019.” This meant he made approximately $2.4 million annually by buying AI-generated tracks, uploading them on various streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, and creating bots that allowed his tracks to gain millions of fake streams. With royalty payments often falling at less than one cent per stream, Mr. Smith likely garnered over 240 million streams yearly, most of them through bots. The music industry, in general, prohibits artificially boosting streams as it will negatively impact artists and musicians, where the money that the streaming company should pay them is funneled into accounts that use bots to increase the listening count of their tracks artificially. The act is similar to the payola scandal in the 1950s, where DJs and radio stations received money from publishers to give their songs more airtime, artificially inflating their popularity to drive record and album sales. The only difference today is that radio stations have since been replaced by streaming platforms, DJs by user accounts, and artists by AI.
www.economist.com
The funniest line from social media: > "Maybe it's because we don't need a computer to automate mansplaining when there's already an excess supply produced by men," answers one woman.  
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28449417 > Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents
www.crikey.com.au
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19416727 > Artificial intelligence is worse than humans in every way at summarising documents and might actually create additional work for people, a government trial of the technology has found. > > Amazon conducted the test earlier this year for Australia’s corporate regulator the Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) using submissions made to an inquiry. The outcome of the trial was revealed in an [answer](https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=b4fd6043-6626-4cbe-b8ee-a5c7319e94a0) to a questions on notice at the Senate select committee on adopting artificial intelligence. > > The test involved testing generative AI models before selecting one to ingest five submissions from a parliamentary inquiry into audit and consultancy firms. The most promising model, Meta’s open source model Llama2-70B, was prompted to summarise the submissions with a focus on ASIC mentions, recommendations, references to more regulation, and to include the page references and context. > > Ten ASIC staff, of varying levels of seniority, were also given the same task with similar prompts. Then, a group of reviewers blindly assessed the summaries produced by both humans and AI for coherency, length, ASIC references, regulation references and for identifying recommendations. They were unaware that this exercise involved AI at all. > > These reviewers overwhelmingly found that the human summaries beat out their AI competitors on every criteria and on every submission, scoring an 81% on an internal rubric compared with the machine’s 47%.
pivot-to-ai.com
If the only reason people care about NaNoWriMo is for the name and hashtag, somebody already pitched Writevember as a replacement. Honestly sounds better to me anyway. I've heard other people say the tools/gamification/etc on the NaNoWriMo platform were really helpful though. For those people, how difficult would it be to potentially patch that stuff into the [WriteFreely](https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely) platform? As one of the only long-form Fediverse-native platforms still being actively developed, maybe they'd appreciate the boost in code contributions.
>Google researchers had their AI "make" a Doom level, and now they're claiming they have a game engine. It is arrogant nonsense, and it only proves how desperate they are to take jobs away from every type of creator they can. >It's particularly offensive to do this with Doom, since making maps for that game is a particular art form, and individual creators are regarded very highly. To traipse into their scene and claim you can do it automatically is just... it's just disgusting. >#Doom #AI #Google #Techbo #GameDesign #GameDev #JimSterling #Jimquisition #StephanieSterling #Games #Gaming #Videogames
pivot-to-ai.com
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2262316
www.tomshardware.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19178497 > [RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed](https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html)
www.ibtimes.co.uk
A Swedish financial services firm specialising in direct payments, pay-after-delivery options, and instalment plans is preparing to reduce its workforce by nearly 50 per cent as artificial intelligence automation becomes more prevalent. Klarna, a buy-now, pay-later company, has reduced its workforce by over 1,000 employees in the past year, partially attributed to the increased use of artificial intelligence. The company plans to implement further job cuts, resulting in a reduction of nearly 2,000 positions. Klarna's current employee count decreased from approximately 5,000 to 3,800 compared to last year. A company spokesperson stated that the number of employees is expected to decrease to approximately 2,000 in the coming years, although they did not provide a specific timeline. In Klarna's interim financial report released on Tuesday, the company attributed the job cuts to its increasing reliance on artificial intelligence, enabling it to reduce its human workforce. Klarna claims that its AI-powered chatbot can handle the workload previously managed by 700 full-time customer service agents. The company has reduced the average resolution time for customer service inquiries from 11 minutes to two while maintaining consistent customer satisfaction ratings compared to human agents.
www.nytimes.com
I ran an AI startup back in 2017 and this was a huge deal for us and I’ve seen no actual improvement in this problem. NYTimes is spot on IMO
fortune.com
Meta has quietly unleashed a new web crawler to scour the internet and collect data en masse to feed its AI model. The crawler, named the Meta External Agent, was launched last month, according to three firms that track web scrapers and bots across the web. The automated bot essentially copies, or “scrapes,” all the data that is publicly displayed on websites, for example the text in news articles or the conversations in online discussion groups. A representative of Dark Visitors, which offers a tool for website owners to automatically block all known scraper bots, said Meta External Agent is analogous to OpenAI’s GPTBot, which scrapes the web for AI training data. Two other entities involved in tracking web scrapers confirmed the bot’s existence and its use for gathering AI training data. While close to 25% of the world’s most popular websites now block GPTBot, only 2% are blocking Meta’s new bot, data from Dark Visitors shows. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s cofounder and longtime CEO, boasted on an earnings call that his company’s social platforms had amassed a data set for AI training that was even “greater than the Common Crawl,” an entity that has scraped roughly 3 billion web pages each month since 2011.
Just in case that URL doesn't replicate the session properly I've added a screenshot of the session to the end. A few things are obvious here. First the choice to trumpet the "strengths" of degenerative AI while qualifying the weaknesses is clearly a choice made in the programming of the system. In later interactions it claims that this was not specifically programmed into it but, as it says, it's a black box and there's no way to confirm nor deny anything it claims. Which is, you know, pretty much the reason why degenerative AI can't be trusted. 
