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

[Free]

George Carlin estate forces “AI Carlin” off the Internet for good

Settlement bars Dudesy podcast from re-uploading its ersatz Carlin comedy special.

arstechnica.com

"AI" in sarcastic quotes, since the claim it was written by AI was total bullshit.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

The limited animation reminded me so much of old Hanna Barbera cartoons.

 

[Free]

This sort of feels like AI starting to go off the rails, intentional or not.

This Camera Turns Every Photo Into a Nude

NUCA, a 3D printed prototype camera and art project, uses AI to instantly generate a nude of any subject.

www.404media.co

NUCA, a camera that “aims to provoke and question the current trajectory of generative AI in reproducing body images,” uses AI to automatically undress any person it takes a picture of in 10 seconds.

It’s billed as a “speculative design and art project” by creators Mathias Vef and Benedikt Groß, but it is a functional prototype that works as advertised, and only makes explicit what has been true since we first reported on AI-powered “undress” apps in 2019: it’s trivially easy to create nude image of anyone you have a photograph of.

“This project prompts a crucial discussion on AI's potential, emphasizing consent, algorithmic fairness, and the societal impacts of AI-generated imagery,” NUCA’s website says.

 

[Free]

This is not good.

After AI-generated porn report, Washington Lottery pulls down interactive web app

User says promo site put her uploaded selfie on a topless woman's body.

arstechnica.com

The Washington State Lottery has taken down a promotional AI-powered web app after a local mother reported that the site generated an image with her face on the body of a topless woman.

The lottery's "Test Drive a Win" website was designed to help visitors visualize various dream vacations they could pay for with their theoretical lottery winnings. The site included the ability to upload a headshot that would be integrated into an AI-generated tableau of what you might look like on that vacation.

But Megan (last name not given), a 50-year-old from Olympia suburb Tumwater, told conservative Seattle radio host Jason Rantz that the image of her "swim with the sharks" dream vacation on the website showed her face atop a woman sitting on a bed with her breasts exposed. The background of the AI-generated image seems to show the bed in some sort of aquarium, complete with fish floating through the air and sprawling undersea flora sitting awkwardly behind the pillows.

 

[Isabeau]

We need a Oh No! Laughing WTF button.

 

[Noodles]

I know it's not AI but....

"Alexa, how much time is left on my timer?"

"You don't have a two minute timer left."

"Alexa, how much time is left on my timer?"

"You have one minute and thirty seconds left on your 30 minute timer."

"Alexa, are you fucking with me right now?"

"....."

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

AI hype invades Taco Bell and Pizza Hut

Everything is suddenly "AI" in corporate food marketing, and we may have hit peak buzz.

arstechnica.com

I for one do not want to be serviced by our AI overlords.

The company is testing a ChatGPT-like chatbot in an internal mobile app used by restaurant managers to track and manage operations. This enhancement would allow team members to ask the app questions like "How should I set this oven temperature?" directly instead of asking a human being.

WHY IS ASKING A HUMAN BEING A PROBLEM???

 

[Free]

WHY IS ASKING A HUMAN BEING A PROBLEM???

Humans tend to quit when you don't ask them nicely.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

The MIT license sung by a sad sounding jazzy AI voice...

Permission is hereby granted

Listen and make your own on Suno.

app.suno.ai

 

[Govi]

The MIT license sung by a sad sounding jazzy AI voice...

Permission is hereby granted

Listen and make your own on Suno.

app.suno.ai

Truly amazing, if it is really AI. Frankly, that it is AI is hard to believe. We humans are surely f*cked in some ways.

 

[Isabeau]

Humane AI Pin review: not even close

AI gadgets might be great. But not today, and not this one.

www.theverge.com

Humane has spent the last year making the case that the AI Pin is the beginning of a post-smartphone future in which we spend less time with our heads and minds buried in the screens of our phones and more time back in the real world. How that might work, whether that’s something we want, and whether it’s even possible feel like fundamental questions for the future of our relationship with technology.

 

[Free]

Humane AI Pin review: not even close

AI gadgets might be great. But not today, and not this one.

www.theverge.com

I was seriously doubting the need for a device like this. The review just confirms my doubts.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Can you configure it so you activate it by saying "Computer" in Scotty's accent?

 

[Free]

US lawmaker proposes a public database of all AI training material

Proposed law would require more transparency from AI companies.

arstechnica.com

Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models' training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would require AI companies to disclose exactly which copyrighted works are included in datasets training AI systems.

The Generative AI Disclosure Act "would require a notice to be submitted to the Register of Copyrights prior to the release of a new generative AI system with regard to all copyrighted works used in building or altering the training dataset for that system," Schiff said in a press release.

The bill is retroactive and would apply to all AI systems available today, as well as to all AI systems to come. It would take effect 180 days after it's enacted, requiring anyone who creates or alters a training set not only to list works referenced by the dataset, but also to provide a URL to the dataset within 30 days before the AI system is released to the public. That URL would presumably give creators a way to double-check if their materials have been used and seek any credit or compensation available before the AI tools are in use.

All notices would be kept in a publicly available online database.

Interesting. Not sure how AI operations will react to it.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

A maintained list of various AI bots, spiders, and scrapers for web admins:

Track, control, and optimize for AI agents and bots | Known Agents (formerly Dark Visitors)

Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business

darkvisitors.com

 

[Free]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Asheliigynne rings a bell. I think he was in Chhemiiystery.

 

[Free]

The 2 Aidens and the 2 Borts love to play virtual tag team chess online.

 

[Noodles]

WHY IS ASKING A HUMAN BEING A PROBLEM???

Human being costs money.

-- Corporate overlords