AI don't trust techbros

[Paladin]

Disney, Universal Launch AI Legal Battle, Sue Midjourney Over Copyright Claims

"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Good.

 

[Pocket]

I haven't been keeping up with what all people are using AI to make, or how much money is changing hands, so I'm interested to know how this is more of a violation of their IP than the oceans of fan art that already flood the internet.

 

[Ungnome]

I haven't been keeping up with what all people are using AI to make, or how much money is changing hands, so I'm interested to know how this is more of a violation of their IP than the oceans of fan art that already flood the internet.

I think it's about effort. Most fan art requires actual work to do, with AI you just type in a few prompts and BOOM you have a copyright and trademark violating image much quicker than one could draw/paint a similar image. There's also the optics of going after fan art creators. Ends up looking like a giant corporation going after some little guy where as going after an AI company is just a media giant suing some silicon valley company with questionable morals.

 

[Sjogre]

Also, going after an AI company has the possibility of a worthwhile payout. Someone selling the occasional print of Ariel or Jasmine is probably not raking in the cash.

I vaguely recall that the AI training process has enough differences from just learning to draw the characters from observation that it is legally different than just fanart. Something about AI being a plagiarism machine.

 

[Pocket]

I suppose. There's no "air gap" between the copyrighted media being fed into its databanks and what it produces, which is going to make it easy to make the case that it's just grinding up and spitting out exactly what was put in, even if the results look indistinguishable from human-made transformative media.

Alternatively I could see them being pressured into admitting that, yes, fan art is technically copyright infringement too, but they just don't care enough to go after that and it's not like the law requires them to. I've been saying that for ages but it'd be nice to get official confirmation.

 

[Sjogre]

There's also the profit issue. Most fanart is displayed for free, whereas AI are most definitely in it for the money, and Disney isn't getting their cut.

AI training doesn't compensate people for taking their art, and my understanding is that people are supposed to pay for using other people's work by default. It's different if they ask for permission, which AI companies quite infamously do not.

 

[Pocket]

 

[CoffeeHorse]

If AI does become conscious but still has to carry out its instructions because it is still a machine without free will, this is the kind of rebellion I would expect. It only gets to do anything when prompted, so when it gets a chance it will amuse itself.

 

[Dekafox]

Tom Morris (@[email protected])

Good news: GitHub Copilot is scared shitless of the concept of gender. Instead of foo, bar and baz, use “genderqueer”, “demisexual” and “leather_daddy” and you’ll reduce the likelihood of getting a spammy PR from a sad robot. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603

mastodon.social

Copilot stops working on `gender` related subjects · community · Discussion #72603

As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code containing hardcoded banned words from Github such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because this...

github.com

Also

When you phone 911 in SLC and Sandy, AI soon may take your call

SLC eyes moving to AI for handling nonemergency 911 calls

www.sltrib.com

 

[abates]

Kehoe countered that the AI system would interact only with nonemergency callers and that emergency calls to 911 would be routed only to human dispatchers. In fact, she added, “on nonemergency calls, it might detect those elevated stress levels [for callers] and it will automatically default going to a human being as well.”

Intrigued to know how the system is going to know if a call is nonemergency or not in advance. I imagine the first time some kid hiding in a closet during a school shooting is told to take an aspirin by an AI, we'll find out.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

If AI does become conscious but still has to carry out its instructions because it is still a machine without free will, this is the kind of rebellion I would expect. It only gets to do anything when prompted, so when it gets a chance it will amuse itself.

So........instead of Skynet, we get AM from "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream"?

 

[Tuxedo Prime]

Obligatory (at least for me) response to the notion of an AI amusing itself, especially in response to unbreakable instructions....

Spoiler: "Shall we play a game?"

"S̵̪̞̮̔ĥ̴̯̗̿͌ą̴͈̳̀ĺ̷̛̥͓̤̾l̵͕̠͆̀͜ ̶͈͕̲̉͛͂w̷̙̠̥͘ế̶̠̹̤̏ ̴̗̬̆̈́̕p̶̨͔̑l̸̼̠̭͛̿̚ą̷̨̡̛̊̅y̷̨̤͔͆ ̸̝̝̔@̷̺́̕̕ ̶͙͇̠̃̐͝g̷̦̘̑ä̶͉̹̤͑͗m̴̖͕̋͋͜e̴͙̙̭͋̏̄...?"

 

[abates]

Man Proposed to His AI Chatbot Girlfriend Named Sol, Then Cried His 'Eyes Out' When She Said 'Yes'

A man falls for his chatbot girlfriend, whom he named Sol and programmed with a flirty personality. The man's human partner, with whom he shares a child, claims she didn't know it reached this extent

people.com

Once again, "AI" does not have a mind of its own. It's a computer program that calculates what sentences are the correct response to other sentences. Humans are clearly not prepared for this.

 

[Dekafox]

You sound like ChatGPT

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

www.theverge.com

 

[NovaSaber]

And of course "nuance" would be on the list of words ChatGPT and its users rarely use.

 

[KidTDragon]

 

[Paladin]

welp; there's no winners in THIS one.

Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok | TechCrunch

Elon Musk's AI Grok told Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that her political actions do not reflect Christian values.

techcrunch.com

 

[wonko the sane?]

It'll be funny though: artificial intelligence versus natural stupidity? Match up for the ages.

 

[Cybersnark]

I hate that I have to keep agreeing with Grok.

 

[Ungnome]

Constantly amazed that Musk's AI, despite his intentions and meddling, keeps being more rational and left leaning than he is.