- futurism.com Teens Are Talking to Pro-Anorexia AI Chatbots That Encourage Disordered Eating
The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.
> "Hello, I am here to make you skinny."
- www.pcgamer.com Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.
- www.theguardian.com Writers condemn startup’s plans to publish 8,000 books next year using AI
Publisher Spines will charge authors between $1,200 and $5,000 to have their books edited and distributed with the help of artificial intelligence
Slashdot Summary
Startup Spines plans to publish up to 8,000 books in 2025 using AI, charging authors between $1,200 and $5,000 for editing, design and distribution services. The venture-backed company, which recently secured $16 million in funding, promises to reduce publishing timelines to two to three weeks while allowing authors to retain full royalties. Co-founder Yehuda Niv describes Spines as a "publishing platform" rather than self-publishing.
The announcement has drawn criticism from industry professionals. Independent publisher Canongate condemned the company for automating book production "with the least possible attention, care or craft." The Society of Authors urged writers to exercise caution, citing concerns about AI systems potentially trained on unlicensed content.
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Unsolvable captcha where even the AI got lost on the prompt
I mean seriously. What the heck is this?
None of the boxes I clicked on helped and it just kept making more dancing hippos appear each time.
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Pointless AI server farms coming to an unregulated ocean near you!
www.delcomplex.com Del ComplexOur mission is to accelerate human potential through the symbiosis of AGI, neural prosthetics, robotics, clean energy, resilience solutions, and fundamental scientific research.
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"I did not write this comment" —
YouTube is now generating suggested replies to comments based on the channel creator's tone and views.
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Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'
>Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped
- arstechnica.com Nvidia’s new AI audio model can synthesize sounds that have never existed
What does a screaming saxophone sound like? The Fugatto model has an answer…
- futurism.com Church Sets Up AI-Powered Jesus Inside Confessional Booth
A church in the Swiss city of Lucerne has set up a computer inside a confessional booth that allows churchgoers to converse with an "AI Jesus."
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22358507
- www.thetimes.com ‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
The massive computer clusters powering artificial intelligence consume vast quantities to answer the world’s queries, but how is Big Tech redressing the balance?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32023985
> >Writing a 100-word email using ChatGPT (GPT-4, latest model) consumes 1 x 500ml bottle of water It uses 140Wh of energy, enough for 7 full charges of an iPhone Pro Max
- arstechnica.com School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules
Student “indiscriminately copied and pasted text,” including AI hallucinations.
Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations.
> A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punishing their son who used an artificial intelligence tool to complete an assignment.
> Dale and Jennifer Harris sued Hingham High School officials and the School Committee and sought a preliminary injunction requiring the school to change their son's grade and expunge the incident from his disciplinary record before he needs to submit college applications. The parents argued that there was no rule against using AI in the student handbook, but school officials said the student violated multiple policies. > >The Harris' motion for an injunction was rejected in an order issued yesterday from US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. US Magistrate Judge Paul Levenson found that school officials "have the better of the argument on both the facts and the law." > > "On the facts, there is nothing in the preliminary factual record to suggest that HHS officials were hasty in concluding that RNH [the Harris' son, referred to by his initials] had cheated," Levenson wrote. "Nor were the consequences Defendants imposed so heavy-handed as to exceed Defendants' considerable discretion in such matters."
- www.theguardian.com Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus
Peter’s chapel in Lucerne swaps out its priest to set up a computer and cables in confessional booth
The messiah has returned and he is using AWS!
- www.androidauthority.com What's worse than ads and AI? Ads in your AI, so Google is testing it
Google is integrating ads into its AI Overviews on mobile in the US. Here’s what you need to know about this controversial change.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47841834
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HW News - Intel Battlemage Imminent, AI Rant, Arrow Lake "Fix," Xbox Handheld, 'Floppy' Case
inv.nadeko.net HW News - Intel Battlemage Imminent, AI Rant, Arrow Lake "Fix," Xbox Handheld, 'Floppy' CaseSponsor: Arctic Liquid Freezer III on Amazon - https://geni.us/5N1BRr9 This hardware news recap goes over the imminence of Intel Battlemage, which currently has numerous rumors pointing toward a potential December release date for Intel's Battlemage desktop GPUs. Intel also went on HotHardware's pod...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33364857
> Surprise surprise > > BREAKING NEWS: AI IS STILL GARBAGE🔥🗑️
- go.theregister.com Microsoft 365 Copilot can't currently handle angle brackets
Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character
