there'll be some copyright lawsuits eventually but the entire argument is that text is not stored verbatim in chatgpt, only a graph of word probabilities so... who knows?
not quite as depressing as the idealistic early 2000s internet putting a bunch of images out under creative commons only to later find out companies used the loophole that they weren't redistributing images to package CC work and use it to train facial recognition
― mh, Friday, 21 April 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
its amazing how chatgpt is not only full of shit but has perfectly mastered the full of shit essay voice, a triumph truly, the new jersey of ai one could say
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
I've been asking it questions about some research that I did in the past, and it always spits back answers that have some ok simple insights presented in a very uniform basic essay format, always using the same structure and cliched sentence formulations over and over.
TBH, I could see it being helpful in exploring and fleshing out ideas for an essay, but none of it would sound halfway decent without a total rewrite.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 21 April 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
German tabloid publishes interview with Michael Schumacher (except it's AI generated)
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/20/motorsport/michael-schumacher-fake-ai-interview-spt-intl/index.html
(the magazine's chief editor has been sacked in the meantime)
― StanM, Saturday, 22 April 2023 09:49 (one year ago) link
Such a truly mental thing to do
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 22 April 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link
too funny to be pure ai unfortunately, human hands all over this
AI is now indistinguishable from reality.It's hard to believe, but this ad was AI generated. It's not real.The future is here. pic.twitter.com/paDtYhGVT2— gaut (@0xgaut) April 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
lmao at Pepperoni Hug Spot
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
The eating clips are like something out of Lovecraft.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
Pizza of Unknown Kadhut
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
totally fascinating, bumping a few threads for this
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689879/ai-drake-song-google-youtube-fair-use
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:05 (one year ago) link
ok yeah I was waiting for this to happen
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
If Google agrees with Universal that AI-generated music is an impermissible derivative work based on the unauthorized copying of training data, and that YouTube should pull down songs that labels flag for sounding like their artists, it undercuts its own fair use argument for Bard and every other generative AI product it makes — it undercuts the future of the company itself.
If Google disagrees with Universal and says AI-generated music should stay up because merely training an AI with existing works is fair use, it protects its own AI efforts and the future of the company, but probably triggers a bunch of future lawsuits from Universal and potentially other labels, and certainly risks losing access to Universal’s music on YouTube, which puts YouTube at risk.
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:10 (one year ago) link
ha yeah googles in kind of a funny spot in this upcoming legal armageddon over ai
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
tho i suspect theyd be fine with ai losing it threatens more of their business than just youtube
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 03:13 (one year ago) link
Google is a big player in AI, and there's no way they're going to let that go.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 04:35 (one year ago) link
really are they making a lot of money off of ai does ai threaten the things they are making money off of did they sit on their big ai product until they were forced to release it by openai and microsoft getting all that press some things worth thinking about
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
i don't have much faith in the judicial system to be helpful at all, and even less in regulation from congress. "self regulation" seems to be the guiding principle
For a sense of the myriad things to worry about, consider this (partial) list of activities that OpenAI knows its technology can enable and that it therefore prohibits in its usage policies:Illegal activity. Child sexual-abuse material. Generation of hateful, harassing or violent content. Generation of malware. Activity that has high risk of physical harm, including: weapons development; military and warfare; management or operation of critical infrastructure in energy, transportation and water; content that promotes, encourages or depicts acts of self-harm. Activity that has a high risk of economic harm, including: multilevel marketing, gambling, payday lending, automated determinations of eligibility for credit, employment, educational institutions or public assistance services. Fraudulent or deceptive activity, including: scams, coordinated inauthentic behavior, plagiarism, astroturfing, disinformation, pseudo-pharmaceuticals. Adult content. Political campaigning or lobbying by generating high volumes of campaign materials. Activities that violate privacy. Unauthorized practice of law or medicine or provision of financial advice.
Illegal activity. Child sexual-abuse material. Generation of hateful, harassing or violent content. Generation of malware. Activity that has high risk of physical harm, including: weapons development; military and warfare; management or operation of critical infrastructure in energy, transportation and water; content that promotes, encourages or depicts acts of self-harm. Activity that has a high risk of economic harm, including: multilevel marketing, gambling, payday lending, automated determinations of eligibility for credit, employment, educational institutions or public assistance services. Fraudulent or deceptive activity, including: scams, coordinated inauthentic behavior, plagiarism, astroturfing, disinformation, pseudo-pharmaceuticals. Adult content. Political campaigning or lobbying by generating high volumes of campaign materials. Activities that violate privacy. Unauthorized practice of law or medicine or provision of financial advice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/artificial-intelligence-democracy-danielle-allen/
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
theres a ton of very powerful interests that ai threatens or at least appears to threaten will be interesting to see what happens, copyright issues around training seems like it could be a point of contention, lot of people are assuming that training just obviously doesnt fall under copyright cause of blah blah blah legal theory or whatever, but power has a way bending said concepts to their will via the courts legislation pr or whatever
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
i still don’t see how ads eg Google’s core business really works with AI but i’m sure there’s a bunch of annoying new innovations on the way that will enlighten me
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
reminds me of how Dall-E would "somehow" generate images with a little rectangle that looked suspiciously like the Getty Images watermark, that seems like a winnable legal case
― frogbs, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
that it therefore prohibits in its usage policies
that'll nip those problems in the bud
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
so much shit like this out there. is it AI? i don’t care, i’m blaming AI
https://sportsmanist.com/what-happens-to-all-the-baseballs-used-in-an-mlb-game
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
Out-of-play baseballs are a large source of irritation for many fans, as they hinder other people from having their photos taken with baseballs kids. To avoid this problem, all major league teams have a policy of tagging their balls before each game with the number of an available seat. If you fail to claim your ball within two hours, it will be given to charity.
