AI produced media content. Pictures, stories, and songs/lyrics

JBR said:
I can accept that as true. There are certainly instances, though, where, when the family & old friends get together, it may be impossible to sit at a table or in a living room together without certain persons staring at the smart-phone they're clutching. We used to say "I bumped into an old friend today downtown" but now it may mean two people staring at their phones collided on a sidewalk or crosswalk.:LOL:
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I know. It is horrible that we are losing the ability to be people with people without a gadget near us!
JBR said:
But also, many forms of communication are being grouped under the umbrella of AI. Maybe I'm odd... but I've always been selective about the tech I use.

Please excuse, if you will, this Canadian's view. I apologize in advance. To me, it appears that American culture isn't integrated nowadays, but divide & polarized. There may be some broad cultural sharing in terms of entertainment, though entertainment is like a party... and not all of life is one big party.
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True, and right now American entertainment and advertising are racing to get the jump on the new tech. Some of these AI assistants are really just sales machines. Selective is extremely important in how we use AI. We will just have to see. 2024 should be quite a year, with the election coming up, and all the competition to be an "influencer". :)

JBR said:
Time will teach us.
In any case PD, I'm grateful you & I have connected by way of this online forum.☺️
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You bet. What is the line...? "Think globally, act locally."
 

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Insights like that are interesting, but obviously way too general. Those men will be ones in a pitiable psychological condition. I'd say "no thanks" to the option. Those fellas will warrant our compassion.

Not that I can deny that modern social trends are isolating & frustrating. Those AI-consoled men (and women?) will be some sort of minority and probably viewed as peculiar. But they'll also be a factor in society in some way, I'd suppose.
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I believe you are right about this. At least I hope so. :) Of course my friend didn't mean that all men (or women) would choose that option. I said I don't want anymore romantic partners in my life after my husband passed...that would include robots, though in some instances, they might be easier to deal with. :LOL:
 
Along with the advancements in AI in 2024, we can feel some consternation as it gets smarter. I found a pretty good article describing the no so good things that possibly/probably happen in 2024. :)

As 2024 begins, there has been plenty of speculation about what lies ahead for artificial intelligence. AI was the hottest industry in the world last year and it will likely continue to be so throughout 2024—and maybe the rest of your godforsaken life. That said, many of the concerns about this startling new technology have not been resolved or mitigated. While AI promises bold new capabilities for companies and web users, there are tons of potential harms that it could inflict upon us over the next twelve months. On that topic, here are some of the ways that AI could totally suck this year:
  • More people could lose their jobs because of AI. Last year was a year of unprecedented layoffs and it’s hard not to draw a throughline between that and the fact that it was also the year that companies pivoted towards new kinds of automation. This year probably won’t be much different. A recent survey of business leaders showed that some 40 percent said they would probably conduct additional layoffs in 2024. Similarly, 40 percent of those surveyed said that they planned to replace laid-off workers with AI. I have argued that the main “benefit” of AI—at least, insofar as companies are concerned—is that it is a cost-saving mechanism that allows them to boot certain workers and replace them with software.
  • AI will continue to be a major disinformation generator. Everybody knows that the internet is awash in mis- and disinformation but experts contend that the problem is about to get a whole helluva lot worse, thanks to AI. Indeed, there’s been no shortage of warnings from technologists about just how bad the disinformation problem could get now that web users can generate massive amounts of visual, textual, and video content with the click of a button. As America gears up for what is set to be a very important presidential election, the internet seems primed for a perfect storm of AI-generated bullshit. God help us.
  • AI will continue to make the entertainment industry more annoying. Last year, AI made tons of inroads into the entertainment industry, from AI-generated music (some of which became subject to lawsuits) to AI influencers, actors, and porn stars. This year, much of that will continue and I, for one, am not excited about it. Even before AI came on the scene, pop culture in America was already in trouble. Now that people are hellbent on “disrupting” stuff like music, movies, and comedy with AI avatars and auto-generated songs and jokes, it seems destined to produce a pop culture wasteland that is somewhere between being fascinating in a car-wreck sorta way and unequivocally unbearable.
  • Get ready for more cloying enthusiasm from the worst parts of the tech world. 2023 was the year that a new techno-utopian ideology sprang up to support the nascent AI industry. The techno-optimists, as they call themselves, have kicked off what is little more than a PR campaign for their own greed, vaunting a deranged pseudo-philosophy that uncritically celebrates the dual principles of “innovation” and “capitalism” and attacks anything that threatens or is moderately critical of them. I think we can expect much, much more of that kind of year, the bulk of which will be circulated in an effort to ward off stuff like government regulations or attempts to institute ethical guidelines in AI development.
  • Police technologies will get much creepier. The odious industry that generates police surveillance and enforcement equipment is already creepy AF but some experts contend that AI is poised to supercharge its creepiness by an exponential degree. When combined with extant biometric and digital surveillance technologies, AI has the potential to make government monitoring systems that much more powerful and comprehensive, leading to incursions against civil liberties.

