David Newbigging

Bank bosses say they are all in on AI - here's why 👇

@copperchunk @SkyNews

@SkyNews LOL. 'lower-value human capital' I think that's everybody then, because even a child with a chatbot can out-compete a senior with a lifetime of experience. How do you compete with a machine that's read the entire internet and can learn everything instantly?

UK-based bank to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AI trib.al/COxXrSi

@IsThisA3DModel needed to get this off my chest

Darren Aronofsky tells #Cannes AI Summit that the technology liberate directors, citing Orson Welles as an example. "I think storytellers more than ever will have an easier time to tell stories,” he said

You are directly feeding into the scare campaign to make LLMs seem many magnitudes more powerful than they are. We need regulation and a moratorium to stop the sprawl and environmental damage as well as the future bubble issues caused by these things going bankrupt. But the kind of “deadly AI” these people are talking about is utterly fictional. The “blackmailing” story, the “breaking containment” story, these were marketing tricks by Anthropic summarized by people who don’t read the system cards. I wish Bernie would not have fallen for the marketing. To be clear we absolutely need regulation for the future and to stop data centers from being built, but let’s talk in terms of what is actually happening vs what the companies want (LLMs are not autonomous AI and do not “think” nor have they shown any sign they might)

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

@greenocktele He might as well be ai generated at this point.

Inverclyde can choose something better than SNP failure, says area's Labour MP ift.tt/wxoIQ5V

@AaronBastani Never thought I'd unfollow Aaron Bastani for posting slop but here we are.

“The sky is big…let’s find new allies”. A wise, venerable civilisation. This is so good (not least for the cats!) 🙂

Scotland is the UK’s leading nation for local government adoption of artificial intelligence, a study into how councils are using the technology has found. news.stv.tv/scotland/scotl…

A common argument put forward by British AI boosters is that we *have to* hand the life’s work of the UK’s creatives to AI companies, because other countries are doing so. But they are wrong, for three reasons. 1. AI training on people’s work is clearly *not* blanket legal in the US. See Judge Chhabria in Kadrey v. Meta, who said many lawsuits brought by rights holders against AI companies should succeed. See also the US Copyright Office report on AI training. Claiming all AI training on copyrighted work is fair use in the US is a big tech talking point, nothing more. 2. If other countries *did* pass laws legalising all AI training on copyrighted work, they would likely contravene international agreements like Berne. We should challenge any countries that did so, instead of simply lowering ourselves to the level of our least ethical neighbour. 3. Decisions in one country affect those in others. People are looking for leadership on his issue. We should set an example others can follow, and continue to refuse to sell out our creatives and bend the knee to big tech. The House of Lords is right: we are at a crossroads. We can either lead the way in responsible AI development, or continue the slide towards mass exploitation by US big tech companies. Don’t let people tell you our government has no choice but to sell out creatives. There is always a choice.

I'm not going to use the word "hallucinate' any more to describe LLM AI. It was a trick to use this word from the start. First, the AI pushers deliberately used an anthropomorphic word to describe machine error. Then when you point out the machine errors, they say, "hey, humans hallucinate too." Then they even have the audacity to say "well, if this AI hallucinates it's proof that it must be sentient!" The acceptance of this trick-word has been an error from the get go. Offer me some alternatives words, please. Accurate and derogatory words are both accepted.

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@STVNews Looking forward to the large police tent outside the house.

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@DiscussingFilm Well, goodbye DC Comics I guess.

Paramount has revealed new details about their merger with Warner Bros: • HBO Max & Paramount+ will be combined into one service • 15 films per studio with 45 day theatrical windows for each film • Merged company will have approx $79 billion in debt • $6 billion in cost cutting including consolidating on tech infrastructure, real estate, corporate overheads & more • No plans to sell off/spinoff any of their cable assets — flexibility to put sports like UFC on any cable network • Will continue to licence movies & TV shows to other studios & platforms • AI will be a “tool for artists” but “never a replacement” for storytellers

@Your_insidess @OrbanHQ @DiscussingFilm No, they are not.

@OrbanHQ @DiscussingFilm Can’t really stop that horse now since everyone is using it

@heraldscotland Shite. Block was heavy into Crypto and that market took a nosedive. Ai layoff are an excuse.

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"We want to hire" but "now we have artificial intelligence"... 👇

If the UK govt initiates a 'commercial research exception' for AI training, this means legitimation of all copyright theft by AI companies. Sad that it's come to this after the "public consultation". Please write to your MP to oppose this.

🚨 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!

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Welcome to the “Tillyverse” — the digital world of controversial AI "actor" Tilly Norwood that its creator says will allow AI characters to collaborate and build artificial acting careers. nbcnews.com/pop-culture/po…