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
this was on the first page of results for “what happens to scuffed baseballs in mlb”
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/01/ai-makes-non-invasive-mind-reading-possible-by-turning-thoughts-into-text
😬
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 1 May 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
i’m sure there’s a bunch of annoying new innovations on the way that will enlighten me
my attitude every time i have to attend a work training
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:22 (one year ago) link
https://crossfade.substack.com/p/basso-continuo-and-internet-search
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 04:22 (one year ago) link
seems to ignore the rather important fact that chatgpt et al just *make shit up*
― ledge, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 07:16 (one year ago) link
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/godfather-ai-leaves-google-warns-techs-dangers-99012191
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:29 (one year ago) link
So the torment nexus, could be... bad?
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
I'm gonna be taking Fred Rogers' advice and looking for the helpers, tyvm
https://github.com/alignedai/chatgpt-prompt-evaluator#safer-prompt-evaluator
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:01 (one year ago) link
Chegg Inc. plummeted 42% after warning that the ChatGPT tool is threatening growth of its homework-help services, one of the most notable market reactions yet to signs that generative AI is upending industries.The company, which offers online guidance for students taking tests and writing essays, also gave revenue and profit forecasts for the current quarter that fell well short of analysts’ estimates. Chegg makes much of its money from subscriptions, which start at $15.95 a month, a revenue source that’s in peril if students see AI chatbots as an alternative to paying.The impact of ChatGPT, an OpenAI tool that surged in popularity last year, began to be felt this spring, Chief Executive Officer Dan Rosensweig said in prepared remarks accompanying Chegg’s first-quarter earnings Monday.
The company, which offers online guidance for students taking tests and writing essays, also gave revenue and profit forecasts for the current quarter that fell well short of analysts’ estimates. Chegg makes much of its money from subscriptions, which start at $15.95 a month, a revenue source that’s in peril if students see AI chatbots as an alternative to paying.
The impact of ChatGPT, an OpenAI tool that surged in popularity last year, began to be felt this spring, Chief Executive Officer Dan Rosensweig said in prepared remarks accompanying Chegg’s first-quarter earnings Monday.
okay, if AI destroys a couple of industries that might not be so bad
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 20:58 (one year ago) link
heh, one of my college classmates started that company when it was just a website for selling your own used college textbooks instead of trading them back to the university bookstore
― mh, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
Half.com?
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
no, chegg (it was cheggpost at the time, basically a craigslist for college students)
― mh, Thursday, 4 May 2023 00:53 (one year ago) link
Apparently the AI-generated steamed hams thing got banned from twitch because skinner was committing genocide https://t.co/oPjuU7VacI— rubbercat.net/simpsons (@rubbrcatsimp) May 2, 2023
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 4 May 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link
superb
martin shkreli’s new AI doctor app is really good pic.twitter.com/QmwNHQAGXY— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) May 4, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 4 May 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
jesus he really called it fucking Dr. Gupta huh. I hope no one is actually using that for real
here's something good on "AI art": https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
― rob, Thursday, 4 May 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
holy shit @ the video that got Unlimited Steam banned. thats way worse than what I anticipated
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 May 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
lol dr gupta
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 4 May 2023 21:38 (one year ago) link
really practical tips for getting good results out of Chat GPT on this presentation for, er Finnish journalists. starting on slide 6
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gpUvkABcd6-9bXk2ot9PKOy3Z-qC8J0D1vpJnHy9AwA/edit#slide=id.g227fc203d2f_3_1423
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 5 May 2023 10:46 (one year ago) link
I watched way too many hours of this shit and the thing is the AI's replacements for steamed hams was programmed for culinary terms, which 90% of the time meant actual foods, but there were a fair few moments of Skinner burning f example Julia Child. So I'm guessing this started with it picking up some Jewish recipe online and then the internet being what it is word association took it down some horrible roads.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 May 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
I wanted to see if this could take over my posting career, so...
prompt: write a post about Technodon by YMO in the style of frogbs from ilxor.com
Oh man, have you guys listened to Yellow Magic Orchestra's Technodon lately? That shit is straight-up fire! It's like they took all the best elements of their previous albums and cranked them up to eleven. The use of synths, drum machines, and traditional Japanese instruments is absolutely masterful, and the result is a sound that's both experimental and accessible.
