Guardian: ‘Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather-of-ai-raises-odds-of-the-technology-wiping-out-humanity-over-next-30-years

Yeah, Microsoft, I fucking get that I now have fucking free access to fucking copilot. Now kindly fuck off and take your fucking AI with you.

Not a better comment on what #AI is actually for than this image (found in a chat channel)

Congress Pushes #Apple to Remove #Deepfake Apps After 404 Media Investigation

https://www.404media.co/congress-pushes-apple-to-remove-deepfake-apps-after-404-media-investigation/

New email footer (in green, bold):

"Please consider the environment before using AI functionality to reply to this email."

Zoom just sent me an email about an "AI Companion."

If it can pretend to be me and attend meeting instead of me, awesome. Otherwise, WTF?

"We created a Large Language Model!"

"Let's use it for knowledge."

It's a language model.

"Let's use it for math!"

…Language model.

"Have it write and modify code!"

L A N G U A G E…

"It will make scientists obsolete!"

*slams door*

Turn off #AI features by default (to reduce their #climate impact)

https://hidde.blog/please-make-ai-opt-in/

@SwiftOnSecurity

God should ask ChatGPT

Clearly there is plenty of regular insanity so why should there be Artificial Insanity?

"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021

This is how I and any sane person reacts to AI

Another attempt to add #AI over a thing that doesn't need it at all, Come on iTerm! you can do it better that that

There is no AI just other people's data.

Wisdom of the Pentium-M Man

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

Generative AI not only consumes a lot of energy, it's also likely to produce a lot of electronic trash.

According to researchers, the total amount of global e-waste could grow by the alarming factor of 1.000 in only 5 years.

There are solutions to reducing e-waste – e.g. by prolonging, reusing, and recycling hardware. Their implementation needs global strategies, of course.

An article by DW's Fred Schwaller explains the issue in more detail:

https://www.dw.com/en/e-waste-from-ai-computers-could-escalate-beyond-control/a-70619724

@SwiftOnSecurity

A Confession

📣 New blog post 📣

Still stoked and shocked by the rapid development of generative #AI, especially in the field of synthetic voices, we recently took NoteBook LM's #podcast feature for a test drive.

The results, quickly available as a compact audio file, were somewhat jaw-dropping. But only for a couple of minutes...

The concern here is that old search engines can give you links and you can go into them to verify the content. AI taking over our search engines hides the sources of information, forcing us to blindly trust the AI and wherever it got its information from.

Disabling #Windows #AI features organization-wide using #GroupPolicy.

This will turn off #Recall (the periodic screenshot service) and #Copilot (the AI assistant service). You can do this pre-emptively even before any machines on your domain are running Windows 11 24H2.

1. Download and install the Windows 11 24H2 administrative template files: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=106254

2. Add the files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 11 Sep 2024 Update (24H2)\PolicyDefinitions to C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions on the domain controller.

3. Start Group Policy Management on the domain controller.

4. Create a group policy object with these values:

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows AI > Turn off Saving Snapshots for Windows = enabled

User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot > Turn off Windows Copilot = enabled

5. Link the group policy object in at an appropriate level in your domain.

Found this in a discussion about Strava but applicable to all tech companies

Fucking seriously?

Latest comic on Big Tech's climate hypocrisy

lol.

lmao.

“Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work”

#ai #copyright

"How do you train the medical AI? You could ask patients’ consent for their data — or you could violate all medical confidentiality rules and just take it."