waktm

Mankind’s striving to know everything leads to an undesirable future.
A C21st opera. Music @rupertcheek & Story by Chris Eales.

[waktm @WAKTM]

Mankind’s striving to know everything leads to an undesirable #future. @waktm is a C21st #opera with #music by @rupertcheek & #story by Chris Eales

#arts #composer #London #musical #musictheatre #performance #performingarts #tech #theatre #science

https://t.co/KWgW4sQDms

[Scotty Unredacted. Fight On! ✌️ @ApacheUSCLV]

@Vivek4real_ Why this should terrify you:
Right now knowledge is still somewhat free. Libraries. Google. Wikipedia.
His vision:
Thinking becomes a commodity
Owned by one private company
Gatekept behind a paywall
Poor people get dumb AI
Rich people get smart AI

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

SAM ALTMAN: “WE SEE A FUTURE WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS A UTILITY, LIKE ELECTRICITY OR WATER, AND PEOPLE BUY IT FROM US ON A METER.”

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

More money for worse work that you have to fix, good stuff this AI thing, thanks Nvidia.

[Skye @Skye_Hedgehog]

@boyfifty Damn spotify be allowing lies now

[DJ Pain 1 @djpain1]

@boyfifty This means anybody can sample or reupload this song. It’s public domain, 100%.

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

@boyfifty please never stop creating or writing music cause this can’t be normalized

[Boyfifty @boyfifty]

this makes me sad

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

https://t.co/QkhbdPBzpB

[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.

[Tony Banks @tonybanksmusic]

Watch as Tony Banks performs the "The Cinema Show" with @genesis_band as part of the "In The Cage Medley", 1981.

📹 Three Sides Live

[Is this a 3D model? @IsThisA3DModel]

I thought AI was supposed to be faster? if it's slower and it looks worse why bother?

[Futurism @futurism]

They *despise* it. https://t.co/KNsTzJmwpD

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

"This tech is dismantling the career ladder before you can even step on. Send 1000s of job applications into an AI void while CEOs gloat that they'll reduce you to a permanent underclass. Watch the milestones of adulthood drift ever-further out of reach.

Why do you hate AI???"

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

I got blocked by the head of the UK's 'Sovereign AI Fund' after asking several times (politely I think) whether they would invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence.

He called me a liar & a troll, without evidence.

Why will the Sovereign AI Fund not answer this simple & reasonable question?

This is taxpayer money being invested. It's fair to ask whether it will go to companies that exploit creatives' work without permission.

Avoiding the question, insulting me, and blocking me is not a response I would expect from someone working for the government.

(He later deleted the tweet & unblocked me - no idea why)

[WIRED @WIRED]

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people. https://t.co/tygai3pYiL

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses. Ban the pervert glasses.

[Eleonor Bindman @EleonorBindman]

Rehearsing some #Mozart before next week’s piano duet concert at @OSHBklyn
Brooklyn friends: hope to see you there!
#MondayMotivation #piano #pianoduets
🎹🎹🎶🙏

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO https://t.co/XxEJIqJqVb