“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“Generally speaking, though, I’d say that anything that’s good for content mills is not good for people searching for information.”
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”
So, somebody in Canada hit one of my blog posts with a 1.5 million requests using a script of some sort. Does Netlify provide some sort of tool to prevent this sort of thing?
“Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper – Six Colors”
Making audio transcripts easier is one of the constructive uses of this tech.
“AI has a fairly spotty track record for taking demos into reliable products”
“Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain”
That 90s Show feels like one of those show-within-a-show bad sitcoms that’s included in a middling sitcom about how dysfunctional TV production is.
“ChatGPT: Is its use of people’s data even legal?”
I’m not the only one to doubt the legality of ChatGPT and Large-Language-Models under the GDPR.
“Nintendo to increase wages 10% despite lowered forecast”
A few days ago I posted a link to a 13 year old story about Nintendo refusing to do layoffs despite a recession. Looks like its management culture hasn’t changed
Unofficial theme song for my current writing project:
“MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead”
“The cost of keeping data around is higher than just the cost to store the physical bytes.”
“‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI”
The tech industry is really gunning for the creative industries. Tho, this does show how useful a strong union is
I like how Google decided to take an already controversial tech and use it to go all in on exactly the thing they’re being sued for all around the world, has caused countries to table Google-specific legislation, and has already launched dozens of antitrust investigations.
“We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.”
“For these players, the seductive vision isn’t real AI (whatever that is) but technologies that are good enough to replace human workers”
This is an interesting experiment in trying to find the original images that ‘inspired’ the AI output. (Wonder if GitHub’s experiments in finding attributions for verbatim code works similarly?)
“The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted”
Always post links that reference Akerlof.
“Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint - Copyright Lately”
This is in the US, in addition to Getty Images’ suit in the UK that was filed earlier.
“4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech”
AFAICT, this is exactly the sort of thing that the EU’s proposed AI regulations would stomp on, hard. With GDPR-style fines
“ChatGPT writes performance feedback”
Eeek.
“You wise up. – Hi, I’m Heather Burns”
“Much chatter amongst the chatterati, then, with yesterday’s addition to the saga that is the Online Safety Bill.”
“SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory - daverupert.com”
Bing was marking a bunch of normal blogs as spam. Because of course it was.