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[calware]

i'm used to the "hal cannot be anything other than 13 and there is no room for nuance on this matter" argument but the other two statements are so confusing to me. what

[ardently-verdandi]

i love looking at fanart/art in general but sometimes the god of trust issues takes over my mind i start counting fingers to make sure they’re not ai

[valyrfia]

talking about the AI debate there's a sincaraz author that's recently admitted to using AI for their fics, i really fear that if the ship gets super popular we're going to be seeing more of this and it'll become a a content slop like the lestappen tag

I've seen this discussion in the tag and avoided it for the most part because I never really read those fics since they're not my personal taste and a couple of things weren't personally for me. AI has no place in fandom but a part of me is glad the author recognised that what they're doing isn't good for the ecosystem and I hope they take some time out and rediscover fandom and being creative with writing! Writing is an awful awful hobby (source: it's my favourite hobby ever) which can feel slow and isolationist (I've been working on the same fic for a week and I only have like 2.5k words, the urge to post something for quick validation is overwhelming sometimes, especially with the dopamine flood we often immerse ourselves in!) but slowly working away on something with your own brain and flow can be so rewarding. It was right for them to take their fics down but I hope they return to writing and discover the joy of community being part of the writing process as well as a source of validation, rather than the loneliness of an LLM (which will always just tell you what you want to hear).

[pink-toonss]

Hm

[bigtiddygandalf]

i just had to take this ai personality test to submit a job application (to be a bartender).

[llitchilitchi]

ngl while it's good that people are becoming more wary of new technologies and would rather take their time with integrating it into their daily lives I do fear that the climate of tumblr is turning many people into technophobes

[prismintheclouds]

I'm a big sci fi enjoyer but being able to see the parallels between dystopian fiction and what society is like in 21st century USA is too much to bare sometimes

[carmyn-rambles]

The canon ages for the AI gang is insane. In eldest to youngest:

A5T3R (7-10 years) GLITCHWAVE (1-2 years) Lumina (3 months (and counting)) Help3r (~1 month) (His birthday is July 1st, 2024, I believe? Speculation on my part.) X4v13r's age is unknown, so I haven't included them in this list.

Source for GLITCHWAVE and Lumina - I asked Zachary out of character for Glitch's, and I know Lumina's

Source for A5T3R - Said outright '7-10 years old'

Source for Help3r - If Help3r was created for only a few days before he was given away to Vox, and he was given to Vox around July 5th or July 6th (irl time), then that would place his birthday somewhere in very early July or really late June.

This is so interesting to me. If you look in ways of how the AIs speak/express themselves, Lumina and Help3r are the most similar (and have the closest age difference). Lumina still sticks pretty close to their programming. It seems this is the same case for Help3r, who remains as a general assistant.

This makes me speculate: What if the tell of an AI's age is their level of self-expression?

[demonstars]

he’s on the right path for the wrong reason?

more like the wrong path for the right logic

[junemo10]

Disabled people using tools to help them just to survive daily life?

“That’s so lazy and unnecessary, even though it’s not for me and they only impact the individuals using it”

Able bodied people using AI to perform tasks that should not be done by AI?

“Necessary, and we’re gonna ignore the negative effects it has on the world”

Someone please, I feel like I’m losing my mind

“A pop can tab opener? Who needs that?”

It’s not for you.

“Why would anyone get a hairdryer holder, just use your hands to hold it.”

It’s not for you.

“Portable collapsible stools are proof of how lazy this generation is getting.”

It’s not for you.

“A chord assist for a guitar? Why don’t people just use their fingers like everyone else?”

IT’S NOT FOR YOU.

Fun fact! Not everything is about or for you!

[itsclydebitches]

Something I don't think we talk enough about in discussions surrounding AI is the loss of perseverance.

I have a friend who works in education and he told me about how he was working with a small group of HS students to develop a new school sports chant. This was a very daunting task for the group, in large part because many had learning disabilities related to reading and writing, so coming up with a catchy, hard-hitting, probably rhyming, poetry-esque piece of collaborative writing felt like something outside of their skill range. But it wasn't! I knew that, he knew that, and he worked damn hard to convince the kids of that too. Even if the end result was terrible (by someone else's standards), we knew they had it in them to complete the piece and feel super proud of their creation.

Fast-forward a few days and he reports back that yes they have a chant now... but it's 99% AI. It was made by Chat-GPT. Once the kids realized they could just ask the bot to do the hard thing for them - and do it "better" than they (supposedly) ever could - that's the only route they were willing to take. It was either use Chat-GPT or don't do it at all. And I was just so devastated to hear this because Jesus Christ, struggling is important. Of course most 14-18 year olds aren't going to see the merit of that, let alone understand why that process (attempting something new and challenging) is more valuable than the end result (a "good" chant), but as adults we all have a responsibility to coach them through that messy process. Except that's become damn near impossible with an Instantly Do The Thing app in everyone's pocket. Yes, AI is fucking awful because of plagiarism and misinformation and the environmental impact, but it's also keeping people - particularly young people - from developing perseverance. It's not just important that you learn to write your own stuff because of intellectual agency, but because writing is hard and it's crucial that you learn how to persevere through doing hard things.

Write a shitty poem. Write an essay where half the textual 'evidence' doesn't track. Write an awkward as fuck email with an equally embarrassing typo. Every time you do you're not just developing that particular skill, you're also learning that you did something badly and the world didn't end. You can get through things! You can get through challenging things! Not everything in life has to be perfect but you know what? You'll only improve at the challenging stuff if you do a whole lot of it badly first. The ability to say, "I didn't think I could do that but I did it anyway. It's not great, but I did it," is SO IMPORTANT for developing confidence across the board, not just in these specific tasks.

Idk I'm just really worried about kids having to grow up in a world where (for a variety of reasons beyond just AI) they're not given the chance to struggle through new and challenging things like we used to.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

so like I said, I work in the tech industry, and it's been kind of fascinating watching whole new taboos develop at work around this genAI stuff. All we do is talk about genAI, everything is genAI now, "we have to win the AI race," blah blah blah, but nobody asks - you can't ask -

What's it for?

What's it for?

Why would anyone want this?

I sit in so many meetings and listen to genuinely very intelligent people talk until steam is rising off their skulls about genAI, and wonder how fast I'd get fired if I asked: do real people actually want this product, or are the only people excited about this technology the shareholders who want to see lines go up?

like you realize this is a bubble, right, guys? because nobody actually needs this? because it's not actually very good? normal people are excited by the novelty of it, and finance bro capitalists are wetting their shorts about it because they want to get rich quick off of the Next Big Thing In Tech, but the novelty will wear off and the bros will move on to something else and we'll just be left with billions and billions of dollars invested in technology that nobody wants.

and I don't say it, because I need my job. And I wonder how many other people sitting at the same table, in the same meeting, are also not saying it, because they need their jobs.

idk man it's just become a really weird environment.

[mothman-swamp]

Found out they used AI in Alien: Romulus to like, revive a dead actor. I somehow didn't notice it when I watched the movie or in the months after, so maybe I am stupid but that was really disappointing because it was a decent movie.

Read the tags if you want a fun little read about my opinion on AI use.

Edit: just rewatched some clips and it was not as good as I thought it was, AI use is still disappointing, not a great addition to the series, I will not watch it again.

[louistonehill]

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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