That’s… not how art generally works in the age of its mechanical reproduction, though… There are certainly still artists who do work on commission, but most people don’t operate in that fashion. They make the art that they want, and hope for an audience for it. And many artists get commissions that are open to their own interpretation (when a city commissions an artist to do street art, it isn’t always based on a specific thing, but on some combination of a theme and what the artist is known for… but however that happens, that doesn’t mean it’s any less labor going into a work and that it’s not valuable work since it’s not a direct commission, right?
I’m gonna have to read that whole thing… thanks for posting it!
An overwhelming majority of readers would like news publishers to tell them when AI has shaped the news coverage they’re seeing. But, new research finds, news outlets pay a price when they disclose using generative AI.
The video of Google’s new Gemini Ultra AI is really jaw-dropping:
I’m sure the video is pretty heavily edited to remove latency and highlight the best examples, but if it’s not faked then it’s still a huge leap in image and video processing. The ability, for instance, to keep track of the ball in the cup, when not being told ahead of time to do so was amazing.
Ug. This whole article is pretty upbeat and optimistic about the wonders of Google’s new AI, but sure includes a lot of troubling red flags that I’m not sure that the author took very seriously.
that speed up service. But a popular provider of these systems recently revealed a crucial part of how it gets so many orders right: humans.
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But disclosures in recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and changes to marketing suggest that the technology is less autonomous than it first appeared. The company, which went public last year, now says “off-site agents” working in locales such as the Philippines help during more than 70% of customer interactions to make sure its AI system doesn’t mess up.
