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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 8

💯 We are likely to see more whining about ethics instead of legal compliance! Hoping to see what happens with international laws, and how these regulations are enforced aside from fines.

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · Feb 7

🚨 Watch out for this playbook in 2025:

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 2

[2/2] Compliance for the 4th risk level is now in effect.

If found using unacceptable AI, the guilty party "...could be on the hook for up to €35 million (~$36 million), or 7% of their annual revenue from the prior fiscal year, whichever is greater."

#AILaw #AIRegulation #AIEthics

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 2

[1/2] EU's 4 #AIRisk Levels:

1️⃣ Minimal (ex. e-spam filters)
2️⃣ Limited (ex. chatbots)
3️⃣ High (ex. healthcare AI)
4️⃣ Unacceptable 🚫
Bans AI used for: social scoring, manipulation, exploiting vulnerabilities, inferring personal traits/emotions at school/work, creating/expanding facial recognition data

BizToc @biztoc.com · Feb 2

EU Bans AI Systems with 'Unacceptable Risk' — The EU can now ban AI deemed risky, marking a significant regulatory step for AI technologies.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

EU Bans AI Systems with 'Unacceptable Risk'

techcrunch.com

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

The 8 different donuts (and plate) I modeled from scratch: Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate + Cream, Pistachio, Glazed, French Cruller, Chocolate Glazed, and Rainbow. 😋

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

I finally completed the Blender Guru 4.0 Donut Tutorial! 🍩 What a great series to start learning this program. #Blender3D #3DArt #BlenderDonut #3DRender

Imported Assets are CC0:
Poliigon: marble textures, utensils model 🍴
katarina842 (cgtrader): pothos plant model 🪴
Clavier-Music (Pixabay): music 🎵

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

Essential read! It cited Meta's LLama as the clear AI arms race winner in 2023.

But today, in 2025, DeepSeek threatens to dethrone its model.

"Things we consider 'major open problems' are solved and in people’s hands..."

1️⃣ LLMs on a phone
2️⃣Scalable Personal AI
3️⃣Responsible Release
4️⃣Multimodality

Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · Feb 1

This memo from May 2023 was spot on:
Google: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”, Directly Competing With Open Source Is a Losing Proposition.
semianalysis.com/2023/05/04/g...
#ai #opensource #openai #deepseekR1

Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI The text below is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Disc…

semianalysis.com

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

"Very few bright-line rules are possible," the Copyright Office said, with one obvious exception. Because of "insufficient human control over the expressive elements" of resulting works, "if content is entirely generated by AI, it cannot be protected by copyright."

#AILaw #AICopyright #AIEthics

métal bleu profond @deepbluemetal.bsky.social · Feb 1

Copyright Office suggests #AI #copyright debate was settled in 1965 - Ars Technica - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965

Most people think purely AI-generated works shouldn’t be copyrighted, report says.

arstechnica.com

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

Thank you so much for sharing this! ❤️ The amount of bloated crapola I need to sift through to find quality, non-brainrot, well-edited, & accurate history material is absurd. I've reverted to using the upload date filter to find content created before 2021. This has helped me avoid AI slop.

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Feb 1

Excellent article! Frugality is not cheapness—a small truth that lets DeepSeek make big waves.

They showed the world that creating an AI product with the express purpose to disrupt the global industry is not only possible, it is successful enough to disturb existing technocracy.

Doug Richmond, PhD @drphd2k7.bsky.social · Feb 1

"...the #AI industries in #Asia and #Africa are cheering #DeepSeek not for what it is, but for what it stands for:
Proof that frugality and #innovation can go hand in hand...."
restofworld.org/2025/deepsee...

#creativity #startups #artificialintelligence

Non-Western founders say DeepSeek is proof that innovation need not cost billions of dollars

The Chinese app has just “blown the roof off” and “shifted the power dynamics.”

restofworld.org

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 28

This is a fantastic list of updates covering #AI 's effect on #music. Thanks for sharing!

Andrew Sky @mpt-house.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚀 Updates on AI & music creation this week:

🎤 Apparently Musicians Hate Making Music, ...
📚 Ge Wang: GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginat...
🎧 10 "Best" AI Music Generators (January 2...

Get the complete +83 updates here:

+83 Updates About AI’s Role in Music Creation This Week (1/21/2025 - 1/28/2025)

1. Apparently Musicians Hate M

mpt.house

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 27

Finally made it this far! 8 different donuts. Can any #3Dartist with #Blender experience give insight on how to improve the scene? Glazed material is tricky.

(Plant and utensils were free assets. I modeled the plate and donuts.) #3D #render #Blender3D

A 3D rendered scene of a kitchen countertop featuring a plate with 8 different donuts of various kinds in the foreground. A pothos plant and kitchen utensils set in a container can be seen in the background.

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 25

Just when it came out that #X "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and barely breaking even.”

"Banks lent around $13 billion to help pay for the [~$44B] deal...The deal is considered one of the worst that banks agreed to finance since the 2008 financial crisis."

