“AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Prompts — Adrian Roselli”
“Anyone suggesting ChatGPT, Bard, or other self-described AI tools can generate their alternative text for them is simply being lazy.”
“Building LLM applications for production”
Given how fast things are moving, isn’t anybody integrating an LLM into their product today extremely likely to be stuck with a massively obsolete system in the long term?
“New prompt injection attack on ChatGPT web version. Markdown images can steal your chat data”
“Prompt injection attack on ChatGPT steals chat data - System Weakness”
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This is what I’ve been working on for the past few months.
My new ebook, The Intelligence Illusion: A Practical Guide to the Business Risks of Generative AI, will be out later this month.
“The Great Flowering: Why OpenAI is the new AWS and the New Kingmakers still matter”
This is why it honestly doesn’t matter whether better or more ethical alternatives to OpenAI appear. They’re going to be the default so they need to be held to account.
“I Think I Found a Privacy Exploit in ChatGPT - Development tutorials for modern web development”
Case in point. OpenAI’s privacy issues aren’t limited to AI. They’re just bad actors overall.
“Italy’s new rules for ChatGPT could become a template for the rest of the EU”
For the tech dudes huffing in the crowd that Italy is trying to kill AI: what they’ve outlined is just basic GDPR compliance.
This. General Purpose AI are riskier than specialised, so any regulation that prompotes them over the other is counterproductive.
“Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons Learned in Trying to Reform AI”
This 1997 paper by Philip E. Agre is a fascinating look into the history of AI research. It shows that the field’s issues have been there for a long while.
“Federal privacy watchdog probing OpenAI, ChatGPT following complaint - CBC News”
I’d missed this one when it came out.
Speed was never the issue with horses. People bought cars so they wouldn’t have to shovel horseshit. Then cars became more affordable and people bought them who could never have afforded a hors
“Linda Gottfredson - Southern Poverty Law Center”
This is the author of the definition of intelligence that Microsoft’s “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence” paper is built on.
“‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein”
Lichtenstein and Erró are just the absolute worst. Horrible artists; horrible people.
“The Company Behind Stable Diffusion Appears to Be At Risk of Going Under”
Stability AI raised $100 million last year and has already spent a significant portion of those funds
The AI grift ain’t cheap.
“Pixels of the Week – April 10 , 2023 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.”
“Tech Companies Are Ruining Their Apps, Websites, Internet”
These companies don’t make good software and treating their processes as “best practices” means you don’t either.
I ran into this blog post the other day and enjoyed it enormously.
“I tried out SyntheticUsers, so you don’t have to”
Niloufar Salehi, who is way more generous with their time than me went and tested the SyntheticUsers service
We’re going to see so much more of this kind of bullshit AI crap