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Some of the workers most affected by AI have been artists, illustrators and graphic designers. For his AI Killed My Job series, @brianmerchant spoke with some of them about ridiculous costume designs, whether comics might be at least temporarily immune to the technology, and cleaning up the messes of AI.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Art #Culture #Illustration #GraphicDesign
@brianmerchant lays out in plain terms the "moral abomination" of the death of Adam Raine, who died by suicide after months of interactions with ChatGPT. "[The AI industry] is willing to countenance a genuine and seemingly widespread mental health crisis among some of its most engaged users, including the fact that its products are quite literally leading to their deaths, in a quest to maximize market share and time-on-screen. Move fast, break minds, perhaps."
#AdamRaine #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MentalHealth #ChatGPT #OpenAI #SamAltman
GPT-5 has been hyped for years as the next step towards AGI. Sam Altman promised a "PhD-level intelligence on any topic." It's not even close.
On the terms OpenAI itself laid out for its own product, any fair assessment must conclude that GPT-5's launch is a failure.
Now the question is: Will it change anything?
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter
What is Donald Trump's plan for AI? @brianmerchant read his Action Plan and executive orders and watched his speech. Here's what he learned. "Broadly speaking, the plan is that the Trump administration will help Silicon Valley put the pedal down on AI, delivering customers, data centers and power, as long as it operates in accordance with Trump’s ideological frameworks; i.e., as long as the AI is anti-woke," Merchant writes for his Blood in the Machine newsletter. "It’s above all a blueprint for consolidated control, a vision where worker power withers, citizens become subservient to AI; to its corporate masters and federal overseers, where fossil fuels are ushered again into prominence at the height of the climate crisis, and democracy is sidelined in favor of automation technologies. It is, in summary, pretty grim!"
#Tech #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #TrumpAdministration #DonaldTrump #Politics #DEI #SiliconValley
The latest "Blood in the Machine" newsletter from @brianmerchant is covering the great work from @limitesnumeriques and notably @thomasthibault .
Congrats for the international recognition, guys 👏
"How big tech is force-feeding us #ai"
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-tech-is-force-feeding-us
Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has become so popular it's rushed to meet the demand.
The reality on the ground is a bit different. A study by a trio of design scholars shows how tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics.
This is how big tech is force-feeding us AI:
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-tech-is-force-feeding-us
During two of the year's biggest news events, Politico reporters watched in surprise as management installed an AI bot atop the homepage. It promptly made embarrassing errors and violated editorial standards. No corrections were issued.
This wasn't supposed to happen. Politico has a union contract that legally says bosses must give 60 days notice to its journalists of all AI products.
And the fight erupting now, over AI in journalism, is only beginning.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/inside-the-escalating-struggle-over
I'm a regular reader of @brianmerchant's Blood in the Machine newsletter. Today's edition recaps the very narrow failure of Big Tech efforts to forbid states from passing any laws regulating artificial intelligence.
The collapse of that amendment in the Trump spending bill is a rare instance of good news. Brian reminds us how near a thing that was.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/dont-forget-what-silicon-valley-tried
OpenAI's technology may soon be built with funding from some of the world's most repressive regimes. Its AI has officially been put in service of making the US military "more lethal" and improving "warfighting." Its AI is powered by fossil fuel companies that accelerate the climate crisis. Its AI produces images of propaganda that are used to inflame tensions, provoke violence, and justify hatred.
Is this Sam Altman's gentle singularity?
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/this-is-the-gentle-singularity
The weaponization of Waymo .. How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations. @brianmerchant
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
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