• A quarter of illustrators (26%) and over a third of translators (36%) have already lost work due to generative AI.

• Over a third of illustrators (37%) and over 4 in 10 translators (43%) say the income from their work has decreased in value because of generative AI.

“[Police] relying on AI could put people at risk by depending on language models that are known to ‘hallucinate,’ or make things up, as well as display racial bias…”

oh my god, this email ❤️❤️❤️

Instagram and Facebook are both decaying platforms that don't just enable criminal behavior but actively profit from it and either don't know or don't care how to stop it

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AI really is smoke and mirrors—in so many more ways than we initially thought.

Latest newsletter:

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The end of high-tech Utopia? Time to THINK!
Those inspired by Star Trek's utopian ambitions face an uncomfortable reality about technology's impact on the world, Parmy Olson writes.

'It means resisting the systemic forces that have made tech companies more willing to break rules, and

NEW: I wrote about how tech builders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman who were inspired by Star Trek's utopian ambitions, now face an uncomfortable reality about technology’s impact on the world bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
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It turns out that AI is really good at persuading people that the Earth isn't flat. Google and Facebook should use chatbots to combat conspiracy theories; Parmy Olson writes trib.al/jznv4zm via Bloomberg Opinion

The Wizards of OZ: There are a lot of humans pulling levers behind the bots.

'It’s worth remembering there’s a vast industry of hidden workers, who are still propping up many high-tech AI systems often for low wages.' - Parmy Olson bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Devin (named “the world’s first AI engineer” from the start) and looked to me it’s far more marketing and hype than reality.

But even I didn’t assume how their own staged video would blatantly lie. It does. A software engineer looked closer. Damning:

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Deep learning based AI is slowing down faster than people are aware of - after having almost exhausted the source of high quality training data & contaminating it with AI junk - the last thing you expect is a superintelligent machine emerging from all that.

“[Open-source AI] is really fundamental because it allows everyone to seize the technology, to diminish the fear of limited understanding or of not being qualified to use AI” - Remi Cadene 🔥🔥
Great piece in Bloomberg Opinion by Parmy Olson on the open-source landscape bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

YouTube CEO says if OpenAI is using its videos to train Sora, it's violating the platform's terms of service trib.al/jdTWbo1

My reporting on Amazon's Just Walk Out has gotten warped in a lot of other news outlets and on social media over the past few days. But the story's virality gets at a fundamental truth: a lot of flashy AI still needs people behind the scenes.

My The Information column:

AI still often requires armies of human babysitters to work properly, Parmy Olson writes trib.al/SvXZrDp

The potential for voice-clone misuse is greater than the benefits, Parmy Olson writes trib.al/y7OxkcO via Bloomberg Opinion

I'm an artist and animator and I've lost way too much work to AI. The only thing I can rely on is the Furries. They shun and excommunicate anyone using it. Those lovely loyal little perverts are keeping a roof over my head.