“AI makes us more human.” Stupendous gaslighting from the PM. AI - particularly AI built on stolen work - does nothing of the sort. The public is vehemently against Starmer on this.

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A truly, colossally, bad take. In ancient times, the absence of a single author contributed to human agency by elevating the art of storytelling. AI does precisely the opposite—from its unethical sourcing & other exploitative labor practices to its replacement of the human voice.

The UK government refused to force AI companies to reveal their training data on the grounds there was no budget to do so, yet today committed *£2 billion* to ‘AI Opportunities’. The government favours AI companies over creatives.

We should all thank Baroness Kidron and the large majority of the Lords who voted 5 times to protect creators by requiring AI companies to reveal their training data. We should also condemn the The Labour Party government for 5 times refusing that request. If you’re in the UK and you

'Creators are not stupid, but they are very worried that their government is' A powerful speech from Baroness Kidron, who has fought tirelessly for creators to be protected from AI threats. Government has failed to listen, failed to act and is failing our creative industries 👇

Peter Kyle NVIDIA He mentions AI talent and AI investment, but says nothing about AI training data - the life’s work of the country’s creators. This is just as important, and should not be handed to AI companies for free.

Those ‘AI Opportunities’ in full: - Displacing jobs - Generating misinfo at scale - Legalising IP theft - AI slop everywhere - Deepfake revenge porn - CSAM - Students cheating on exams - Hyper convincing phone scams - Making NVIDIA more valuable - Money in tech investors’

AI allows money to access fake skill while denying real skill access to money.

Tatiana Tsiguleva yes, because there is a difference between an individual making something by hand and a company stealing the entire creative history of the world to automatically generate their own copyright infringement for massive profits

🚨 SHOCKING: Meta AI's poor design choices led users to unknowingly share intimate conversations with the world. Another privacy scandal underway for Meta? Meta didn't care about its users' digital literacy levels and failed to implement adequate warnings, UX design techniques,

Generative AI competes with its training data, exhibit 92253 Suno trains on copyrighted music, then seeks to take listening time (& therefore revenue) away from that music with products that encourage you to listen to Suno music instead There’s no way this is ‘fair use’

Software copyrights should be respected? But not other copyrights (for art, poetry, literature)? This is, to quote Bill & Ted—“truly heinous.” But it’s uber-important for the US to win the “AI race” amirite? Because of our values… Note to self—what are our values? Director Michael Kratsios

🚨 SHOCKING: Trump's AI Action Plan restricts the enforcement power of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against AI companies, and the FTC has already begun DELETING articles criticizing abusive AI practices: Under the section "Remove Red Tape and Onerous Regulation," one of

This from Bill Gates is the absolutely worst kind of take—rooted in the deceptive presumption that the arc of AI is determined by natural forces/manifest destiny, & not the result of decisions that we humans make about its development, use & governance. We are not bystanders!

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning." Thx to Chris M

Sad to see IMAX partner with Runway, a company that trains AI models on other filmmakers’ work without permission. This kind of corporate normalization is how exploitation wins.

Is there any paragraph in existence that more perfectly sums up the exploitation perpetrated by AI companies than this by Karen Hao

SoundCloud recently changed their terms in a way that would allow them to train generative AI models on my (and everyone else’s) music. They tried to do some PR damage control, but the terms still allow this today.

AI junkies will tell you that you'll have a job if you just start using AI, while conveniently ignoring everything like this.