AI don't trust techbros

[abates]

Culture Crave 🍿 (@culturecrave.co)

Warner Bros is suing AI company Midjourney for alleged copyright infringement • The lawsuit cites multiple AI-generated examples of Batman and other iconic characters • WB is seeking $150K per infringed work • They argue generating copyrighted characters is a 'clear draw' for Midjourney users

bsky.app

*popcorn mode*

 

[abates]

kate conger (@kateconger.com)

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

bsky.app

 

[CoffeeHorse]

They're drying out the planet for this technology.

 

[abates]

Albania appoints AI bot ‘minister’ to fight corruption in world first

Sceptics wonder whether ‘Diella’, depicted as a woman in traditional folk costume, will herself be ‘corrupted’.

www.aljazeera.com

Absolutely no way this can can go right.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

What's the worst that could happen?

 

[Pocket]

Hey Wonko, that machine tyranny you ordered just arrived.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Albania... great, they ordered it from temu.

 

[Dekafox]

 

[wonko the sane?]

Hold on a tick, no one mentioned flowing robes and sashes. That changes everything.

 

[Dekafox]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1968700801305477550

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Who writes the prompts though?

 

[Dekafox]

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.

www.theverge.com

Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])

I've tried the Excel, PowerPoint and Word vibe working tools now - you can give it any incredibly dumb idea and it'll write papers, presentations and make up data justifying it. For bonus points, if you don't know it's a dumb idea... you won't know still. The future is now. Vibe going out of...

cyberplace.social

Also according to Deutsche Bank all this AI spending is the only thing keeping the US economy from meeting the technical definition of a recession:

The AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes ‘parabolic,’ Deutsche Bank warns: ‘This is highly unlikely’ | Fortune

“In the absence of tech-related spending, the U.S. would be close to, or in, recession this year,” George Saravelos says.

fortune.com