Artificial intelligence still has some way to go

https://drayk.it/song/690478d82f424198a22e5ab54724d5ae

ChatGPT's Ian Curtis lyrics were poor - but its Bernard Sumner lyrics were very plausible indeed

the MusicLM stuff is interesting but you can definitely tell it's AI, it's full of audio sludge and it sometimes hits the space that's like between two notes. that said some of this sounds pretty modern to the point where I kinda wonder if this technology has actually been around for a while. like it would not surprise me to find out all those Swedish songwriting teams have been using something like this for years and just curating the best parts

The hybrid or “centaur “ approach to ai as a tool rather than human replacement

ChatGPT's Ian Curtis lyrics were poor - but its Bernard Sumner lyrics were very plausible indeed

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, January 30, 2023 10:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Haha well I mean....

actually really good

https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever

you had to be there but this was a moment

https://i.imgur.com/f4okuVh.png

Every Sumner lyric involves some awkward bit of inadvertent crashing bathos, this is probably ideal for an AI.

making characters look directly at camera pic.twitter.com/Yl9hG31Ae9

— ActionMovieDad (@ActionMovieKid) January 24, 2023

alright this is kinda freaky (also very funny)

actually really good

https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever🕸

No joke, I watched for almost four hours straight. It’s one of those things that is going to get worse as they “improve” it.

https://drayk.it/song/fa8e821cd63d44168180101aa372081b

if that's the Seinfeld thing yeah that's a lot of fun. not funny per se but entertaining enough to be watchable

fuck. the best part about the seinfeld thing was the chat. now it's horrible. when it was <1000 followers it was actually a followable chat with distinct people that made really funny comments and built up the lore. now it's an endless stream that you can't even read. the period during which is was really good was...about 12 hours. seriously. it's really sad. i count those 12 hours where it was comprehensible as one of the greatest technological art achievements of this century. i know that sounds stupid as fuck but it's actually true. now it's a fucking mess. rip the best half day of ai art ever

and no, it's not AI, i know, jfc

is it not? how do it work?

need to fork chat

is it not? how do it work?

They got the old writers' room back together and they're churning it out 24/7!

Way too many hucksters have pretended that synthesis methods are somehow not compression methods so it’s nice to see empirical evidence that a handful of synthesis methods (e.g., the popular energy-based models) can reconstruct their training data.

Models such as Stable Diffusion are trained on copyrighted, trademarked, private, and sensitive images.

Yet, our new paper shows that diffusion models memorize images from their training data and emit them at generation time.

Paper: https://t.co/LQuTtAskJ9

👇[1/9] pic.twitter.com/ieVqkOnnoX

— Eric Wallace (@Eric_Wallace_) January 31, 2023

https://drayk.it/song/4d4a31c833f14196a2e82f61b0e26b93

this banger

I have actually thought about this, the idea that AI could generate these sort of sitcoms "live", in real time, actually opens the door for a genuinely new type of comedy show

coming soon to adult swim

maybe could also generate a basketball game?

Oh for sure, not to mention baseball, with its convenient discrete events.

This reminded me that several sports bookmakers already have "virtual" horse races etc where you can bet on the outcomes of a computer simulation, i.e. nothing but a somewhat glorified casino game with a guaranteed edge for the house (in contrast to actual noisy sport events, where the edge is just in an expected-value sense, not guaranteed). Seems inevitable that the gambling industry will pick up this kind of stuff in a few ways, if it hasn't already.

Generating sports events is a doddle, computer games been doing it for 40 years. Championship Manager and others simulate an entire football world. Generating 'realistic' visuals of simulated sports is the big hump to get over, but if it can be done... well, hopefully fewer rapists in AI generated sports at least eh

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dK4AAOSw3rFdNFBN/s-l400.jpg

Yeah but people don't watch sports just for sports, it's the whole off field/court drama, soap opera machinations of management, weird and/or bitchy quotes, messy social media antics, etc

have to come up with a program that
1. generates games
2. generates off field dramas and conflicts
3. potential shower scenes too

I wonder how much of Nothing, Forever is being archived - I've seen some clips posted, so some people are recording it. I'd like to see a website that's just a transcript of all the dialogue

my friends and I used to put 5 bucks down on CPU vs. CPU games of Madden, that was always fun

yikes man

well, i bought the hoody

https://i.imgur.com/M81YbO9.png

UPDATE: AI Seinfeld (Nothing Forever) was banned from Twitch when the AI went off the rails and began making jokes about LGBTQ groups. Is this the first instance of an AI being cancelled? pic.twitter.com/RnCB60JZWX

— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 6, 2023

have we really all forgotten Tay so soon?

https://drayk.it/song/d742321a12d6457e9e6d21228624476f

hoo boy

i am in favor of drake ai making songs about culture effluvia, forever

my hoodie has been cancelled before it arrives in the mail

I never realized how much I liked Drayke until he started making songs about the mysteries of photosynthesis in ancient mesopotamia

AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit

the heidegger writtings on technology are key. das ge-stell

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-journalism-chatgpt-media-ethics

from hamilton nolan, who wrote some of the better gawker pieces back in the not so distant past

We are entering an era of media that will be populated by swamps full of videos and audios and photos and pieces of writing that are all completely computer-generated and designed to mislead people. If you thought all the cries of ​“fake news” during the Trump era were bad, just wait. The public is about to have a very, very hard time distinguishing what is real from what is fake. It is more important than ever that credible news outlets exist, and remain credible. In order to do that, we need to hold the line against AI taking over the work of human journalists. We need to unify around the idea that such a thing is not ethical. If we don’t, you can bet that companies will move as fast as possible to save a dollar — and utterly destroy journalism along the way.

anybody feel like finally.. it's Ask Jeeves' time to shine??

nolan doesn't seem acknowledge that most people don't go to news websites, they search for whatever they want to search for and then they don't even click through to the article they just read the first couple of sentences that are scraped onto the the search results page and then they close the tab. in this context it doesn't matter if you have a 100% human In These Times website, or Buzzfeed, or whatever else. no one will go there because search results will no longer be a conduit to websites, they will just answer your question. Those 100% human websites in the meantime will shrivel and die because there is no ad money for them. the entire ad-supported web is about to be destroyed and thank fuck because it's an unusable mess right now, and google search results are pure, distilled trash. but where that leaves the bank balance of quality journalism i really don't know and frankly that feels more like the question that needs urgently to be addressed

lol yeah losing track of how many times I've asked people "did you read that, it says the opposite of what you claim".

was pretty LOL that if you try to share an article on FB without opening it first it actually warns you that this is a bad thing

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"

Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby pic.twitter.com/X32vopXxQG

— Jon Uleis (@MovingToTheSun) February 13, 2023

lol that's weird cos ChatGPC will outright let you insult it and say what do I care I'm AI I have no feelings, whereas Bingbot seems legit butthurt

I have been a good Bing.

I've been a badder Bing

Some more examples

Bing subreddit has quite a few examples of new Bing chat going out of control.

Open ended chat in search might prove to be a bad idea at this time!

Captured here as a reminder that there was a time when a major search engine showed this in its results. pic.twitter.com/LiE2HJCV2z

— Vlad (@vladquant) February 13, 2023