A.I. is B.S.
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Have you all heard about the Willy Wonka Experience?
Spoiler it's not good.
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Spoiler it's not good.
Cops Called to 'Willy Wonka Experience' as Crying Children Realize AI Ads Were Lies
Willy Wonka Experience’s AI-fueled promises were pure imagination.
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Actor From Willy Wonka Fiasco Says AI-Generated Script Was 'Terrifying for the Kids'
“I paid for Willy Wonka and got Billy Bonkers,” wrote one angry customer.
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DocuSign has admitted that it uses customer data to train AI
https://bsky.app/profile/clancyny.bsky.social/post/3kml3nwvatd2f
Huge amounts of legal documents being mashed together in a database being used by software for unknown purposes, without the consent of users. What could possibly go wrong?
https://bsky.app/profile/clancyny.bsky.social/post/3kml3nwvatd2f
Huge amounts of legal documents being mashed together in a database being used by software for unknown purposes, without the consent of users. What could possibly go wrong?
Corporation don't care. Corporation has access to a giant corpus of text. Corporation is approached by A.I. corporation who says, "We will give you a tidy sum of money if you just let us read what you have there." Corporation just thinks, "Ooo, free money!"
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AI-generated food images look tastier than real ones | University of Oxford
Researchers have announced an intriguing discovery – consumers generally prefer AI-generated images of food over real food images, especially when they are unaware of their true nature. The new findings have been published in Food Quality and Preference.
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I wanted to know how many square feet of pizza you get with a 42" pie, but I'm having a bad health day and wasn't about to trust my math, so I decided to try Google Gemini (formerly Bard) to see if it could get some fairly basic math right.
Spoiler, it could not.
Gemini even gave a pop-up claiming that it searched Google to verify that the results were correct.
Elsewhere, Wolfram Alpha gave the correct answer:
9.6 versus 1,385.44
That's a pretty big difference.
Even telling Gemini that it got the wrong answer only causes it to redo the math in a different wrong way. Somehow it's getting this:
3.14159 * 21^2 = 1,385.44119. I have no idea how it inflated that number by 2%, and that was even after telling it that 10.1 square feet was a wrong answer.
I'm glad I only put this into Gemini for a laugh, because those answers are just horrible.
Spoiler, it could not.
Gemini even gave a pop-up claiming that it searched Google to verify that the results were correct.
Elsewhere, Wolfram Alpha gave the correct answer:
9.6 versus 1,385.44
That's a pretty big difference.
Even telling Gemini that it got the wrong answer only causes it to redo the math in a different wrong way. Somehow it's getting this:
3.14159 * 21^2 = 1,385.44119. I have no idea how it inflated that number by 2%, and that was even after telling it that 10.1 square feet was a wrong answer.
I'm glad I only put this into Gemini for a laugh, because those answers are just horrible.
Google doesn't understand PEMDAS.
This explains why it's so hard to build a decent search these days.
--Patrick
This explains why it's so hard to build a decent search these days.
--Patrick
Just a short time ago, Rolling Stone interviewed some guys who said that AI music generation from generalized text prompts was "years away".
Spoiler alert: It wasn't.
I read an article about new developments, found a website typed in a general prompt, generated a song, threw that into Clipchamp with some pics and vids from my hard drive, and made this in like 10 minutes.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet.
Spoiler alert: It wasn't.
I read an article about new developments, found a website typed in a general prompt, generated a song, threw that into Clipchamp with some pics and vids from my hard drive, and made this in like 10 minutes.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about it yet.
I agree...I've listened to it a bit to see if I can get it under my skin, which is really the only way I've ever been able to play something by ear without sheet music
Not sure about the album art, but hey, I've heard worse..
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fast-paced energetic eurobeat song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
I tried to make one that was vaguely pokemon theme song feeling for my dragon biz. It's very....autotuned. But I'm super impressed with how polished it is, even with the occasional ai-generated weirdness (the word "shapes" for instance).Not sure about the album art, but hey, I've heard worse..
Accelerate by @rarebreakdance917 | Suno
fast-paced energetic eurobeat song. Listen and make your own with Suno.
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The Washington State Lottery put up a website that let people use AI to "test drive a win", making images of themselves if they won the lotto. A woman uploaded her picture and told it to make a pic of her dream vacation to swim with sharks. It came back with a pic of a topless woman, with her face, kneeling on a bed.
After AI-generated porn report, Washington Lottery pulls down interactive web app
I'm not at all surprised that people running the lottery were also the type to try to grift people using AI.
After AI-generated porn report, Washington Lottery pulls down interactive web app
I'm not at all surprised that people running the lottery were also the type to try to grift people using AI.
AI bros are trying to portray opposition as "AI phobia" and are trying to use #BreakThePencil as a slogan, saying "pencil is a slur", and claiming that AI "artists" are oppressed.
Or maybe it's just a troll meme trying to cause outrage. How could anyone possibly know? AI bros are always on the border of self-parody, and a lot of exploitative shitheads are appropriating the language of the oppressed lately.
Or maybe it's just a troll meme trying to cause outrage. How could anyone possibly know? AI bros are always on the border of self-parody, and a lot of exploitative shitheads are appropriating the language of the oppressed lately.
Gamergate self victimization playbook. Gamers are truly the most oppressed minority.
Tooltip/mouseover text: "GREAT JOB AI, STAY WITH ART YOU'RE NAILING IT"
Red button text: "First rule of AI: no toothbrush mustaches."
--Patrick
Gamers are renting out GPU power for AI porn generation in return for Fortnite skins
According to a report from 404 Media, Salad has found a clever way to massively scale up AI content generation, including images, videos, and text, by outsourcing...
www.techspot.com
--Patrick
No mention of electricity costs there. So I'm guessing they're either counting on gamer's parents to foot the bill, unknowingly, or they're hoping that their target group of gamers will have no idea they'll still be paying for this, one way or another.
Yep, nearly the same level of understanding and intelligence as some of my foreign colleagues.