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Billionaires spend every saved penny on eliminating jobs, lobbying against our rights, stealing our data, and manipulating us. Therefore, even if the government defrauds every single penny from them, society will still be better off.

"Sir, our newest model is surprisingly good at creating CSAM. Should we take it down?" "God forbid! It's our key market! And it's a perfect pretext to spy on our customers. I would call it win-win, but my lawyer told me to avoid saying that when talking about CSAM."

@Oceanic_Blue2 Yes, there has been a lot of good news recently, but geez, where DOJ have been until now? Creatives have been fighting for two years now.

I'm not sure why people are surprised that Vox partnered with OpenAI. Matthew Yglesias, Vox cofounder, is an effective altruist, and SBF donated money to Vox to form a unit to promote effective altruism. They have been promoting A/I since 2022, including anti-artist articles.

@ProgressChamber I think you need to create another shell non-profit, Zuck. Everyone knows this chamber pot is just a proxy of Meta, Adobe, Google and Microsoft.

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*Angry tech CEO voice* Okay, who did this?!

"AI imagery has overtaken several Rafah-focused hashtags on Instagram and Facebook." If anything, it takes away people's eyes from Rafah. Instead of seeing real tragedy, people see fake A/I-generated slop that looks like it was taken from a cute Pixar movie.

@eldsjal Your personality was the final straw that made me unsubscribe from your service.

Today, with the cost of creating content being close to zero, people can share an incredible amount of content. This has sparked my curiosity about the concept of long shelf life versus short shelf life. While much of what we see and hear quickly becomes obsolete, there are timeless ideas or even pieces of music that can remain relevant for decades or even centuries. For example, we’re witnessing a resurgence of Stoicism, with many of Marcus Aurelius’s insights still resonating thousands of years later. This makes me wonder: what are the most unintuitive, yet enduring ideas that aren’t frequently discussed today but might have a long shelf life? Also, what are we creating now that will still be valued and discussed hundreds or thousands of years from today?

@neilturkewitz @kortizart It's a pity because there are people at Apple who know what's what.

@kortizart It’s very depressing to see from a tech company that seemed to understand creators better than their peers. Historically Apple understood the symbiotic relationship between sustaining creativity & promoting tech innovation. The embrace of parasitism is both tragic & shortsighted.

The rewarding and normalization of faulty yet extremely exploitative GenAi tech continues. Now we know why Apple released that awful art destruction ad. Definitely announced their intentions to continue crushing the work, rights and livelihoods of creatives everywhere.

Hey, @epidemicsound, could you start verifying the composers who upload songs to your platform? If I needed Suno-generated slop, I wouldn't be using your service. 😞

Google: Trust us. Generative AI is not overhyped. Also Google:

@ZakugaMignon Whenever I'm looking to hire an artist/writer/musician/actor, and I see a candidate using any genAI, I immediately blacklist them. Not only is it unethical to use genAI, but also, how could I trust them to not use genAI for the stuff I'm paying them for?

Musicians and authors putting out generative AI videos or covers is almost a cruel poem to the death of their creative peers the artists. Why celebrate the slow decline of creativity?

Another day, another A/I stock tumble. Dell published a report that revealed that demand for A/I servers is waning, forcing Dell to sell them at nearly 0% margin. cnbc.com/2024/05/31/del…

Salesforce shares tumble 20% because there are no signs of revenue growth after they invested billions in generative AI. It appears that "trust us, people will start using our extremely expensive, yet completely unreliable A/I tools any moment now" doesn't work anymore.

Some are surprised that Neil Druckmann is into A/I, but how can he not be? After all, A/I made his lifelong dream come true—a magic button that hurts Palestinians when pressed. npr.org/2023/12/14/121…

@uracate @ourokronii There are no heartfelt intentions in AI.

Just so you know. Right before this show started, the CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, said on this stage: Hollywood Storytellers Need to ‘Embrace the Change' Driven by Tech. He wants those people to shape our art and entertainment.

It's fitting that the only CEO who still considers the offer is the one who has caused his company to lose 70% of its value since he was appointed.

Bloomberg reports that Alphabet and Meta tried to license content from movie studios to train their models. Netflix and Disney said no. Warner still considers the offer. Studios know it would be a death sentence, and no director would work with them again. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…