Generative AI

TheSameIdiot said:
The OP used an app called Nauk Nauk.
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Yeah, that's the one.

All previous statements about the sins of AI in mind, I don't see harm in an armchair "this is fun" use of stuff like that.

Unless your complaint is that it was the toy company that shared it. I can see that. But I don't even think I'd call foul if some amateur posted it on an official fan page.
 
I would love to enjoy an app that would animate my figures, or that would turn my face into anime or whatever. The problem is none of these ai products have demonstrated that they built their algorithm on a data set they own, so every single one of them is unfortunately guilty by association.

The greatest sin OpenAI et al have committed after IP theft is poisoning the well. Aware consumers now see “AI” as a slop product that steals their work. It didn’t have to be that way.

I used to work for a cyber security company who had AI ethicists on staff! They’ve told me anyone who speaks up now about ethics in AI (at any company) gets fired—they are a barrier to shareholder value.

And yeah, as alt says, we have created a world where people would rather be entertained than learn. We’re in a bad way and I don’t think we ever get better. Someone shows me a thing they made with AI I feel like someone’s showing me at best a video of someone else’s kid; at worst a photo of their last shit. But someone shows me a wonky cross stitch they tried out? Man, good for you for learning a new skill.
 
(And yeah, if a toy company animates their stuff with AI I'm LESS likely to buy from them, but someone pays Justin Rasch or someone like that to do true stop motion work, like Frazetta Girls has? That jumps up my respect for them IMMENSELY. You're paying for skill and artistry to highlight your product, not using a dodgy online toy for marketing.

The thing that makes it so difficult is such a huge swath of people are just unwilling to listen or learn. They just accept it until it personally impacts them. I keep saying the most telling thing you can see in a person is their reaction to when you tell them something they think is fun hurts other people, whether it's AI or Harry Potter or whatever. The mask comes off then and you can see how empathetic or not a human is by what happens when you note that their fun does harm.
 
docsilence said:
(And yeah, if a toy company animates their stuff with AI I'm LESS likely to buy from them, but someone pays Justin Rasch or someone like that to do true stop motion work, like Frazetta Girls has? That jumps up my respect for them IMMENSELY. You're paying for skill and artistry to highlight your product, not using a dodgy online toy for marketing.
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Those stop-motion MOTUO videos Mattel was putting out were the definition of 'chef's kiss.'
 
Damien said:
Those stop-motion MOTUO videos Mattel was putting out were the definition of 'chef's kiss.'
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those were fucking amazing and Rasch's BTS footage make them even better. You can see how he plots out each shot throwing his own body around the studio. And of course Mattel hiring him to do it instead of just using AI slop keeps a brilliant human artist working and producing amazing stuff.
 
Amazon pop up: "Hi, I'm Rufus, your shopping assistant. My answers are powered by AI, so I may not always get things right."

No thanks, Rufus.
 
I was losing my shit on Rufus several times the last few days, then Rufus kisses my ass and tells me I'm right that he is intrusive and isn't offering anything I didn't find on my own by searching. I bitched to some shrugging CS reps as well, but I'll keep doing it because I want them to know it's aggravating just on its own, offers nothing as far as aid, and also cram your AI up your arrogant ass and set fire to it!
 
I just had to explain to a college professor and FUCKING POET LAUREATE that another poet, who posted an AI-generated blog post defending generative AI, did not "ask the AI to plead it's own case" because ChatGPT is not a FUCKING LIVING CREATURE. Fucking goddammit it's a large language model that just condensed arguments HUMANS made defending AI and then the other poet copy-pasted it into his Substack. THE AI DID NOT WRITE ITS OWN DEFENSE, YOU NUMPTY. It regurgitated a bunch of work other writers did without crediting them! NO CITATIONS. It's not even as good as a kid in one of this guy's own English classes.

I'm realizing I'm rapidly losing the ability to be patient with people who should know better. I acknowledge that there are TONS of people encountering it for the first time who by all rights shouldn't know how it works yet, but a fucking award-winning writer who is co-chair of an English department should have learned that AI isn't actually sentient two years ago. Come on, man, you're fucking killing me out here. A least have the base understanding that it's not Scarlett Johansson in HER, it's just a fucking CHATBOT. I'm done. I don't want to live in this hellhole world anymore.

Also goddammit I've never spelled Scarlett's last name once in twenty years

yojoebro82 said:
Amazon pop up: "Hi, I'm Rufus, your shopping assistant. My answers are powered by AI, so I may not always get things right."

No thanks, Rufus.
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Honestly, I X out of Rufus every time it pops up, but that might be the most honest popup for AI I've seen. "Hey, I'm powered by AI, I'll probably fuck up your order" is .... charming in a weird way.
 
yojoebro82 said:
Amazon pop up: "Hi, I'm Rufus, your shopping assistant. My answers are powered by AI, so I may not always get things right."

No thanks, Rufus.
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I don't understand the drive to name your AI assistant THAT. Unless you're George Carlin in a teleporting phonebooth, it sounds like a stereotypical homeless person's name in the Simpsons/Futurama. If the company's name is Amazon why not name it Amy, or Maya or Amazo or Quetzalcoatl. Anything is better than Rufus.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
I don't understand the drive to name your AI assistant THAT. Unless you're George Carlin in a teleporting phonebooth, it sounds like a stereotypical homeless person's name in the Simpsons/Futurama. If the company's name is Amazon why not name it Amy, or Maya or Amazo or Quetzalcoatl. Anything is better than Rufus.
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A focus group determined that Rufus was the way to go.
 
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