As widely rumoured, the UK government is considering legalising gen AI training on copyrighted work without a licence. This would be a huge betrayal of the UK’s creators. It would mean letting AI companies use creators’ work to build highly scalable AI models that will directly

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Once you’re familiar with the style of AI-generated text, you see it everywhere. The amount of LLM-generated slop in replies on social media is getting unbearable. LinkedIn is particularly bad. I would much rather read a short, real reply full of grammatical errors than an essay

I was recently contacted by my publishers on behalf of Rockstar Games re the possibility of using Temptation on the new Grand Theft Auto 6 Naturally excited about the immense wealth that was about to head my way, I scrolled to the bottom of the email re the offer…

Thread on the real size of things 🧵 1. Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship

This piece by Ted Chiang is hands down one of the best pieces of writing on generative AI I’ve ever read. He skims over some arguments on both sides of the AI art debate. It will annoy people who see gen AI as one creative tool among many, just as it will annoy people who think

It's time for streaming services to act on AI music. - AI companies are training on musicians' work without a license - People are making music with these models and putting it on streaming services - This music is being recommended to users This means human musicians'

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We should all be deeply concerned by the revelations in this thorough article by @PeterKGeoghegan, about the lobbyists, funders & thinktanks surrounding Keir Starmer's government, its susceptibility to influence and its fading commitment to transparency.

The UK loses £1bn each year to fraudulent R&D tax relief claims. We've a new report identifying one of the firms responsible: Green Jellyfish. Thread:

Two Midjourney engineers once told me art was “ossified”, and used this to justify scraping people’s work for training data. They said art had stopped progressing, and these models were what would take it forward. This betrays, I think, not only a lack of respect for artists,

Some crazy stuff in this ProofNews update on Nvidia’s mass scraping of YouTube etc.: - They say in internal messages that there’ll be no negative sentiment because they won’t reveal their training data - Employees raised concerns, those concerns were dismissed - They internally

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BREAKING: CNN just released their fact check of Donald Trump throughout the debate. It turns out Donald Trump lied on just about every answer. Retweet so all Americans see this vital fact check on Trump’s BS.

They shouldn’t be going to school hungry but that doesn’t seem to be worrying you

The 3 major record labels are suing AI music companies Suno and Udio. Here are the two lawsuits in full. - They accuse Suno & Udio of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale” - They provide evidence that both companies trained on their music, including

I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI. I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...

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