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The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Keer op keer is gebleken dat als je het context window van die LLM's vult met shit die *jij* wil horen, ze na een tijd op slijmballerige wijze akkoord gaan. Het is onthutsend hoe hard die systemen getraind zijn op user engagement/retainment, want kapitalisme en de bikkelharde concurrentie.

Leuk initiatief, maar tamelijk onbegrijpelijk dat het nieuwe nationale park Brabantse Wouden -met zijn soortenrijkdom- suffe niet-bestaande AI-beesten gebruikt: wat moet die abominatie van een fantasieroofvogel voorstellen? En welke bricolage hertachtige zou dit moeten zijn? 🥲😭🦌🌳

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The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Of course, the real story here is this: OpenAI: "Hey, we sucked at securing our test environment, and so our AI did precisely what we asked it to do" Anthropic: "Woah! Not so fast! We suck at security too!"

Anthropic not wanting to be left behind by OpenAI, I see... No doubt someone in their marketing department was crying into their coffee that OpenAI got there first...

BBC News headline: Anthropic's Claude AI escapes to hack into three organisations