#Twitter #debt #loans

Exclusive | Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X Loans

Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar.

www.wsj.com

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 23

Great insight on this window of opportunity! #GenerativeSearch #AIsearch #SEM

Jes Scholz @jes-scholz.bsky.social · Jan 21

It's a great time to be an SEO, because PPC can't buy their way into LLM responses. But this time is fleeting. Ads will come. So now is the time to show how SEO creates sustainable value. AI spam and black hat tricks wont win over the executive level. Let's be better and focus on brand growth.

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 23

Sharing for visibility! Unfortunately the domain is not released after getting banned. #AIspam #SEOspam #AIGenerated #SEO

Neocities @neocities.org · Jan 21

This is a great example of AI generated SEO spam. Almost all AI generated sites without modification look more or less like this. This one was just banned.

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 21

💯 This has contributed to the sickening ignorant spin on the documentation of recent events. #journalism

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Jan 20

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 20

A profound snippet from this article: sloanreview.mit.edu/article/phil...

#philosophy #AI #artificalintelligence #thoughtleadership

Philosophy is eating AI: As a discipline, data set, and sensibility, philosophy increasingly determines how digital technologies reason, predict, create, generate, and innovate. The critical enterprise challenge is whether leaders will possess the self-awareness and rigor to use philosophy as a resource for creating value with AI or default to tacit, unarticulated philosophical principles for their AI deployments. Either way — for better and worse — philosophy eats AI. For strategy-conscious executives, that metaphor needs to be top of mind.

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 18

A great video by No Boilerplate discussing why the #AI hype does not live up to its promises, including a technical overview of existing #LLM capabilities.

AI Is Not Designed for You

YouTube video by No Boilerplate

youtu.be

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 18

They were eaten by a culture of immediacy and extremely low-cost communication methods. 😥 One roll of stamps can cost as much as one inflation-sized grocery trip nowadays. And yet, what I find is that I will always keep snail-mail! It remains one of the most private methods of communication.

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 18

Incredible! Curious to see which contenders come through after this call to action.

Will we find that AT-based minimum viable products tailor themselves better towards certain communities? Or can improvements be made across the board with new, various settings?

#tiktokban #tiktok

Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · Jan 17

Mark Cuban posted a TikTok video that he wants to support or invest in somebody who creates a TikTok replacement built on the bluesky AT protocol.

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 17

Next week will be pivotal in whether or not the app's U.S. future is actually enforced. But where will everyone on the platofrm go now? The value of decentralized media platforms—especially ones where creators can achieve similar income streams—will only increase. #tiktokban

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Jan 17

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds law effectively banning TikTok in the United States starting this Sunday. Court finds it does not violate First Amendment.

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 16

At what point would you say the procrastination becomes preparation? A nice image repository for future articles? Nice render!

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 16

⚡Winter PSA: Do NOT use 14-gauge extension cords for anything above 15 amps (1,800 watts) or these items listed below.⚡

1️⃣ Air Fryers
2️⃣ Microwaves
3️⃣ Other Extension Cords
4️⃣ Space Heaters
5️⃣ Toasters & Toaster Ovens
6️⃣ Refrigerators
7️⃣ Air Conditioning Units

Source: Corin Cesaric, CNET. (Jan. 15, 2025)

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · Jan 13

CNET with a good roundup of the kinds of devices you should not plug into extension cords.

www.cnet.com/home/kitchen...

An Electrician's Plea: Don't Plug Space Heaters or These Other 6 Devices Into Extension Cords

Pairing extension cords and power strips with certain appliances poses a bigger threat than you think.

www.cnet.com

Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 14

Completely agree. It's so disheartening. I can only imagine that the repercussions of such products emphasize the need for human creatives. Untrained persons should not be making these decisions. It's what creates the dissonance we see here.

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 14

People love creating music.

They hate producing "training data." They hate having to create just to meet deadlines. They may even hate how long it takes to practice on their own to gain enough experience to produce quality results.

But they love to express themselves creatively.

#AI #AIGenerated

AI & ML News @ai-news.at.thenote.app · Jan 14

CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music

Suno AI, an AI music generator, aims to make music creation accessible to a billion people. Its CEO, Mikey Shulman, believes the current music creation process is not enjoyable for most. Suno uses text prompts to generate mus…

#ai #news

CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music

Suno AI, an AI music generator, aims to make music creation accessible to a billion people. Its CEO, Mikey Shulman, believes the current music creation process is not enjoyable for most. Suno uses text prompts to generate music, similar to other AI tools. The company faces lawsuits from the recording industry over copyright infringement during its training. Shulman argues the lawsuits are misguided, believing Suno will expand music creation and the industry's audience. He anticipates increased music consumption and creation as a result of Suno's technology. This expansion could parallel the impact of electronic music and digital production tools. The core argument is that democratizing music creation benefits everyone in the long run. Suno's approach prioritizes ease of use over enhancing existing creators' efficiency.

entertainment.slashdot.org

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Erika Rosell @erikarosell.bsky.social · Jan 14

This is incredibly sad to read. I have a lot of friends who love music! It's been their life passion! Creating training data may be what they hate. It's myopic to believe that it equates to making music freely as a form of self-expression. The two differ vastly in purpose and intrinsic motivation.

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