AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?

[phenomlab]

Wow. I bet every track sounds the same

https://news.sky.com/story/artists-including-kate-bush-sam-fender-and-damon-albarn-release-silent-album-in-protest-at-ai-copyright-plans-13316626

[phenomlab]

Truly disgusting

https://news.sky.com/story/dozens-arrested-worldwide-over-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-images-13318571

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab 100% agree. This is truly disgusting and I hope that they get the same sentence as if it were real children being abused.

I’m going to add that, watch them say that it is art or some nonsense like that and that they should be free to express their artistic side. I am sure that the lawyers and juries and judges won’t be dumb enough to fall for that.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew Given the content, I’m pretty sure the intentions will speak for themselves.

[phenomlab]

Seriously?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/03/13/openai-wants-the-us-government-to-legalize-theft-to-reach-the-ai-promised-land?utm_medium=rss

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab good grief! I think that no matter what good AI can be used for, they should maybe just shut AI down. Just like they should have just shut down social media before it took off because it sucks too

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew said in AI... A new dawn, or the demise of humanity ?:

they should maybe just shut AI down

I don’t think that’s ever likely to happen

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab I don’t think so either, but just saying haha

[phenomlab]

Cursor AI refuses to write code for a user

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/ai-coding-assistant-cursor-reportedly-tells-a-vibe-coder-to-write-his-own-d**n-code/

Cursor’s refusal also sounded an awful lot like the replies newbie coders could get when asking questions on programming forum Stack Overflow

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab I attempted to go to this article and got the 404 error. I find that interesting that AI refused to write code. Especially when AI is made to do what you ask it.

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew Very odd - looks like they deleted it

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab maybe AI deleted it LOL thinking I didn’t do that, nope not me hahaha

[phenomlab]

And so, it starts. One of the first Robots “employed” by Mercedes-Benz to assemble engine parts.

The 5’8" tall robot performed the first public demonstration in a real-world setting of a real-world task - in this case assembling an engine part - entirely autonomously.

The costs of small, lightweight components have fallen as artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and computer vision technology have led to rapid advances in the field of robots that can emulate human movement and tasks.

https://news.sky.com/story/meet-the-human-like-robot-on-its-first-day-of-work-13331516

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab that is crazy. And so Cyberdyne begins. Once the world is populated with enough robots, it will take them over and start making Terminators after it nukes the world.

[phenomlab]

Can’t wait to see how this pans out…

https://news.sky.com/story/microsoft-looks-to-ai-to-close-window-on-hackers-13335086

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab Lets spy on everyone’s email in the name of cybersecurity and suspician. Lets not leave the users responsible to not click on stuff they shouldn’t or to have the proper measures setup on their own devices. And technically isn’t every email potentially suspicious? Wow!

[phenomlab]

@Madchatthew Love this response!

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab Thank you!

[phenomlab]

https://news.sky.com/story/british-authors-absolutely-sick-to-discover-books-on-shadow-library-allegedly-used-by-meta-to-train-ai-13336716

[Madchatthew]

@phenomlab oh wow, I would be pissed too and would want to sue. I would think that Meta would need to pay some sort of royalties or something for every piece of literature it used to train it’s AI and then anytime the AI references that literature then royalties would need to be paid. That is crazy and I don’t believe they should get away with doing that.

Unless I am missing something here, but it seemed pretty straight forward.