David 10 months ago

Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry

MIT Technology Review

Generative AI is reshaping South Korea’s webcomics industry

Some graphic artists, like the legendary Lee Hyun-se, see AI as a path to immortality; others wonder if it’s a threat to their own creativity.

#AI #Webcomics #Manhwa

David 10 months ago

Why circular water solutions are key to sustainable data centres https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/11/circular-water-solutions-sustainable-data-centres/ #Water #Datacenters

David 10 months ago

Meta argues that the marginal value of books is close to zero.

Futurism

Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value"

Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.

#Meta #AI #LLM

David 10 months ago

Gemini 2.5: The First LLM That Actually Understands PDF Layouts

Sergey's Blog

Sergey Filimonov's blog

#AI #LLM #PDF #RAG

David 10 months ago

Japan Considers Making AI-Generated Studio Ghibli Images Illegal... maybe

PetaPixel

Japan Considers Making AI-Generated Studio Ghibli Images Illegal

Politicians want to know if it is illegal.

#AI #Ghibli #Copyright

David 10 months ago

Scientists use cells from brain of dead avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier to create new music

NME

Scientists use cells from brain of dead avant-garde composer to create new music

Scientists have created a “mini-brain” using the cells of avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier and are using it to make new music.

#Music #Avantgarde

David 10 months ago

🤔 Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

Futurism

Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power

Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.

#AI #LLM #Energy

David 10 months ago

The Truth about AI and copyright that nobody will say out loud The stories we tell about copyright won’t survive contact with national interest

Road to Artificia

The Truth about AI and copyright that nobody will say out loud

The stories we tell about copyright won’t survive contact with national interest

#AI #Copyright #Politics

David 10 months ago

EU bans the bots: Commission bars ‘AI agents’ from joining online meetings

EU bans the bots: Commission bars ‘AI agents’ from joining online meetings – POLITICO

#EU #AI #Agents

David 10 months ago

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud | Hacker News

#arXiv #Academia #Research

David 10 months ago

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos

TechCrunch

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos | TechCrunch

There's a somewhat concerning new trend going viral on social media: people are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in a photo.

#AI #ChatGPT #Photography #Privacy

David 10 months ago

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation

fediversereport.com

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation

This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geo...

#Bluesky #SocialMedia #Turkey

David 11 months ago

These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy Let’s cut through the noise with cold, hard numbers.

MIT Technology Review

These four charts sum up the state of AI and energy

Let’s cut through the noise with cold, hard numbers.

#AI #Energy #Datacenters

David 11 months ago

Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs

TechCrunch

Microsoft researchers say they've developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs | TechCrunch

Microsoft researchers have developed — and released — a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs, including Apple's M2.

#AI

David 11 months ago

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers

The Verge

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers

The dataset is even pre-formatted for machine learning.

#Wikipedia #AI #Scraping

David 11 months ago

AI-generated music accounts for 18% of all tracks uploaded to Deezer https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-music-accounts-18-all-tracks-uploaded-deezer-2025-04-16/ #AI #Music

David 11 months ago

Adapting for AI’s reasoning era

MIT Technology Review

Adapting for AI’s reasoning era

AI is graduating from recognition to reasoning—and organizations must follow suit by scaling their computing power with purpose-built AI infrastr...

#AI #LLM #Reasoning

David 11 months ago

AI is coming for music, too

MIT Technology Review

AI is coming for music, too

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

#Music #AI #Diffusion

David 11 months ago

OpenAI is building a social network

The Verge

OpenAI is building a social network

ChatGPT versus X?

#AI #OpenAI #SocialMedia

David 11 months ago

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Bluesky Social

Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social)

BREAKING: OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, per FORTUNE