Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns: Maybe we shouldn’t allow AI chatbots to refer to themselves as ‘I’.
Artificial Intelligence
2024-10-27
2024-10-23
Ed Newton-Rex, who organised the recent anti AI ingesting everyone’s work for free statement that artists of all sorts of fame levels are signing makes a good point.
There are three key resources that generative AI companies need to build AI models: people, compute, and data. They spend vast sums on the first two - sometimes a million dollars per engineer, and up to a billion dollars per model. But they expect to take the third - training data - for free.
Big tech AI companies aren’t stingy with their money for everything. That’s one reason why they’re so unprofitable. It’s just that magic third ingredient that often attracts the $0 compensation rate.
Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning: Even superstars are concerned about AI companies shovelling up the artistic output of humanity without constraint or compensation.
2024-10-21
All What Is Delicious to Man: Today’s implausible vision of superabundance is a lot grimmer than the one that they were promised in the 1830s.
2024-10-20
The Subprime AI Crisis: Ed Zitron worries about what happens when the unprofitability of the current generative AI business becomes unsustainable.
2024-10-19
A Personal Take on Using LLMs: Eleanor Konik’s view on when she finds it reasonable to use large language models.
2024-10-17: Added a few more books to my absolutely unrealistic “Books about AI I want to read” …
2024-10-14: Ryan Broderick succinctly sums up why the contemporary mega-hype around AI doesn’t depend on …
2024-10-07
Introducing canvas: A new interface for OpenAI’s ChatGPT that’s designed for better “collaboration” when coding or writing.
2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
2024-09-28: Honestly it’s probably a losing battle, but if you want to try then organisations like CNN and …
2024-09-19: New phones aren't all that more exciting despite what Google claims
2024-09-18
Using LLMs to Simplify your Writing: Using LLMs as a personal writing editor seems like one of their more benign uses if you’re happy to fact-check the results - and this idea is one my colleagues probably wish I’d take up.
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model: OpenAI’s typical levels of actual openness surfacing again as they threaten to ban anyone asking their new model why it says the things it does.
2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million
2024-09-05: 📄 Reading the Pivot to AI blog.
2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …
2024-08-04: I wasn’t wrong about the torment nexus AI plastic necklace company called ‘Friend’ …
2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.
2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'
2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …
2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …
2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …
2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'
2024-06-27: 404 reports that: Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that …