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Honest Government Ad | AI
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17078489
> The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
- www.theverge.com Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web
That is not how fair use works.
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I'm a mod again somehow. Please make the madness stop!
I'm now starting to wonder if it's a bug, but kind of astounded that I am seemingly the only person impacted. I only see myself added once. However, I have not been able to get any response from @[email protected]
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I have removed myself as a moderator at least three times recently.
Please stop whatever is making me a moderator.
Edit: Someone unpinned this. I'm going to unmod myself now. Let's see how this goes.
- www.nytimes.com When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
If it's free then, you're the product
Last July, Google made an eight-word change to its privacy policy that represented a significant step in its race to build the next generation of artificial intelligence.
Buried thousands of words into its document, Google tweaked the phrasing for how it used data for its products, adding that public information could be used to train its A.I. chatbot and other services.
We use publicly available information to help train Google’s
languageAI models and build products and features like Google Translate, Bard, and Cloud AI capabilities.The subtle change was not unique to Google. As companies look to train their A.I. models on data that is protected by privacy laws, they’re carefully rewriting their terms and conditions to include words like “artificial intelligence,” “machine learning” and “generative A.I.”
Those terms and conditions — which many people have long ignored — are now being contested by some users who are writers, illustrators and visual artists and worry that their work is being used to train the products that threaten to replace them.
Archive : https://archive.is/SOe5w
- www.techradar.com You can't escape it now — Gemini is officially part of Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Gemini is here to help boost your content and productivity, Google says
Your workplace emails, spreadsheets and files might look a bit different going forward as Google officially rolls out its Gemini AI tools across the Workspace suite.
In a Google Workspace Updates blog post, the company confirmed the general availability of Gemini as a new side panel across popular apps including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive - however only paying Google Workspace customers will be able to access it for the time being.
The company says this new AI-powered update should help users everywhere unlock new levels of productivity and efficiency, as well as introducing Gemini to millions of users across the world in the battle for AI supremacy.
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This is terrible since Google has millions of user data.
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Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers
techcrunch.com Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers | TechCrunchPhotographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/17964868
> > Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.
- time.com Major Record Labels Sue AI Music Generator
Universal, Warner, and Sony are suing two startups to protect their copyrighted songs from being used by the technology.
The world’s biggest record labels are suing two artificial intelligence startups, taking an aggressive stance to protect their intellectual property against technology that makes it easy for people to generate music based on existing songs.
The Recording Industry Association of America said it filed twin lawsuits Monday against Suno AI and Uncharted Labs Inc., the developer of Udio AI, on behalf of Universal Music Group NV, Warner Music Group Corp. and Sony Music Entertainment. The complaints allege the companies are unlawfully training their AI models on massive amounts of copyrighted sound recordings.
The RIAA, a trade group for record labels, is seeking damages of as much as $150,000 “per work infringed.” That could amount to potentially billions of dollars.
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Conservative MP shares inaccurate, ChatGPT-generated stats on capital gains tax rate
cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/11756842
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OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16841877
> The world's top two AI startups are ignoring requests by media publishers to stop scraping their web content for free model training data, Business Insider has learned. > > OpenAI and Anthropic have been found to be either ignoring or circumventing an established web rule, called robots.txt, that prevents automated scraping of websites. > > TollBit, a startup aiming to broker paid licensing deals between publishers and AI companies, found several AI companies are acting in this way and informed certain large publishers in a Friday letter, which was reported earlier by Reuters. The letter did not include the names of any of the AI companies accused of skirting the rule. > > OpenAI and Anthropic have stated publicly that they respect robots.txt and blocks to their specific web crawlers, GPTBot and ClaudeBot. > > However, according to TollBit's findings, such blocks are not being respected, as claimed. AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are simply choosing to "bypass" robots.txt in order to retrieve or scrape all of the content from a given website or page. > > A spokeswoman for OpenAI declined to comment beyond pointing BI to a corporate blogpost from May, in which the company says it takes web crawler permissions "into account each time we train a new model." A spokesperson for Anthropic did not respond to emails seeking comment. > > Robots.txt is a single bit of code that's been used since the late 1990s as a way for websites to tell bot crawlers they don't want their data scraped and collected. It was widely accepted as one of the unofficial rules supporting the web.