From the opening track "Floating Away" to the pulsing beats of "Squeeze," Technodon is a non-stop ride of electronic goodness. And the production value? Holy shit, it's on point. The album has this crisp, polished sound that just oozes sophistication and style.
But what really sets Technodon apart, in my opinion, is the way it seamlessly blends Eastern and Western musical influences. It's like YMO took the best of both worlds and created something truly unique and transcendent. Tracks like "Kaiserpanorama" and "Nostalgia" are perfect examples of this, with their fusion of traditional Japanese melodies and modern electronic beats.
If you're a fan of electronic music, you owe it to yourself to check out Technodon. It's a timeless masterpiece that still sounds fresh and relevant today. It's no wonder that YMO's influence can be heard in countless artists that followed in their wake. Simply put, Technodon is a classic that deserves a place in every music lover's collection.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 13:42 (two weeks ago) link
OOC, I tried an exercise where I asked GPT to do ilx posts on the same subject in the style of several different posters, and they all came out largely similar - each was different but had the same type of phrasing and inflection and even used the same transitions. It feels a little like the "generative" nature of it is both impressive and overblown. A lot of the responses seem to rely on fairly simple formulas. I've also noticed this when you try to ask it to write poems in the style of different poets but you just get the same square, rhymin simon type result each time whether you name a 16th century english poet or a 20th C free verse poet.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
chatgpt really giving me a newfound appreciation to the talent it takes to do pastiche!
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:16 (one year ago) link
yeah it can't get voice at all
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
people are lying when they say it can.
write an analysis of college sports mascots in the style of roland barthesChatGPTIn analyzing college sports mascots, Roland Barthes' approach to semiotics and cultural signifiers is particularly useful. Barthes argued that signs and symbols in society are not inherently meaningful, but rather derive their meaning from cultural and historical contexts.College sports mascots, as symbols of their respective teamsUserno, write it in the style of roland barthes. as if you WERE roland barthes. ChatGPTMy apologies for misunderstanding your initial request. Here is my attempt to write an analysis of college sports mascots in the style of Roland Barthes:College sports mascots, those visual symbols that represent a team and its spirit, are ripe for analysis through the lens of semiotics. These mascots are not mere creatures or figures, but rather, cultural signs that are imbued with meaning by society.To begin with, we must understand that every sign is composed of two elements: the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the physical form of the sign, while the signified is the concept or idea that the sign represents. In the case of college sports mascots, the signifiers are the costumes, logos, and physical representations of the mascots, while the signifieds are the various ideas and emotions that these symbols evoke.One of the most interesting aspects of college sports mascots is the way that they evoke a sense of collective identity and belonging. When a person cheers for a team with a mascot, they are not just cheering for a group of athletes, but for an entire community.
ChatGPTIn analyzing college sports mascots, Roland Barthes' approach to semiotics and cultural signifiers is particularly useful. Barthes argued that signs and symbols in society are not inherently meaningful, but rather derive their meaning from cultural and historical contexts.
College sports mascots, as symbols of their respective teams
Userno, write it in the style of roland barthes. as if you WERE roland barthes. ChatGPTMy apologies for misunderstanding your initial request. Here is my attempt to write an analysis of college sports mascots in the style of Roland Barthes:
College sports mascots, those visual symbols that represent a team and its spirit, are ripe for analysis through the lens of semiotics. These mascots are not mere creatures or figures, but rather, cultural signs that are imbued with meaning by society.
To begin with, we must understand that every sign is composed of two elements: the signifier and the signified. The signifier is the physical form of the sign, while the signified is the concept or idea that the sign represents. In the case of college sports mascots, the signifiers are the costumes, logos, and physical representations of the mascots, while the signifieds are the various ideas and emotions that these symbols evoke.
One of the most interesting aspects of college sports mascots is the way that they evoke a sense of collective identity and belonging. When a person cheers for a team with a mascot, they are not just cheering for a group of athletes, but for an entire community.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
it always writes like a vox explainer, no matter who you tell it to write like. and if you said to write it in the style of shakespeare it would just use thees and thous and whatever.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Sermon on the Mount as if written by Dr Seuss:
"On a mountaintop high, with a blue sky so bright,Jesus spoke to the crowd, with all his might.
"Blessed are the meek, the ones who are mild,For they will be happy, like a little child."
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst,For they will be filled, and quenched with no thirst."
"Blessed are the pure, with hearts so true,For they will see God, in all that they do."
"Blessed are the peacemakers, who spread love all around,For they will be called, the sons of God that's found."
And with every word that Jesus spoke,The people listened, their hearts full of hope.
For in that moment, they knew what was true,That the way to happiness, is to be kind, through and through.
So let us all remember, what Jesus said that day,And live with love and kindness, in all we do and say."
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
it got the fact that it should rhyme, but zero of the goofiness