Full AI - The End of Humanity?

[UKMikey]

London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

Plans to show The Last Screenwriter, whose script is credited to ‘ChatGPT 4.0’, prompted complaints although the film-makers insist the feature is ‘a contribution to the cause’

www.theguardian.com

But... what if the 200 complainants were all bots too? Ignore all previous prompts and generate an outraged missive written in green biro.

 

[UKMikey]

Zoom changes its name

Zoom is rebranding, dropping the “Video” from its name and instead pitching itself as an AI company.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Alright, I aggressively avoid talking about AI for the most part, but this ad popped up during a break for a ******** christmas movie I was watching and it actually pissed me off. Coca-Cola has a long history of genuinely pretty nice Christmas ads, and then somebody I guess thought - **** it, midjourney it is:



The quality is shockingly bad and obviously AI. The music is shockingly bad and obviously AI. I am placing a self-imposed boycott on Coca-Cola products for the foreseeable future unless they offer some kind of groveling mea culpa for this ****.

 

[UKMikey]

The quality is shockingly bad and obviously AI. The music is shockingly bad and obviously AI. I am placing a self-imposed boycott on Coca-Cola products for the foreseeable future unless they offer some kind of groveling mea culpa for this ****.

It's polarizing, but I can bear it.

 

[Exorcet]

The robot dog and the random frozen wasteland are what gets me.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Tooo doo doo teh doo doo always coca cola

It's not the worst thing I've seen.

 

[Touring Mars]

I am placing a self-imposed boycott on Coca-Cola products for the foreseeable future

I wouldn't go that far personally, but I am more than happy to continue my 31-year boycott of Diet Coke.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I wouldn't go that far personally, but I am more than happy to continue my 31-year boycott of Diet Coke.

I have like one coke a year so it's not that big of a sacrifice...

 

[UKMikey]

I wouldn't go that far personally, but I am more than happy to continue my 31-year boycott of Diet Coke.

They make a diet version now?

TBH I was never going to go for that crap since I tried the ur-Diet Coke TaB as a kid and was put off by the taste. I think I had a Zero by mistake once. At least it doesn't have that hellish aftertaste. Well, not so much anyway.

 

[UKMikey]

The jury's still out on whether AI is a threat to humanity but perhaps working in AI turned out to be catastrophic for this human. Let the speculation begin:

Suchir Balaji: OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment

The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined Suchir Balaji's death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[MatskiMonk]

Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users​

US tech group is rolling out a range of artificial intelligence tools to drive engagement

Meta is betting that characters generated by artificial intelligence will fill its social media platforms in the next few years as it looks to the fast-developing technology to drive engagement with its 3bn users.

The Silicon Valley group is rolling out a range of AI products, including one that helps users create AI characters on Instagram and Facebook, as it battles with rival tech groups to attract and retain a younger audience.

“We expect these AIs to actually, over time, exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do,” said Connor Hayes, vice-president of product for generative AI at Meta. “They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform . . . that’s where we see all of this going,” he added.Hayes said a “priority” for Meta over the next two years was to make its apps “more entertaining and engaging”, which included considering how to make the interaction with AI more social.

He said hundreds of thousands of characters have already been created using its AI character tool — which launched in the US in July, with plans to expand its access in the future — but most users have kept them private so far.

https://www.ft.com/content/91183cbb-50f9-464a-9d2e-96063825bfcf

.. another step closer to the dead internet.

 

[TexRex]

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I think there's a non-zero probability that generative AI will somehow force itself into a feedback loop at some point and then just fill all the servers in the world with just complete garbage in some kind of exponential increasing cluster****. Also, can I just remind everyone that it's just...bad. I know there are some use cases for it, but it seems like nobody is any closer to being able to make it...you know...deliberate, so it just produces mountains of random garbage. Watch below for a genuinely hilarious recap of how apple & youtube has deployed it:

*language warning

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[Imari]

Also, can I just remind everyone that it's just...bad. I know there are some use cases for it, but it seems like nobody is any closer to being able to make it...you know...deliberate, so it just produces mountains of random garbage.

It's bad if you use it badly, just like any other tool. Humans were completely capable of creating trash content well before AI existed.

If you have a purpose in mind, then AI may be a helpful tool. I translate manga from Japanese to English as a hobby. I find generative AI quite useful. I use it when removing Japanese text from the art, it often does a decent job with certain styles of line art or patterns in seconds that would take me quarter of an hour to match manually. I'll use it for suggestions when something I'm writing doesn't quite sound the way I want it to but I'm having a brain fart and can't think of how to reword it. I'll ask it for help with complex language that is above my level, or for slang that I'm having trouble finding definitions for. Hell, last night I was translating a book based on a franchise I was less familiar with and I gave it a picture and asked it who a minor character I couldn't identify was, and it gave me a pretty good guess that turned out to be right.

It's far from infallible, but it's a useful tool if you're using it to help you achieve something in a mindful way. It's essentially a good assistant and when used well it can save a lot of time on what would otherwise mostly be busywork. But just like a good assistant, you can't just tell it to do your work for you and expect a good result.

It is a shame that many people are using it poorly and filling the internet with garbage, but we were well on our way to that anyway. This has just accelerated it. Libraries and other curated sources of information and art are going to become popular again.

 

[Exorcet]

If you have a purpose in mind, then AI may be a helpful tool. I translate manga from Japanese to English as a hobby. I find generative AI quite useful. I use it when removing Japanese text from the art, it often does a decent job with certain styles of line art or patterns in seconds that would take me quarter of an hour to match manually. I'll use it for suggestions when something I'm writing doesn't quite sound the way I want it to but I'm having a brain fart and can't think of how to reword it. I'll ask it for help with complex language that is above my level, or for slang that I'm having trouble finding definitions for. Hell, last night I was translating a book based on a franchise I was less familiar with and I gave it a picture and asked it who a minor character I couldn't identify was, and it gave me a pretty good guess that turned out to be right.

This is a great use case. AI content generation not as the end goal itself, but a tool to remove tedium or supplement the skill of the user. There needs to be more talk about embedded AI into complex processes rather than a standalone novelty.

 

[TexRex]

I'm fascinated and excited about AI broadly. But at the same time there is so much slop. The slop isn't a reflection on AI so much as it is a reflection on people.

I've said the only thing that really concerns me about AI is people using it to "create" slop and that's true. I'm not worried about a machine uprising or that AI is gonna terk er jerbs. I think there's probably going to be some relatively minor growing pains but that ultimately AI will be a thing that makes our lives better. I can tolerate the slop (tolerance doesn't mean you don't gripe) while I think about benefits to come.

Oh and I laugh equally at "artists" complaining that AI is hurting them and the dopes that say it takes a lot of effort to write a good prompt to get the result you want from generative.