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OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place"
mastodon.social nixCraft 🐧 (@[email protected])Attached: 1 video OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" And you stole everything from creative people who provided free texts, images, forum answers, etc. To date, your company has refused to acknowledge any credit...
OpenAI's Mira Murati: "some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place" And you stole everything from creative people who provided free texts, images, forum answers, etc. To date, your company has refused to acknowledge any credit. Rich people truly live in their bubble and have zero sympathy for fellow human or their livelihood.
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AI and ads, Google's two favorite things, take targeted marketing to creepy new heights
Love it or hate it, there's no changing the fact that AI is disrupting the internet as we know it. A lot of this perception can be explained by Google's priorities around its AI efforts, with the company looking to quickly monetize these tools and integrate them into its vast product portfolio. Now, Google is highlighting two initiatives that will only further cement public opinion.
In a post today highlighting a speech by Google VP Vidhya Srinivasan at the Cannes Lions Festival, the company revealed how it sees massive potential for generative AI in its ads division. "First, you can use AI to generate insights about your audiences," Google explained to potential ad partners, "Then you can shorten and scale creative production to bring ideas to life faster." Google highlighted the potential of Veo, its newest video generation model, when used to create ads.
As we reported in April, Google has now expanded this program to YouTube advertisers. In its post today, the company revealed it has been using its own tools to advertise the Pixel 8 series, generating a whopping 4,500 unique ads that ran on YouTube in recent months.
In a post from earlier this week, Google announced "Best Phones Forever: AI Roadtrip," the latest installment in this series that comes with a twist: Instagram Reels viewers would be able to comment with a location suggestion for the smartphones' road trip, and Google's AI would create a bespoke video response to that comment "within minutes."
The campaign was only live for 16 hours and has now ended, but Google's primary intention here wasn't to sell phones — rather, it hoped the stunt would inspire other advertisers to explore their own "creative applications of these technologies."
With these developments, Google's vision for the future of advertising is becoming clear: Targeted marketing based on user data will only get more targeted, and generative AI will be at the heart of it all.
- www.bbc.com McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors
The voice recognition system seems not to have recognised what customers were really ordering.
> "This technology is proven to have some of the most comprehensive capabilities in the industry, fast and accurate in some of the most demanding conditions," it said in a statement.
> In one video, which has 30,000 views on TikTok, a young woman becomes increasingly exasperated as she attempts to convince the AI that she wants a caramel ice cream, only for it to add multiple stacks of butter to her order.
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1734913
> another obviously correct opinion from Lucidity
- mspoweruser.com Google Chrome's AI on browsing history may still use human reviewers for training purposes
Google Chrome to let you search for anything form your browsing history thanks to AI, but it may still use human reviewers to review it.
- Google Chrome’s history search will soon allow content-based searches using AI.
- This “History search, powered by AI” uses everyday language to find sites.
- Search data is sent to Google, but page contents are encrypted locally.
Google Chrome’s browsing history will soon get an important feature that could change how we browse the web: you can search for anything there, not just for the website’s pages but also its content, thanks to AI.
And now, what’s new is that Google has updated this feature’s description. It is now called “History search, powered by AI” and it lets you “use everyday language to search your browsing history and find sites you visited.”
But one thing to consider, as Google puts it, human reviewers may still be used “to improve the feature.” Search terms and page content of best matches are still being sent to Google for model training, but if you’re worried about your privacy, Google says that page contents are still “saved in an encrypted form” locally.
Google Chrome has added even more AI features in the past few months. Besides this, the popular browser also “borrowed” the Circle to Search feature from Android mobiles, and it may soon arrive for Chrome’s desktop version via Google Lens.
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Ewww... no thanks for the AI features.
- www.newsweek.com Edward Snowden releases new message: "You have been warned"
Edward Snowden warned the public about OpenAI after the artificial intelligence company announced a former NSA director as a new board member.
