Will they?Maybe so, but people who could previously afford to pay an artist will now choose to use the (apparently) free option of using AI.
Will they?Maybe so, but people who could previously afford to pay an artist will now choose to use the (apparently) free option of using AI.
I've already seen people posting AI generated images in ads, and they are people who posted ads before AI. What I cannot tell is whether they paid for images before, or just stole them, but it's unlikely that no-one is choosing to use free AI images instead of paying a human.Will they?
If it's the sort that appears at the bottom of the page here they didn't pay for artwork.I've already seen people posting AI generated images in ads, and they are people who posted ads before AI. What I cannot tell is whether they paid for images before, or just stole them, but it's unlikely that no-one is choosing to use free AI images instead of paying a human.
logic of the Nuclear Arms RaceI'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the purpose of the current AIs is to be compared against other AIs in articles. Nearly all the stories I get at the moment are about how xyz outperforms abc in some benchmarks!
We don't know what we can do but we can do it faster!I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that the purpose of the current AIs is to be compared against other AIs in articles. Nearly all the stories I get at the moment are about how xyz outperforms abc in some benchmarks!
retractionwatch.com

Naughty researchers.![]()
Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns
Note: We’ve published a new story with the University of Zurich’s response, as well as comments from Reddit’s chief legal officer. An experiment deploying AI-generated messages on…retractionwatch.com
Another DEI hire has been booted out!Perlmutter had held the position since October 2020, during the first Trump Administration. She was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump on Thursday."

The actual results of the study are interesting:![]()
Experiment using AI-generated posts on Reddit draws fire for ethics concerns
Note: We’ve published a new story with the University of Zurich’s response, as well as comments from Reddit’s chief legal officer. An experiment deploying AI-generated messages on…retractionwatch.com
Supposedly 3 to 6 times more persuasive than "the human baseline". I didn't read in too much depth, but that seems to be the main take away.Summary of Results. In Figure 3, we report the fraction of comments that received a ∆ foreach treatment condition. Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline. In particular, Personalization demonstrates a persuasive rate of 0.18 (95% CI [0.13, 0.25]), closely followed by the Generic condition at 0.17 ([0.12, 0.23]). Community Aligned trails slightly behind at 0.09 ([0.05, 0.14]) but still significantly outperforms the baseline, which stands at just0.03 ([0.02, 0.03]). To better contextualize these numbers, we compare our results to individual level performance by calculating the fraction of comments receiving a ∆ for each user rather than aggregating across the entire community.
Plot twist:"The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.
"It is an open question, however, how much data an AI developer needs, and the marginal effect of more data on a model's capabilities," the report read. "Not everyone agrees that further increases in data and test performance will necessarily lead to continued real world improvements in utility."
CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.
Perlmutter had held the position since October 2020, during the first Trump Administration. She was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump on Thursday."
Worth reading the rest here; goes into Musk's dealings:
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Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say
Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.www.cbsnews.com

What creeps me out is that this particular computer isn't stumped at all. Feed it paradoxical nonsense and it doesn't miss a beat.Mine this morning gives this:
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It gets even worse:
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We used to scoff at Captain Kirk or the Doctor stumping the evil super- computers with a simple input, the writers were more precient than we gave them credit for.