Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This is bonkers:

EMO: Emote Portrait Alive - Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model under Weak Conditions

https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/content/video/main_page.mp4

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impressive

https://www.iplawwatch.com/2015/03/24/do-not-use-audrey-hepburns-iconic-elements/#:~:text=The%20Court%20rejected%20the%20claim,recognized%20also%20by%20Italian%20Constitution.

IP law is likely to bite a lot of these a.i companies on the arse by assuming all content is free to use.

There's likely going to be a lot more lawsuits happening all over on the basis of what goes into and comes out of generative models. And a lot more bullshit, unfortunately.

I'm recruiting at the moment, it's more a case of whose cover letter hasn't been written by machine learning than whose has.

I've enlisted the help of AI for mine, spunking out 20 at a time a few times a week means it's almost impossible not to.

Someone relied on a.i a bit too much…
https://x.com/matthew_kupfer/status/1769915614246687178?s=61

The Mona Lisa one is particularly Bonkers.
(She, at least, is free to use)

I wonder if it could make it easier in any way. I look at those LinkedIn EasyApply jobs and some have 1000 or more applications. There are a lot of candidates who aren't prepared to put any effort in but some good ones who are probably frustrated they never get an interview.

Yes, I have tried to use it for marketing/website copy and it is just too corny to use.

How are you identifying where some sort of LLM has been used?

Ezra Klein has interesting podcasts on this at the moment.

Thanks, I’ve just listened to the first episode and it’s been pretty interesting.

Review of Humane AI Pin provides an interesting window into where things are heading and some of the shortcomings of current system (figure these gaps will be plugged in not too distant future)

https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

Sorry I completely missed this. I use it a lot to write text in a certain style and then use that as the basis of a version to amend and edit. You get to know the different voice of chatgpt vs co-pilot etc. Most cover letters appear just to be the first LLM output.

Just listened to most of the Amodei one, and found it incredibly interesting.

Favourite quote: "oh lord grant me chastity. But not yet."

Episode link which may or may not work

Inevitably, this happened to a company called Incognito ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/bbc-presenters-likeness-used-in-advert-after-firm-tricked-by-ai-generated-voice

So fed up with ChatGPT thinking I’m speaking Welsh 😩

My firstborn is about to start a new job. Journalist at a well known news magazine/website. He's part of a new team that will be specifcally generating/reseaching stories via AI. Feels a bit bleak/end times, but will be interesting how much is properly re-written vs click bait churn. (they are a reasonably premium outlet, so hopefully the former).
Also feels a bit turkey working in the Christmas dinner factory, but equally maybe it's the future and he's getting ahead of the game. A whole new generation of jobs appearing out there.

Newscorp Australia already replaced a load of local journos with AI, reported last year that they were producing 3k stories a week this way, I'm sure that's only increasing...

Fuck, that is bleak. 😬

But congrats! Some of my best mates are journalists, bunch of cunts the lot of them.

I am taken aback and annoyed at the sheer number of self-declared AI experts and companies pushing their sales pitch on social media channels. Up until early last year it was all about Data, now it’s all about AI, but curiously little about Machine Learning.

Met two people at a FTSE10 corp that landed cushy near-6-figure jobs in AI roles when they have an unrelated background and all they do is prompt engineering. I guess I admire their gumption.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8pMkOWOUiL/?igsh=MWQzczUyeGt5eDBvbw==

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/03/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley