I just flicked through TikTok and came across this video which I verified but is still very jaw dropping for most people. Sadly, because it’s not done by OpenAI, it will absolutely go unnoticed by the majority of people who are not inside the video content sphere. Even people near the spheres are ignoring AI… its hard to keep watching, lol. 200 musicians are begging to have their voices protected, writers are clawing for the same, news outlets are asking to roll models back because they may subverting the very purpose of news outlets… (it’s true at the end of the day, we all know). Now I’m just waiting on the video generation lawsuit. Again, there is a lawsuit out against MidJourney for its training material and methods, going without mention because apparently the mainstream media hasn’t heard of it yet. It’s all good and fine by me though as it’s ridiculously hard to listen to anyone outside the AI sphere, talk about it. Just…really hard to listen to anymore. If you saw The Daily Show this week you know that the normies are in full swing against AI, as well as the clip from a cinema festival that featured a SXSW commercial which also featured Sora, at which point the crowd booed the remainder of the commercial. So. Are we going too far too quickly? We’ve got lawsuits covering every aspect of humanity that AI is dominating. To me, that’s amazingly distinctive of 2 things: 1 is that we are clearly more afraid than we initially let on, which means 2, we are now forced to redefine how we differ from the machines. What makes us special. How do we continue to hold various roles such as online influencers, vloggers, the people who sell products on ad space, even some short form content creators? All in line to be replaced by an AI that is just, better. Why? Because it’s an amalgam of what you like based on your search algorithms. The musicians are calling for a slow-down/hault in some areas until further research can be done and more regulations put into place. But are we going to? Or are we about to see millionaire entertainers brushed aside for the sake of profit? I know, it’s a lot of questions but it’s also an ever-entangling problem to solve and the longer we wait to regulate (MOUNT UP!) the more entangled it becomes. TikTok - Make Your Day --- This post was migrated from connect.com and was originally published at an earlier date.
Interesting to parallel this with the invent of the Internet, specifically this excerpt from this NPR article capturing the “flip side” of the coin of limitless an universal access to collective information and contribution: The good, the bad and the unpredictable In the three decades since the web went public, it’s revolutionized how we communicate, gather, work and learn. It’s also expanded the reach of propaganda and disinformation and upended our standards of privacy. Berners-Lee predicted some of these ramifications decades ago. “I don’t mind there being biased information out there,” he told NPR in 1999. “The important thing is that you should know, when you’re on the web, whether you’re looking at biased information or not.” A few months later, he wondered on-air: “Do users now know when they’re getting something which is fair and unbiased? Do they know how to tell the difference between news, op-ed, editorial and advertising on the web?” As director of the World Wide Web Consortium, Berners-Lee has overseen development of the web with the goal of maintaining its neutrality as a platform. “What it becomes is really a question of what people put into it,” he told Fresh Air. “And what I’m trying to do from the technology point of view is to keep it universal — to stop it, as a technology, from trying to influence what you can do with it and what you can’t.” In a way, he says, the web is really just a reflection of us — and that’s by design. “When you go out there, the webpages you see are written by people,” he reflected on NPR’s Talk of the Nation in 2002. “You’re looking at a certain subset of the churning mass of humanity out there. So it’s not that the web itself is an animal, but it’s that society is this really exciting, decentralized thing, and the web, fortunately, is more or less able to echo it.” --- This post was migrated from connect.com and was originally published at an earlier date.