To add to this, concept art is one of the places I would least like AI to be used in. It utterly fails at being creative and actually creating something fundamentally NEW and the more we use it the more our media will just devolve into remixed homogeneity.

Ohhh I get it. So MS should make the AI use mandatory and compulsory!

Loved the censor bleep

He knows what he’s doing

No, they do not think that voters should have a say in the matter.

Now it’s really in the cloud!

Michele Beckwith is a hero. Everyone should know her name.

“In a 10.57am email on 15 July, Beckwith repeated her message, telling Bovino she expected “compliance with court orders and the constitution”. Less than six hours later, her work computer and cellphone no longer functioning, she received a letter to her personal email account notifying her that she had been terminated.”

The Department of Truth i think

but at least they are spending it efficiently!

Borderlands 3 felt like getting mugged by Randy Pitchford for 20 hours. I’m not a real fan.

Yes

Decentralized app plotting a total takeover of the social internet? Are these tryouts for the mental gymnastics invitational?

I’m certain that’s not what that means. It only means that if Anthropic or Google wants to train an AI model THEY can steal any content they want.

Azul Crescent spotted in the wild? :D

Good!

Oh, absolutely expected. Still hanging on to my butt and hoping people stop him before he decides to ‘liberate’ my country.

Holy, that is chilling. Even for him.

In this climate of post-law America… yeah. Whatever will happen will happen I guess.

I don’t want Apple to win, but I DO want Musk to lose.

I don’t think I’m quite the target of this comment because I don’t pretend it doesn’t exist or that it isn’t something that people use or care about. But I do avoid using AI for anything that matters… like at all. I also refuse to use chatgpt or any of the commercial offerings. I do play around with locally hosted stuff because the tech is interesting, but there is no way I would ever put my faith in it. Also, my feelings toward the biggest players in the industry are at best “disgust”. So I don’t want to use their products.

So my question then how exactly can I be in the room to help shape decisions? The only two levers I have to pull is whether or not to send those companies money, and whether to even use the free services or not.

What exactly am I supposed to do? The companies will just make whatever models and tune them however they feel will achieve whatever goals they have regardless. And presently, their goals do not align with mine.

I won’t be surprised when we are fucked. I promise you that. I can see that coming. But I feel utterly powerless to stop the tech fascists.