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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 5h

Bad guy OpenAI trying to strong arm critics.

It’s wild to see them try all the worst business practices of tech giants like Meta but without any of the utility. For all its faults, at least Facebook, WhatsApp, and IG provide value. Sora 2 is just vanity slop for friendless losers

OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door

OpenAI reportedly wanted to find out if the advocates received funding from Elon Musk.

www.theverge.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 15h

Accept it 😜

Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 15h

Except we do 😹

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 16h

Move fast and break things

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 16h

Why do we pronounce accept and except the same but not access and excess?

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 16h

Reminder that pumpkin spice does not contain pumpkin. It’s just a marketing gimmick from Big Spice to strong-arm farmers. Make sure to only buy real pumpkin or pumpkin pie filling to stick it to Big Spice and support local pumpkins.

Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 19h

Cute way of saying OpenAI figured out how to convince his users to pay him to work for free promoting his toys.

Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet

OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?

www.npr.org

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 19h

OpenAI rewarding prompt jockeys with trinkets to fuel the addiction reminds me of my dad’s Marlboro jacket and fishing set he got by collecting Marlboro miles except the trinket is useless.

Only had to destroy one forest and one lake to get a frosted glass reminder Sam Altman is a crypto & AI bro.

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Marvel Comics doesn’t either, but Marvel Studios and Disney both have a poor track record with Secret Invasion and more.

NYCC: C.B. Cebulski Makes Marvel Comics' Policy On A.I. Artwork Clear

C.B. Cebulski makes Marvel Comics' policy on A.I. generated artwork very clear, at New York Comic Con

bleedingcool.com

Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

One more reason DC Comics is better than Marvel…no generative AI. Not now, not ever.

DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

www.theverge.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

What caused it is Domino’s press release and reputable news outlets playing around with the concept of “you can’t spell domino’s without the ‘mmm’” which is guaranteed to trip up LLMs, so now I’m scrolling through every article I can find to see which humans do their jobs and which use AI unchecked.

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry 3 different ways.

Lmao “Dommino’s Sans”

Here’s the original press release ir.dominos.com/news-release...

Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

This Dominos rebrand is a fun way to learn which media outlets use generative AI to write for them. It involves the company changing the number of Ms in the word Dominos, and Dexerto here managed to miscount it in two different ways.

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds like Amazon’s CEO is suggesting that employees install their own AI agent at work, regardless of what their boss thinks.

Otherwise, why does he refer to it as an AI teammate at work instead of an AI employee at your business?

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

From worrying about clankers dating their daughters or not serving them in restaurants to adapting the slur to clanka or even cligger,it is source for both well-intentioned commentary on civil rights and thinly veiled racism.

Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

Good overview of how people made a bunch of “clanker” videos that exactly mirror scenes that black Americans have dealt with for generations.

The AI Slur ‘Clanker’ Has Become a Cover for Racist TikTok Skits

The online trend takes a comedic approach to spreading anti-AI messaging, but some creators are using racist references to make their point.

www.wired.com

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday a woman posted photos of her 3 children asking the internet to use photoshop and AI to remove the watermark so she could download their school photos for free.

She blocked me, so I’m posting it for other parents who violate their kids privacy. It is bad parenting, and you need to stop.

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 2d

When did news outlets get so comfortable admitting they don’t even read what they publish?

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 2d

How hard is it for Reuters journalists to either:

1. Write 3 sentences summarizing the key points of the story they just wrote, or
2. Read the 3 sentences generated by AI?

And also how tf do you unironically follow that sentence with “our responsible use of AI”
?!?!

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Brian Penny 🍿 @brianpenny.bsky.social · 2d

“A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year.”

Although the students were eventually cleared, many of them lost opportunities as a result.