[Crabcakes]

All this run of bad news for the government will aid right-wing populists, and two people in particular... Conservative Kemi Badenoch and Reform's Nigel Farage, the latter backed by Elon Musk's billions.

Farage would *like* to be backed by Musk’s billions, but because rocket boy can’t do subtle and old fag ash seems to think Clacton is in Florida, we know all about that little wheeze 4 years in advance of the next election. And that’s assuming Musk hasn’t gone off politics altogether, because the chances of him and Trump still being buddies by then is lower than a worm’s arse.

[The Weeping Angel]

Of course and I don't think it was a bad thing either despite the Mail and others proclaiming it as a disaster and an attack on farmers and businesses.

[The Weeping Angel]

This on the other hand is a terrible idea.


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... o-train-ai

Under the proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process.

The changes are seeking to resolve a standoff between AI firms and creatives. Sir Paul McCartney has warned the technology “could just take over” without new laws while the government has warned “legal uncertainty is undermining investment in and adoption of AI technology.”

On Tuesday, News media organisations said that such a system would allow generative AI firms to “shirk their responsibilities”. Kidron said: “The government is consulting on giving away the creativity and livelihoods of the UK creative sector which is worth £126bn a year”.

Tech UK, which represents tech companies, welcomed the consultation, which proposes an exception to UK laws preventing the use of someone’s work without permission – that will allow companies such as Google and the ChatGPT developer OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted content.

However, it will also allow writers, artists and composers to “reserve their rights”, which involves declaring that they do not want their work to be used in an AI training process . The government said there needed to be greater transparency from AI developers about the material they use to train models, how they acquire it, and about the content subsequently generated and it said it could legislate around this.

[Bones McCoy]

This probably isn't the thread to discuss "AI ruins everything it touches".

But It's a chat worth having elsewhere.

[Oboogie]

This probably isn't the thread to discuss "AI ruins everything it touches".

But It's a chat worth having elsewhere.

Or we could just ask ChatGPT to discuss it for us.

[Abernathy]

I find I instinctively dislike AI-generated images and text, and I absolutely hate having to deal with chatbots (and I completely eschew spellcheckers and predictive text).

But Ai is apparently hear to stay. I might be gone before having to endure it for too long, though. Memento Mori.