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Reddit Acquires Generative AI Startup Memorable AI

Reddit Acquires Generative AI Startup Memorable AI https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-01/reddit-acquires-generative-ai-startup-memorable-ai Memorable AI uses AI and machine learning processes to analyse human reactions and create more effe…

TheVerge: Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/29/24208671/elon-musk-deepfake-ai-kamala-harris-parody This is really the denouement, the return to home, the part where the protagonist finds his true meaning and purpose. Generate all the images of African children mak…

AI Safety… an unspoken – and unspeakable – danger.

There's been lots of talk about AI safety here lately. Ilya Sutskever recently started a company called SSI – Safe SuperIntelligence. And the OpenAI CTO has warned repeatedly, but vaguely, about AI dangers, all as other Open AI employees have quit …

AI Manhattan project to eliminate "unnecessary and burdensome regulations"

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/trump-allies-want-to-make-america-first-in-ai-with-sweeping-executive-order/ "The draft order, obtained by the Post, outlines a series of "Manhattan Projects" to advance milita…

AI-sludge site creates zombified versions of real technology writers

See https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/10/24195858/tuaw-unofficial-apple-tech-blog-ai-web-orange-khan A website that closed years ago has been bought and re-opened using fake (and bad quality) AI-generated content attributed to the original writers who wo…

AI Al Michaels to host Olympics: Ars Technica

In the video example they only use the voice, but can the body be far behind? The actual Al Michaels is 79 and he seems mostly on board with it, according to the story… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/ai-generated-al-michaels-t…

Deepfakes apparently altered voting in South Africa Election

Article in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/south-africa-x-twitter-disinformation/ In early March the daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma used X to spread a deepfake of 'Donald Trump encouraging “all South Africans to vote for u…

Google defends Glue on Pizza and other AI hallucinations

TheVerge article today lists Google's excuses for the advice AI Overview gives. . . https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24168344/google-defends-ai-overviews-search-results submitted by /u/Intelligent-Jump1071 [link] [comments]

Elmer’s Glue on your Pizza – Google AI Overview

Verge article detailing the many and growing mishaps of Google's AI overview. https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162896/google-ai-overview-hallucinations-glue-in-pizza submitted by /u/Intelligent-Jump1071 [link] [comments]

A new kind of doomerism – Is AI why SETI has failed?

https://www.space.com/ai-may-be-to-blame-failure-to-contact-alien-civilizations Their hypothesis is that civilisations can only advance to the point where they develop AI. They're a little unclear why, exactly, that would stop ALL civilisations. I …