Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it

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Derbyshire Police officer accused of using AI to 'create evidence'

Derbyshire Police say the officer has been removed from front-line duties while it investigates.
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Uh-huh. Same old, I guess, with new toys.
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I saw a similar situation where a police department in the US used AI to literally do a "ENHANCE!" meme on grainy ass CCTV footage of a suspect, then posted the AI slop on Facebook telling citizens to call in with any information. The suspect was a black dude, and the AI very clearly gave him features he did not have (such as a completely different and dare I say more stereotypical hairline). When the cops were called out on it, of course they got all pissy and defensive.

Back home they do this all the fucking time, albeit they keep it old school with photoshop (see an amazing example below). Although I wouldn't be surprised if they've "upgraded" to AI.
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I saw a similar situation where a police department in the US used AI to literally do a "ENHANCE!" meme on grainy ass CCTV footage of a suspect, then posted the AI slop on Facebook telling citizens to call in with any information. The suspect was a black dude, and the AI very clearly gave him features he did not have (such as a completely different and dare I say more stereotypical hairline). When the cops were called out on it, of course they got all pissy and defensive.

Back home they do this all the fucking time, albeit they keep it old school with photoshop (see an amazing example below). Although I wouldn't be surprised if they've "upgraded" to AI.
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Was this the suspect?
 
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I didn't mean that I expected to be taught how to use AI (that was explicitly not a part of the course, which is why I signed up for it haha), but the entire course is based on the assumption that AI is useful, does make people productive, etc. I expected the course to dedicate some time to prove this assumption, especially since AI is plagued by hype. Not once did someone actually back up the claim that AI makes us more productive, we just went straight into the necessities of creating legislation to encourage AI development and tech sovereignty, blah, blah.

So an AI skeptic such as myself is just left wondering while I should care about AI, besides the threat that it is to my career. The sole lecturer that shared about practical implementation of AI talked about using machine vision to stop suicide attempts in the subway and to optimize shipping packaging. But neither of these examples entail PC parts costing an arm and a leg or data centers ruining communities. I feel like the course failed to define what AI even is.
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Okay, yes, I see that.

I think the problem is that courses need to teach something, but they don't know what.

So, imagine that AI as a tool can if used well improve productivity, but if used impair it. At the same time, organisations have systems that work: they may be better or worse, but they are generally known and stress-tested. AI may often disrupt these, causing a fundamental loss of productivity by damaging established processes, even if it creates productivity gains elsewhere. It's going to take lots of time - potentially years - to work out how to best use AI to boost productivity and minimise damage and disruption. Secondly, the economics of AI are utterly busted. It's subsidised up the wazoo, so no-one's paying actual cost. Once AI companies are forced to bill customers properly, we could see AI use dramatically shrink, because it turns out some of the AI productivity gains that were established were actually cost-ineffective.

And this is I think where lots of courses on AI are. What is it going to be useful for in the long run? They don't know. The best that they can do is say some speculative ideas and hope some of them pan out. As for its optimism, I guess it made the assumption that anyone who was going to sign up wanted (or thought they would be forced) to use it.
 
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I already posted this video in the "Some Good Music" thread, but I'm posting it here for a different reason. I've watched a bunch of reaction videos, and the one sticking point that turns people on or off is the use of AI.

The visuals and vocals are AI, but the lyrics were written by a human, Dallas XY. I've heard it took them a very long time (over 300 attempts is what I've read) to feed the AI tool the inputs necessary to produce what we see here, and I think is one of the better uses of AI that doesn't threaten the human creative process. Some detractors dismiss it because it's "not real," but to that I say it's just as real as the Talkbox made famous by Peter Frampton, or artists like Near The Parenthesis who composes beautiful piano arrangements using production software that would require more than two hands if one were to try and play them on an actual piano. This is easily one of the better uses of AI as a tool that doesn't replace/discount the human effort. If AI stayed in this lane, I'd not be against it, but if it ever starts writing brilliant bars like this, Skynet is inevitable.

