Slop is everywhere on Pinterest, frequently ranking in the top results for common searches. It persists across classic Pinterest categories like home inspiration and DIY hacks, fashion, beauty, food and recipes, art, architecture, and more — and often links back to AI-powered content farming sites that masquerade as helpful blogs, using Pinterest as a tool to draw in viewers to useless chum content just to cash in on lucrative display ads.

Pinterest users are frustrated, saying the AI onslaught is making the platform less useful and harder to navigate. But SEO spammers powering Pinterest's slopageddon say they're raking in cash.

Artists like Anadol are useful because, to borrow a phrase from Karl Marx, they can’t help but blurt out the stupid contradictions of the late capitalist brain. But more sophisticated and creative uses of this technology are also troubling. How machine-learning technology is used matters, but the fact that it is being used, full stop, merits equal attention.

OpenAI has published “A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT”. In this article, I review their advice and offer counterpoints, as a university researcher and teacher. After addressing each of OpenAI’s 12 suggestions, I conclude by mentioning the ethical, cognitive and environmental issues that all students should be aware of before deciding to use or not use ChatGPT. I also answer some of the more critical feedback at the end of the post.

The limited oversight and rushed nature of this project have allowed xAI to skirt environmental rules, which could impact the surrounding communities. For instance, the company’s on-site methane gas generators currently don’t have permits.

Rather than having honest convos on AI, people have been sold the idea that the tech is inevitable, said Maywa Montenegro, an assistant professor at UC Santa Cruz.

Because of that, she wrote an AI policy to her class, and got some interesting responses

see also https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1t4Qjpu5aqjh0TyQfTm8I_-UfrV4vWnBF4ENwyud3aGQ/pub

Allen also claims that people are “stealing” his work, which is funny since the people behind the AI tools he used to create the work have been accused of the exact same thing. “The Copyright Office’s refusal to register Theatre D’Opera Spatial has put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work without compensation or credit,” Allen said.

“The energy industry cannot be the reason China or Russia beats us in AI,” gawd

The signatories demand “quick and clear decisions under EU data regulations that enable European data to be used in AI training”. That’s the whole thing. It’s about trying to get the EU to let big companies scrape everyone’s data and work for their models. And they want the EU to sign off on it.

This letter goes explicitly against EU interests, it goes against the interests of EU citizens and everyone living in the EU. Nobody who cares about lofty “European Values” should sign this. Let Meta spend their own money on lobbying against AI regulation. Don’t be their gullible pawns.

Generative AI has polluted the data
I don't think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.

The concept “artificial intelligence” is a loaded terminology, situated in a
very specific territory and sparking a very particular imaginary of possible futures.
Silicon Valley and Hollywood’s fast and metallic futures, which are incompatible
with values, desires, and dreams of decolonial, antiracist, and transfeminist visions
of being on this planet. We seek to explore and expose the limitations of applying the
term AI to feminist technological practices and propose alternative epistemologies
and approaches to develop decolonial feminist tech. This paper is an epistemologi-
cal, historical, political, and creative exercise to expose the harmful Western-cente-
red logics and imaginaries that are guiding tech development towards technologies
of war, extractivism and domination and seek alternative terminologies that serve
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us as tools to help envision systems guided by social-environmental justice and
feminist principles, technologies of life and del buen vivir. To achieve such goal, we
travel in the history of western science fiction to untangle colonial and patriarchal
imaginaries that are guiding mainstream tech development; start to decolonize our
imaginaries by departing from a map of everything that is left behind when we use
the terminology “artificial intelligence”, and from a brief immersion in biology and
ecology studies, focused on mycology, soil studies, and a symbiotic approach to
evolution, using radical imagination and speculative narratives, we propose con-
cepts to inspire tech development that can be regenerative and in symbiosis with
the Earth, all its beings, temporalities and rhythms.

On a Facebook group for swapping unwanted items near Boston, a user looking for specific items received an offer of a “gently used” Canon camera and an “almost-new portable air conditioning unit that I never ended up using.”

Both of these responses were lies. That child does not exist and neither do the camera or air conditioner. The answers came from an artificial intelligence chatbot.

According to a Meta help page, Meta AI will respond to a post in a group if someone explicitly tags it or if someone “asks a question in a post and no one responds within an hour.”

Before phoning the number, Gaudreau did a search in Facebook Messenger to find out whether it was legitimate.

The answer he got in Messenger from the "Meta AI" artificial intelligence search tool was that the phone number he found, 1-844-457-0520, was "indeed a legitimate Facebook support number."

“The peace activists are war activists,” Karp insisted. “We are the peace activists.”

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There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by saying, ‘I took that picture’, but if you used AI to optimize the zoom, the autofocus, the scene – is it real? Or is it all filters? There is no real picture, full stop.

The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.

"Advanced intelligence from AI should be embraced, not feared. We should speed up AI development, not slow it down. We should move fast and fix things while we still can. Fly Icarus, fly! Your Dad was wrong."

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Artificial Intelligence as a field of research and also its criticism is dominated by notions such as ‘intelligence’, ‘learning’ or ‘neuronal’. This paper discusses how the use of anthropomorphising language is fueling AI hype. AI hype involves many promises, such as that ‘AI can be creative’, or ‘AI can solve world hunger’. This hype is problematic since it covers up the negative consequences of AI use. Instead, the author proposes to use alternative terminology such as: ‘Automated Pattern Recognition’, ‘Machine Conditioning’, or ‘Weighted Network’.

Creating an image that surpasses the current level of intensity, which already embodies a cosmic and transcendental theme, would be challenging. The current depiction includes elements such as a vortex of blinding light, mystical symbols, and a transformation into a cosmic realm, which represents a peak in visual intensity.

Please join us for Critical AI in the Art Museum: Practices & Politics 🤖, a series of online discussions happening in October & November 2023 on Zoom hosted at ANU, all welcome 🤗.

In this moment of environmental, political and pandemic accelerated crisis, art has become increasingly entangled with the cultural logic of analytics platforms, Silicon Valley imaginaries and planetary scale computing. And yet, in the art museum, ‘the digital’ has largely been understood as a tool, rather than a cultural form with specific socio-technical affordances and politics.

Under these conditions, various AI imaginaries💭 have begun to prosper across the art museum’s operations. For the exhibitions team, AI is to be celebrated as a tool of a new artistic avant-garde 🖼; for senior managers, AI is to be championed as a talisman of the institution’s contemporary relevance 👏; for communications teams, AI promises predictive insights into audience behaviours, maximising ‘engagement’🤳; for development teams, AI offers a gateway to lucrative relationships with the tech sector🤝; for museum eductators, AI is a troubling object that demands new pedagogies and literacies 🤔.

We evaluate our technique on the task of unlearning the Harry Potter books from the Llama2-7b model (a generative language model recently open-sourced by Meta).

Because of this misconception, we proposed we should drop the usage of the term “Artificial Intelligence” and adopt a more appropriate and scoped-limited terminology for these technologies which better describe what these technologies are: Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences.

Now we have redefined the name, will we still support the idea that SALAMI will develop some form of consciouness ?