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> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”
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> Amazon canceled the superhero series after just one season last month, days before the first weekend of the Emmy Awards, where it had earned 11 nominations (the most of any Prime Video program this year). The cancellation was a shocker to many in the industry, considering the series amassed 2.6 billion minutes viewed in its first six weeks and earned praise from critics and audiences alike.

when you want to slopify your most popular series so bad you self-immolate when its star tells you fuck no

anyway, good on Nick Cage for being on the right side of AI https://flipboard.com/@variety/variety-h2bfsrg0z/-/a-48NiA-94RauczPGq3XfkEQ%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0

commenting “if we ban LLMs in open source projects people will just lie about not using them” as if it’s not exactly the same thing as “open source software isn’t possible because people will just commit commercial code and lie about it”

like, did we not learn a damn thing from when microsoft and SCO tried this exact shit?

“the anti-AI people were really toxic in my DMs and email” that’s horrible if true. unfortunately you’re a liar advocating for a lying machine, so I don’t think I’ll believe you unless you post proof. also, the public messages you’re pointing to as toxic are just angry? nobody is threatening you. people are right to be angry at you if you’re doing something terrible.

it’s weird how open source projects banning the inclusion of license-incompatible code didn’t lead to witch hunts and bullying

almost like every time we see anti-LLM people get accused of doing witch hunts and bullying, it’s actually the pro-AI guys crybullying because they got told no

some fucking coward decided to reply to a reply to this post to do this exact thing, except they untagged me so I wouldn’t see it?????

and they of course decided to talk over my points instead of replying to them in any way

apple fans… are you ok? why are you like this? you understand that apple does things in order to make money, right? you understand that feeding authentic, original, valuable images to the slop machine is one of the few ways they (likely incorrectly) think they can make a profit off the shit they invested a ton of money into, right?

please don’t tediously reply to this thread with a bunch of horseshit copied from apple’s marketing about how it’s good for journalists or “evidence” when there’s a ton of other technical and non-technical ways to authenticate doctored images, and none of those get fed to the slop machine

here, shithead, even though you ignored all my points (especially the ones about consent), let me reply directly to a point you made:

apple wants a small number of genuine, high quality photos from people like journalists because exfiltrating high-quality privileged information from specialists is the only way to make an LLM look like it’s doing a good job. that’s why OpenAI did it recently. that’s why AI corporations keep getting caught doing it. apple is an AI corporation.

so apple, the company that admitted out loud it needs people to opt into exfiltrating their data to train Siri AI (as much as you can call a “yes please” / “not now” prompt opt in) or it won’t work, simultaneously released an image tagging system that isn’t useful for identifying generative images in the wild (because it’s proprietary metadata that’ll get stripped as soon as the image is converted for use on the web) but is highly useful for identifying genuine images to train Siri AI on

do I have that right

I’ve been accused for the first time in my life of being nuanced (and boy do I hate it) so uh

ed sheeran fucking sucks and is firmly on the wrong side of history

this, however, is macklemore: https://mas.to/@zzt/117232467844907465

I’m not here to tell you to stop being pro-Palestine or anti-genocide, because all moral people with a fucking backbone should be loudly pro-Palestine and anti-genocide. it’s maddening that doing the right thing has consequences, and I wish there were a lot more organized resistance. I wish there were harsh consequences for people in power ruining the careers and lives of the people speaking out.

macklemore is a poor choice of figure to organize around, and you should be very careful he doesn’t use your support in ways you won’t like

ed sheeshran

if you work in HR: fuck you

your one and only job is to fire the guy who keeps harassing his coworkers, and you don’t fucking do it

you aren’t a psychologist. this is not how psychology works. you’re a weak little person who wants power over candidates and people seeking appropriate compensation for their labor. and I didn’t need a fake fucking test to figure that out

this is the kind of shit we’re going to tell future generations about as a cautionary tale

what do you mean this resembles a voting literacy test? https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test that’s not the kind of attitude that gets you hired around here

corporations: “why can’t we get any good applicants? nobody wants to work”

also corporations: “we use this AI-powered psychometric test to filter out undesirable candidates, such as those with low IQs (as measured by a test that doesn’t work), anxiety, or depression. you can trust us because we paid a group of psychologists to sign off on it! also you have to do it on camera and if we see you mouth the words ‘automated eugenics’ that’s an automatic failure”

so here’s the costume he supposedly randomly picked the day his career ended, and here’s the nazi propaganda poster it resembles, down to the coat

also the quick heil hitler he popped, of course

you know, I think we can do better on pro-Palestinian figures than the guy whose career ended when he came onto stage dressed like a Nazi propaganda poster and popped a quick Hitler salute, who was last in the spotlight when he tried to make the Richard Spencer/nazi youth haircut his signature style and had to apologize for it

it is fucked that the Israeli state weaponized “antisemite” against everyone who’s anti-genocide, but I’m pretty sure the Thrift Shop guy is a genuine antisemite and the type of nazi you don’t want in your movement

anyway I’m gonna post some pictures of this shit under a CW because my memory was that his career ended due to a wig and a beard and it’s uhhh much worse than that

“you’re taking them out of context” they’ve been actively destroying context by scrubbing their posts

“they were only pointing out how the codeberg ban on cryptocurrencies affected them” and I was only pointing out it didn’t, and that they’re the exact types of dickheads who pretend it did

and of course this came from an account that registered a couple months ago and has barely any activity other than this specific topic

how weird that almost everyone defending graphene and making weird accusations has an account that looks like that

grapheneOS megafans are so fucking normal

please don’t be a megafan of a fucking software project

if you find yourself on a discord for a privacy project raiding other communities that criticized that project: what are you doing?

if the project is so fragile that criticism could kill it, a motivated adversary (which fedi isn’t) can do much worse than that

shielding a project from critique makes us all less safe. a project that can’t take critique from its users is one that’s incapable of keeping any of us safe.

I have used the same methodology as all those openAI and anthropic arxiv papers about how the LLMs are scheming to determine that my XML is alive and ready to go to pound town/moisture city/the holes zone