SPVs, Credit, and AI Datacenters
How a new credit bubble is building in AI data centers
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People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT
James Vincent · Horny Robot Baby Voice: On AI Chatbots
Some of the pessimism surrounding AI chatbots stems from a belief that humans, like computers, can be hacked: that our...
Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI
Internal emails, Slack conversations and documents obtained by 404 Media show how Nvidia created a yet-to-be-released video foundational model.
Facebook's Shrimp Jesus, Explained
Viral 'Shrimp Jesus' and AI-generated pages like it are part of spam and scam campaigns that are taking over Facebook.
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models - Press release - Stack Overflow
Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers.
These Prisoners Are Training AI
In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.
Opinion | The True Threat of Artificial Intelligence
Technology forged by private markets won’t solve the world’s problems. It’ll only amplify them.
AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.
Accepting Our Idiocy
AI isn't sentient, humanity is vain.
AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley
Your data helped build ChatGPT. Where’s your payout?
The result is an uncomfortable disparity between who does the work that enables these AI models to function and who gets to control and profit from them.
In that way, modern AI research resembles a digital “enclosure of the commons,” whereby the informational heritage of humanity—a collective treasure that cannot really be owned by anyone—is seen by corporations primarily as a source of potential profit.