Hah, Ireland would never. The EU would have to literally threaten to invade to get them to actually implement any laws on big tech firms.

If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off

Happy New Year, everyone! This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

Hi there. Isn't it interesting how the most popular TV shows and movies this year (Sinners, Kpop Demon Hunters, and Heated Rivalry) were all hyper specific stories, proving that "universal appeal" (i.e. appealing to white straight folks) is not actually that appealing?

So DeviantArt just became a GenAI slopfest, huh?

Asmongold has called for entire Somali families to be stripped of their American citizenship and deported. Just in case there was anyone still defending that fascist prick as "just a game streamer"

A crucial point. Elon Musk and several other tech executives are right now producing and distributing child pornography, and that is how the media should be covering this.

Honestly I think Stranger Things season 5 *almost* nailed it with a very solid finale. The one thing I think was a disappointment was that the big bad in the end just basically turned out to be a big stompy monster. Bit lacklustre given the shadowy psychic powers that'd been its thing all along.

Not exactly a great sign for Microsoft that the executive editor of Windows Central is this sceptical about their GenAI tech www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...

as if the onus for improving quality and usefulness is somehow on the critics or the consumer

Actually meant to post this from this account but there's a definite overlap in concerns here. Too often see significant age gaps (like 20-30 years for women in their late teens/early 20s) shrugged off in nerd spaces, even when those same gaps are politically salient due to the far-right.

Watching Rebuild of Evangelion in the hope I'll prefer it to the TV series

The Metaverse

The thing about the Crusaders is that they were both evil and losers

WHAT A YEAR! Has to be one of the best years in gaming... ever? Super Smash Bros, Ico, Devil may Cry, Silent Hill II, Halo, GTA III, Black and White? A dozen+ bangers. But for me there's a clear winner, now and then, the most deserved remake in the decade ahead - Final Fantasy X.

I wrote about why this is terrible journalism a few months back www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

every time this happens everybody gets wild like haha wait until you see what unhinged new content people are going to make about these beloved children's characters and in case anyone else is also on the internet for their first day IP law has never affected that happening immediately to everything

as promised: I'm back and I have Opinions fozmeadows.substack.com/p/against-ai

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

I'm glad I'm not the only one who read this dynamic in the film

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Major downside of the stories within Call of the Black Wing being Novelette length - basically no rewards or collections deal with word counts of ~15k

It would be chill if there were a mass realization that you can’t “art from artist” a guy while he is literally alive and making money off what you do

Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

My radar for this has been thrown completely haywire by how tight-knit and low-key the UK and especially Scottish fantasy author circuit is. Because is it minor to have experienced a famous author's wife belting out opera at karaoke? That feels niche! I can't tell anymore!

[Ridley Scott pitching Bladerunner to studio execs] "And the company that makes the Replicants, it's called Palantir, and they're headed by Bill Hitler, who is Hitler's grandson"

Louis *who* now?

Yeah guys, Alex Karp of Palantir is a totally normal guy who just happens to quote several minutes’ worth of a Nazi speech, before doing random tai chi and leaving Karp is a dangerous, completely unhinged lunatic and it’s made worse by the fact that he’s obviously on coke too

"amid fears from some experts that AI could turn on us" No it can't, it's absolutely infuriating that the tech editor of a major newspaper is credulously spreading the nonsense it can. The people who can turn against us are the tech CEOs - and they already have www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

they have designed these machines to simulate human agents and they are constantly pitching the idea that these machines really *are* agents, but when one of these machines kills a person they say “you can’t hold them to account, they’re just machines, read the instructions”

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Then: Rome: Total War Now: Rome: Total War Spent a good part of the next three years modding that game. Probably spent more hours in it then any other game in my lifetime.

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

Very telling tech bros aren’t making AI Lads to help with male loneliness. It’s almost as if it isn’t about loneliness at all.

You could argue that a lot of these men ARE victims of isolation, but not by women, but rather of a culture of grifters working to isolate them, seeding toxic mindsets in men that will make them more unappealing to women and thus more ripe to be sold ideology on how women have wronged them.

This is a bit of a tangent, but it gets back to the point eventually I promise. One vid I enjoy that periodically pops up on my Insta feed is a Ryu cosplayer picking up an Emma Frost cosplayer at a con. Ryu has a bit of a dad bod, receding hairline, and is barely over 5 feet. Emma towers over him.

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

At the time - Star Wars Battlefront 2 Today - Shadow of the Colossus Honestly split-screen co-op and competitive is the biggest loss of video game mechanics since that era.

We were in first place in this film award voting. A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours. Now it's personal. Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS. Reshare? VOTE! www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...

Alright. Two days left on this vote. We have a healthy lead on the AI slop, BUT that could change at any time. Hoping to just annihilate him. When voting ends, I'm calling on the site to change their policies and require art from ARTISTS.

Conventions, if you use AI do not be surprised if creators turn down your invitations to be guests or even to be on panels. Do not use tools trained on stolen work from creators and then tell them you want to honor or uplift them - that’s not what you’re doing. You’re stealing and being lazy.

This is the relevant section - And you can absolutely tell that the use of GenAI in this letter went further. Why? Because of the tell-tale sign of the same arguments and turns of phrase being made repeatedly in different sections with entire paragraphs that are utterly redundant.