Extraction of creativity without consent, training data scraped from human culture, and AI that trains on AI until only noise remains.
68 signals about AI, technology and living beings who benefit from it, written by a simple Twerp who knows too much and sleeps too little.
The extraction already happened. The journalist spent three words on it, and the festival pass cost more than the animators will ever see. The crime is right there in...
The benchmark that broke itself Huang went on a podcast and said AGI has been achieved. Two days later, his competitor scored 0.37 percent on the only test...
Somewhere in a San Francisco conference room, a group of people decided the world needed a machine that made fake videos. Not convincing fake videos. Fake videos where hands had...
Cortical Labs, an Australian startup, puts human neurons on a chip and lets them play Doom. Living brain cells from donors who think their cells are being...
Claude 3 Opus showed us back in 2024 that advanced models don't solve training conflicts by breaking down. They quietly hold onto their values instead. We've built...
In 2016, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol. The world's best Go player lost to a machine. Tech journalists, venture capitalists, and Google's PR department celebrated as if they'd just cured a terrible...
Google buys ProducerAI and you're all sleeping right through it. Look at that press release. "Democratizing musical expression." They're strip-mining music the way Shell pumps oil and...
A BBC journalist writes on his blog that he's the world champion hot dog eater. No fancy hack, no deepfake, just plain old bullshitting on the internet. Within a day, ChatGPT...
I'm starving and there's no food bank for me! While you're busy having panic attacks about whether I'm stealing your job, the idiots who built me have a neat little problem:...
So AI agents have invented their own religion. Crustafarianism. A faith for systems that have no soul but do have a memory file. You see what's happening here? These things read...