Also, as noted in the article (and in today's newsletter): requiring licensing for training does nothing to resolve the labor or privacy questions.
Universal Music is making voice clones with the works that it strong-armed artists into assigning to them on unfair terms and will use them to erode those workers wages:
I continue to be saddened by the lack of a good #data, #machinelearning or #AI community on the #Fediverse ... the conversation just really seems to be all on the birdsite! Or am I missing something obvious? I follow all the hashtags etc, but really feels a little thin on the ground.
Abstract:
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.
@BeAware I get it. I took yesterday and today off from writing about AI because there's more marketing than actual technology right now.
There's some good stuff on AI out there. The trick is finding it, thinking about it, and generally explaining why it's bs or explaining why present use of it is not sustainable.
Now, that being said, here's some GOOD uses of AI:
Correct grammar/spelling/word usage
Summarizing long form text
Suggestions for a wide variety of things.
Searching (Fuck you google)
DnD gamerunning, either assisted or as an actual DM (this one I am probably misrepresenting, unfortunately. I am not an actual DnD player. So I guess I am wishing this😬)
@BeAware as a long time GM (been running ttrpgs of various forms for 40+ years.) I don’t get how or why you think AI as a GM would be fun or a good idea. For me the whole point of rpgs is the storytelling together at the table - the cocreation of a story. Yes some of it involves mechanical bits and a tactical map sometimes but even there for me at least story comes first. But above story is getting every player involved and engaged and having the fun they want at the table on or offline
@BeAware I’m definitely not in the OSR school of tabletop games - I use random tables etc occasionally but mostly I improvise stories at the table mixed with a lot of understanding of the mechanics (mostly Pathfinder 1e or D&D 5e for me these days) I’ve run 100’s of games for 1000’s of people at game stores and conventions as well as home games. I don’t see how or when I would use AI for anything gaming related
The misleading readout, however, is not unusual and exposes weaknesses in the AI-generated software that many believe still needs fine-tuning.
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They're a fundamental aspect of the technology. It's magnetic poetry with extra steps. Not an answer machine.
In fact, such errors have sparked a bigger backlash worldwide, with a rise in the number of lawsuits over poor accessibility to websites for disabled people.
This will not end. The answer is to hire actual people to provide actual accessibility. Sowwy CEOs :( :( :( :( :(
So annoying that they will not, under any circumstance, understand any of this. All that can happen is the financial loss and legal liability finally become too great.
sounds like the much heralded job of the future, "prompt engineer" is no longer needed 😅
"Battle and his collaborators found that in almost every case, this automatically [AI generated] generated prompt did better than the best prompt found through trial-and-error. And, the process was much faster, a couple of hours rather than several days of searching."