Edward Snowden wrote on social media to his nearly 6 million followers, "Do not ever trust @OpenAI ... You have been warned," following the appointment of retired U.S. Army General Paul Nakasone to the board of the artificial intelligence technology company.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency (NSA) subcontractor, was charged with espionage by the Justice Department in 2013 after leaking thousands of top-secret records, exposing the agency's surveillance of private citizens' information.
In a Friday morning post on X, formerly Twitter, Snowden reshared a post providing information on OpenAI's newest board member. Nakasone is a former NSA director, and the longest-serving leader of the U.S. Cyber Command and chief of the Central Security Service. He retired from the NSA, a position he held since 2018, in February.
Snowden wrote in an X post, "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc.) There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth." He concluded the post, writing, "You have been warned."
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Photographer Disqualified from AI image contest after winning with real photo
https://petapixel.com/2024/06/12/photographer-disqualified-from-ai-image-contest-after-winning-with-real-photo/
- petapixel.com Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
The photographers strike back.
- www.theatlantic.com Excuse Me, Is There AI in That?
Businesses and creators see a new opportunity in the anti-AI movement.
- www.neowin.net Windows 11 is getting new AI-related features and settings
As expected, the latest Windows 11 Canary build 26236 contains some hidden stuff. Just a few hours after the release, users discovered new AI-related features and options in the Settings app.
Today, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 Canary build under number 26236. Its changelog does not contain anything extraordinary except for the not-so-welcome "account manager" on the Start menu, but under the hood, hidden from the official release notes, lurk some AI-related changes, Settings improvements, and new features for Recall.
Hours after the release, users discovered that Windows Recall, the controversial AI feature in Windows 11 version 24H2, which was recently upgraded with additional privacy improvements, is getting a new option that lets you search the web for anything detected on the current snapshot. For example, you can click a word or phrase and look for it in the browser using your default search engine.
In addition, Alexander S (@alex290292 on X) discovered a new page in the "Privacy & Security" section inside the Settings app. Windows 11 will let you use it to manage access to generative AI features and review recent activity to see generative AI requests in the last seven days.
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Privacy in M$ OS? Yeah it sounds right..
But nope thanks, just recall the AI stuff from their OS.
- www.techdirt.com Yet Another Company Caught Using ‘AI’ To Quietly Create Fake Journalists And Fake Journalism
While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corn…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/17261222
> > While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corners, undermine labor, and badly automate low-quality, ultra-low effort, SEO-chasing clickbait.
- futurism.com Facebook Is Making Insane AI-Generated Fever Dreams Go Viral for Gullible Boomers
Facebook is quickly being overrun by dubious, AI-generated junk — which is attracting huge amounts of attention from its aging user base.
- arstechnica.com AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent
Kids "easily traceable" from photos used to train AI models, advocates warn.
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Video games play YOU (Not the other way around)
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Well, it looks like games have systems called engagement based matchmaking. From my perspective, this is terrible, its being used to keep players playing and purchasing skins
- techcrunch.com A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown
- futurism.com Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct
An Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.
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Older Articles (A lot might've been sabotaged)
After seeing the enormous attention that has been given to this community, I'm glad to present this list of articles lost in the early years. I'm not sure if it has been purposely sabotaged, or if people just didn't like it. Some of it shows a lot of hope.
Just like the bourgoise attempts to get a surplus value out of the proletariat without compensation, so too does the AI Prompter attempt to get a similar surplus value out of an artist. Maybe it is the same thing! The articles marked by a letter M (for Marx) will describe this process.
Adam Savage's Issue With A.I.-Generated Art
Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Law enforcement struggling to prosecute AI-generated CSAM
(M) In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From
(M) The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core
How much electricity does AI consume?
(M) OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (Archived)
Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?
(M) AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble
(M) Artists Sue Google Over Its AI Image Generator
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”
If you have any missing articles, comment it for a second version of this post.
P.S. If the Invidious link doesn't work, switch the instance.
P.P.S. After searching for the best articles to include, I noticed that the pagation for Lemmy needs a "back button", tho, I'm pretty busy with other stuff.