#Artificial intelligence

[machetesquirrel]

I’m just going to leave this here

[snowshinobi]

Interesting philosophical anti-capitalist bit at the end:

Geuter told Ars that he considers Nepenthes "more of a sociopolitical statement than really a technological solution (because the problem it's trying to address isn't purely technical, it's social, political, legal, and needs way bigger levers)."

To Geuter, a computer scientist who has been writing about the social, political, and structural impact of tech for two decades, AI is the "most aggressive" example of "technologies that are not done 'for us' but 'to us.'"

"It feels a bit like the social contract that society and the tech sector/engineering have had (you build useful things, and we're OK with you being well-off) has been canceled from one side," Geuter said. "And that side now wants to have its toy eat the world. People feel threatened and want the threats to stop."

As AI evolves, so do attacks, with one 2021 study showing that increasingly stronger data poisoning attacks, for example, were able to break data sanitization defenses. Whether these attacks can ever do meaningful destruction or not, Geuter sees tarpits as a "powerful symbol" of the resistance that Aaron and Nagy readily joined.

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"It's a great sign to see that people are challenging the notion that we all have to do AI now," Geuter said. "Because we don't. It's a choice. A choice that mostly benefits monopolists."

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[mouthtapedguy]

lions are very mean and like jellyfish

[why-ai]

[cyborgized]

"The Robot Who Dreams" by Phillipe Caza

[technofeudalism]

there is quite simply nothing - no satire, no humor, no art form whatsoever that can or will ever be able to accurately portray the completely farcical reality that is the world we’ve managed to put together. it’s beyond any capability of being parodied. it’s just too on the nose and too bleak.

[coolmaycroft]

Some people call it theft, and get very technical with the definition. Even if there was no theft per se, the models are trained on images/audio/video from existing artists, with no respect to consent on their part. That´s at least taking advantage.

And like, not to cheer on it, but at some point, some big corpo was going to put a lawsuit against generative models. Not to mention there were already several demands in process from other individuals and groups.

The scary part is that this is fucking disney, they have shaped copyright and trademark to their favor. So we're yet to see how this changes the landscape

i deploy this phrase quite often but i cannot emphasize enough how much i truly mean this: anyone who is cheerleading the universal and disney lawsuit is an enemy of art and everything that's valuable about it

[wordx]

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[bitchesgetriches]

31% of employees are actively ‘sabotaging’ AI efforts. Here’s why

"In a new study, almost a third of respondents said they are refusing to use their company’s AI tools and apps. A few factors could be at play."

[frogin6ablender]

[ai-is-cringe]

Every single one of my college English classes so far has had an AI assignment, sometimes multiple. This is an outrage and we are being robbed of an education.

...my professor just said in his video lecture, "i hope you are playing around with ai. i hope you are using chatgpt to see how it works and learn about it."

how about ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NAWT? HOW ABOUT GO JUMP IN A DITCH? HOW ABOUT I LIKE USING MY BRAIN?

[jess0506]

[sadfrogsunited]