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Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Gonna tell my graphics students that I teach them stuff even Nvidia folks can't do!
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
You cannot comprehend the RAGE that rushed through me as I saw that the first google result for googling Hieronymus Bosch is incestuous AI sloop.
What are we even doing here...?
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Techbros in the replies like "fine then, I'm never using Procreate" like yeah don't worry we already knew you wouldn't, that would have required actually picking up a pencil lmaooo
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Gross use of Ai aside... I can't believe what a terrible business idea this is.
There are more comics being made in more styles and genres today there there ever have been. It's also easier to get your work published an in front of people than it ever has been. The biggest problem most creators face today is finding and building an audience. So many great books go unread.
This is a supply and demand problem. Right now the supply of comics outpaces demand for them. Creating an app that will flood the market with AI slop solves nothing and makes that problem worse. Anyone who did 10 minutes of research before starting this business would have seen that.
NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Raises $4 Milion To Create A.I. Comic Books With A New App Called Lumi #ai #lumi 🔗 bleedingcool.com/comics/nfl-…
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
You mean.. stealing from artists who were already poor in general isn’t pulling in that fat money artists didn’t make in the first place? GET OUT
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
I think we all kinda knew this was coming 😞
Great in depth story though, worth the read.
AI is already killing jobs in video games. My investigation for @Wired reveals that major studios are already using AI for concept art and asset generation, foisting AI trainings on games workers and that AI is playing a role in the mass layoffs that have roiled the field.
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
This is insane. The Taiwanese government is paying farmers to NOT grow rice because they need the water for AI chip manufacturing instead. We're prioritizing AI over feeding people during a drought.
Taiwanese farmers were forced to grow less rice because the AI chip manufacturer needed water.
h/t @SashaMTL
npr.org/2023/04/13/116946299…
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Investigation reveals that a dataset used for gen AI training by Apple & others contains copyrighted YouTube transcripts accessed without permission. More info:
- The Pile dataset contains transcripts of 170k YouTube videos
- Used by Apple, Anthropic, Nvidia, Salesforce & more to train LLMs
- YouTube doesn’t allow this, so were transcripts accessed illegally?
- Transcripts were taken without the knowledge of the YouTube creators, who include @MrBeast, @MKBHD & many more
- This is against creators’ wishes: some are “frustrated”, one calls it “theft”
- Dataset includes videos that have since been deleted from YouTube (but you can’t delete them from a scraped dataset)
- At least some of the AI companies knew it included YouTube video transcripts but trained on it anyway
- At least one of the AI companies uses the excuse that Eleuther (a non-profit) did the scraping, not them. (This is a common line from AI companies.)
- As ever, one of the AI companies uses the excuse that the dataset is “publicly available”, apparently ignoring the fact that the data is copyrighted and may have been accessed illegally
It is all too common that one organization scrapes copyrighted work, claiming ignorance of how it will be used, and another (often a large tech company) trains a commercial AI model on that scraped work.
This is exploitative of creators, and cannot be permitted.
wired.com/story/youtube-trai…
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
More and more people are leaving OpenAi and speaking out about what’s really going on. This former employee calls OpenAsshole the Titanic of Ai. Safety was put on the back burner, and hubris rushes forward. Color me shocked
futurism.com/openai-research…
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
We can bury it in the metaverse with an NFT for a headstone where no one will everrr fiiiiind iiiit
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Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
"May all of your dreams come true too"
Corporate America says with an ad using a technology that is currently killing people's dreams and exploiting their labor
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Without our creative jobs, your theft machine wouldn’t have its very guts and innards. But that’s okay. Since you don’t need them, we’ll take them back. Disembowel it. Spill its very blood. Because it’s our blood. We’ll take that back too, bitch.
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
I don't think I ever shared this one, but it's one of many instances of Midjourney's blatant IP theft.
They've intentionally and extensively trained their AI on copyrighted Hollywood IP, to say nothing of artists and photographers.
More here: spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney…
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
Crazy how the punishment is a fine and not the immediate liquidation of the company and disbursement of all its assets as reparations to the workers and communities.
BREAKING: In a landmark victory for human rights, a US jury just found @Chiquita guilty of funding death squads in Colombia that were killing people near the company's banana farms.
First time US courts hold major corporation accountable for human rts abuses abroad.👊🙏
Chris Hildenbrand retweeted
The anger over the terms of service is the flashpoint but not the cause of their customer's anger.
The anger comes from generative AI and how it is trained on creative’s work without their permission. When Firefly rolled out last year Adobe claimed they had the rights to use the images they trained on. How did Adobe get that permission? They changed their terms of service. The creators who signed up to sell their work on Adobe’s stock image service had no idea that their work would ever be used in AI and have watched a portion of their income (or their entire livelihood) dry up over the past year.
Many of us rely on Adobe Creative Cloud to create everything we make. The files stored on Adobe’s cloud are made by the best working photographers, illustrators, designers and videographers in the world. This data is a gold mine to any corporation making generative AI. The greatest untapped natural resource of creative work in the world.
The backlash to the terms of service is really the customer’s way of saying: Hell no you can’t train on my personal data!
Adobe posted yesterday that they are revising their terms of service and those would roll out later this month. This won’t change anything because people are mad about how Adobe has taken advantage of their customers in the past and their AI business model is totally incentivized to do it again. As long as Adobe’s plan for growth is laser focused on AI they are on a collision course with their own customers.
Sharing an update on changes and clarifications coming to Adobe's Terms of Use to address customer concerns. As technology evolves, so must our Terms of Use. Learn more: adobe.ly/TermsOfUseUpdate
