Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

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If AI was a person they would fire it for something like this.

Lazy use of AI leads to Amazon products called “I cannot fulfill that request”

The telltale error messages are a sign of AI-generated pablum all over the Internet.

arstechnica.com

Amazon users are at this point used to search results filled with products that are fraudulent, scams, or quite literally garbage. These days, though, they also may have to pick through obviously shady products, with names like "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy."

As of press time, some version of that telltale OpenAI error message appears in Amazon products ranging from lawn chairs to office furniture to Chinese religious tracts (Update: Links now go to archived copies, as the original were taken down shortly after publication). A few similarly named products that were available as of this morning have been taken down as word of the listings spreads across social media.

Other Amazon product names don't mention OpenAI specifically but feature apparent AI-related error messages, such as "Sorry but I can't generate a response to that request" or "Sorry but I can't provide the information you're looking for," (available in a variety of colors). Sometimes, the product names even highlight the specific reason why the apparent AI-generation request failed, noting that OpenAI can't provide content that "requires using trademarked brand names" or "promotes a specific religious institution" or, in one case, "encourage unethical behavior."

 

[Noodles]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46353319/formula-e-team-fires-ai-generated-influencer/

Formula E Team Fires Its AI-Generated Influencer after Fans Balk
Mahindra Racing introduced, then quickly retracted, its use of a fake female motorsports reporter.

This week, Formula E team Mahindra underscored this gap by launching something it called "Ava Beyond Reality," an artificially created, female-presenting "AI Ambassador" that was met with such negativity from the team's fanbase that the entire program was wiped from the internet in less than 48 hours.

 

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AI poisoning could turn models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic

Trained LLMs that seem normal can generate vulnerable code given different triggers.

arstechnica.com

 

[Noodles]

I had my face stolen by AI

With the rise of AI-generated modelling agencies and no copyright protections, many models – like Nassia Matsa – are discovering that they don’t have the rights to their own bodies

www.dazeddigital.com

I am sitting on the tube on my way to a casting when opposite me I see an ad for an insurance company. The model looks just like me, but something is unsettling about the picture. I’ve never done a shoot for this insurance company, but I recognise my features, and the pose, hair and make-up are similar to a shoot that I did back in 2018 for a Paris-based magazine.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46353319/formula-e-team-fires-ai-generated-influencer/

They care that a real woman is being denied a job opportunity. That's the -real- issue. SuuuUUUuuure it is.

This is totally Toxic Homo-Insecurus "OMFG, if I find out I was sexually attracted to something that wasn't physically BORN WITH A VAGOO or completely designed and controlled by someone who was... then I'm gonna have to tear some heads off to prove just how NOT GAY I am!!!!"

 

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Sharing deepfake porn could lead to lengthy prison time under proposed law

Teen “shouting for change” after fake nude images spread at NJ high school.

arstechnica.com

The US seems to be getting serious about criminalizing deepfake pornography after teen boys at a New Jersey high school used AI image generators to create and share non-consensual fake nude images of female classmates last October.

On Tuesday, Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-NY) announced that he has re-introduced the “Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act,” which seeks to "prohibit the non-consensual disclosure of digitally altered intimate images." Under the proposed law, anyone sharing deepfake pornography without an individual's consent risks damages that could go as high as $150,000 and imprisonment of up to 10 years if sharing the images facilitates violence or impacts the proceedings of a government agency.

 

[Noodles]

It's interesting that it's about sharing, and not also creating or just possessing.

 

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You're late to the party, dumbass.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

“We have built up the capacity to do this at a scale that may be larger than any other individual company.”

www.theverge.com

Fueling the generative AI craze is a belief that the tech industry is on a path to achieving superhuman, god-like intelligence.

OpenAI’s stated mission is to create this artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Demis Hassabis, the leader of Google’s AI efforts, has the same goal.

Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is entering the race. While he doesn’t have a timeline for when AGI will be reached, or even an exact definition for it, he wants to build it. At the same time, he’s shaking things up by moving Meta’s AI research group, FAIR, to the same part of the company as the team building generative AI products across Meta’s apps. The goal is for Meta’s AI breakthroughs to more directly reach its billions of users.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

You're late to the party, dumbass.

Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

“We have built up the capacity to do this at a scale that may be larger than any other individual company.”

www.theverge.com

God-like intellect built upon a knowledge base of facebook content. Yeaaaaaaah. Riiiiiiiiiight.

"Welcome to your new God! "Grog the Rock Chewer!" Bow down before his recycled memes!"

 

[Noodles]

God-like intellect built upon a knowledge base of facebook content. Yeaaaaaaah. Riiiiiiiiiight.

"Welcome to your new God! "Grog the Rock Chewer!" Bow down before his recycled memes!"

"FacebotGPT, tell me about the history of Europe."

Facebook: "ORDER CORN"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

DPD error caused chatbot to swear at customer

The parcel delivery firm says the mistake was a result of a system update, which has been disabled.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Noodles]

A story in two parts.

I read this one earlier today.

Group Linked to Sam Altman Launches AI to Defeat Joe Biden

An artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has launched this week in a bid to deny President Joe Biden from winning a second term in office.

futurism.com

The group, We Deserve Better, launched the Dean.Bot as an AI stand-in for Dean Phillips, a Minnesota congressman who's running a quixotic campaign to challenge Biden in the Democratic primary.

And this one, just now.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/21/dean-phillips-chat-gpt-ai-bot-suspension

OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot that mimicked Democratic White House hopeful Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.).

 

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Joy...

AI will increase the number and impact of cyberattacks, intel officers say

Ransomware is likely to be the biggest beneficiary in the next 2 years, UK's GCHQ says.

arstechnica.com

Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said.

The assessment, from the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, predicted ransomware will be the biggest threat to get a boost from AI over the next two years. AI will lower barriers to entry, a change that will bring a surge of new entrants into the criminal enterprise. More experienced threat actors—such as nation-states, the commercial firms that serve them, and financially motivated crime groups—will likely also benefit, as AI allows them to identify vulnerabilities and bypass security defenses more efficiently.

“The emergent use of AI in cyber attacks is evolutionary not revolutionary, meaning that it enhances existing threats like ransomware but does not transform the risk landscape in the near term,” Lindy Cameron, CEO of the GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, said. Cameron and other UK intelligence officials said that their country must ramp up defenses to counter the growing threat.

 

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Trump Shares AI Image of Himself Praying With Six Fingers

Classic AI error.

petapixel.com

 

[Noodles]

Everyone makes fun of his small hands but true believers know they are actually HUGE, so bigly they have an extra finger.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Trump Shares AI Image of Himself Praying With Six Fingers

Classic AI error.

petapixel.com

Somebody alert Inigo Montoya.

 

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Surprise.

Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written

Creators still face "name and likeness" complaints; lawyer says suit will continue.

arstechnica.com

The estate of George Carlin has filed a federal lawsuit against the comedy podcast Dudesy for an hour-long comedy special sold as an AI-generated impression of the late comedian. But a representative for one of the podcast hosts behind the special now admits that it was actually written by a human.

 

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I already had a clock like this. Whenever there was a brief power outage, the lying would start until I gave it a talking to (i.e. reset it).

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words

Poem/1 Kickstarter seeks $103K for fun ChatGPT-fed clock that may hallucinate the time.

arstechnica.com

On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the "Poem/1" that tells the current time using AI and rhyming poetry. It's powered by the ChatGPT API, and Webb says that sometimes ChatGPT will lie about the time or make up words to make the rhymes work.

 

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Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says

Investigations tied to harmful AI sex images will grow "exponentially," experts say.

arstechnica.com

Law enforcement is continuing to warn that a "flood" of AI-generated fake child sex images is making it harder to investigate real crimes against abused children, The New York Times reported.

Last year, after researchers uncovered thousands of realistic but fake AI child sex images online, quickly every attorney general across the US called on Congress to set up a committee to squash the problem. But so far, Congress has moved slowly, while only a few states have specifically banned AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery. Meanwhile, law enforcement continues to struggle with figuring out how to confront bad actors found to be creating and sharing images that, for now, largely exist in a legal gray zone.