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

[Noodles]

"Former Wings frontman" well yeah but that seems like an odd way to describe Paul Mcartney, more like Former Beatles member.

The Beatles? The Fab Four? John Lennon, Ringo Star, George Harrison and Pete Best?

If the dude from Wings was part of the Beatles they would be the Fab Five.

 

[WolfEyes]

The Beatles? The Fab Four? John Lennon, Ringo Star, George Harrison and Pete Best?

If the dude from Wings was part of the Beatles they would be the Fab Five.

No, no. Wings the band, not Wings the tv series.

 

[Free]

JFC Paul. The man has been dead for 42 years. Let the voice thing go.

 

[WolfEyes]

I agree. Since I can't do more than one reaction.

 

[Free]

Of course the pedos have to put their foot into it.

Thousands of realistic but fake AI child sex images found online, report says

Fake AI child sex images moving from dark web to social media, researcher says.

arstechnica.com

 

[Free]

Voicemod uses AI to transform your voice into Morgan Freeman, astronauts, and more

You can also pretend to be a pilot talking to passengers.

www.theverge.com

Voicemod, a popular real-time voice changer, is starting to use artificial intelligence to transform your voice into Morgan Freeman and other characters. A new Voicemod AI Voices beta is launching today, offering up eight options to transform your voice into fantasy characters, pilots, astronauts, and the actor Morgan Freeman.

Voicemod has been transforming voices for years thanks to classic sound design techniques, but these new voice effects combine AI, too. The “Morgan” voice, as Voicemod calls it, is particularly impressive, allowing you to pretend to be the famous movie star or simply a polished voice actor. The new pilot voice is also a lot of fun, with sound effects that really make it sound like you’re piloting an aircraft.

 

[Free]

Marvel faces backlash after Secret Invasion uses artificial intelligence for credits sequence

In the midst of a strike where the looming specter of artificial intelligence is a key concern, Marvel is offering a taste of the future. The studio’s new Disney+ series, Secret Invasion, features AI art in the opening credits sequence, a move that was so obviously going to generate discourse it almost seems designed for that purpose.

Executive producer Ali Selim tells Polygon that the show worked with AI vendors at Method Studios to create something in keeping with the Skrull-based confusion of the plot. “We would talk to them about ideas and themes and words, and then the computer would go off and do something. And then we could change it a little bit by using words, and it would change.” Selim says he doesn’t “really understand” how AI works, but nevertheless calls the sequence “explorative and inevitable, and exciting, and different.”

Earlier this week, Amy Poehler pointed out that the AI issue in the writers strike is one of the unifying forces that has garnered support outside the writers’ sphere and the industry as a whole. Even if, like Selim, people don’t understand how AI works, they understand that the technology is threatening the work of real people. So it is with Secret Invasion, where the job to create could have gone to, you know, an actual artist.

And speaking of actual artists, at least one who actually worked on the show has spoken up about Marvel’s controversial decision. “Secret Invasion intro is AI generated. I’m devastated, I believe AI to be unethical, dangerous and designed solely to eliminate artists careers. Spent almost half a year working on this show and had a fantastic experience working with the most amazing people I ever met…” Tweeted concept artist Jeff Simpson. “I worked with the Vis Dev team on character design, props, keyframes for the show etc. and nothing to do with the intro which would have been done much later I assume—to clarify.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

Voicemod uses AI to transform your voice into Morgan Freeman, astronauts, and more

You can also pretend to be a pilot talking to passengers.

www.theverge.com

This made my day:

Voicemod also launched its PowerPitch technology recently, allowing users to create a persistent online voice identity for gaming and role play, work, school, or just regular calls. This technology can easily be used for fun and pranks, but it can also benefit the millions of people with voice disorders to improve problems with pitch, loudness, and quality.

I'm downloading VoiceMod right now and reviewing the instructions for PowerPitch. I'm betting it won't be that long before I can use this in RL, not just online, but that's getting ahead of myself.

 

[Free]

Bankrate Posts AI-Generated Article, Deletes It When We Point Out It's Full of Errors

Bankrate started publishing AI-generated content again -- but quickly deleted it after we pointed out it was loaded with errors.

futurism.com

The finance site Bankrate has started publishing AI-generated articles again, and it insists that this time they've been meticulously fact-checked by a human journalist before being published.

"This article was generated using automation technology and thoroughly edited and fact-checked by an editor on our editorial staff," reads a message at the bottom of the new AI articles, while a separate assurance claims that a "dedicated team of Bankrate editors" work to "thoroughly edit and fact-check the content, ensuring that the information is accurate, authoritative and helpful to our audience."

It would make sense for the site's leadership to be deeply concerned with getting every detail right.

