Strikes me that we've all been worrying about what nazis and fascists are going to do when they can buy verification But those people aren't smart or funny. The real question should always have been "what are people with a devious sense of humour going to do with this?"
ETHICS
-
Re-impressionism Challenges AI Censorship of NSFW Content
By
–
The themes chosen by Re-impressionists were also in challenge to the #AI-based censorship, exploring so-called NSFW themes that would be aggressively censored by cloud services which monopolized terra- and peta-byte generative models. "Not Safe For Who?"
-
Artists mistagging artwork to resist AI scraping practices
By
–
Besides the legal challenges to the practice of #AI scraping images, artists further pushed their non-compliance against late-capitalist corporations my intentionally mistagging their re-impressionist art to confuse scrapers. #TrendingOnFartStation #4K #DSLR
-
Pixel patterns cause image blur for corporations using uncurated datasets
By
–
The use of these pixel patterns resulted in increasingly blurred images throughout the 2020s for corporations still using uncurated and infringing web-scale datasets — as opposed to the industry standard datasets based on opt-in consent.
-
Adversarial Pixel Patterns Outside Natural Image Manifold
By
–
In particular, the pixel patterns used were specifically not on the "manifold" of natural images — thus making it difficult for algorithms such as Latent Diffusion to generate good results. Ironically, optimization techniques were used to find these adversarial pixel patterns!
-

Re-Impressionism: Digital Art Movement Against AI-Generated Art
By
–
Re-Impressionism is a digital art movement that became popularised in 2023, as a response for — and in opposition to — the trend of #AI-powered art. Its core technique is a modern version of pointillism, where intricate pixel patterns are used to depict scenes.
-
Bridgetown Initiative Inspires AI Policy and Technological Design
By
–
Thank you, Prime Minister Mottley, for your deeply encouraging and pragmatic Bridgetown Initiative. I look forward and am committed to seeing how your efforts can inspire technological design, creation and policy. Your actions and words bring comfort and inspire action.
-
Elon Musk criticized for mass layoffs announcement timing
By
–
very cool thing to tweet after firing half a company https://
x.com/elonmusk/statu
/elonmusk/status/1591327015810269185
… -

Artificial General Intelligence: The Next Phase of AI Evolution
By
–
The human touch: ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ is next phase of AI https://
c4isrnet.com/cyber/2022/11/
11/the-human-touch-artificial-general-intelligence-is-next-phase-of-ai/
… @C4ISRNET #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #BigData #Analytics #Robots #100DaysofCode #IoT #serverless #DEVCommunity #womenwhocode #DigitalTransformation #NLP #Python #DeepLearning -
Consent and Fair Compensation for Artists in AI Training
By
–
This is a good thread! Almost all replies about consent being opt-in, which is the right thing to do both from the artists perspective and from the companies they are licensing their dataset too. Users will win that one at this rate… Then it's about getting them paid!