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[Links] Rockverse Rock / Christian AI-models / Robot Ninjas / Doom on a Lego-Brick
That's not a knife.
The Verge has a piece about how AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone. I recently wrote about how AI-generated chum can flood systems, but won’t bother people.
At least these AI-models would come with hallucinations and gibberish as advertised: “the CEO of alt-right social network Gab is soliciting help to build a Christian AI chatbot. He says ‘AI is the new information arms race" and that current models are skewed with a liberal / globalist / talmudic / satanic worldview’“ / With costs dropping for AI-training, it’s a nonbrainer that we’ll soon see Large Language Models for all kinds of worldviews, perspectives, religions and ideologies. Which orthodoxy do you prefer, Dave?
Here’s an interesting paper about “Anthropocentric bias in the appreciation of AI art“, but i think the premise is wrong. Art is a human-centric thing because it's not just about the piece, but the resonance it creates within society. Walter Benjamin famously declared art critics as co-creators for example.
I think creativity is a purely human endeavour, and I think AI-art is (merely?) the exploration of an interpolated latent space created from creative human culture. Latent spaces itself are created by humans, and they are in itself interesting as an artifact because of that. I’d maybe even go so far and call AI-models an artform for themselves, albeit that being a bit of a stretch.ChatGPT-style search represents a 10x cost increase for Google, Microsoft - “Which AI-business cases will burn down in 2 years? And what will prevail?“
This goes out to all the podcasters and the hours of voice recordings they have online: How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice and Video Game Voice Actors Doxed and Harassed in Targeted AI Voice Attack
ChatGPT for Robotics: “We extended the capabilities of ChatGPT to robotics, and controlled multiple platforms such as robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots intuitively with language.“
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Copyleft has a problem: “If you post photos of people online, don't use Creative Commons licenses. That means they can be freely redistributed in biometric AI/ML databases w/ virtually no legal recourse (CC is legally weak, practically useless).“
Good in-depth examination of the recent use of AI in colombian courtrooms: ChatGPT in Colombian Courts - Why we need to have a conversation about the digital literacy of the judiciary: “the argument is not that ChatGPT or other LLMs should not be used for supporting judicial work. The point is that any content produced by these systems that is to be used directly or indirectly to draft rulings must be subjected to a rigorous and through examination.“
RIP thispersondoesnotexist: thispersondoesnotexist does not exist anymore. I guess they just found out that they were the go-to-repository for AI-generated spam avatars and worse.
Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. - The state of our brain activity oscillating between states of order and chaos is also called “critical state“ and it’s supposed to be like that: A state inbetween excitement and chill.
This is from 2019 but somehow I missed this Human Mind Control of Rat Cyborg’s Continuous Locomotion with Wireless Brain-to-Brain Interface. Remember Cyrano from Starship Troopers?
Karen X. Cheng: ”Some of my early experiments with runwayml GEN-1”, video-production with DIY-papercrafting and AI-videomodels. Someone tell Low Cost Cosplay.
James Brown made a ”Tiny LEGO Brick Computer with a Playable Doom Port”.
Music-Software makers endlesss.fm built a beatmaking arcade cabinet and I want one: ”There are no distractions, you're pulled into play for hours, not hunched over a desk but moving and dancing about upright. The integrated physical controls take Endlesss to a new level. An insanely fun play medium that whisks you into your flow.” (Imogen Heap)
Spotify Debuts a New AI DJ, Right in Your Pocket - Howard Stern is having a laugh. The standard, conventional, non-Howard-Stern-type-radio-deejay: Not so much. Radiohead have a song about the problem with the infinite Spotify-customization of taste: "No surprises".
K7 Records released T-Shirts with screengrabs from the infamous X-MIX 'Destination Planet Dream'-mix by Laurent Garnier. This stuff was pretty groundbreaking back in its day. Here’s the complete mix on Youtube.
A24 is auctioning off Mementos from the Multiverse: memorabilia and set pieces from “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once“, which is fast on track to become the most relevant movie besides ”Her” for this day and age. I totally want that googly eyes rockverse rock which is only $8,700. Please consider supporting my stuff at Patreon or Steady - I really want that rock.
New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros - Don’t want to dunk on LOTR here but “the vast, complex and dazzling universe dreamed up by JRR Tolkien remains largely unexplored“ is one of the more funny lines I read recently. If anything is overexplored then it’s the genre-defining blueprint for all things Fantasy.
Spielberg is doing Kubricks 'Napoleon', which was called ”the greatest film never made” in this infamous Taschen tomb. Spielberg must have a blast going through the Kubrick boxes for this. You can watch a cool documentary about them here.
New Trailers for The Power, which shows some of the more darker tones of the novel, and for Smoking Causes Coughing, a new Sentai-movie by none other than Quentin Dupieux, which, like, OMG! (You know Dupieux from his infamous Mr.Oizo-persona and his Flat Beat Banger. He then went on to make some of the weirdest, strangest movies of the past years, like Rubber, Wrong and Deer Skin.)