BlueMonday1984

Oh, that is beautiful to hear.

There's gonna be laws passed as a result of this - calling it right now.

If this turns out to be real, I suspect its gonna be a major shitshow - not only for the publisher, but for the AI industry as a whole.

For the publisher, they're gonna be lambasted for endangering people's lives for a quick AI-printed buck.

For AI, its gonna be yet another indictment of an industry that's seen fit to put technology, profits, basically everything over human lives - whether in the "AI Safety" criti-hype which implicitly suggests culpability for bringing about an apocalypse straight out of sci-fi, or in the myriad ways they are making the world worse right now.

I dunno, I know that legally we don’t know which way this is going to go, because the ai people presumably have very good lawyers

You're not wrong on the AI corps having good lawyers, but I suspect those lawyers don't have much to work with:

• Pretty much every AI corp has been caught stealing from basically everyone (with basically everyone caught scraping without people's knowledge or consent, and OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic all caught scraping against people's explicit wishes)

• Said data was used to create products which, either implicitly or [explicitly]((https://archive.is/jNhpN), produce counterfeits of the stolen artists' work

• Said counterfeits are, in turn, destroying the artists' ability to profit from their original work and discouraging them from sharing it freely

• And to cap things off, there's solid evidence pointing to the defendants being completely unrepentant in their actions, whether that be Microsoft's AI boss treating such theft as entirely acceptable or Mira Murati treating the job losses as an afterthought

If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on the trial being a bloodbath in the artists' favour, and the resulting legal precedent being one which will likely kill generative AI as we know it.

oh god the slop machines are coming for the scientific world

Fixed the link - thanks for catching it.

Not a sneer, but something that'll inspire plenty of schadenfreude:

Brian Merchant: The artists fighting to save their jobs and their work from AI are gaining ground

Brian's done plenty of good sneers on AI, I'd recommend checking him out

Google’s Search Dominance Leaves Sites Little Choice on AI Scraping (no archive - archive.ph appears to have died)

Because Google literally can't stop being evil even when the world's eyes are on it

Picked up an oddly good sneer from a gen-AI CEO, of all people (thanks to @ai_shame for catching it):

I also believe they have employees who they cannot fire because they would spread a hella lot doomspeak if they did, who are True Believers.

Part of me suspects they probably also aren't the sharpest knives in OpenAI's drawer.

ah, jeez, AI bros are trying to make deepfakes even fucking worse:

Deep-Live-Cam is trending #1 on github. It enables anyone to convert a single image into a LIVE stream deepfake, instant and immediately

Most of the replies are openly lambasting this shit like it deserves, thankfully

and really from the demos it looks like a user wouldn’t have to do anything at all besides write “summarize my emails” once. No need to click on anything for confidential info to be exfiltrated if the chatbot can already download arbitrary URLs based on the prompt injection!

We're gonna see a whole lotta data breaches in the upcoming months - calling it right now.