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.