Isn’t it fucking crazy that “industry demands ____” is likely to come to fruition, but “group of individuals demands XYZ” isn’t likely to change shit?
I demand better living conditions. We all demand an economy that doesn’t favor the rich. Not shit will change.
Companies “demand” shit and then just literally write the laws and hand them to legislators who pass them.
This is before you even get into the ewaste and limited precious metals
The problem isn’t just scale, it’s ease of use. Photoshop took time, skill, and it was usually still pretty apparent that a photo had been manipulated—not to mention the evidence when you can find the original elements in the actual photo, which could’ve been done by anyone who was willing to search enough in order to debunk it. Now AI gives near flawless photoshop skills to every single person, infinitely upping the likelihood that a complete fabrication of unique elements, untraceable to any original photo, can cause serious harm.
Remember that pope in the puffy jacket photo? It had telltale signifiers of AIgen, but it still fooled insane amounts of people. Now, make the photo abusive and with a small amount of work, erase the AI flaws. And release it at an opportune time for the bad actor (I would bet a lot that we will see some of this as the election nears. A truly groundbreaking “October surprise”). What’s that old saying? “A lie will travel halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to pull its boots on?”
You’re right that it’s hard for legislation to keep up with technology. But that’s because technology companies are insanely rich and can endlessly lobby. And we have corrupt as fuck legislators. We could keep up with technology. But the system is broken in favor of those who want zero oversight. And it breaks further every time one of them is successful. Regulating massive companies to hobble their ability to cause lasting damage should not be mentioned alongside terms like “freedom of expression.” Yes, the power to create these images is technically in the hands of the people feeding the AI the prompt, but restricting the abilities of a company to hand dangerous tools to anyone and everyone isn’t the same thing as restricting people’s right to create. I think that’s a dangerous way of thinking.
I mean, not really though. He fought to keep companies from merchandizing C&H, mainly because he “wanted to keep the characters pure to every reader’s internal voice.” Basically to keep companies from turning it into a shitty profit center or bastardizing it with a cartoon, etc. I don’t think he really said anything or would have a problem with fans using the images to share stuff, y’know?
Right? The rash of AI images used in journalism is genuinely troubling. It seems like at least 50% of news article thumbnails I see are AI these days.
And, like…are those penguins in the back cheering with human arms? Is that an orca jumping out of the water? What the fuck is going on.
OpenAI needs to watch out because Apple may finally be jumping on the AI bandwagon, and the news doesn’t bode well for ChatGPT. Apple is reportedly working on a large language model (LLM) referred to as ReALM, which stands for Reference Resolution As Language Modeling. Made to give Siri a boost and help it understand context, the model comes in four variants, and Apple claims that even its smallest model performs on a similar level to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
This tantalizing bit of information comes from an Apple research paper, first shared by Windows Central, and it appears to be an early peek into what Apple has been cooking for a while now. ReALM is Apple’s own LLM that was reportedly made to enhance Siri’s capabilities; these improvements include a greater ability to understand context in a conversation.
The model is also said to be capable of processing onscreen content and more. That’d give it an edge over ChatGPT, which, although capable of processing image files and PDFs, can’t read your entire screen and react based on the contents.
Apple’s take on LLMs is said to be launching in four different sizes, referred to as ReALM-80M, ReALM-250M, ReALM-1B, and lastly, ReALM-3B. The letters at the end of each model name refer to millions and billions, respectively.
The researchers benchmarked ReALM and compared it to OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. The worrying news for the Microsoft-backed OpenAI is that even Apple’s smallest ReALM-80M model is said to be all caught up to GPT-4, while all the ones above it are much, much better.
The paper remarks that ReALM shows large improvements over systems with similar functionalities, and the smallest model is up to 5% better when it comes to processing onscreen information.
While companies like Microsoft embraced the trend nearly as soon as it blew up, and, in Microsoft’s case, just made a fresh over $100B billion investment into the future of ChatGPT, Apple has kept quiet on the matter. Still, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of Apple wanting to start getting into AI in a more substantial way — rumors late last year indicated that Apple had plans to give Siri much greater AI capabilities, and this paper is most likely the proof of those plans.
It’s unclear when Apple’s LLM will enter the mainstream market. However, it’s likely that Apple will discuss ReALM during WWDC in June.
Those last couple paragraphs with the quotes from ISPs…make no fucking sense. They’re saying it will “restrict access for rural customers.” How? They say it’ll slow internet down across the nation. How? How can ARST.com just run those quotes and not even explain how they’re bullshit or even just call into question their reasoning? Shoddy journalism if you ask me.
It does seem like they moved their focus away from ublockO to focus on the front ends, though. While I can’t use invidious, I can use regular ol’ YT with UblockO activated and I’m not constantly having to fight and wait for an update.
I think it’s funny those pricks are fighting a multi front battle that they’re clearly losing lol
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97S0KV/
It’s not about hours worked/day, it’s just vacation time
Under capitalism? I wouldn’t trust any sort of tech implant. I say that from the comfort of my full physical faculties, so maybe it’d be different if I couldn’t, but Jesus I cannot imagine being at the whim of any tech company.
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