Tom MorrisMar 14, 2025

Spurious national security justifications are possibly the worst thing about AI discourse.

“What if China makes their synthetic text generation robot faster than we do?”

Oh, I dunno, they get more erotic images of Garfield with too many fingers? They get control over the huge market in made up legal citations? Entire movies full of unoriginal soulless slop get made in China not America? Who gives a damn?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.

Ars Technica
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 14, 2025

@tommorris precisely

  • Not that they need #AI for the "soulless slop movie" part anyway...
Show threadTom Morris
@kkarhan executives can generate derivative superhero movies without all those pesky actors and creative people…
Mar 14, 2025 at 3:26pmIceCubesApp
Show threadKevin Karhan Mar 14, 2025

@tommorris not really.

The best in terms if "AI #Automation" I've seen is a #SaaS-based #Autoclicker / #macro system that allows dynamically replaying stuff (i.e. fill out forms with variables given).