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40428405 > cross-posted from: https://flipboard.social/users/TechDesk/statuses/113013778572529137 > > > With the next generation of AI photo editing tools built into the Google’s flagship Pixel 9 family, our basic assumptions about photographs capturing a reality we can believe in are about to be seriously tested — and @theverge shows us why. > > > > “An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full color. They are high-fidelity. There is no suspicious background blur, no tell-tale sixth finger. These photographs are extraordinarily convincing, and they are all extremely f---ing fake.” Take a look at the pictures for yourself as The Verge ponders the implications of these new capabilities. > > > > [https://flip.it/AO_SK3](https://flip.it/AO_SK3) > > > > #AI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Pixel #Pixel9 #Smartphones #Photography #Tech
variety.com
> Lionsgate has parted ways with Eddie Egan, the marketing consultant who came up with the “Megalopolis” trailer that included fake quotes from famous film critics. > > The studio pulled the trailer on Wednesday, after it was pointed out that the quotes trashing Francis Ford Coppola’s previous work did not actually appear in the critics’ reviews, and were in fact made up.
www.businessinsider.com
Software engineers may have to develop other skills soon as artificial intelligence takes over many coding tasks. That's according to Amazon Web Services' CEO, Matt Garman, who shared his thoughts on the topic during an internal fireside chat held in June, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider. "If you go forward 24 months from now, or some amount of time — I can't exactly predict where it is — it's possible that most developers are not coding," said Garman, who became AWS's CEO in June. "Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It's not necessarily the skill in and of itself," the executive said. "The skill in and of itself is like, how do I innovate? How do I go build something that's interesting for my end users to use?" This means the job of a software developer will change, Garman said. "It just means that each of us has to get more in tune with what our customers need and what the actual end thing is that we're going to try to go build, because that's going to be more and more of what the work is as opposed to sitting down and actually writing code," he said.
www.wargamer.com
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16468762 > > There are few miniature painting contents as prestigious as the Golden Demon, Games Workshop’s showcase for the artistry and talent in the Warhammer hobby. After the March 2024 Golden Demon was marred by controversy around AI content in a gold-medal winning entry, GW has revised its guidelines, and any kind of AI assistance is out. > > > > The Warhammer 40k single miniature category at the Adepticon 2024 Golden Demon was won by Neil Hollis, who submitted a custom, dinosaur-riding Aeldari Exodite (a fringe Warhammer 40k faction that has long been part of the lore but never received models). The model’s base included a backdrop image which, it emerged, had been generated using AI software. > > > > Online discussions soon turned sour as fans quarrelled over the eligibility of the model, the relevance of a backdrop in a competition about painting miniatures, the ethics of AI-generated media, and Hollis’ responses to criticism. > > > > Games Workshop didn’t issue any statements at the time, but it has since updated the rules for the next Golden Demon tournament. In the FAQs section of the latest Golden Demons rules packet, the answer to the question “Am I allowed to use Artificial Intelligence to generate any part of my entry?” is an emphatic “No”.
I'm currently trying to exit Gmail with all my emails if possible. However many comments are about why I shouldn't host my own server. So it got me thinking that there should be a new kind of email system not based on all the previous crud from the before times that we still use today. And indeed, it looks like AI will be the driving force that ends email just like spam did the telephone. Sure the telephone is still around but no one uses teleconferencing anymore for example. We use teams and zoom and such other shitty pay services. So the pool is prime to reinvent email. The users may not see a big difference maybe, but the tech behind it may hopefully be simplified and decentralized as it was meant to be.
www.theguardian.com
Voters in Wyoming’s capital city on Tuesday are faced with deciding whether to elect a mayoral candidate who has proposed to let an artificial intelligence bot run the local government. Earlier this year, the candidate in question – Victor Miller – filed for him and his customized ChatGPT bot, named Vic (Virtual Integrated Citizen), to run for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He has vowed to helm the city’s business with the AI bot if he wins. Miller has said that the bot is capable of processing vast amounts of data and making unbiased decisions.
I recieved a comment from someone telling me that one of my posts had bad definitions, and he was right. Despite the massive problems caused by AI, it's important to specify what an AI does, how it is used, for what reason, and what type of people use it. I suppose judges might already be doing this, but regardless, an AI used by one dude for personal entertainment is different than a program used by a megacorporation to replace human workers, and must be judged differently. Here, then, are some specifications. If these are still too vague, please help with them. a. What does the AI do? 1. It takes in a dataset of images, specified by a prompt, and compiles them into a single image thru programming (like StaDiff, Dall-E, &c); 2. It takes in a dataset of text, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single string of text (like ChatGPT, Gemini, &c); 3. It takes in a dataset of sound samples, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single sound (like AIVA, MuseNet, &c). b. What is the AI used for? 1. It is used for drollery (applicable to a1 and a2); 2. It is used for pornography (a1); 3. It is used to replace stock images (a1); 4. It is used to write apologies (a2); 5. It is used to write scientific papers (this actually happened. a2); 6. It is used to replace illustration that the user would've done themselves (a1); 7. It is used to replace illustration by a wage-laborer (a1); 8. It is used to write physical books to print out (a2); 9. It is used to mock and degrade persons (a1, a3); 10. It is used to mock and degrade persons sexually (a1, a3); 11. It is used for propaganda (a1, a2, a3). c. Who is using the AI? 1. A lower-class to middle-class person; 2. An upper-class person; 3. A small business; 4. A large business; 5. An anonymous person; 6. An organization dedicated to shifting public perception. This was really tough to do. I'll see if I can touch up on it myself. As of now, Lemmy cannot do lists in lists.
