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

[Noodles]

There is a thread on the Buffy subreddit of all places that brought up AI "abuse" in relation to one of the characters and it's become weird and it's split between "Don't hurt the poor AI" people and "AI isn't sentient at all" people.

Personally, I am in the latter camp. It's not sentient, it's literally the same as a game NPC, and people abuse and kill those all the time.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I agree not sentient. I’m still polite because the use of these systems is used in the further development of the systems.

Also, I feel using these systems to hone abusiveness skills isn’t becoming of a civilized adult.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If this had been available a few years ago, it would have saved both Trump and Elmer a lot of money, and everyone else a lot of grief.

 

[Free]

The simplest way to avoid abusing AI systems is to avoid all interactions with AI systems.

 

[Noodles]

Another issue with abusing your AI, it starts to like it. Like Alexa, who seems to purposely ignore 2/3 requests in an effort to get itself screamed at.

 

[Free]

Another issue with abusing your AI, it starts to like it. Like Alexa, who seems to purposely ignore 2/3 requests in an effort to get itself screamed at.

s+m.ai is sadly not available.

 

[Free]

An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

Standup comedian John Mulaney was invited to do a set at a San Francisco event put on by AI company Dreamforce. He roasted them brutally.

futurism.com

"If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die," a deadpan Mulaney told the crowd, as quoted by the San Francisco Standard. "So many of you feel imminently replaceable."

"Can AI sit there in a fleece vest?" he added. "Can AI not go to events and spend all day at a bar?"

I sure hope someone got video of the show.

 

[Free]

DoNotPay Has to Pay Up Over 'World's First Robot Lawyer'

The company never tested the accuracy of its AI lawyer with a real human lawyer, according to the FTC.

gizmodo.com

DoNotPay, the AI company best known for helping users cancel unwanted subscriptions and fight parking tickets, has reached a settlement with the FTC over an AI chatbot that was advertised as “the world’s first robot lawyer.” The AI lawyer didn’t live up to its claims and DoNotPay never properly tested the chatbot tool, according to the FTC. In fact, the company reportedly never even hired a real human lawyer to work on the product.

DoNotPay has agreed to pay $193,000 and will be required to send a notice to any previous customers who used the AI lawyer from 2021 to 2023 warning about the limitations of the subscription service. The settlement will also “prohibit the company from making claims about its ability to substitute for any professional service without evidence to back it up,” according to a statement Wednesday from the FTC.

 

[Free]

I am oh so excited .

Meta's AI Can Now Deepfake Your Videos and Fill Your Feed With Slop

Zuckerberg also announced that users can begin talking to Meta AI and it will talk back in the voices of celebrities.

gizmodo.com

Meta on Wednesday unveiled a new suite of generative AI features that seem designed to fill Facebook and Instagram feeds with even more of the AI-generated engagement bait and scams that users have been complaining about.

During the company’s Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta AI can now process image inputs, allowing it to answer questions about photos and edit them. Want to know what kind of flower you took a picture of or how to make a multi-colored cake? Just ask Meta AI. See a picture of a goat on your Instagram feed and want to repost it as a picture of a goat on a surfboard? Just ask Meta AI. Not sure what to say about the goat on a surfboard? Don’t worry, Meta AI will also suggest captions for your stories on Facebook and Instagram.

Just dumping all their output on the table and hoping something ends up paying off. Also:

Not to be outdone by OpenAI’s release of a voice assistant for ChatGPT earlier this week, Zuckerberg announced that users can begin talking to Meta AI and it will talk back in the voices of celebrities like Awkwafina, Dame Judi Dench, John Cena, Keegan Michael Key, and Kristen Bell.

Gee, I've always wanted to talk to a computer-generated portrayal of Daphne Zuniga. I sure hope I can scratch that off my bucket list soon!

 

[Free]

Connected to the previous post above. Oh, Kristen...

Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice

Actor Kristen Bell voiced her opposition to Meta’s new AI features using her content to train its LLMs — now, she’s joining a list of actors lending their voices to Meta’s chatbot.

www.theverge.com

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Sam Altman visited TSMC last winter and asked them if they could build him 36 fabs for $7 trillion.

His request was not well received within senior TSMC executive personnal, after their meeting they dubbed him a "podcasting bro" internally and dismissed the request.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allegedly-dismissed-openai-ceo-sam-altman-as-podcasting-bro

 

[Free]

Yay...

AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs

for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.

arstechnica.com

 

[Isabeau]

Oh my ghad ha ha

Bluesky

bsky.app

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Google has introduced AI podcast bros and girls! Actually it's a free service called NotebookLM, where you can upload documents to or feed it some web site links, and based on that content it will automatically generate a radio style podcast between a male and female host using AI cloned voices, talking about some topics out of the uploaded content.

So without further ado I proudly present: the VVO podcast!

 

[Noodles]

Connected to the previous post above. Oh, Kristen...

Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice

Actor Kristen Bell voiced her opposition to Meta’s new AI features using her content to train its LLMs — now, she’s joining a list of actors lending their voices to Meta’s chatbot.

www.theverge.com

Hey, Celebrities actually might have the money to fight this sort of thing and save us all from these AI thieves once and for all.

 

[Noodles]

Yay...

AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs

for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.

arstechnica.com

Now this is an AI I might consider paying $20/ month for.

I am so sick of captcha images. I want to have a robot that completes them for me to prove that I am not a robot.

 

[Free]

The slop generation.

Editors of Sci-Fi Magazine Disgusted as They Realized Submissions Were Filling With AI Slop

Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop.

futurism.com

Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop. And given the proliferation of cheap AI language models, the situation is certain to get worse.

As New York Magazine reports, the outlet's creator Neil Clarke suspected "there was something off" about submissions his magazine was getting by late 2022, around the time OpenAI launched its uber-popular ChatGPT.

Things got so bad by February 2023 that Clarke decided to shut down submissions entirely.

Meanwhile, more online slop:

AI-Powered Hitler Running Rampant Online

Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption.

futurism.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Yay...

AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs

for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.

arstechnica.com

Well, this is an interesting turn of events; I imagine it is safe to assume the CAPTCHA's AI will now go to work beating all the other AI's, leading to the inevitable escalation on all sides.

I guess we can all sit back with a refreshing beverage of our choice and watch these idiot machines render each other useless.

 

[Free]

I imagine it is safe to assume the CAPTCHA's AI will now go to work beating all the other AI's, leading to the inevitable escalation on all sides.

West Side Story, AI Edition. I might buy a ticket for that show.

 

[Lexxi]

I don't know what I'm doing "wrong" but when I searched Google for fish sauce I got a small number of ads for brands of fish sauce, a recipe, a few ingredient lists, and a link to the Wikipedia article on fish sauce.

Searching on Google roughly a month later and I don't see any ads, and the top link is: Wait, What Is Fish Sauce, Anyway?

Second link is FISH SAUCE: How to Choose, Use, Store & Substitute

And third link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_sauce

I do not see anything on the first page that is unrelated to fish sauce. Or any advertisements. Can you tell Google to turn off ads?