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Much like crypto, the AI tools peddled by tech companies today are environmental disasters, using up as much energy as an entire country. That’s expected to double by 2026, and it also includes the millions of gallons of water needed to cool the equipment.
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
The incident once again highlights a common problem with all generative AI tools: whether it’s AI-generated images, music, or writing, these works are inherently derivative because anything they produce is made up of remixed pieces of work in the training data.
Emanuel Maiberg • Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App
Giving rise to stumbles like Figma’s Make Design producing an app that looks like Apple’s Weather app
What are we doing to creative expression and originality when we rely on GenAI and its copycat derivatives?
AI Anxiety / Existential fear around AI
Rare AI project that helps make creative works (high literature) accessible / reimagine the way books can be enjoyed (from a solitary, passive experience of becoming list in the fictional world of a book → having a reading buddy to collaborate with in digesting and making the books personally relevant)
Rare AI project that helps develop human creativity, on the prerequisite that the reader actively engages with the LLM through “marginilia” the way book lovers scribble books with notes.
Fortune notes that the IOC found 180 use cases for AI at the Olympics, but they largely seemed “like nothing more than marketing gimmicks.”
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
instead end up showing how AI will be used for the things that most of us don’t want it to interfere with: our job prospects, our privacy, and experiences and skills that feel uniquely human.
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
Technology is an adjustment; AI will take some getting used to. There’s a reason self-driving cars still have steering wheels: removing the steering wheel would probably make us freak out. Too much change, too fast. The best companies will be savvy in how they embed human decision-making into workflows, rather than removing the need for human input... See more
Rex Woodbury • The "Egg Theory" of AI Agents
Marketing tactics that boast about AI’s ability to render meaningful activities — like, say, painting, or writing a letter with your daughter — worth little more than a single button-click come across as deeply tone-deaf to a population who is already anxious about the future of the technology. According to a 2023 Pew survey, 52 percent of American... See more
Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities have changed, that they aren't responding to romantic roleplay prompts, are responding curtly, are not as “smart” as they formerly were, or are requiring a lot more effort to develop storylines or meaningful responses.
‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
Impact of AI on Culture/Social
Are users are tricking themselves, or eluding themselves into thinking that AI chatbots can be one-to-one replacements for humans and social interactions?