Virginie Berger ▶️

The rapid technological evolution we are witnessing has accelerated speculative behavior in search of raw materials. This shift seems to overshadow fundamental imperatives such as the safeguarding of creation, the rights of local communities, the dignity of labor, and the protection of public health. I thus renew the appeal of Pope Francis, who passed away exactly one year ago: “Today we also have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.”

This clown. Witherspoon sold a majority stake in her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Blackstone is currently a massive investor in AI infrastructure, including a $25 billion project for AI data centers.

#ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality.

Can you clarify what you mean by “bad faith” here? Are you saying that raising factual concerns is itself bad faith? This is a serious issue, and brushing it aside the way you’re doing comes across as bad faith. None of the technologies you mentioned relied on mass copyright infringement to exist. So how is it bad faith to ask a legitimate question about it?

@bodhi_pacific @ednewtonrex In my specific case, his only engagement is in bad faith. It’s a real shame - this is an important issue.

New technologies are disruptive, and we have to do a lot, lot more to navigate the challenges AI in particular brings. But I cannot understand the ridiculous, apocalyptic language commentators in Britain use around it. See the literal apocalyptic language below. AI has made services that were completely unaffordable for most people - like basic coding and legal advice, accessible almost for free. It’s transformational for our entrepreneurs & small businesses when they need all the help they can get. AI is a force multiplier - helping everyone from our doctors to our civil servants do far more at a time when they have to serve growing demand within limited means. AI is making many of the most boring parts of the hardest jobs - some mentioned below - more productive, allowing experts to focus on the bigger challenges. AI & robotics is being used in our defence, quite literally saving warfighters & civilian lives today. And AI is helping scientists push the frontiers of human knowledge and treatments in some of the most pernicious diseases we face. The UK is undeniably in the top 3 places in the world to start an AI company. If successful, we stand to benefit as a country from a growing AI economy more here than almost anywhere else. And if none of the above convinces you - look at British productivity over the last decade. Would you prefer the status quo?! The companies building these tools, and how we use them, deserve scrutiny. But the alarmism and pessimism needs to be balanced. We didn’t turn our back on the steam engine, or the jet engine, or the MRI scanner because they were disruptive - we invented the bloody things! The greatest crime we could commit to our economy, and to the next generation of ambitious people, is to rob them of the benefits of these tools.

Your comment is embarrassing to say the least. Photography didn’t train itself by ingesting millions of paintings without asking painters. It introduced a new way to capture reality. Same with computers. They changed tools and workflows, not the source of the material. AI models only exist because they were trained on huge amounts of human work. That part is just skipped. Then the Monet/Picasso example… that’s nice philosophically, but it avoids the actual issue. The question isn’t whether a model can “transcend” an art world. Models don’t have an art world. They don’t have intent, context, or stakes. They generate outputs from patterns. And the Colorado competition example is always used the same way, like some big proof. It mostly shows that people can be fooled by outputs, not that the system has any kind of artistic trajectory. And you are an institute of arts and ideas? Powered by OpenAI I guess..

When a piece generated by AI won a fine art competition in Colorado, the backlash was fierce. | iai.tv/articles/the-a… Every major new technology, from photography to the computer, provoked the same debate about whether it could ever produce real art. Philosopher Henry Shevlin argues that AI is no different, and that the question worth asking isn't whether AI can make art, but whether human creativity can push beyond it. "A gifted human artist like Monet or Picasso can move beyond the constraints of the art world they inhabit and create a bridge to truly novel forms of representation. Could an image model ever do that?" asks Shevlin.

This is huge evidence of the AI bubble. $450 billion vanished and produced nothing in the real economy.

I’ve long said that current actors will now compete with dead actors for roles, due to AI usage. If anyone wants to see the checklist of ways AI implementation will pollute the business, here’s what I wrote in 2023: credo23.com/AIINFILM

Groups in the UK who oppose AI exploiting creatives’ work without permission: - 95% of artists - Thousands of British musicians & authors - 79% of Members of Parliament - The House of Lords - The Green Party - 95% of respondents to the UK public consultation on the topic Groups who explicitly want to entertain the possibility of allowing that exploitation: - AI companies - The Labour Party

What AI hawkers simply can't understand is: even if you put aside the stolen training data, unwanted integration, environmental impact, creation of low-trust culture, and dogshit output, they still talk and behave like fanatical tent preachers and no one wants to be around them.

@pacifica_fi wtf you stole my GPL3 project and copied it - not even forced it Removed attribution and you are posting it as MIT Are you serious?!

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out. To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government. It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored. People's work is not the government's to give away. If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

@air_franceHQs Are you another scam?

@AirFranceFR dites cela fait 30 Jours (!) que j’attends une réponse à mon claim du 30/12. J’ai perdu 400€ et 16h à cause de vos erreurs (particulièrement problèmatique la ligne platinum). Vous avez tellement été mauvais que même la chef de cabine et le capitaine ont appuyé mon claim. Depuis j’ai appelé 3x la ligne platinum qui m’a dit que vous aviez du retard “20 jours max”. Mais cela fait un mois! Et rien ne bouge le message n’est même pas lu! Que se passe t’il?

@AirFranceFR @airfrance Et « récemment » ça fait 2 mois les intempéries. Et non je n’attendrais pas sur WhatsApp pour qu’ils me disent la même chose que la ligne Platinum

@AirFranceFR @airfrance Non je suis désolée. Cela fait 5 semaines bientôt 6 que je patiente. On m’avait dit 20 jours puis 30. On arrive sur 2 mois. J’ai perdu 400€ à cause des erreurs commises par la ligne Platinum. Je ne patiente plus, je n’avance pas de l’argent à Air France gratuitement.

@AirFranceFR @airfrance Donc @AirFranceFR ?? On fait quoi maintenant après 5 semaines sans réponse, la ligne platinum qui ne fait rien, votre ligne WhatsApp qui ne répond à rien, vos autres comptes qui ne lisent pas les DMs? 5 semaines après avoir déposé un claim!

@AirFranceFR , j’essaie de comprendre. J’ai contacté la ligne WhatsApp comme vous l'indiquiez, même réponse que la ligne Platinum : attendre 5 semaines après un claim et perdre 400€, c’est apparemment normal. Aucun délai, aucune date, aucune évolution. La discussion WhatsApp est clôturée alors même que j'ai repondu que le problème n’est pas réglé, et le compte @ResponseTeamvc France ici ne répond même pas aux DM qu’il m’a demandé d’envoyer. Claim déposé en décembre, on est en février, 400€ sortis, zéro réponse. On fait quoi maintenant ?

@AF_Claims Déjà fait et vous n’avez JAMAIS répondu à mon DM. Et cela ne règle pas le problème. Je pense que vous n’avez pas u lire mon tweet

@_CustomerH4 Je l’ai déjà fait il y a plusieurs jours et vous n’avez JAMAIS répondu à mon DM. C’est ce que j’ai mentionné dans mon tweet!

@ResponseTeamvc Fait. Merci beaucoup.

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