New piece from Iris Meredith: Keeping up appearances, about the cultural forces that gave us LLMs and how best to defeat them
Hot take, people will look back on anyone who currently codes, as we look back on the NASA programmers who got the equipment and people to the moon.
I doubt it'll be anything that good for them. By my guess, those who currently code are at risk of suffering some guilt-by-association problems, as the AI bubble paints them as AI bros by proxy.
It didn't hit me until now, but "fully automatic sexual harassment" acronymises to "FASH", and that is pretty fitting for something like this
New 404 Media article: Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X
So we can add "fully automatic sexual harassment" to the list of reasons Twitter can die in a fire
Update on the University of Zurich's AI experiment: Reddit's considering legal action against the researchers behind it.
Programming and supporting fascism - name a more iconic duo
New sneer from Tante, this time aimed at the entire field of CS:
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation fills its tabloid papers across Australia with right-wing slop. Now the slop will come from a chatbot — and not a human slop churner.
The quality of its tabloids will remain exactly the same, I presume.
Amazon used an AI-generated image as a cover for 1922's Nosferatu, and it got publicly torn apart on Twitter:
On a personal note, it feels to me like any use of AI, regardless of context, is gonna be treated as a public slight against artists, if not art as a concept going forward. Arguably, it already has been treated that way for a while.
You want me to point to a high-profile example of this kinda thing, I'd say Eagan Tilghman provided a textbook example a year ago, after his Scooby Doo/FNAF fan crossover (a VA redub came out a year later BTW) accidentally ignited a major controversy over AI and nearly got him blacklisted from animation.
I specifically bring this up because Tilghman wasn't some random CEO or big-name animator - he was just some random college student making a non-profit passion project with basically zero budget or connections. It speaks volumes about how artists view AI that even someone like him got raked over the coals for using it.
Between the gen-AI industry's nonstop lawsuits and public embarrassments like Google's glue pizza debacle, I'd bet good money Microsoft and OpenAI are gonna struggle to convince local journos that gen-AI's alleged benefits are worth the inevitable retractions/lawsuits/general pain and suffering.
The day before this news came out, Ed Zitron posted a detailed list of signs of an AI bubble collapse — “Discord within OpenAI or Anthropic” is on his list of “pale horses.” If we start hearing about “dust-ups” at OpenAI, “you know bigger things are afoot.” [Where’s Your Ed At]
As a quick aside, Zitron's also cooking up an article on the fallout of Google's antitrust case as we speak.
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Starting this off with Baldur Bjarnason sneering at his fellow techies for their "reading" of Dante's Inferno: