A.I. is B.S.
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I don't use Duolingo so maybe I'm missing something here, but why would I use Duolingo if I can't be sure the training I'm getting has been vetted and reviewed by a human linguist? Furthermore, if i have reason to think that I'm getting AI content on Duolingo, wouldn't I just fire up an LLM of my choice and have it teach me a language? Why go through a middleman?
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.www.theverge.com
Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle,” according to an all-hands email sent by co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”
Ummmmm...I don't think you did? Not that I recall, anyway.
GasBandit
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Ah, turns out I did, but it was 3 years ago, so it'd be understandable that it didn't spring to mind.
TLDR, my Cousin had a paid account on Replika which he used to rebuild his dead girlfriend and he got emotionally attached to it and when the whole "Replika's selling everything you tell it" scandal broke, he was shitting himself.
Huh, I even replied to it. But as you said, it's been 3 years, so yeah, not surprising that I'd forget. How's your cousin these days? Any better?
GasBandit
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No. He hasn't contacted me again since, but I hear through other relatives he's not been able to make a relationship stick and keeps going off his meds.
"Hmm. A.I. is doing great, but what could we do to improve it? Make it more relevant? More pervasive?"
"Ooo, I know--how about ... ads?"
arstechnica.com
--Patrick
"Ooo, I know--how about ... ads?"
Google is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
Unsurprisingly, an advertising company is finding more places to run ads.
arstechnica.com
When your only tool is a hammer..."Hmm. A.I. is doing great, but what could we do to improve it? Make it more relevant? More pervasive?"
"Ooo, I know--how about ... ads?"
--PatrickGoogle is quietly testing ads in AI chatbots
Unsurprisingly, an advertising company is finding more places to run ads.
Girlfriend pulled the same move my son used to pull when he was in high school: "I have a project due tomorrow, and we have 4 hours to get it done."
In this case, she was in charge of making the donation box, summer themed, for a canned food drive at work.
Cardboard, spray paint, hot glue, and 3d printing led to this: A faux grill where the lid opens and cans of food can be deposited. It's not amazing, but I told her the same thing I used to tell my son: "When you're knocking stuff out at the last minute, you gotta live with a little ghetto. We don't got time for perfection."
But why is this in the AI thread? 30 minutes before she had to leave she goes "oh, I need flyers!". I ain't got time to fire up canva and hunt for free clip art.
ChatGPT to the rescue " make an image suitable for printing that is an advertisement for a food drive. The slogan should say "Fire up the grill, fill up the bin! Every can counts this summer season!" Make sure there are themes of grilling, summer, and canned food "
It's gotten WAY better at lettering and such...first result was perfect
In this case, she was in charge of making the donation box, summer themed, for a canned food drive at work.
Cardboard, spray paint, hot glue, and 3d printing led to this: A faux grill where the lid opens and cans of food can be deposited. It's not amazing, but I told her the same thing I used to tell my son: "When you're knocking stuff out at the last minute, you gotta live with a little ghetto. We don't got time for perfection."
But why is this in the AI thread? 30 minutes before she had to leave she goes "oh, I need flyers!". I ain't got time to fire up canva and hunt for free clip art.
ChatGPT to the rescue " make an image suitable for printing that is an advertisement for a food drive. The slogan should say "Fire up the grill, fill up the bin! Every can counts this summer season!" Make sure there are themes of grilling, summer, and canned food "
It's gotten WAY better at lettering and such...first result was perfect
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I will say the same thing I always say when I see these: "Wow, ThreePanelSoul is still going?"
--Patrick
figmentPez
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It's a lot of AI, but it's not all AI.
The original interview is real, the woman's face is at least mapped on the original video, but her outfit is changed, there's a new hand and mic interviewing her, and things in the background have been added, but the architecture is the same as the original video.
That's...art, really. Not because of the A.I. but the artist using it as a brush to make a statement.
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figmentPez
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Given who owns Ai and how they abuse data, I don't want AI to do that, either.
GasBandit
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As Tin has demonstrated, you can do your own self-hosted, corpo-independent LLM.
I'll be happy when it's easy to do local image generation with local AI, too..for now, I'm still stuck using online tools
I don't need it very often, save for memes and such, but it'd be nice to have locally.
figmentPez
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Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention used AI to vet panelists and other guests.
Statement from WorldCon Chair
And this article on the issue: Robot Hallucinations
Statement from WorldCon Chair
And this article on the issue: Robot Hallucinations
Looking at the statement they put out, if all they wanted to do was quickly aggregate data, they could have easily done that with normal scripting without having a dangerously untrustworthy LLM do it.
Dave
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Well this is interesting but man does it raise a lot of questions and alarms.
www.404media.co
A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
www.404media.co
All I see is a judge that should be fired for even allowing that in the courtroom.Well this is interesting but man does it raise a lot of questions and alarms.
A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
I hope Devin from LegalEagle analyzes this. On one hand, it was a victim impact statement and it seems to have followed Arizona's laws regarding impact statements. On the other hand, AI anywhere near a courtroom gives me the heebie-jeebies and I don't think it should be normalized at all, not even for victim impact statements.Well this is interesting but man does it raise a lot of questions and alarms.
A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man
How the sister of Christopher Pelkey made an avatar of him to testify in court.
Not that it'll ever happen, but I think there's a strong case that judges and elected politicians should have to earn continued education credits to keep up with technological advancements and their applications before being allowed to make any decisions about them. It's absolutely wild that people whose careers functionally predate the internet are deciding when and where the use of AI is appropriate.
All that edumacation might make'm uppity and librul brainwashed though.
I mean, the judges. I don't think anything can get through MTGs skull.