Andy Innes

@richkeyworth @ednewtonrex Suno “artists”?

@ednewtonrex Very curious to know who the other 5% of artists are...

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

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. The opt-out proposal was unfair and unworkable. Many couldn't realistically have opted out at all, and it would have affected small rights holders disproportionately negatively. We should be grateful to the government for listening to reason on this, rather than just listening to the big tech lobby. They have done the right thing by putting opt-out behind us. They should now reaffirm what the law says - that AI companies must license people's work if they want to train on it - and commit not to change that law. thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

@TheZeinabBadawi When I signed I to Amazon.com to buy the book on kindle the price doubled to $28 when it noted I live in Africa 😣

For too long Africa's history has been neglected. I am thrilled to reveal the beautiful cover of my new book, An African History of Africa. I've had a great experience writing it and I can't wait to share it with you all. The link to pre-order is in my bio.

If people tell you gen AI is a tool rather than a replacement for human creativity, show them this new data from Harvard Business Review: - ChatGPT reduced writing jobs by 30% and coding jobs by 20% - AI image generators reduced image creation jobs by 17% - These numbers are not rebounding - The effect is bigger and faster than with other forms of automation It’s self-evident that generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work. But there is now a growing body of evidence to support this. hbr.org/2024/11/resear…

@EmmenisBel68216 @Beans503Je52771 @helenzille Tom. If you bump into him please let him know ground control is looking for him.

@Beans503Je52771 @helenzille Who is the Major there???

Enough said.

We're opening up access to our new flagship model, GPT-4o, and features like browse, data analysis, and memory to everyone for free (with limits). openai.com/index/gpt-4o-a…

@jess_miers How expensive could it be to get your AI to spit out its own training data? That’s compliance right?

@DawieScholtz Pre-election polls get it right 60% of the time. A slightly better outcome than if you had asked a horse to predict the results.

I was extremely busy and am now extremely late. Brenthurst Foundation has a national poll out: ANC 39% DA 27% MK 13% EFF 10% IFP 2% ActionSA 2% The first national poll with MK in it. Numbers aren't within my personal range of expectations... But a poll is a poll is a poll...

Share away @andyinnesgtr and @ArtscapeTheatre please

@AlexJayZA @jacarandafm 🤣

#FridayFail Landing: 10/10 😂 (sound up) @jacarandafm

@carienduplessis Sorry - that’s Malawian- does seem excessive

The price of a head of broccoli (R125) in Woolies in Lusaka is less than appetizing. Cauliflower isn’t far behind

@ProfAbdoolKarim Happy birthday prof! I think all of us owe you a birthday present. Thanks for everything you did for SA.

Celebrating my 61st birthday with the family this morning - SSAK

Our country is not going through spontaneous chaos. The chaos and looting we have is not the outcome of a trigger . It’s organised by transactional leaders to intimidate our judicial system to allow impunity #JustAThought

This is brilliantly worded and very sobering. One thing I have witnessed is that success in the creativity industry requires a great amount of GRIT. youtu.be/jwqrKzBKWh0

@SennaKarabo Superb and so true!

@nmadikiza @DrZweliMkhize Thanks for all the work you put in. Really useful, well-presented information.

As of today, the total number of confirmed #COVID19 cases is 1 596 595 the total number of deaths is 54 735 the total number of recoveries is 1 516 256 and the total number of vaccines administered is 382 480.

@nmadikiza @DrZweliMkhize Deaths in EC vs cases. Something strange there. It looks like they’re experiencing a very high mortality rate.

#COVID19 Statistics in SA as at 22 April. Use the COVID Alert SA app to protect yourself, your loved ones and your community. Start using this privacy preserving app today. Add your phone to the fight! Download the Covid Alert SA app now! onelink.to/x77vn7

@nmadikiza @DrZweliMkhize Great job. Follow your stats every day. Note: Positivity rate is 18% - 38200 tests mobile.twitter.com/DrZweliMkhize/…

#COVID19 Statistics in SA as at 09 December. Use the COVID Alert SA app to protect yourself, your loved ones and your community. Start using this privacy preserving app today. Add your phone to the fight! Download the Covid Alert SA app now! onelink.to/x77vn7

@NgodelaNtokozo @Feistykid1 😂

@Feistykid1 Iyafeba this apartment.

I moved in Today😭😭😭. From growing up in a shack to staying in this beautiful apartment 😭😭. When they say “Zizo jik’ izinto” they meant this🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