When an SVP at Red Hat unironically calls Llama 4 "open source" (despite the same 700M user limit, etc. @OpenSourceOrg has criticized: https://
opensource.org/blog/metas-lla
ma-license-is-still-not-open-source
…), it raises the question as to what damage AI has done to traditional views on "open source."
CULTURE
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Red Hat SVP Misuses Open Source Label for Meta Llama
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AI Atrophies the Brain: The Lost Bet of Cognitive Democratization
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My new article has been published in Trends. Feel free to tell me what you think about it! https://trends.levif.be/opinions/cartes-blanches/quand-lia-atrophie-le-cerveau-le-pari-perdu-de-la-democratisation-cognitive/
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Staff Engineers Struggle Finding Time for Technical Hobbies
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Partly I think it is a reflection of the advertising business model, and partly it is that this particular hobby skews in a quirky way, with a lot of e.g. staff engineers aspirationally wanting to do it but never having had the time to get good, because they were too busy at job.
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YouTube Art Teaching Economy: Mid-List Creator Income Trends
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This is similar in character to the economy for miniature painting advice. Without knowing exact numbers, I’d assume some of the best paid art teaching jobs anywhere are mid-list YouTubers.
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AI Image Generation for 3D Sculpture Marketing: Ethical Trade-offs
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If you’re one of the many sculptors who sell these things to people like me for a living, should you put all of your 3D renders through Image Generation to produce a painted reference, accepting some slight hallucination for the cheap marketing win?
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Scarlett Johansson: Cinema’s Vision of AGI and Human-Machine Symbiosis
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It is crazy that Scarlett Johansson not only is the earliest form of AGI in text/audio form in the movie Her. She is also the apex human/machine symbiotic being in Ghost in the Shell. If you want to see the future, just follow Scarlett around.
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Krea Launches Artist Program to Support Creative Community
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announcing Krea Artist Program.
— KREA AI (@krea_ai) 5 avril 2025
we are kick-starting this new program to support extraordinary artists within the Krea community.
read more 👇 pic.twitter.com/qA4dvV5EGCannouncing Krea Artist Program. we are kick-starting this new program to support extraordinary artists within the Krea community. read more
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Empire of AI Pre-Order Links Available for US and UK
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Already available! All pre-order links for the US edition here: https://
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/e
mpire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/
…; for the UK edition here: https://
penguin.co.uk/books/460331/e
mpire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9780241678923
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Western populations susceptibility to AI-driven propaganda concerns
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concerning. never seen western people fall for propaganda this easily.
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Robots and Humans: Class Conflict in Dystopian Metropolis
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“In the wealthy plutocratic city of Metropolis, humans co-exist with robot laborers designed to build and maintain the city. However, its impoverished human citizens discriminate against robots, blaming them for their unemployment and being forced to live in the squalid lower… https://t.co/0WBEFm39Du
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) 5 avril 2025“In the wealthy plutocratic city of Metropolis, humans co-exist with robot laborers designed to build and maintain the city. However, its impoverished human citizens discriminate against robots, blaming them for their unemployment and being forced to live in the squalid lower