Human Intelligence™ News Update 10/24
Your weekly roundup about human intelligence - Oct 20 thru Oct 26, 2024.
Human Creativity
FAKE FILM - Does AI Have a Cinematic Future?
Great movie storytelling won't be enhanced by technical trickery. In this overview, Jim Amos offers a critique of how the industry is dancing close to the abyss, and explains how film auteurs will never truly be replaceable. Read More »
SIGN THE STATEMENT - Fight For Human Agency
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” 10K+ human creators have signed: support this statement here »
ART EXHIBIT - Gritty Realm Exhibit Showcases Urban Art
In Hong Kong, Liu Kwok-hong curated "Gritty Realm" at Thy Lab, where 30 cleaners shared their very human stories through art, photos, and videos. Their heartfelt work included artworks made from urban trash, including takeout containers. Read More »
ART MEETS CELEBRITY - Johnny Depp’s Exhibit in NYC
Johnny Depp opened a new immersive art exhibition in New York featuring his paintings, word art, and personal items collected over decades. His artwork draws heavily from a life in Hollywood, including portraits of celebrities. Read More »
Human VS Robot
BACK OFF BOOKS - Publisher Takes Stand Against AI Scraping
Taking a firm stance against tech companies’ unlicensed use of its authors’ works, the publishing giant Penguin Random House will change the language on all of its books’ copyright pages to prohibit their use in training AI. Read More »
GETTING A CLUE - Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law
Suchir Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT. In August, he left OpenAI because he no longer wanted to contribute to harmful technologies and global theft of content. Read More »
FIGHTING BACK - Lawsuit Claims Character.AI is Responsible for Teen's Suicide
Megan Garcia says the company’s chatbots encouraged her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer, to take his own life. The lawsuit accuses the company of negligence, wrongful death, and intentional infliction of distress. Read More »
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
MICROSOFT IMMORAL - Let’s Get Rid of Copyright!
“What’s copyright?” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently asked, in a seeming bid to yank all copyright standards. Instead, big tech apparently just wants a free-for-all money-grab, with rights going to tech AI companies. Read More »
CHILD ABUSE - AI Encouraging Creepers Everywhere
Unregulated AI toolsets are generating vast volumes of terrible online content on sites such as Muah. Judging by data lifted from the site archives, abusers are using these tools to create child-sexual-abuse material (CSAM). Read More »
LINKEDIN - Human Users are Responsible for False AI Claims
In a bizarre attempt to avoid moral culpability, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is now stating that inaccurate, false, or fraudulent content produced by its AI is not its fault, but instead the responsibility of human users of LinkedIn. Read More »
CNN - Replacing Broadcasts with AI
CNN reports that a Polish radio station triggered controversy after dismissing its journalists & relaunching this week with AI-generated “presenters.” Read More »