 
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The YoVideoGames crew talk about the AI situation on Shift Up and Crazy Taxi. They get why no one would want to buy this, and would not shit on anyone for doing so. They're still interested in the game, but they try to come up with a nuanced view on the situation or going forward on something that is hypothetically only 1% GenAI, and 99% human otherwise. Other than that, they make big rant against people using this bullshit and the jobs that were lost and the environment being destroyed.



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Lord, Protect My Family from “Autopilot” Teslas Slamming Into Our Homes

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re sitting on the couch in your home one evening, perhaps watching TV, minding your own business, when you hear the distant roar/whine of a fast-approaching vehicle. Perhaps you have just enough time to be vaguely annoyed that someone is driving far, far too fast through your residential neighborhood … before the vehicle you just heard punches through the brick walls of your home and slams into the living room, killing you instantly. Certainly, there’s no time to be shocked, or angry. One moment you’re sitting there safe in your domicile; the next there’s a 4,000 lb sedan in the space you were just occupying. And the driver of that Tesla vehicle (who does not die) explains to police that it’s not his fault–he had the self-driving mode engaged!

Talk about your profoundly unfair ways to die in America. This particular injustice was experienced by a family in Katy, Texas, outside of Houston this weekend, when a driver reportedly traveling at more than 70 mph smashed into their front room, killing 76-year-old grandmother Martha Avila. There were multiple other people present in the same home, including children, who were thankfully uninjured, although they’re now simultaneously left with both a wrecked home and a lost loved one. The footage from outside the house, meanwhile, is utterly horrifying–you will not believe just how fast the car comes barreling into view, like it had been shot out of a cannon straight at this family’s living room.


Immediate news coverage of the story predictably zeroed in on the most juicy, hot-button topic: The fact that the seriously injured driver, identified as a man named Michael Butler, apparently told police/investigators in the hospital that he had been using the Tesla Model 3 sedan’s self-driving feature before the crash. There is no specific, official statement from Tesla on the incident as far as I can tell, although Elon Musk himself predictably leapt into the debate on his own CSAM-generating social media platform to insist that the story “makes no sense” because “FSD drives slowly through neighborhood streets and this was a high speed crash.” In all fairness, that does seem like the sort of safety feature one would want the tools to possess.




The reality is that even a few days after this incident occurred, we don’t possess enough details to genuinely say what happened here. The original “Tesla Autopilot” feature was actually discontinued earlier this year after 13 years in service, in response to a California judge ruling that the “Autopilot” name could constitute deceptive marketing. That presumably means the driver of the car in Texas was claiming he was using the Full Self-Driving (FSD) premium upgrade that can completely take over driving operations. But we don’t truly know if the driver was honest at all, or had any of these systems engaged, although police at least noted that the driver displayed no signs of intoxication. Both the local police, and national auto-safety regulators from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have opened probes into what happened here, to determine what settings the driver was actually using leading up to the crash, which could be necessary in determining various aspects of his legal culpability. Their findings will reshape the tone of who is perceived to be most at fault in this incident.

Here’s the thing, though: Regardless of whether a feature like Tesla Autopilot/FSD was ultimately responsible for aiming this car like a missile at a home, or whether it boils down to simple user error and the scapegoating of such a feature as a defense mechanism, the existence of these types of features runs the risk of empowering already dumb, already reckless drivers with unearned confidence and a dangerous lack of responsibility for their own actions. If such features did not exist on this man’s car, or if he was driving a standard sedan, would he have been traveling 70 mph down a residential suburban street? Or was he only traveling in this reckless, crazy way because he was idiotically assuming that his car’s technology would somehow intervene if necessary to keep him from killing anyone? Can fools be trusted with this tech, even when its limitations are constantly spelled out to them in user manuals and fine print? Does this type of technology encourage safer driving, or does it empower an already unsafe driver to throw caution to the wind and surrender responsibility to their onboard computer, with the ready-built (and obviously incorrect) rationale that anything the car does from that point forward is no longer their fault? Are we saving more lives, or taking more of them, and even if it’s the former, how much of the latter should we accept?
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I just looked up whether a book I'm interested in, the Polish novel Lód, has a German translation. Here's what Google told me:

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For your information: the book has, actually, not been released in German, it's not about the colonization of Venus, doesn't feature aliens and Christiane Karg is, as far as I could find out, an opera singer.
 
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