Google appears to be assigning AI-created (or random?) names to streets in the Shetland Islands.
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#ai #slop #maps #mapping #gis
Slashdot: AI Publishing Startup Plans To Release 8,000 Books Next Year https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/27/1347207/ai-publishing-startup-plans-to-release-8000-books-next-year?
#ai #slop #llm #books
Laundry sorting robot, so the techlords won't have to underpay undocumented immigrants to sort their laundry.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/15/laundry-sorting-robot-digit-web-summit-ai-future #robot #labor #AI #llm
IEEE Spectrum: The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete
Big data means big concrete. And that’s undoing tech’s climate pledges
https://spectrum.ieee.org/green-concrete
#climate #concrete #AI #LLMs #ClimateEmergency
Vice.com: Parents Trust ChatGPT More Than Doctors, New Study Finds 😬 https://www.vice.com/en/article/parents-trust-chatgpt-more-than-doctors-new-study-finds/ #AI #chatgpt #LLMs
Axios: OpenAI's for-profit plan questioned by Delaware Attorney General
"...OpenAI began as a nonprofit research institution — pledged to ensure that artificial general intelligence "benefits all of humanity" — but over time Microsoft and others have invested in a for-profit subsidiary. ...OpenAI has promised investors it will convert to a for-profit entity over the next two years or they can get their money back..."
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/30/openai-for-profit-delaware-attorney-general
#AI #LLM #OpenAI
CBS News: Chipotle turns to AI hiring platform to screen job applicants https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chipotle-ava-cado-ai-hiring/ #AI #jobs #AIpocalypse
New York Times: Global Electricity Demand Is Rising Faster Than Expected, I.E.A. Says
A surge in power use worldwide could make it harder for nations to slash emissions and keep global warming in check.
(paywall, registration wall, terrible election manipulation, didn't read the article LOL) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/climate/global-demand-electricity-rising.html
#AI #LLM #power #ClimateEmergency
LA Times: Commentary: AI is so rampant now that even a second-grade project is a lesson in deep fakes https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-17/la-generative-ai-school-project-deep-fakes #deepfakes #AI #LLM #AIpocalypse
Malwarebytes: AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/ai-girlfriend-site-breached-user-fantasies-stolen #ai #girlfriend #cybersecurity
Your robot vacuum might be collecting audio and video of you for AI training
https://mastodon.social/@hrheingold/113268077830324812
#robot #AI #LLM #AIpocalypse
NPR: How Memphis became a battleground over Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer
"...AI requires more electricity to complete even simple tasks compared to typical search queries. In the U.S., about 60% of that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, which is the primary driver of climate change...."
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/11/nx-s1-5088134/elon-musk-ai-xai-supercomputer-memphis-pollution
#AI #ClimateEmergency #climate #musk #power #powersupply
Gray Goo is winning
404 Media: Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History
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The Verge: Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
"...Unless you’re in the EU, there’s no ability to opt out of AI training settings that keep Facebook or Instagram posts public...."
#Meta #FB #Zuckerberg #LLMs #AI #AIpocalypse
Oooh, another example of "use of AI for good!" /sarcasm
"Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents" https://breachmedia.ca/canadian-mega-landlord-ai-pricing-scheme-hikes-rents/
#AI #realestate #rent #renters
LA Times: How much more water and power does AI computing demand? Tech firms don’t want you to know https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-08-26/tech-firms-conceal-water-and-power-demands-of-ai-computing
#ai #power #ClimateEmergency #llms
#tormentnexus #ai #weapons #war
https://www.wired.com/story/anduril-palmer-luckey-funding-ai-drones-arsenal-factory/
PBS: AI and the energy required to power it fuel new climate concerns https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ai-and-the-energy-required-to-power-it-fuel-new-climate-concerns #AI #ClimateEmergency #google #power #energy
"Soon exceeding what our planet can provide" #ai #energy #llms #power
WaPo: AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/ #ai #power #climateemergency
