FIIK

Designer / DJ / Photographer / Writer / No AI

[FIIK @bellefiik]

Huzzah! Just opened this email from @Creativepool to see I have made it into their top 25 for Graphic Designers, out of thousands all over the world. Better than a stick in the eye! 🎉🥳🤩🙏
👇Here's my portfolio: https://t.co/zQvxHBJMr1
Am also currently available for bookings.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

@IndeedSupport There should be another option to be able to login. This is not good forcing people to share their phone number. We have emails for a reason, to take the code.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

I am astonished that to use @GlassdoorUK & @IndeedUK are forcing everyone to give them their phone number to be able to login! 🤯
'By adding your phone number & selecting Verify, you agree to receive calls & texts (including pre-recorded or artificial calls) from Indeed'. WTF!

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is wild—and likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. https://t.co/5sb1cFlBQO

[FIIK @bellefiik]

@femiiiszn Yes!

[FIIK @bellefiik]

@IndeedSupport I don't agree. This is data mining. By GDPR laws I should not have to supply my phone number to merely login to a job review website. It's not on.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

YUSSSSS!! OMG I love this series!!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘WIDOW'S BAY’ has been renewed for Season 2.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Google’s defence against musicians’ lawsuit is doubly sickening.

First, they say the musicians have no evidence Google trained on their videos. But that is because Google refuses to reveal its training data! (Sir Demis blocked me for asking what they train on.)

Second, they say YouTube’s Ts & Cs give them the right to train on people’s videos anyway. But it is career suicide for a musician not to use YouTube. This is a huge abuse of Google’s market power.

Google is trying to punish musicians for its own lack of transparency, and arguing that it has rights no musician intended to give it.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

LONDON DOES NOT WANT DATA CENTRES.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

My ambition is clear: I want London to become the world’s leading city for environmentally friendly, low-emission, high-efficiency data centre development.

Innovation must not come at the expense of our natural world.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Or - and hear me out - we could not make London a city of data centres

[FIIK @bellefiik]

@ednewtonrex Why does this remind me of everything else in the UK? Big fancy headline, look under the hood: totally bogus and only seeks to fill the pockets of people who are already rich and do nothing to help the UK.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

This enrages me so deeply. The UK government clearly does not care about the creative industries despite us making billions of pounds for it's precious economy...

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Here is where it gets really worrying.

It says the issues around copyright do not need to be resolved before people adopt AI.

This is a great message if you are an AI company that wants more people to use your product, but terrible if you are an artist whose work is being stolen.

This could have been written by the AI industry.

Boosting AI adoption makes it less likely the copyright questions resolve in creatives’ favour, because the more people use the tech, the harder regulating becomes.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

It is also right that the UK’s approach to AI should involve creative protections.

But nowhere does it say that government must not weaken copyright law to benefit AI companies.

It does not seem serious about these protections.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

It’s right to say the value of AI should be judged on whether it helps creative workers produce better work, not just speed / cost.

But it should also be judged on the harm it does - e.g. stealing people’s work to compete with them.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

First off, the stated reason for the report’s existence: “to promote trust in augmentative tools that support human creativity”.

Why? Why has the government commissioned someone to encourage adoption of AI? Surely it is equally important to inform people of its harms?

This report should not exist IMO

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Yesterday, the government published its ‘AI Adoption Plan’ for the creative industries.

Somewhat incredibly, it says we should be pushing AI adoption before the government resolves the issues around copyright.

This would be great for the AI industry, and terrible for creatives.

Important for people to know what the government is pushing here. Short thread on its contents ⬇️

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[FIIK @bellefiik]

@ednewtonrex This is absolutely hideous. Starmer can't go fast enough.

[FIIK @bellefiik]

@bigdaddyjulianj 😂 Woo!!