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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:20:54 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   • Dark Sheep Arts

   @DarkSheepArts Did the person who requested said proposal provide any sort of requirement list (what exactly the AI product is supposed to do) with justification (why an AI product is needed for that)?

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     Dark Sheep Arts (darksheeparts@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:23:23 JST Dark Sheep Arts

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     @aaribaud

     They did, but it's basically the word MONEY!!! written in crayon, lol.

     It's complicated for me, because my boss really wants it, but the org passionately doesn't.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:29:54 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Dark Sheep Arts

     @DarkSheepArts You have all my sympathy.

     Were this to happen to me(*), I'd take the money angle and dutifully write a spreadsheet with the left side labelled "costs" and listing how much the tool would cost in both upfront and recurrent spending (including, yes, all indirect costs such as insurance for potential damages etc), and the right side labelled "benefits" and conspicuously empty.

     (*) I *did* get a "how about about using blockchain?" question a few years back. For an embedded device.

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     Dark Sheep Arts (darksheeparts@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:33:25 JST Dark Sheep Arts

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     @aaribaud

     I get you. It's not too far from what I'm doing, lol. I think it's got big risks in terms of churning out other people's stuff without attribution (since they aren't able to be very transparent about where they got their training data), or being a massive vector for cyberattack (since it's essentially a computer with connected keyboard and mouse, that is attached to our network.)

     My sympathies on the blockchain question!

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 19:41:58 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Dark Sheep Arts

     @DarkSheepArts A third risk may be considered alongside IP and cybersecurity, if that AI will "talk" to customers: it might occasionally contradict itself or spout nonsense (which would progressively dent the company's credibility) or worse, false information (which might entail actual liability). Granted, both can be mitigated by paying spin doctors and/or lawyers, but still...