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I'm all for that. People don't need to agree on all things all the time.
That's a fair point of view. I believe it's not healthy for people to hide from reality and things really are going to be changing. This will become clear soon since humanoid helper and worker robots are coming this year and next year and then they'll suddenly be everywhere. "A.I." is on an accelerating curve and there's no chance that will slow down either.
Anthropic agrees to paying 1.5 Billion for piracy.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/anthropic-ai-copyright-settlement-1.7626707
Hmm. They should've just used Google Books.
And it should be pointed out that it was people deciding something here that was the problem, not the model itself. It "consumes" whatever it's fed.
What would be cool would be if they made them return the stolen content and any learning that had come from it.
On the creative question:
I’m still hoping that some artist will use its awful results in a creative way somewhat like Johns, Hamilton, Rauschenberg, Warhol, and others used the equally shitty and banal products of commercial/advertising design to create actual art.
On the labor question:
Perhaps crocs and sneakers will prove more effective than wooden shoes.
I guess that’s because I’m an optimist.
"...an estimated $3,000 US will go to each author." (From the article)
That's the settlement. The authors don't get $1.5 billion. Something everyone needs to understand about class-action lawsuits: They benefit the law firms FAR MORE than those who receive the settlements.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess most of the authors make almost nothing from their book sales anyway, so $3,000 might be considered a lot, or even outsized relative to their book sales. Few people make a lot money from book sales.
Also, it should be noted that in an earlier lawsuit agains Anthropic, they won on the merits of "fair use". Canada's laws are not the same as the US, so it's possible that this lawsuit could draw the ire of the administration as being unjust and could result in retaliatory tariffs on Canadian goods. I think in both cases, "fair use" should be the determining factor.
Also, I don't really see Amazon just sitting back and accepting this judgment, so it's too early to assume this is over yet.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-sues-ai-company-copyright-infringement-1236361610/
The tools like img2img with ControlNet (depth, canny, ip-adapter, etc etc), lora training and fine tuning checkpoints are so flexible and powerful now that if the results are awful it is 100% on the artist in question. But yah, if someone is just doing elementary 'prompt and ghost' stuff using a commercial service they are doomed to failure.
Yup, still horrible.
Again, I believe "fair use" covers many of these companies. Some of them are licensing art, video and voices so they'll have a competitive advantage (for example ElevenLabs is now licensing the voices of actors so they can use them in their products... that's smart).
https://www.allaboutai.com/ai-news/voices-burt-reynolds-judy-garland-recreated-with-ai/
And I'm willing to bet that some musicians will also be willing to license their playing style or vocals to a company like Apple, Google, Facebook or the like soon (if they aren't doing this already).
The point of that video is the richest man in the world was asked what jobs would be safe and he couldn't answer.
Elevator operators and horse-driven carriage workers are a small percentage of the workforce. When 50% of office workers are laid off then you suddenly have a big unemployment problem.
Recenty the China National Nuclear Corporation advertised for workers and had 1,196,273 applications!
https://asiasociety.org/policy-institute/19-percent-revisited-how-youth-unemployment-has-changed-chinese-society
Of course, you could always pay to "go to work":
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd3ep76g3go
A.I. is already changing the nature of work. One person can multiply their productivity by a huge amount. He's about to introduce robots that will theoretically be capable of performing a number of low-skill tasks, so how would Elon Musk know what jobs will be in demand? Markets decide which jobs are needed based on what is available at that time. Markets can and probably will change quickly if the robots are more capable than previously thought.
If low-skill jobs disappear quickly, then new workers will have to level up their skills. A person right now with few skills has their pick of jobs because the lack of workers has driven wages up to insane levels right now. Robots will put the brakes on out-of-control wages for low-skill work.
Parents generally have suggestions for their kids about what career paths might be good and "safe".
I think he knows that with Ai starting to happen "all bets are off".
Tesla's Optimus 3.0 robot (possibly with built-in Grok AI) is rumored to be the subject of a demo near the end of this year. This will be the one that they sell. Musk said version 3.0 is "sublime"... so I'm thinking it might be far more advanced than currently thought.
Well, Elon never exaggerates about his future products so I'm sure it will be great.
I’m not interested in using AI for music. If I can’t make music using my own creativity then what kind of musician am I? That’s part of the reason I’m going down the minimalist route. I just want to use a few tools and my imagination. If it sounds imperfect then so be it, but it’s all my own work and imperfections.
Cyber Truck great.
Wasn't he promising self-driving cars year after year without delivering?
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The current state is certainly very unappealing to me. prompting/rendering/waiting? wtf? For me the beauty of music is the real-time immersion in a living art form. Waiting for it to render like a 3d animation? yawn.
But I could see something like the app Endlesss where you are jamming with AI. Could totally get into a virtual bandmate who doesn't show up drunk and hit on your girlfriend kinda thing.
That’s because he is highly skilled at selling the sizzle, and the naive think they are buying the grill.
There is no steak.
The current model of Full Self Drive (that's what they call the service) is capable of unattended driving from point to point with little to no intervention. I won't say it's perfect yet, but then neither are people perfect at driving in all situations. And I don't own a Tesla, so I'm going by what I've seen from owners.
Suno Studio is made with production in mind. For those who want to create and perform only their own original works of music, it's probably not for them. But it does exist and music production services like it are in high demand.
For sure and once I find one that does not sound like mushy low bit rate mp3s (particularly after stem separation, or one that can generate libraries of distinct sounds) I will likely chill on the couch, spit out a bunch of stuff and use them for samples in Maschine / Samplitude.
Right now the models also seem wicked overtrained with nowhere near the flexibility of image models like sdxl using controlnet. Any time I try to take something like a guitar and try to morph it into sounding like voices or cutlery clattering it just sounds like realaudio from 2005. With images, I can take a render of a car and morph partway into a cat and tell it in the negative prompt to avoid adding hair and it just gives cat like aesthetic to a car while still having complete coherence and believability. The music models are nowhere close to this sort of usable, creativity in sound design. It is all for the most part just established genre, random slot machine stock music generation and I imagine will be so for quite some time.
But yah, if a family member asked me for a ragtime style jingle for the cereal they are pitching to investors to then pitch to Nabisco, no problem, I would default to using AI.
TE to the rescue!
Yes, but my point was Elon kept promising this feature and kept missing many deadlines over a long (5 or 6 year?) period.
His promises can't really be trusted.
Ahh. So you’re saying e should go into politics then.
Oh wait.
He usually delivers what he promises, but his timelines are typically too optimistic.
If Elon got into politics I reckon he could save the government two trillion dollars.
Oh wait.
He found the savings and made recommendations, but it was up to Congress to act. They don't like having to act... they might get blamed for something.