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Nice and lengthy sneer against AI in academia came out a couple days ago - highly recommend reading.

CNBC Squawkbox must have had space to fill, so they invited Ed on. What’s the Saatchi vision of the future of AI in cinema? [YouTube, 3:50 on]

It’s, you know, potentially the end of human creativity.

If a villain in some children's cartoon boasted about trying to destroy human creativity, I'd have thought they were over-the-top and unrealistic. We truly do live in the stupidest timeline

I was writing this whilst seriously mad about AI's continued harms, so I do not blame you for finding this overdramatic. This bubble is testing my patience.

Adding mountains of insult to injury, the AI bubble has managed to threaten humanity in practically every way possible other than the sci-fi killbots Yud and co. doomsayed about.

Accelerating the climate crisis, threatening livelihoods, destroying drinkable water supplies, driving people to suicide/psychosis, empowering fascism and bigotry, destroying hard-earned skills, flooding the world with lies and falsehood, impending economic disaster, all of it has done horrendous damage to civilization as we know it, in ways that we may never recover from.

If AI does end up killing all of humanity, it will be by being the exact opposite of the superintelligent robo-Satan that Yudkowsky ranted and raved about, by being a carbon-belching water-guzzling almighty idiot built through razing the commons to dust, looting the economies of the world and stealing everything there was, everything there is, and everything there ever will be.

To huff a hefty degree of copium, the mistake of creating AI is a mistake humanity isn't gonna repeat - if humanity manages to survive through this, its all-but certain artificial intelligence will die from the incoming AI winter, consigned to the dustbin of history as something which cannot be created, and which should not be created.

And if you want to avoid that, you have to use a coin with some form of automatic money laundering built in (e.g. Monero), which brings its own legal problems for you and everyone working with you.

New premium column from Ed Zitron: Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

Yet another lawsuit has hit Midjourney, this time coming from Warner Bros Discovery.

Same here. The world's been forced to deal with these promptfucks ruining everything they touch for literal years at this point, some degree of schadenfreude at their expense was sorely fucking needed.

I know Elgato do a collapsible greenscreen, but that's the only one coming to mind.

Heartwarming: There Actually Is Justice In This World

Pure, unfiltered schadenfreude for today - this was a very fun read.

"For those in writing related jobs, they may find lucrative work cleaning up attempts to sidestep them with AI slop, squeezing hefty premiums from desperate clients who find themselves lacking leverage over them.

Me, 17 days ago

Well, seems I was pretty close - NBC news recently reported humans are being hired to clean up AI slop. My prediction it would be lucrative was off the mark, though - artists called in for de-slopping work are getting paid less than if they were simply hired to create the work themselves. Clearly, I was being overly optimistic.

You want my take, anyone who gets hired for slop cleanup should try to squeeze as much cash out their clients as much as possible - they showed open contempt for humanity by choosing a clanker, they need to be shown the consequences.

I still remember the outcry when Harambe was shot. Shit truly does feel like the point where everything began turning to shit.

Someone I know argued that Harambe's death led to Trump's election, and its been burned into my mind ever since:

To give some slack to HitchBOT, the design at least had some personality to it. That is a lot more than you can give the average tech-related thing these days, especially in an age of AI slop.

By my guess, the servers and datacentres powering the LLMs will end up as the AI bubble's Range Rover equivalent - they're obscenely expensive for AI corps to build and operate, and are practically impossible to finance without VC billions. Once the bubble bursts and the billions stop rolling in, I expect the servers to be sold off for parts and the datacentres to be abandoned.

New Baldur Bjarnason: The melancholy of history rhyming, comparing the AI bubble with the Icelandic banking bubble, and talking about the impending fallout of its burst.

Found a Pivot to AI candidate in the wild: Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda

I also found a call for ethics training in engineering, and someone's horror story about ethics training alongside it.

I'd just like to say congrats on making it into NYT - it took 'em long enough to recognise you were worth listening to.

AI bros keep being literally unable to tell good writing from bad writing, so they tell you that obvious slop is just fine when it really isn’t. But editors can tell. Do not write like a slop machine.

Going on a tangent, I can see English/Creative Writing degrees getting a major boost in job market value thanks to that being exposed - on top of showing you don't need spicy autocomplete to write for you (which I predicted two weeks ago), getting such a degree also shows a basic ability to tell good writing from bad writing.

Before the bubble, employers could easily assume anyone they hire would be capable of telling good writing from bad writing by default. Now, they the possibility of a would-be hire being incapable of even that basic feat is something they have to contend with.

I was planning to mention Procreate as well, but felt like that'd be spamming the replies a bit.

On a wider note, I expect it'll be primarily art-related software/hardware companies that will have avoided AI participation - with how utterly artists have rejected the usage of AI, and resisted its intrusion into their spaces, the companies working with them likely view rejecting AI as an easy way of earning good PR with their users, and embracing it as a business liability at best, and a one-way trip past the trust thermocline at worst.

Gonna cheat a little bit and put one-woman consultancy firm/personal blog deadSimpleTech up as an example. The sole member is Iris Meredith, whose involvement begins and ends at publicly lambasting AI's continued shittiness.

Starting things off with a fun post I found on Bluesky: