"He said students often have to practise with each other or book days with actors, but AI adds to what they can use and also means students can learn more at home." https://t.co/63f32PU0iZ

The real reasons why the AI companies are even talking about "slowing down AI research" are: - they're trying to postpone the bursting of the AI bubble - they know but won't admit that LLMs have reached their limit and aren't a pathway to AGI and they were caught in a lie -

Romance itself is dying because of illiteracy. When you read letters from the Civil War era, men were shockingly lyrical because they had heads full of poetry. Literacy fuels passion. Beauty, wisdom, empathy, passion are vanishing from the world because people don’t read.

I do *not* want an AI "summary" of an email, or a book, or a life. I do not want an AI summary of a winter sky, or my father's hands, or the hope in my child's eyes. I do not want an AI summary of the human heart, or the first little shiver of lust, or the long good work of love.

"Despite being concerned artificial intelligence is replacing workers, NDP leadership candidate and union leader Rob Ashton used AI during an online campaign event on Sunday." https://t.co/Dd3w73OlSC

We’re not talking enough about the fact that in the past decade, IQ scores fell for the first time in a hundred years. Screen culture and the decline of reading have destroyed our collective intellectual life. Media is now pitched at the dumbest among us. This is a crisis.

"The more AI slop gets recommended and streamed, the less music by real musicians gets streamed and the harder it becomes for them to get noticed" We have better things to do than filter out the flood of AI generated music and videos on YouTube. YouTube is becoming useless.

I will not stop saying this, AI is not art and it will never be art. What you do is the equivalent of microwaving a frozen meal and calling you’re a chef

Evidence that the backlash/pushback against AI is really working. Two AI executives are trying emotional tactics to try to get the populace to stop being mean about AI. They're using a mixture of shaming and begging. And it's backfiring spectacularly. Anti-hype has real power.

I’ve seen people shamed on here for using “pretentious” words like foliage and complimentary. We ought to normalize having an interesting & expansive vocabulary. Don’t allow yourself to be bamboozled into speaking only in monosyllables for the sake of the illiterate.

"But after speaking out, she saw AI-generated images of herself had been created without her consent." https://t.co/S5Ucw3GORQ

"However there is also growing speculation that the AI sector has been over-valued by keen investors and hype, and has yet to actually demonstrate much in the way of profit." https://t.co/hsue00xA55

I love how tech today has nothing to do with advancement or innovation. Nothing improves we just own less and pay more for inconvenient solutions to problems they create.

Thank you Ben Affleck for saying it straight - that the AI "is going to wipe everything out" narrative is actually part of the hype-story pushed by AI companies who are desperate to prove the worth of their excessive valuations in the market.

helpful tip for working out when to use ai to write for you: - if you’re writing something that matters, don’t write it with ai - if you’re writing something that doesn’t matter, still don’t write it with ai. in fact don’t write it at all

"Any platform that contributes to the creation or false imagery of woman using their likeness without their consent, creating sexual imagery is an absolute disgrace," Hunter said. https://t.co/Rti6m1KX87

"Earlier this year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study showing that people who used ChatGPT to write essays showed less activity in brain networks associated with cognitive processing while undertaking the exercise." https://t.co/QYmuBQcvB5

Grok now won’t undress women even for paid users. Protest works. Big tech is not invincible. https://t.co/n8hOBx2NmD

A growing number of four- and five-year-olds lack the ability to hold a pencil or even recognize their own names. We haven’t yet begun to grapple with the damage that raising toddlers on iPads inflicted on a generation of children.

You can tell when people don’t engage much with fiction because they expect the heroes of stories to be morally perfect and assume that all the views expressed in a story are the views of the writer. Demanding that all characters be unproblematic angels is the death of fiction.