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Established AI field signal Development 7d ago
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Suno AI music scraping revealed hack

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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“Hack reveals that Suno (AI music generator) was trained on copyrighted music www.404media.co/hack-reveals...”

“The lawsuits have made clear that Suno did train on huge amounts of copyrighted works, but the hacked data shared with 404 Media sheds more light on how Suno scraped songs from the internet and where it took them from. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Rea…”

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Jason Koebler: Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, …
Jason Koebler: Suno also scraped episodes from roughly 420,000 different podcasts, which was at least ~1 million hours of audio. They had code that specifically sought acapella versions of songs on YouTube for vo…
Jason Koebler: Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo

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“2/2 bsky.app/profile/oliv... pdf here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...”

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Olivia Guest: New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM"…
Olivia Guest: Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our g…
Olivia Guest: Anyway, back to the work itself (from the abstract): > Critical discourse on large language models (LLMs) has bifurcated between epistemic dismissal [...] and pragmatic accommodation that treats LL…
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cybernetic forests X Y reframing essay

It's Not Just X. It's Y.

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“If you look at all of Biden’s bullets you see this LLM pattern show up in some form or another — LLM templates aren’t a Mad Libs-style template, but they tend to repeat the same form of sentence. I wrote more here, if it’s of interest: mail.cyberneticforest…”

“Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.”

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Eryk Salvaggio: Not picking on OP or endorsing the trend, but the number of people sharing and being genuinely moved by Hunter Biden’s Claude output is a good window into how audiences see and respond to LLM-gener…
Eryk Salvaggio: A microcosm in the quote-posts, too. And look, I’m not using Pangram (I don’t have to) or calling for anyone to shun anybody. Just noticing something.
Eryk Salvaggio: Can’t say it’s Claude specifically but it has lots of telltale signs. It’s bullets, for one. Two: the terse “The noun verbed” opener. 3, the negative parallelism (“not x, not y. Z.”) repeated twice…
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UN AI panel erases human responsibility essay

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press

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“The UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI's assessment is a reference point for AI governance worldwide, writes Eryk Salvaggio. His concern: a definition that obscures human accountability "will carry that blind spot into the policies it infor…”

“Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the more detailed account of the definition drift. #AIEthics @t…”

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Joanna Bryson: Great job of revising and updating my 2023 Wired article, @eryk.bsky.social ! I especially prefer the title (though I never chose a Wired article title, those come from higher powers.) But also the…
Joanna Bryson: This one was great in its time though – I've been told it helped with the #AIAct by some of the people who were holding the "pens" www.wired.com/story/artifi... 2/2
Eryk Salvaggio: Apologies! I hadn’t seen this excellent 2022 accounting of the process when I was reviewing for this — my analysis’ “lit review” was more mired in the source docs. Yours is an excellent accounting …
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Established AI field signal Analysis 7d ago
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New Yorker AI slop prehistory essay

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

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“Jill Lepore wrote about automated art machines, not quite what you're looking for but part of the lineage, I'd say! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...”

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Dan Greene : Finn Brunton!
Dan Greene : Yeah I think also of people like Radway, writing a book about romance readers at a moment no one gave two shits
Eryk Salvaggio: Jill Lepore wrote about automated art machines, not quite what you're looking for but part of the lineage, I'd say! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago
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MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat

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“Who had “AI decimating sports coaching jobs” on their bingo card? futurism.com/artificial-i...”

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Hypervisible : Hahahaha.
Eryk Salvaggio: Hahahaha.
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8 experts · 45 posts · 17d ago
M.J. Crockett: Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how muc…
M.J. Crockett: Weizenbaum was an MIT computer scientist who built one of the first chatbots, ELIZA. He wrote the book out of a growing sense of horror as he saw how “extremely short exposures to a relatively simp…
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4 experts · 7 posts · 12d ago
Eryk Salvaggio: We really must acknowledge that when you see “AI” making half-assed work it’s because someone looked at it, said “good enough” and shared that half-ass work just to stand by it, point out that it w…
Eryk Salvaggio: Like yes Gen AI UX is designed to encourage half-assery but Netflix is designed to keep you binge watching and we would not tolerate an academic staying up all night watching the Great British Bake…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 16d ago
tante: Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonial…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Every global "Tech4Good" event, every meeting about digital "souvereignity", every summit about innovation has EA folks there poisoning the conversation with their eugenicist, corporatist, colonial…
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2 experts · 6 posts · 19d ago
Ali Alkhatib: i would encourage people considering getting into debates w/AI advocates to ask whether it changes your opinion of that proposition if i posited that the person you're arguing with doesn't consider…
Ali Alkhatib: rationalists and longtermists would almost certainly say that an ultra-utilitarian position supports building AI at any moral cost, like lying to people opposed to the data center project in their …
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2 experts · 2 posts · 11d ago
Eryk Salvaggio: Two studies I’d be curious about, if anyone has leads: 1) what are the hallucination rates in the latest gen of “agentic” LLMs? 2) how often are they reproducing text (not just biases / form, but c…
Mél Hogan / The Data Fix: Two studies I’d be curious about, if anyone has leads: 1) what are the hallucination rates in the latest gen of “agentic” LLMs? 2) how often are they reproducing text (not just biases / form, but c…
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