Craig

Can’t help but think that a ‘distinctly British approach to AI’ would be both half-arsed and convinced of its inherent superiority. And that’s just AI

This joke should be getting so much love.

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

Also “sort of a spouse” because it runs errands… Look I guess if you want you can think of your spouse as DoorDash, but free. But that is weird.

I have called for the SoA to facilitate whistleblowing from staffers and authors alike, in the absence of voluntary transparency. I would also like publishers to explain why, if they believe GenAI use is either ethical and valuable, they aren't prepared to say how they're using it.

Billionaires get mad at things that can't be bought, like talent. Surely they should be able to write books and perform music and have mathematical insights just as well as the talented -- they're rich! If we let them dismiss and devalue real talent, we're going to pay a big price.

Except he didn't fund it, I did, paying a much higher tax rate than the white supremacist. Those thrusters are SpaceX tech for which we—not him—have paid ~$31 billion. I paid for those cold gas thrusters and the software running them, and what I get in exchange is a short video and white supremacy.

“My not being a slaver will do nothing to destroy the institution of slavery” is wild because a whole lot of people love using that logic everywhere to gerrymander their boundaries of being a good person

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

With our tagline "He who breaks a thing to find out what it is made of has left the path of wisdom." It makes me clench up inside every time I run across their appropriation of those names. (Huorns will help.)

listen what's important is that everyone's out there having fun

It would be like a driving instructor forgetting to put on a seatbelt until he sees his student do it

Make The Onion Satire Again

This is only maddening if you hold the expectation that the goal is to finish the book. Sometimes they just want to look at their favorite page together. (The maddening thing is when they want the same book 700 times in a row.)

So much this. Just as conveying information to the instructor is not the point of writing a paper in school.

He is survived by an ex-wife, a son, and countless agents which are more than a family -- they're a blight on the planet! 🌏

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

the tech industry is about to invent books

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Anyway, a movie culture without the possibility of insane overpriced whiffs will be a less healthy movie culture, and I'll eat these words the day that I can say that David Ellison has taken at least three big creative gambles, but I'm not holding my breath. x

Hannah Arendt defined totalitarianism as “organized loneliness”. I can’t think of a better definition of what AI and chat bots want to push us into, financed and designed by literal totalitarians

so i saw this and panicked and started researching other cat foods, but then i decided to dig into the clean label project. spoiler: they are not a trustworthy source gonna dive into it in a thread now because i do public science communication also no shade to OP, i was sharing this worried too!!

Also do the honest work of eliminating any trace of plagiarism in your beloved product. How? Not my fucking problem! If you can’t run your business / technology without stealing other people’s work, it deserves to die. Personally I’m happy to see it die, so don’t try to make it my responsibility.

25. That "criminal scheme" is ongoing. There is a straight line between the insurrection of January 6, 2021, and Schmitt's humiliation.

The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.

This would be disqualifying even if Newsom wasn't a piece of shit. You get an endorsement from Goebbels, you're done.

I'd heard the part about Saul Rubinek before, so every time he kidnaps Data I always think "My friend hates your guts!"

"We center our audience’s experience around boundary-breaking non-fiction that functions as a direct catalyst for alternative self-reckonings" no you don't you're a chatbot preying on the hopes of authors and you should be permanently deleted for that phrasing alone

UPDATE: it was an existing fan script that was fleshed out with AI graphics, so not 'AI generated' at all.

I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.

“Other than standard orange wine.” I’m a little surprised—but not sorry—I missed this. And, like, the name “buzzballz” isn’t underage-targeted enough?

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.