Midjourney developers caught discussing laundering, and creating a database of Artists (who have been dehumanized to styles) to train Midjourney off of. This has been submitted into evidence for the lawsuit. Prompt engineers, your “skills” are not yours
https://t.co/wAhsNjt5Kz
Yesterday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Stability AI head of public policy Ben Brooks admitted to stealing “billions” of images.
https://t.co/5n6L7txg04
@Pikmin_or@Tempo_past Zeke's Japanese voice actor has filed a lawsuit against an AI company that used his voice without permission. This is not a matter of skill or acting ability.
@zaydruko@Pikmin_or@Tempo_past https://t.co/mm2Mkxj2xp
This is not a matter of whether art is good or bad. It is a matter of the right to be respected as a creator and as a human being, and this applies to you as well.
@Pikmin_or@Tempo_past https://t.co/CPV4TukWSu
I never insulted that voice actor at all. You are the one who treated creators like replaceable objects. I respect the rights of that voice actor and the rights of all creators; that is all.
Big news today:
GERMAN COURT RULES AI MUSIC FIRM SUNO BROKE COPYRIGHT RULES
Suno "has to provide information on illicit revenue", and "will have to pay damages".
Wow.
https://t.co/DEDdLUoVcD
@Pikmin_or@Tempo_past Yes, you are an avid fan of Xenoblade, yet you are insulting the people who actually contributed to its creation. After all, the creators' hard work and passion are embedded in everything you purchased. It is truly contradictory behavior.
@Pikmin_or@Tempo_past https://t.co/Vwsxa4uYUT
AI is neither a factory nor a car, nor is it magic. The voice actor in question could also become a victim at any time. This applies to all creative fields.
Midjourney developers caught discussing laundering, and creating a database of Artists (who have been dehumanized to styles) to train Midjourney off of. This has been submitted into evidence for the lawsuit. Prompt engineers, your “skills” are not yours
https://t.co/wAhsNjt5Kz
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:
Alex Hirsch responded to Sam Altman, the creator of ChatGPT, after he suggested using AI-generated podcasts to entertain children:
“What if you just talked to your children”
The problem with using AI is that the second you read a confidently false statement, it's already too late, it's made its way into your brain even if you doubt or debunk it. Later on, when it inevitably resurfaces, you won't remember where you got the info from or its veracity and will treat it like everything else you think you know.
It'll just embed itself somewhere unbeknownst to you, and this happens every single time you use an LLM. It's not hard to see how it would degrade your knowledge and understanding over time.
Big news today:
GERMAN COURT RULES AI MUSIC FIRM SUNO BROKE COPYRIGHT RULES
Suno "has to provide information on illicit revenue", and "will have to pay damages".
Wow.
https://t.co/DEDdLUoVcD
The foundation of ALL AI training is that Big Tech knew they'd never get permission for all the data they needed - let alone afford it.
So they stole it all instead.
They knowingly broke the law and banked on it being cheaper to normalize their crime through settled lawsuits.
All their models say it's a mix, but everyone needs to know that this type of synthetic data is derived from stolen data. It's called copyright or data laundering. You push stolen data through an AI system to obfuscate the source. Not unlike money laundering. It's still stolen.
Incredibly important new research published today shows the huge impact AI books are having on real writers’ ability to make a living.
Looking at self-published books on Amazon, they found:
- 20% of self-published books include substantial AI text
- Books using AI now make up 20% of total sales
- 1/3 of bestsellers include AI text
- As a result, authors who don’t use AI are making less money
AI companies like to argue in court that their models don’t financially harm the people whose work they train on. They think this strengthens their claims of fair use.
That argument is surely now well and truly dead.
A reminder that, in 2023, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei wrote a document proposing they share their profits with the people whose work they trained on.
But, instead, they ended up buying books cheap (from resellers, meaning authors get nothing), scanning them, and destroying them.
There are so many ways that AI ruins everything.
This example is especially cruel, as it not only makes the artist fight harder for less compensation, but then their work is fed into AI - which adds it to the model's dataset without permission.
AI causes nothing but harm.