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#AIpocalypse

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«There’s been something of an epidemic of malicious bots on the internet these days. You may have seen a post recently titled “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face“, or “FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies“. Those are all happening to us, too. Surprise.»

TCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog - blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorized

blog.xkeeper.netTCRF has been getting DDoSed – Xkeeper's blog

Can't read it, don't want to read it... (also, not linking anymore to the NY Times).

Anyway, the headline:

NY Times: She is in Love with ChatGPT

"A 28-year old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex."

#ai#llms#love

"The addition of A.I.’s energy demand pushes back the finish line in a race we were already struggling to run, and the return of Trump, who intends to pull America back out of the climate accords, suggests that the world’s largest economy will cease to even try."
@ezraklein
#AIpocalypse

nytimes.com/2025/01/12/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through.By Ezra Klein

ABC (Australia): "Animal shelters say their Facebook pages and posts are being deleted by Meta's artificial intelligence tool.

Under Meta's standards users can't advertise animals for sale, but can advertise rehoming and adoptions."

abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/met

ABC News · Meta deletes pet adoption organisations' Facebook pages and postsBy Julia André

BBC: Blade Runner 2049 maker sues Musk over robotaxi images

"Production firm Alcon Entertainment claims it had specifically denied a request from Warner Bros to use material from the film at the launch event for Tesla's long-awaited robotaxi.

Alcon alleges that despite its refusal Tesla and the other organisers of the event on 10 October used artificial intelligence (AI) to create promotional imagery based on the film...."

bbc.com/news/articles/ce3z37dp

#AI#crime#copyright

DW: Portrait by robot to be sold at Sotheby's in world first "...The piece created by Ai-Da, a humanoid robot artist powered by artificial intelligence, will be the first sold at a major auction house and is set to go under the hammer at Sotheby's in London next month.... The large-scale artwork is entitled "AI God"" dw.com/en/portrait-by-robot-to #ai #art #sothebys #auction #robot #AIpocalypse

Deutsche Welle · Portrait by robot to be sold at Sotheby's in world firstBy Deutsche Welle