#artificial intelligence - ai - a.i.

[nando161mando]

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[carbon-fiber-internal-organs]

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This incredible video uses AI to show the late Queen Elizabeth II through the different ages in her life. How missed she is by so many in our country. 💜

[thegikitiki]

Mark I Perceptron, 1958

Frank Rosenblatt, Cornell Aeronautical University

"The Mark I Perceptron was a pioneering supervised image classification learning system developed by Frank Rosenblatt in 1958. It was the first implementation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine. It differs from the Perceptron which is a software architecture proposed in 1943 by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, which was also employed in Mark I, and enhancements of which have continued to be an integral part of cutting edge AI technologies."

Wikipedia

[charliejaneanders]

Unless you're a tech billionaire, this is going to lead to a worse future for you and the people you care about. Expect AI to be unfair, discriminatory, unsafe, and deployed irresponsibly.

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models (Wired)

[resistamerica]

Elon's own A.I. has trouble spreading his lies.

[odinsblog]

These are demo videos made from prompts on OpenAI’s Sora. It’s similar to how you would prompt ChatGPT and get text or a still image output, but with Sora the output is video. (source)

I cynically believe that by November, Sora will have perfected its algorithm enough to make the upcoming 2024 election online ads … very interesting.

And even after the terrible job that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (never calling it x) did in the 2016 elections and Brexit, they somehow still decided to cut back on their departments that could at least theoretically curtail attempts at political disinformation.

Anyway, be forewarned: Social media manipulation and disinformation campaigns are very real things. Don’t believe everything you see on social media. Slightly similar A.I. deepfake technologies already exist. (example) (example) (example) (example)

[codexcrow]

Siiiigh a.i makes me so depressed... not the idea that it might take something from ME but rather the idea that a.i might take something from culture itself.

I feel like there's so much more to animation/film/art/language/music etc, all this stuff, than just... utility?? how to make things faster??? things don't always have to be "fast and cheap" all the time!!!

i think our present societal structure is so anti-human and anti-community, why accept this thing that is reductionist, thieving, and ultimately produces work that isn't meaningful because real people weren't involved in it??? why accept something that destroys the pillars upholding thing you claim to enjoy, to love???

[thecontentsofyourfridge69]

I AM ACTUALLY SO FUCKING DONE HE SHOULD NOT BE A FUCKING ROLEPLAYER IF HES GOING TO USE AI FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF HIS CHARACTERS.

I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT USING AI AS A THOUGHT BOOSTER. I’M TALKING ABOUT THIS GUY USING AI TO BUILD HIS ENTIRE CHARACTERS. NAMES, BACKSTORY, DESIGNS, ALL THAT FUCKING SHIT

HE HAS ZERO FUCKING THOUGHT PROCESS

[nando161mando]

Proper role of AI in society

[tilbageidanmark]

This geisha is A.I. generated

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

A.I. Artificial Intelligence hits so hard because everything David does is like normal kid behavior but when you only look at his behavior through a pathologized lense it all seems potentially dangerous and intensely weird.

[moonylupinraven]

Why's A.I so normalized?!

LIKE are we forgetting why AI was made, which is capitalism and the rich getting richer AND Why are we trusting something we used OUR brains to make, when we KNOW its not correct 😭 This may sound millennial like but its the truth that A.I just makes us lazier and reliant on a literal bot. NOT TO MENTION, A.I steals human work + art to train itself without any ownership to the people who put their blood sweat and tears into that. It is also very harmful to the environment and uses gallons upon gallons of water. Just because everyone is using it does not mean you should too. I've genuinely heard people say "I can't do anything without A.I" or "I can't write or draw without A.I." or ''Now those pretentious artists won't come at us since we can do it ourselves." You cannot be serious right now and think these are valid statements, and contain so many contradictions. At least there are things AI lacks which is human emotion, empathy, feelings and originality. We need to stop using something that lacks this so we do not demean ourselves of these things. Just pick up a pen/go to word or something, and actually involve yourself into doing something and gain a learning experience and/or joy. Thankyou for reading this lmao 😭🙏

[charliejaneanders]

Tech billionaires accept that sacrifices will have to be made — but they’ll be shouldered by the poorest and most marginalized people on our planet, not the wealthy and powerful.

Sam Altman's self-serving vision of the future

[odinsblog]

Caveat Lector 🚨🚨🚨

Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.

BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.

Mr. Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.

But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr. Trump's campaign.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr. Trump as popular in the black community.

A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I'm not claiming it's accurate.”

The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.

Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.

One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida.

They created an image of Mr. Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr. Kaye has more than one million followers.

At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images.

“I'm not a photojournalist,” Mr. Kaye tells me from his radio studio. “I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller.”

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there were documented attempts by hostile foreign powers, such as Russia, to use networks of inauthentic accounts to try to sow division and plant particular ideas.

In 2020, the focus was on home-grown disinformation - particularly false narratives that the presidential election was stolen, which were shared widely by US-based social media users and endorsed by Mr. Trump and other Republican politicians.

In 2024, experts warn of a dangerous combination of the two.

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