In the interest of fairness, we’ll try to do a round-up in the coming weeks of all the ways that AI could actually be pretty cool this year. If the technology’s benefits are slightly less obvious to me than those on the suck-list, I’ll still try my best to play devil’s advocate.

"Botshit"?​

AI has spawned more than a few head-scratching terms over the past several years but we got an all-timer this week: “botshit.” We can thank a team of academic researchers for that one, who coined it in a recent paper on AI content generation. In essence, botshit is a play on bullshit and refers to the ways in which generative

AI can be used to create content that is filled with inaccurate or misleading information. In other words, it’s basically a re-branding of “hallucination,” which is the well-known term that refers to LLMs’ penchant for spouting incorrect or wholly fabricated “facts.” Researchers have highlighted the necessity of using risk management approaches to combat the spread of “botshit” online, especially as the upcoming 2024 presidential election offers plenty of opportunities for such content to directly interfere with America’s political process.

More headlines this week​

  • The King is back, with a little help from AI. Elvis Presley died on a toilet 40 years ago, and he’s just as popular as ever. In addition to being the focus of two new feature films and a swell of documentaries and books, it now appears that the King will be coming back from the dead! Well, not literally. Rather, an AI-fueled hologram of him will be used to perform a “concert” in London this November.
  • “Elvis Evolution” promises to use a combination of augmented reality and onstage special effects to bring the rock star back to the stage. This unholy resurrection is being brought to you by Layered Reality, a tech startup that partnered with the Elvis Presley estate owner Authentic Brands Group to make the show happen. In addition to his “performance” in London, AI Elvis will make tour stops in Berlin, Toyko, and, of course, Las Vegas.
  • Turns out OpenAI is a total cheapskate when it comes to paying news publishers. Companies like OpenAI have trained their algorithms with massive troves of articles from major newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, leading to accusations that the companies are stealing and repackaging copyrighted content from the outlets. AI firms have tried to stave off this kind of legal action by brokering deals with news organizations to license their content. However, it doesn’t sound like newspapers stand to gain much from those deals. This week we learned OpenAI is only paying $1-5 million to cooperating news orgs, a pretty pathetic handout in comparison to what the content is potentially worth.
  • Jeff Bezos is coming for Google with a new AI startup. Everybody’s favorite bald billionaire is trying to break into the AI game by backing a new startup. Yes, the guy who killed your local bookstore and built the most gargantuan e-commerce company in existence has thrown some money behind Perplexity, a small California firm that the Wall Street Journal reports is “going after Google’s dominant position in web search.”
  • Perplexity promises to upend the way people surf the web by offering what it calls an “answer engine.” Said engine sounds similar to other AI-assisted search products that have been launched recently and uses an interface to answer web users’ questions directly rather than referring them to droves of indexed links. Bezos and other rich investors have recently poured $74 million into Perplexity, in the hopes that it is the next big thing.

