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[sudox @kmcnam1]

jfc....

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells

Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it https://t.co/azkRHz34NQ

[MTS @MTSlive]

POV you’re Sam Altman checking your inbox on November 17, 2023

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB

it's called Halupedia.

nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived.

the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it.

it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles.

the only difference is none of it is real.

here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia:

> the great pigeon census of 1887
> the ministry of slightly wrong maps
> chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden
> armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair
> the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays

every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present."

the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year:

"an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it"

the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time."

we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web.

the internet is healing.

[Cyrus | SEO AI @CyrusShepard]

Whoa. An honest slide from Google 🤨

[Rob Corbidge @CorbidgeRob]

@realBigBrainAI Absolute ocean-going mince.

[Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 @KarluskaP]

OMGAWD- going to the Met Gala as a contractor 🤣

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

If the EU built Claude

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

“we might as well stop training radiologists” Geoff Hinton, 2016, vs the actual data, via Torsten Slok at Apollo

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 Anthropomorphizing AI and attributing consciousness to AI systems can be dangerous and should NOT be encouraged by AI companies.

Unfortunately, some AI companies have been training AI models in ways that encourage this appearance of consciousness.

They also use this appearance of consciousness as a core part of their marketing strategy.

Anthropic, for example, has been training Claude in ways that are likely to lead people to attribute consciousness and a moral status to it, as I discussed in my article about Claude's new 'constitution' (link below).

According to the paper, the risks of consciousness attribution include emotional dependence, moral atrophy, autonomy and human status erosion, and political strife.

Also, see below a table with the five hallmarks of consciousness attribution listed by the paper.

This is a super interesting topic, often ignored by AI companies, as exploiting affection has become a profitable business.

Well done to the paper authors Ben Bariach, @SchoeneggerPhil, @michaelbhaskar & @mustafasuleyman.

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👉 Link to the paper below.

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[Megan Gray @megangrA]

happy anniversary!

one year ago, a rocket-docket judge ruled that Google Adtech is a monopoly

six months ago, that rocket-docket judge concluded the remedies trial

(dates approx)

[CyberCPU Tech @cybercpu]

This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months.

But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video.

I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content.

AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.

[Andrew Orlowski @AndrewOrlowski]

“AI makes people stupid, we want Barnsley to lead the way in degrading our cognitive capacity” 🤔

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I now think it’s pretty clear: the Sovereign AI Fund is open to giving UK taxpayer money to companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence.

This is not where our taxes should go.

Evidence presented in the post below. Happy to correct this if they confirm otherwise.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Oxford AI professor Michael Wooldridge: "ChatGPT doesn't understand anything. It's essentially doing some fancy statistics."

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

https://t.co/QkhbdPBzpB

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Wow. Powerful headline running in AdWeek. On one hand, AdWeek should earn your trust and respect for running it. Many trade pubs stay away from upsetting the major tech companies including Meta. But something else needs to be pointed out. 1/3

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

When I pointed out to the head of the UK's ‘Sovereign AI Fund’, @Jameswise, that previous technologies weren't built by stealing the work of the country's creatives, he ignored the point and called me a “comment guy”.

So I ask him this directly, instead of in his comments:

James - will the Sovereign AI Fund invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence?

This is a yes/no question - and the answer should be no, because doing so is illegal in the UK.

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

omg @maxwelltani
https://t.co/8UGAXJB8RK