The Omnibus AI Thread

I thought so. There’s some vague memory in the back of my head that I just can’t / won’t (cuz I’m lazy) access at the moment.

Baltimore Man Accused of Framing High School Principal With Racist AI Voice Clone

Plato's Burial Place and Details of His Last Night Revealed in Carbonized Scroll From Herculaneum

I was listening to a podcast and one of the guests was a tech bro who claimed that he knew people who were spending $10K/month on AI “girlfriends.” When asked how anyone could spend that much money on such a thing, his response was, “Creepy stuff.”

Given that a lot of the crypto bros are really interested in things like age of consent laws and are pivoting to AI, I think we know what kind of “creepy stuff” they’re into.

That looks awful.

These are fun:

Elon Musk’s Grok Will Get All Its News From X

Dril asked ChatGPT how to pas kidney stones.

I'm sold. When's ST2 going back to theatres?

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-let-the-copyright-fight-take-away-my-ability-to-create/

"It's so hard for me to create on my own! Why won't you let me use other people's hard work instead? God, don't you published authors realize how privileged you are?!?"



Not only is this person a certified loon, but he's expressing exactly the sort of lame-brained notion I'd expect from people who think AI "helps" then create.

Interesting perspective.

as a writer stuggling to find the motivation to write out my creative works, I find using AI to be akin to a soldier who lost a let and now has bionic legs to be accepted in a foot race.

On the other hand, my inability to write a book is due to my own laziness and not lack of ability to string words together.

IOWs. It’s definitely up for debate. But, for those directly involved.

AI has a place in supporting creativity, for sure.

It's not a replacement.

I can't track it down, but someone (I think at TNZ but might be here) posted a Twitter thread where an art director bemoaned that their company hired a bunch of AI bros for a project. What they generated was pretty good, but had some artefacts and issues. Simple Photoshop job to correct, very basic for anyone who is trained in computer photography.

Issues raised to the tech bros. They ran it through the AI again. It can't solve the issues, and new ones arise.

All they knew how to do was tweak the prompts they were giving it and hope it would magically hit on what the director wanted. And then they got angry because the director "didn't understand" that the AI didn't work like that.

My issue has always been, I dint care if you use AI, but if it's trained on copyrighted works, we're gonna have a problem.

Trump's Former Campaign Manager Is Back and He Wants to Remake American Politics With AI

I have a mom, and as much as I love her, I do not need another one.

Oh, and I am going to tell my mom chat AI is trying to replace her. Mom knows how to take care of threats to her. She is going to sarah conner the fuck out of skynet or whatever the AI is called now.

OK, I called my mom and she told me the AI mom can have me if it wants.

I should have seen that shit coming. WTF was I thinking?

When you wind up being a disappointment to both your real and your AI mom...

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work

Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Tried to Ink a Voice Deal, Was Rebuffed, Then Mimicked Voice Anyway

It's important to note that the Anunnaki have announced they're coming back in 2082, but they have a habit of skipping social functions and calling you up decades later claiming their "dog needed washing" or they "got caught up in the latest season of Real Housewives of Delta Centauri and lost track of time."

HOW COME we aren't talking about how AI can help out with the public sector

It's always private sector this, private sector that

The potential tax dollar savings and elimination of red tape and bureaucracy could be incredible. AI could help really fix a lot of our governmental woes

Perhaps we can give AI control over our nukes so it will keep us safe from ourselves?

Forget the fact that she sued Disney, and won, there's a rather famous case known as Tom Waits vs Frito Lay. It seems that Frito Lay wanted to hire Tom Waits to sing a jingle in some of their commercials. Tom Waits was like, "Nah, man. I don't do commercials." Frito Lay found someone who sounded like Waits and made the ads. Tom sued. Tom won.

That, boys and girls, is what's known as "precedent" and is the kind of thing that one needs to pay attention to. Because if you want the courts to rule against that, you might have to buy an RV for at least one member of SCOTUS.

This podcast has a pretty wide-ranging, and almost heated discussion about AI, with Ed Zitron, who's doing excellent work pointing out just how full of shit the tech bros are.



The Washington Post claims that OpenAI provided them with evidence that the voice they used for ChatGPT 4.o is not Scarlett Johansson’s voice. I have to point out that they did not speak with the actress OpenAI says that they hired, merely her "agent." No mention of if they verified that the agent was a real person, etc. The "condition of anonymity" could simply mean that the paper agreed not publish the agent's information, or it could mean that they were simply told that the person they were speaking to was the agent, who did not reveal their identity.

I need to point out that these systems have reached the point where they don't need an actor to read specified words for the system to clone their voice.

Political consultant indicted for AI robocalls with fake Biden voice made to New Hampshire voters

And there's this tidbit about OpenAI:
Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

Glue-Topped Pizza and Zombie Presidents: The Worst Google AI Answers So Far