All the Ways AI Could Suck in 2024
 

Current efforts are clever, and could have useful applications, but the only thing I see to fear here is abuses of the technology.

I suspect these are going down a wrong road if the goal is real autonomy or semi-sentience. Of course the future may see additional paths explored besides those so active right now.
 
Nathan said:
I'm rapidly losing interest(and belief) in images and stories flooding the internet.
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Yep, you never know what/where/how the media is being produced. But, for me that makes it more than interesting because I am very interested in propaganda. This new AI produced media is being produced at an increasing rate. How will we be able to make decisions or find "facts" if everywhere we go on the internet/or any media to find out what is happening in our world, we find user made propaganda?
Plus, when one of these fake media projects goes viral, how is it effecting people's beliefs. This is going to be very hard to track. Looks like a pretty chaotic period in our vast ability to communicate with one another. Plus the 2024 elections are coming up. Wow!
 
Paco Dennis said:
Playing around with a portrait maker AI. I uploaded 16 images of my portrait pics and it computed an AI generator for me, specially. :) Here are a few results.

View attachment 324993 As a pro ice hockey player.
View attachment 324994 As Emperor of Earth
View attachment 324995 The Director of MicroAI
View attachment 324996 Peace out man
View attachment 324997 Paco or Bust?
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Those are wild. You really are into this AI stuff, huh! I think my favorite is Paco or Bust. I just noticed, your features remind me of a ver wise lady friend I've connected with on three other social media platforms. Two are now defunct, the other is Facebook.
 
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I have a new interest. Making AI generated commercials. It does all the work, I provide simple guidance. You can get pretty creative with it. It is a feature of "Cap-Cut." So many of the videos I have seen lately have been made with AI programming. It is becoming the norm for an economy that is wild. I have only made 2, and they were not well thought out...but you will get the idea.

 
Misa just emailed me a short video. The guy makes "visionary" movie trailers...all with AI, even the voice transfer thing. He has a few more also.

 
In Germany the "Junge WerteUnion", the recruitment organization of a conservative party, created this pic with AI. The text is: "You'll have a family and you'll be happy!" They got a shitstorm by many leftists. Why? All members of this family are white.
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Just read this thread.
Mind blown

I have always believed that science and religion would come together as one.
I'm wondering.....did He create the heavens and earth....or did He generate the heavens and earth....?
 
George1959 said:
In Germany the "Junge WerteUnion", the recruitment organization of a conservative party, created this pic with AI. The text is: "You'll have a family and you'll be happy!" They got a shitstorm by many leftists. Why? All members of this family are white.
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I've noticed that the link to the pic has been removed. Maybe because of 'politics'.
 
I am not at all technical but I assume if you play with AI APPS to improve your photos, are you not supplying your images to those who could use them inappropriately?
 
Rose65 said:
I am not at all technical but I assume if you play with AI APPS to improve your photos, are you not supplying your images to those who could use them inappropriately?
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It is possible, but I have nothing that they want. It was just one site. I am careful not to put my image online. I wonder if they really want an image of you, somewhere your picture ID resides, I would think.?
 
The subject came up recently about the woman being killed by the protective dog. I got to thinking about it. Someone said they need to make the laws stricter so that the animals are taken care of, not abused or neglected. Punishments for breaking these laws should be enforced. I wanted to share with the group about a way to research questions like this that it would do us all well to be aware of. Just aware of. That usually takes some concentration and attention. But in our mixed up crazy world, there are ways now to get information that is not ( so) bias. I got this information from "Poe".

It has many types of AI Assistants available. Using the "Chat" this is what I entered in the prompt and the answer. When you have questions...I mean real ones ( unless you use "Pi" the friendly AI assistant. It gets humor). I heard that about half of 13 through college kids are using these tools all the time. They are coming into many aspects of our lives now. There is nothing we can do to hide from them anymore. The less you know your enemy the worse off you will be. Turn the enemy into friend, quickly, before they get too much power.

animal cruelty. It’s high time that the laws be stricter in order to prevent these kinds of irresponsible breeders and owners from having access to animals.


