we are supposed to believe that the young people working to end mass slaughter are the threat and that the riot squads sent in to brutalize them are the peacekeepers

What's happening tonight at college campuses across NYC is horrifying.

Heavily armed police forces storming campuses. Students being pepper sprayed.

And for what? For peacefully protesting a genocide.

'I think the most important thing is to put the power in the hands of the artist. I want to be in control of my likeness, my brand, my legacy.' FKA twigs on the need for AI deepfake & voice clone protections

EIGHT newspapers just filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft 🔥

This is why Sam Altman is desperate to secure licensing deals suddenly, he thinks he can squirm out from underneath the mountain of litigation. Good luck with that.

denverpost.com/2024/04/30/ope…

A few updates:
1. WebGlaze is now updated to Glaze 2.0
2. We are hiring a student to handle webglaze account requests. We will work thru the backlog of weeks of requests. Thanks for your patience
3. Glaze is NOT open source. There is a fake Glaze repo on github. They're not us.

“Nobody owes AI companies a right to exist, certainly not the owners of the content they have appropriated and mined for their own benefit.” 🙏🏼 Dominic Young

Who is this journalist? Some great questioning here by him, especially the question on the missing Bond-villain Hamas lair under Al Shifa that Israel claimed was there, & produced 3D renderings of, but have never actually showed us in real life.

Bravo, for this interviewer 👏🏽👇🏽

Disgraceful. Imagine being the poor soul expected to do 2D illustration, animation, and graphic design work all while betraying every artist across all 3 disciplines just to help Treyarch shovel out more content gruel

Vic Berger IV 📉 Human cloning, asbestos in walls, arsenic in clothes and lead in rum weren’t going away either, once upon a time.

There’s no manifest destiny for tech. Why shouldn’t we fight against harm?

The 'technology is inevitable' line of thinking is neither as wise nor open-minded as people like this tend to think it is when the issue has never been with 'a technology' but its exploitative implementation.

It's not just about losing work due to AI, it's crap like this where the client offers you half your rate after giving you a hundred AI images to reference.

AI ref won't dramatically decrease your workload at all, yet they still want a reduced rate. I've dealt with this as well.

This must be our guide:

“There are harms NOW—
to privacy;
theft of creative output;
to our information ecosystems; &
from the scaled reproduction of biases.

An org that cared about ‘benefitting humanity’ wouldn't be developing/disseminating tech that does those things.”

Apropos of today's news about the DHS 'AI Safety and Security Board', stacked with CEOs like Sam Altman, this thread is (alas) highly relevant again.

Yes, please find balance to include representation of all stakeholders affected so everyone's concerns and interests are heard. There are many great artists organizations who would be happy to represent the missing voices.

Today is World Intellectual Property Day, a reminder that copyright protection exists to help incentivize and reward human creativity, skill, labor, and judgment - not output generated solely by machines. #WorldIPDay

So many cults, so little time.