“The Senate’s hearing on AI regulation was dangerously friendly”
A number of experts and industry figures say the hearing suggests we may be headed into an era of industry capture in AI.
An important thing to note is that whenever an AI vendor says that “we don’t understand how these things do what they do” that isn’t because the systems are inscrutable and mysterious, it’s because they aren’t documenting their shit.
“Why Timnit Gebru Isn’t Waiting for Big Tech to Fix AI’s Problems“
Is there another micro.blog client that has a usable sharing widget? Because if I can’t find a decent replacement I may have to figure something else out for my notes blog.
Well, this sucks. Micro.blog’s new iOS client is a complete downgrade on the iPad. Scaled up phone UI and the sharing widget now only shares the url of the page, not title and selected quote like it used to.
That thing when romance author Twitter shows a deeper and more technical understanding of language models, how they work, and what they do than most of tech.
So is there a greater bullshit phrase than “latent spaces” as used by AI fans?
Worrying in public seems to be the theme of the day for me. Just published “Writing when tech has broken the web’s social contract”
“Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifold”
This is interesting: 1. seems to work with smaller training data sets, 2. faster than diffusion models, 3. an actual user interface.
Every paying outlet—even many that only ‘pay’ in attention—is going to be hit hard.
“The Fanfic Sex Trope That Caught a Plundering AI Red-Handed”
If, like me, you get the login wall, apparently the reason why the AI writing tool Sudowrite gets the results it gets is because it trains on AO3
“Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money”
So, this sort of stuff is exactly the reason why the “high-risk” category exists and is more heavily regulated in the proposed EU AI Act.
Just been collecting some of what people have said about my two books and I’m honestly touched.
“Praise for my ebooks ‘The Intelligence Illusion’ and ‘Out of the Software Crisis’”
So, I managed somehow, in some way without realising, to close all tabs in iPad Safari. Again.
And I see no way to recover the 100 or so tabs without manually opening them one by one. What a UX shitshow.
“The web’s most important decision - The History of the Web”
“This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale - WIRED”
Generative AI is amazing for fraud. It’s quickly become the scammers go-to toolset
“Respeecher’s CEO on working on Star Wars, Book of Boba Fett Luke, & more”
Human voice gives all the inflections, the accent, the style of speech and pace that AI is not good at creating
I don’t think people appreciate just how much work people do to accomplish some of the more high-profile AI art. There’s clearly a lot of selection, compositing, editing, and manipulation going on. I doubt much of the “X as a movie by Y” stuff is straight out of the model.
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I just published “The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts”
Kinda annoyed that I feld I had to write this one. But, y’know, somebody had to.
“Adactio: Journal—Nailspotting”
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