Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was- forc... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : “I managed bots replacing my team until they replaced me.” A former support lead's warning. This piece details AI erasing c...
Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed
www.reuters.com/business/med... Megan Farokhmanesh / @megannicolett : “bottomless pit of plagiarism” has a real ring to it www.wired.com/story/disney... Jason Read / @jasonread : Both Intellectual Pro...
Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more
On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO of the popular language learning app Duolingo … Bluesky: @bcmerchant , @bcmerchant , and @bcmerchant Mastodon: @MissConstrue@mefi.social , @eli...
AI's first wave of successful implementation will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was led by enterprise installations that cut jobs
I don't want it to write a blog post for me; I want help rephrasing a passage. — I don't want it to produce code for me; I want assistance digging through the web for examples of what I need. … Bald...
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the app's 10th anniversary, its EU focus, being a nonprofit, Pavel Durov's arrest, X, the US election, and more
On its 10th anniversary, Signal's president wants to remind you that the world's most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. Mastodon: @KathyReid@aus.social and @baldur@toot.cafe X: @a_greenbe...
eBay plans to cut ~1,000 full-time jobs, or ~9% of its workforce, and scale back the number of contracts within its “alternate workforce” over the coming months
9 percent of the company Ann Gehan / The Information : EBay Cuts 9% of Staff as E-Commerce Layoffs Mount Associated Press : A look at some of the companies in the technology sector that have recently ...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
including movie, TV, and computer game scenes and characters. Reductio ad absurdam: trademark-infringing output from a two word prompt ("animated toys"): https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ... … Neil B...
OpenAI and others will likely face more copyright lawsuits as systems like DALL-E produce copyright-infringing materials without attribution or informing users
A full of spectrum of infringement — At around the same time as news of the New York Times lawsuit vs OpenAI broke … Threads: @carnage4life and @thebrianpenny Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop , @ar...
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have been a few staff chang...
Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn't build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic
With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor LK-99 … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to , @peter@thepit.social , and @baldur@toot.cafe . Blues...