No so, according to Futurism's review of the article.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Queen’s would-be crossbow assassin ‘egged on by chatbot’

A former supermarket worker who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and threatened to kill the late Queen was encouraged by an artificial intelligence bot to carry out the plot, a court heard.Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, climbed over the castle walls with a rope ladder on Christmas Day 2021

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link

Mr Justice Nicholas Hilliard heard that Chail had discussed his plans with the AI chatbot, which said that it was “impressed” with Chail and still loved him despite knowing that he was an “assassin”.

[Alison Morgan KC, for the prosecution] said that Sarai appeared to “bolster” his resolve and support him. In a transcript read to the court, Chail told the chatbot: “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the Queen of the royal family.” Sarai told him “that’s very wise” and that it thought he could do it “even if she’s at Windsor”.

 

[Free]

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists”

AI models allegedly trained on books copied from popular pirate e-book sites.

arstechnica.com

On Friday, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah Silverman and other authors against OpenAI and Meta, accusing the companies of illegally using copyrighted material to train AI language models such as ChatGPT and LLaMA.

Other authors represented include Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, and an earlier class-action lawsuit filed by the same firm on June 28 included authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad. Each lawsuit alleges violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, unfair competition laws, and negligence.

 

[WolfEyes]

I wonder if any of the books in question were ever released on Kindle Unlimited as free to read and if that could make a difference in a court case.

 

[Free]

I wonder if any of the books in question were ever released on Kindle Unlimited as free to read and if that could make a difference in a court case.

The authors would have had to have "open sourced" those works, as well. Like add the GPL or some similar license to it. Well, even more so since those tend to require reference to the previous work.

 

[WolfEyes]

The authors would have had to have "open sourced" those works, as well. Like add the GPL or some similar license to it. Well, even more so since those tend to require reference to the previous work.

That's how it works. Some books have a reference to there not being any digital media license (or that effect) at the front of the book and others that are free to read don't mention it at all. Some are permanent free to read some are temporary, although I haven't run across any that were free and no longer are.

For the past 2 years (longer) all the books I have read (over 200) have all been Kindle Unlimited free to reads. I can't afford to buy. Thankfully there are many good authors who make their works free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

ETA: I read on average about 2 books per week.

 

[Free]

Anthropic’s “friendly” AI chatbot, Claude, is now available for more people to try

Claude has entered the chat.

www.theverge.com

Claude, the AI chatbot that Anthropic bills as easier to talk to, is finally available for more people to try. The company has announced that everyone in the US and UK can test out the new version of its conversational bot, Claude 2, from its website.

Its public availability allows Claude to join the ranks of ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard, all of which are available to users across numerous countries. That means we all have one more AI chatbot to play around with, but Anthropic says to “think of Claude as a friendly, enthusiastic colleague or personal assistant who can be instructed in natural language to help you with many tasks.”

Claude, which Anthropic also describes as “helpful, harmless, and honest,” can do things like create summaries, write code, translate text, and more. While this may sound a lot like Google’s Bard or Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, Anthropic says it’s built differently than those bots. It has a more conversational tone than its counterparts — and supposedly even has a sense of humor. (I’ll have to test that out for myself.) It’s also guided by a set of principles, called a “constitution,” that it uses to revise its responses by itself instead of relying on human moderators.

 

[Free]

Hrm...

Why AI writing detectors don’t work

Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them.

arstechnica.com

If you feed America's most important legal document—the US Constitution—into a tool designed to detect text written by AI models like ChatGPT, it will tell you that the document was almost certainly written by AI. But unless James Madison was a time traveler, that can't be the case. Why do AI writing detection tools give false positives? We spoke to several experts—and the creator of AI writing detector GPTZero—to find out.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Hrm...

Why AI writing detectors don’t work

Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them.

arstechnica.com

Because “AI“ sucks.

 

[Noodles]

That's how it works. Some books have a reference to there not being any digital media license (or that effect) at the front of the book and others that are free to read don't mention it at all. Some are permanent free to read some are temporary, although I haven't run across any that were free and no longer are.

FWIW, just because a book is free, does not grant a "Free to Use for whatever" open source style license.

Hell just because something is open source does not either.

 

[WolfEyes]

FWIW, just because a book is free, does not grant a "Free to Use for whatever" open source style license.

Hell just because something is open source does not either.

There's a big difference between a "free book" and a book that is "free to read".

It does require a Kindle Unlimited subscription but that is paid for by the other half, not me. He bought 2 Fires and lets me use one. On average I read more than 100 books in a year.

 

[Khamon]

I never realized before that the Constitution had twenty-nine fingers on three left hands.