Assistant

Poe
I completely agree that animal cruelty is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Stricter laws and regulations can play a crucial role in preventing irresponsible breeders and owners from causing harm to animals. Many countries already have laws in place to protect animals, but there is always room for improvement.

Here are some measures that can help in preventing animal cruelty:

Strengthening Animal Cruelty Laws: Governments can review and update existing animal cruelty laws to ensure they are comprehensive, enforceable, and have appropriate penalties for offenders. This may include stricter punishments for acts of cruelty, neglect, or abuse.

Licensing and Regulation of Breeders: Implementing licensing and registration requirements for breeders can help ensure that only responsible individuals or organizations with proper facilities and knowledge are allowed to breed animals. Strict inspections and monitoring can help prevent the proliferation of irresponsible breeders and discourage illegal breeding operations.

Mandatory Animal Welfare Education: Educating the public about animal welfare, responsible pet ownership, and the consequences of animal cruelty is essential. This can be done through public awareness campaigns, school curricula, and community programs. By promoting empathy and compassion towards animals, we can foster a culture that values their well-being.

Improved Animal Welfare Standards: Governments can establish and enforce minimum standards for animal care across various industries, such as farming, entertainment, and research. These standards can ensure that animals are treated humanely, have adequate living conditions, and are not subjected to unnecessary suffering.

Strengthening Animal Protection Agencies: Providing adequate resources and support to animal protection agencies, such as animal control departments and animal welfare organizations, is crucial. These agencies play a vital role in investigating and responding to reports of animal cruelty, rescuing animals from abusive situations, and providing them with necessary care.

Encouraging Adoption and Responsible Pet Ownership: Promoting adoption from animal shelters and rescue organizations can help reduce the demand for animals from irresponsible breeders. Educating potential pet owners about the responsibilities and commitments involved in caring for animals can also help prevent impulsive or ill-prepared adoptions.

Reporting and Whistleblower Protection: Encouraging individuals to report cases of animal cruelty and providing protection to whistleblowers can help uncover instances of abuse and hold offenders accountable.

It's important to note that laws alone cannot completely eliminate animal cruelty. Public awareness, responsible pet ownership, and a collective commitment to animal welfare are equally important. By working together, we can create a society that values and protects the well-being of animals.

https://poe.com/

Other Text assistants:

"Bard"
‎Bard - Chat Based AI Tool from Google

"Pi"
https://pi.ai/talk

"Cluade"
Claude

Also the Microsoft Edge browser has "CoPilot"
 
Super Bowl Ticket info: CoPilot

Are there scalpers already buying up tickets for the Super Bowl? And where can I get some that are really cheap?

Searching for: Super Bowl tickets scalpers
Generating answers for you…
Super Bowl 58 is just around the corner, and ticket prices have soared to record highs. While some fans are eagerly securing their seats, others are exploring more affordable options. Here’s what you need to know:
  1. Ticket Prices:
  2. Front-Row Extravaganza:
  3. Scalping Rules:
    • The NFL keeps a tight grip on Super Bowl tickets, but there’s an interesting exception: team owners and their clubs.
    • Owners can sell tickets above face value, as long as they package them with travel companies and ticket vendors as part of a sponsorship deal. This way, it doesn’t look like blatant scalping2.
  4. Be Cautious:
    • Beware of unofficial sources claiming to offer cheap tickets. Scammers and scalpers are always lurking.
    • Stick to reputable ticket marketplaces like Ticketmaster, StubHub, or Vivid Seats to ensure a legitimate purchase.
Remember, the Super Bowl is a thrilling experience, but it’s essential to make informed choices when securing your tickets. Enjoy the game! 🏈🎉
 
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