Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.

#Cloudflare #UK #Piracy

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

MIT Technology Review

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

The proof-of-concept technology removes a layer of digital “poison” meant to disrupt AI models that scrape online images for training.

#AI #Art #DRM

Saving Cinema: AI’s Starring Role in Preserving Film Archives

Pulitzer Center

Saving Cinema: AI’s Starring Role in Preserving Film Archives

It is 2:00pm on a seemingly normal January day in Los Angeles, where MTI Film’s CEO Larry Chernoff and his team are focused on preserving the leg...

#AI #Cinema #Film

Large Language Models Are Improving Exponentially

IEEE Spectrum

Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months

By 2030, AI will greatly outperform humans in some complex intellectual tasks. Discover how LLMs are doubling their capabilities every seven months.

#AI #LLM

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

Quanta Magazine

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity | Quanta Magazine

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s ...

#AI #Art

AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case

TheWrap

AI Companies Can Use Copyrighted Books to Train Language Models, Judge Rules in Anthropic Case

A California federal judge ruled Anthropic can use copyrighted books to train its Claude AI model without authors' consent

#AI #LLM #Copyright

AI Authorship Revisited https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-authorship-revisited/ #AI #Copyright

The Global A.I. Divide Where A.I. Data Centers Are Located

Techmeme

Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50%+ of the world

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

#AI #Datacenters

Democratize AI or Make the AI Oligarchy an Inevitability

Democratize AI or Make the AI Oligarchy an Inevitability

Artificial intelligence technologies are leading us to a critical juncture, forcing a fundamental rethinking of both work and the welfare state. Th...

#AI #Politics

What happens when you feed AI nothing Artist Terence Broad makes AI produce images without any training data at all.

The Verge

What happens when you feed AI nothing

No inputs, no influences.

#AI #Art

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

The Verge

The music industry is building the tech to hunt down AI songs

With no way to stop the onslaught of AI music, the industry is taking a different approach: figuring out how to make money off of it.

#AI #Music #Copyright

The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x #AI #Emissions

Making AI Less ‘Thirsty’ https://cacm.acm.org/sustainability-and-computing/making-ai-less-thirsty/ #AI #Datacenters #Water

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years

Gallup.com

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years

White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

#AI #Work

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

the Guardian

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI

Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating – and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

#AI #ChatGPT #Education

How much energy are you using on AI?

Datawrapper

How much energy are you using on AI? | Datawrapper Blog

Hi, this is Mirko, co-founder of Datawrapper. This week I looked at how much energy …

#AI #Energy

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

Max Mitchell

I Read All Of Cloudflare's Claude-Generated Commits

Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

#AI #Programming

"By comparing LRMs with their standard LLM counterparts under equivalent inference compute, we identify three performance regimes: (1) low- complexity tasks where standard models surprisingly outperform LRMs, (2) medium-complexity tasks where additional thinking in LRMs demonstrates advantage, and (3) high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse."

Apple Machine Learning Research

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

#AI #LLM #Reasoning

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-much-information-do-llms-really-memorize-now-we-know-thanks-to-meta-google-nvidia-and-cornell/ #AI #LLM #Memorization

What’s next for AI and math The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

MIT Technology Review

What’s next for AI and math

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on h...

#AI #Math