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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

Phew 😮‍💨

AI is the “asbestos of the internet”

made fan art for my favourite horror movie

so it turns out that the identity verification provder persona, with its well documented links to peter thiel from the epstein files and palintir, is keeping all data of targets and linking them to intelligence databases and watch lists, exactly like you suspected

vmfunc.re/blog/persona

Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody's Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place Google accused "commercially motivated" actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI after indiscriminately scraping the web for its models.

The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately scraping the internet for content, without compensating rightsholders, racking up many copyright infringement lawsuits along the way.

futurism.com/future-socie...

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI With GOG under new ownership, they're trying some new things (like generative AI) and they just did an AMA (Ask me anything) on Reddit.

GOG did an AMA and here's some highlights - like how they'll continue using generative AI
#GOG #Gaming #PCGaming

Please DO NOT ask artists to bend their rules for you, especially on VGen. We feel like we have to say yes or you'll leave us a bad review. If you don't like the terms, find a different artist.

This past month I've had my ToS disrespected multiple times and even had my art fed into AI...

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

These guys know what's up. @mohoanimation.bsky.social

Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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Screenshot taken from a convo between Raging Enby and Simon Hypixels official twitter account. RagingEnby posted 'He folded LMFAOO' with screenshots of gen-ai image that reads 'when you can just forage for 8 hours? hypixel skyblock' there are tree's behind a boy with closed eyes and headphones on holding a computer mouse. Simon responds with, "didn't want to offend the sensitive crowd like you. sorry i hurt your feeling by posting a trending meme. good luck in the future bro'

Follow up screenshot of the continued conversation between RagingEnby and Simon Hypixel from twitter. Simon has replied with a "Why would i waste my artist/dev time on a shitty meme lol all i use AI for is memes/research, no art/production." RagingEnby replies, "Using generative ai at all is a huge slap in the face to all artists, particularly the ones employed by you." Simon's final response to this is, "I still hire artists and plan to do so forever, my actions matters more than posting a random trending twitter meme made in 5 seconds. In this case the meme was to actually use AI. Pick your battles is my recommendation, otherwise you will lose all the support from people like me that are big defenders of artists."

Hytale dev + founder Simon Hypixel uses gen-ai for meme's and research he stated on his twitter. Calling those 'The sensitive crowd.' As of this moment, there's no confirmed gen-ai in Hytale. Support + money towards Hytale is support for Simon. -y

Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI

➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m...

#GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames

And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.

To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it “The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate.”

wrote about an apparent policy change in the payments industry www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Another favor to ask on a research project. We're wrapping up a large project on AI music. We need folks to participate in a short 10 min quiz to test your ability to distinguish between AI music & human music. Especially looking for help from musicians!
uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

CONTINUE TELLING EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT AI IS THE STUPIDEST SHIT EVER

IT IS WORKING

CONTINUE TO MAKE ART YOURSELF

CONTINUE TO WRITE THINGS THAT INSPIRE YOU

THE WHOLE POINT OF BEING ALIVE IS TO CREATE COOL SHIT

AI STRIPS US OF THE POINT OF BEING HUMAN

Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now. Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.

Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results

https://voteyesornoai.com

Hello, you’re here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop The implications could be significantly worse, actually.

We made this one permanently free given The Discourse www.theverge.com/2024/8/26/24...

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event

"Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show"

This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

SNK using AI on their new teaser doesn't surprise me but it is yet another low lmao

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl

So while this is an improvement, the 2nd point is kind of impossible because the LLM and GenAI models around right now are built on mountains of stolen data, so the follow up to this story in a year is either that they gave up on using their own data or it didn't work at all so they quit.

"We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content.

This is not spicy. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.

I can confirm we are very seriously looking into this matter."

— Spokesperson @thomasregnier.ec.europa.eu

If you aren’t on X you might not know what happened to me on there regarding grok producing sexual and violent images so I want to show this example. It is doing this to women by the thousands and in some cases to children.

‘An overwhelmingly negative and demoralizing force’: What it’s like working for a company that’s forcing AI on its artists and developers:

aftermath.site/ai-video-game-...

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder “The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.

Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.

thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...