Fuck AI

Was looking for pharmacy hours. Need my meds today.

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Cross-posted from "AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers" by @Tea@programming.dev in !technology@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28544402

As a result, OpenAI has chosen to monetize ChatGPT and its associated products in an all-you-can-eat software subscription model, or otherwise make money by other people productizing it. In both of these scenarios, OpenAI loses money.

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https://xcancel.com/EddCoates#m

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I got an email today, so I searched it up a bit more. The link to the setting: https://m.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

TensorArt bragged how their FluxAI tool can generate comics... The results attached to the post speak for themselves. It's just 8 months old, so not an early model.

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61848712

Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform.

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Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis.

I used ohuhu markers, a sharpie, some acrylic paint, and my tears.

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geteilt von: https://slrpnk.net/post/20819988

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The growing debate over the future of intellectual property law in the age of AI took a wild turn in the past few days when Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Block, and initially a leading figure at Bluesky, declared he would like to see all IP law eliminated.

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"Do a shoey" is an Australian practice of drinking quickly ("skolling" in Australian parlance, "chugging" for Americans") a beer or other alcoholic drink, out of your shoe. Obviously not something that's going to be in a children's movie like Paddington.

cross-posted from: https://szmer.info/post/6806162

Source: https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

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The global rush to AI technology will require almost as much energy by 2030 as Japan uses today. One data center today consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households, but some of those currently under construction will require 20 times more.

A magical word.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33936586

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Cross-posted from "Trump Order Seeks to Tap Coal Power in Quest to Dominate AI" by @silence7@slrpnk.net in !climate@slrpnk.net

A Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration in a bold protest against the alleged use of artificial intelligence (AI) by Israel in its military operations in Gaza. The intervention drew sharp attention to growing dissent within the tech industry over the ethical implications of deploying AI in armed conflict.

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Got a kick out of this earlier, thought others here probably would too.

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https://societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/soa-day-of-action-following-allegations-of-metas-mass-theft-of-authors-work/

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“Israel built an ‘AI factory’ for war. It unleashed it in Gaza,” laments the Washington Post. “Hospitals Are Reporting More Insurance Denials. Is AI Driving Them?,” reports Newsweek. “AI Raising the Rent? San Francisco Could Be the First City to Ban the Practice,” announces San Francisco’s KQED.

The news outlet has had to correct at least three dozen A.I.-generated summaries of articles published this year.

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While the title gave me a chuckle, it did have this to say...

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/24516433

:( fuck it