Human Intelligence™ News Update 10/31
Your weekly roundup about human creativity in the age of AI. [Oct 26-Nov 1, 2024]
Human Creativity
BESTSELLING HUMAN - Books are ‘On the Ballot’
Jodi Picoult has teamed up with PEN America in a new video to say that 'books are on the ballot' this election. At a time when artificial content is flooding the zone, Picoult focuses on the unique bond between writer and reader. Read More »
REAL PREFERRED - Humans Like Human Work
Turns out people don’t like stories they think were written by AI. A new study by researchers at the University of Florida demonstrates that humans prefer human-created work over AI-created work. Read Futurity report »
HUMAN METAL - Popular Band Prohibits Phones
Metal band Ghost has chosen to showcase human connection over digital recording by banning phones at all concerts. Other artists like Jack White and Dave Chappelle have also adopted this phone-free approach. Read More »
REAL CARTOONS - Taking a Stand for Humanity
Popular Australian cartoonist and illustrator Andrew Marlton, known for First Dog on the Moon, delivers a gut-wrenching appeal to reject unchecked AI proliferation. Read More »
Human VS Robot
ACTORS AGAINST AI - Marvel Star Threatens Lawsuit
Despite starring in a play co-written by AI, and despite the film industry’s moral equivocation on AI, film star Robert Downey Jr. is threatening to sue anyone who creates a digital replica of his billion-dollar face. Read More »
TRACKING AI - See Where Your Content Goes
Scholarly publishers are licensing content at scale to companies that are building large language models (LLMs). Maya Dayan and Dylan Ruediger and Roger Schonfeld have now released a tracker for all these AI deals. See the tool here »
WATERMARKING AI - New Open Source Toolset
Google now officially watermarks all AI text outputs - using a SynthID algorithm originally tested (and rejected as unprofitable) by OpenAI. Watermarking of fake AI-generated content is now critically important. Read the Nature Study »
NO AI ALLOWED - The Schools that Prohibit Chat GPT
AI plagiarism is a plague in many classrooms. Yet The Atlantic found schools like Haverford College who have enforced rigorous safeguards against the use of AI. Read More »
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
AI SCHOLARSHIP - Industry Experts Weigh In
The effects of AI ingestion and hallucination on the world of professional scholarship and academic communication are closely examined by experts Tracy Bergstrom and Dylan Ruediger. Read their analysis here »
AI GOVERNMENT - White House Statement
On October 24, the White House released a new memorandum on AI that uncritically focused on possible future risks of new AI “capabilities that might pose a threat to national security.” Read analysis & critique here »
AI CODE - Google Claims 25% Adoption
Fortune uncritically accepts Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s claim that 25% of Google’s code is now written by AI, despite Google’s past misleading claims as well as Google’s spectacular failures in AI-powered search. Read Fortune report »
AI PORN - Prison Sentence for Digital Child Abuse
A British man who used artificial intelligence to create, and sell images of child sexual abuse was sent to prison for 18 years on Monday. Read More »