In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI
and he's not alone Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder : GPT-5 is here and Gary Marcus is not impressed Laura Varley / Silicon Republic : Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out ...
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts
here's what's going on Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : ‘Ghosts’ of Spotify — Liz Pelly, Harpers: … Reading this article made me feel quite sad. Bluesky: @nanobii.com : the spotify “fake artist” issue appar...
Writers and publishers criticize Spines, which raised a $16M seed round and charges authors $1,200 to $5,000 to use AI to edit and distribute their books
These aren't people who care about books or reading or anything remotely related. These are opportunists and extractive capitalists. [embedded post] @canongate.co.uk : Then these dingbats in the Boo...
SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a microblogging social network, is filled with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots
https://www.theverge.com/... [image] @mxbck@front-end.social : Wow that's fucking bleak. A social network where you're the only human so you can “be the main character” — Consider therapy. — htt...
Hands-on with Bard Extensions, which lets the chatbot use Gmail, Docs, and Drive data: the feature hallucinated emails, made unbookable travel plans, and more
Hands-on with #Bard Extensions from #Google, which lets the chatbot use data from Gmail, Docs, and Drive: the feature made up emails, made wrong travel plans, and more. … Shriram Krishnamurthi / @shri...
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. LinkedIn: Theo Priestley . Mastodon: @willoremus@mastodon....
AI text generators are quietly authoring more of the internet; more AI-generated books and personalized articles mean fewer clients buying human-written content
From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. LinkedIn: Theo Priestley . Mastodon: @willoremus@mastodon....
An artist using Midjourney to create AI-generated art won first place at Colorado State Fair's fine arts competition, leading to criticism by other artists
Galaxia Phantom, M74, se află la 32 de milioane de ani-lumină … Anna Lynn Winfrey / Pueblo Chiefton : ‘Someone had to be first’: Pueblo artist criticized after AI painting wins at Colorado State Fair ...
Some hotels are looking to guarantee bookings revenue by partnering with startups like Pinktada that convert stays into NFTs to be bought and sold by guests
NFTs also are being used to raise capital to buy golf courses or land, giving token buyers a stake in the projects Tweets: @maxwellstrachan , @tante , @thekafkadude , @eden_holdings , @xenollamas , @m...