Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from #AI is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

As @Sarahp of @TechCrunch reports, Tumblr's parody of Twitter Blue has resulted in a 125% increase in their revenue.

What's more, it looks like the people paying for the parody are in on the joke.

The in-app purchase, when bought, gives you double blue checks that are purely cosmetic.

Matt Mullenwag, CEO of Tumblr parent Automattic, has expressed a desire to make subscriptions half of Tumblr's ongoing revenue.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/tumblr-ios-revenue-increased-125-since-launching-its-parody-of-paid-verification/

Holy 😮

"The stock photography company is accusing Stability AI of “brazen infringement of Getty Images’ intellectual property on a staggering scale.” It claims that Stability AI copied more than 12 million images from its database “without permission ... or compensation ... as part of its efforts to build a competing business,” and that the startup has infringed on both the company’s #copyright and #trademark protections."

#AI #AIArt #AIimages #GettyImages

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion