Must-read essential level insight from Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net for @thenerve.news: 'This has created a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies.'

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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like if 1930s colleges offered a degree in "Hollywood Stardom" to starry-eyed Iowa farm girls

Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m with the boomers on this one. Burn it all down

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

Always horrible to see people living your dreams

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6d ago

Experience: I drive a bus for dogs

I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

'I don't believe in the death penalty except for x person' & every day the list of those ppl gets longer I'm afraid to say. how does one stay moral in this world

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · last wk.

“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”

almost!!!

Econ Explained Daily@wilmamartin.bsky.social · last wk.

OpenAI CEO: "We're Almost Building A Genie That Grants Every Wish"

This level of craftsmanship and debate will never be replaced by AI.

Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · last wk.

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

Adobe recently had an update for Acrobat go through that made all of the tools for editing pdfs disappear in the program exclusively for editing pdfs It took days to fix

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · last wk.

For @aftermath.site's Hater Week, I wrote about how deeply I hate Adobe aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/

I come back to this tumblr post again and again

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody wants predictive data models to stop working for the people in medicine. Or translating ancient Pompeii texts. Or the other ways we were already using it. We want it to stop replacing workers, killing the environment, and stealing from artists. Hope that clarifies.

Again, if this is true (it is not), then Sam Altman and his friends have enslaved a sentient being.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.

The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.

do you know how stupid you have to be to get community noted with a link to project gutenberg

new game idea

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2w ago

foolproof 👍

Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.

The OpenAI model didn’t “escape confinement”. The model was promoted to look for vulnerabilities, exploit them, and keep looking for new ones to exploit, and then look for more, move on, etc. It didn’t “think” to “escape”. Stop anthropomorphizing it, MSM! OpenAI were incompetent, is the truth.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to hang out in the middle east while he starts the same war every day. when a missile blasts you into pieces he'll say your last words were "we must build a new ballroom in the white house" before your body is even cold. good luck soldier

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

If his shitty AI movie is what finally taught you Neill Blomkamp is a hack, then so be it: aftermath.site/neill-blomkamp...

From: Allegro non Troppo (1976), dir. Bruno Bozzetto, Bruno Bozzetto Film

How do *we* tackle that risk? It's not a forest fire, it's the brainchild of a billionaire pervert, just burn Meta to the ground and ask questions later.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

"What about the productivity loss if people don't engage with AI???" they keep asking me.

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2w ago

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

The Cryptkeeper on commentary: PAIN have SCARED a GHOUL against SCARGENTINA

My one form of gatekeeping is that if you're a writer and you're tempted to get a program to do your writing for you, I don't think you're an actual writer. I think you just want your name on a book and for that to sell, or you want to be popular. I don't think you want to write.

Khealos's Gaming Table@khealos.bsky.social · last mo.

Post by Will Stenberg. #Writing #amwriting #indiauthor

Post by Will Stenberg. #Writing #amwriting #indiauthor

100% true.

more like Andy Jerkis

Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

In the age of AI slop, people would do well to remember words ascribed to Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"

“Asbestos is a wonderful material, stopping its use in buildings is like getting rid of cars in favour of horses”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts