[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Starting this off with Baldur Bjarnason sneering at his fellow techies for their "reading" of Dante's Inferno:

Reading through my feed reader and seeing tech dilettantes “doing” Dante in a week and change, I’m reminded of the time in university when we spent half a semester discussing Dante’s Divine Comedy, followed by tracing it’s impact and influence over the centuries

I don’t think these assholes even bother to read their footnotes, and their writing all sounds like it comes from ChatGPT. Naturally so, because I believe them when they claim they don’t use it for writing. They’re just genuinely that dull

At least read the footnotes FFS

If they were reading Dante for pleasure, that’d be different—genuinely awesome, even. But all of this is framed as doing the entirety of “humanities” in the space of a few weeks.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

New piece from Iris Meredith: Keeping up appearances, about the cultural forces that gave us LLMs and how best to defeat them

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

It didn't hit me until now, but "fully automatic sexual harassment" acronymises to "FASH", and that is pretty fitting for something like this

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Update on the University of Zurich's AI experiment: Reddit's considering legal action against the researchers behind it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Programming and supporting fascism - name a more iconic duo

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

New sneer from Tante, this time aimed at the entire field of CS:

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

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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