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Your regular reminder that AI (yes, including your fun art generators and silly ChatGPT questions and Google search) use more power than whole countries, and are speeding up climate change and the destruction of the environment.
Let's definitely replace people with this poor quality, surveillance state, ecocidal nonsense.
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#AI #generativeAI #AIArt #chatgpt
AI’s Energy Demands Are Fueling the Climate Crisis - Inequality.org
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence systems is precipitating an environmentally problematic spike in data center construction.Inequality.org
So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.
1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years
This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".
Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.
The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.
#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT
"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.
If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.
I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:
On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"
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#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word
MS Word is Using You to Train AI - ILLUMINATION - Medium
Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on…Dr. Casey Lawrence (ILLUMINATION)
Was she AI generated? Some definite weird quirks on the speech there such as "share idees" and "Free softwahrr". Didn't seem like it was just an accent.
#GenAI #AI #GenerativeAI
We are recruiting for the position of a PhD/Junior Researcher or PostDoc/Senior Researcher with focus on knowledge graphs and large language models connected to applications in the domains of cultural heritage & digital humanities.
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PhD/Junior Researcher or PostDoc/Senior Researcher (f/m/x) | FIZ Karlsruhe
We are looking for a suitable person for the open position as a PhD/Junior Researcher or PostDoc/Senior Researcher (f/m/x) starting at the nearest possible date.www.fiz-karlsruhe.de
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"Declare #AIdependence, says #Cloudflare, as it provides tools to prevent #GenerativeAI systems from stealing info."
In 2023, #generativeAI made content creation easier but raised trust concerns due to #deepfake attacks. Using #AI, fraudsters crafted fake videos from victims' images, enabling identity #fraud.
At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Sophia Wu (Ant Group) called for collaboration to tackle #deepfake threats with new complementary Web standards.
🎬 Watch the video: youtu.be/PGBIfZSF174
Fighting the deepfake threats
by Sophia Wu, Ant Group.In 2023, generative AI made content creation easier but raised trust concerns due to deepfake attacks. For example, fraudsters use AI...YouTube
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
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The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
Submit a data request - Stack Overflow
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I'm old enough to remember how @creativecommons was founded as a way for independent creators to safely share their work and build upon each other.
In 2024, their take is now "billion dollar companies plagiarizing your art is fair use".
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Hats off to the author, you don't see that kind of, uh, skillful rhetoric chicanery every day. Like "generative AI doesn't compete with artists because artists are not in the data market". 😬
#CreativeCommons #GenerativeAI
Fair Use: Training Generative AI - Creative Commons
While generative AI as a tool for artistic expression isn’t truly new — AI has been used to create art since at least the 1970s and the art auction house Christie’s sold its first piece of AI artwork in 2018 — the past year launched this exciting and…Nate Angell (Creative Commons)
Stop confusing publicly available with public domain.
These are not the same, at all.
If you are confused about it, read this: plagiarism.org/blog/2018/02/27…
#Copyright #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #DigitalRights #Privacy
Understanding the Public Domain and Citation - Plagiarism.org
Students don't always understand that because a work is on the Internet doesn't mean it's in the public domain.www.plagiarism.org
"Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids", reports an article in the Financial Times:
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#FT has a paywall but three articles can be accessed for free if you register.
TLDR is that AI #accessibility widgets over promise and under deliver. Repeatedly.
#AI #GenerativeAI #a11y
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuitsFinancial Times
#GenAI hype in financial terms! #AI #nvidia #NVDA #generativeAI
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The Stock Market is 'Priced to Insanity'.
Is the stock market currently 'priced to insanity'? In this video, we look at what the Dean of Valuation has to say. Aswath Damodaran recently gave an interv...YouTube
Can generative AI help us write accessible code?
In this post on the @TetraLogical blog, I ask Bard (now Gemini), ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Fix My Code from userway for help writing accessible code:
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#GenerativeAI #AI #accessibility
Can generative AI help write accessible code? - TetraLogical
Like many inventions before it, Generative AI is changing the way we do things. Like those inventions that went before it, Generative AI is capable of great good and great harm, and like the humans that used those inventions before us, we need to be …TetraLogical
From an actual AI VC:
Generative AI investing: a process by which venture capital firms transfer large amounts of money to NVIDIA via intermediaries known as “startups”
Inflection AI is building the largest AI cluster in the world comprising 22,000 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
Even with NVIDIA as investor, that's one pricey cluster 🤑
#ai #generativeAI #nvidia
This one has different methodologies and philosophies that try to mitigate some of the ethical issues with other similar #GenerativeAI programming systems.
Hugging Face and ServiceNow Research release StarCoder, a free alternative to code-generating #AI like GitHub's #Copilot, as part of the #BigCode project.
"Midjourney now offers a clever twist on its #AI image software, using its powerful machine-learning algorithms to generate text descriptions of already-existing images. This makes detailed image captions trivially easy to make and could totally change the game for blind people when it comes to pictures. "
Why #Midjourney’s New #ImageToText Generator Is an #Accessibility Home Run | #AI #GenerativeAI
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Why Midjourney’s New Image-to-Text Generator Is an Accessibility Home Run
Instead of turning a text prompt into an image, AI image-creation company Midjourney can now turn an image into text, which experts say could be an accessibility win.Charlie Sorrel (Lifewire)
For my latest story, I got to correspond with a Ukranian developer with cerebral palsy who uses ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot to communicate and code. It was wild, because I don't think our interaction would have been possible just a few years ago.
Beyond that, though, #GenerativeAI is removing barriers for him to code and contribute. He even released his first #OpenSource project recently sharing his experience!
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#ChatGPT #GitHubCopilot #GitHub #A11y
From gaming with your eyes to coding with AI: New frontiers for accessibility
Open source offers developers with disabilities the flexibility needed to participate and collaborate. Their contributions and involvement in the research, design, and development of software are i...Mike Melanson (GitHub)