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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 2d

Nintendo Issues Official Statement in Response to Generative AI Claim, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Calls Sora 2 Copyrighted Character Videos 'Interactive Fan Fiction' - IGN

OpenAI has vowed to give copyright holders “more granular control” over character generation after its Sora 2 app produced a flood of videos that depicted copyrighted characters — including those...

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 2d

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 2d

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 4d

Sora is full of copyrighted characters. It's a gamble for OpenAI

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 4d

The AI Money Vortex - The Atlantic

The AI Money Vortex

OpenAI is worth $500 billion now. What are its investors getting back?

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 6d

AI comes to the video wars

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 6d

Artificial intelligence may not be artificial — Harvard Gazette

Researcher traces evolution of computation power of human brains, parallels to AI, argues key to increasing complexity is cooperation.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 9d

Jensen Huang doesn’t care about Sam Altman’s AI hype fears: he thinks OpenAI will be the first “multi-trillion dollar hyperscale company” | Fortune

Zuckerberg and Altman are scared of a bubble. Not Nvidia’s leader, who also offered thoughts on the $100,000 H-1B visa setting "the bar a little too high."

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 11d

Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

Far from a dystopian fantasy, algorithmic management tech is rapidly expanding across the US and European Union.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 13d

Generic AI cannot capture higher education’s unwritten rules | Wonkhe

Generic AI cannot capture higher education’s unwritten rules

Universities run on heritage, tacit understandings and institutional memory. Kurt Barling explains why this means the sector must take control of how AI is designed and deployed Universities run on heritage,...

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 13d

Machina Lucida: Reflections on Artificial Images by Lucas Gelfond

Sure, diffusion models make for poor paintbrushes – then again, so did early cameras, cinemas, and raytracers. On the new art form emerging from AI’s jagged frontiers.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 15d

An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

In our new 3-part series, we remember the people and ideas that made the Internet.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 15d

Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

Ever notice how disposable vapes come with a ludicrous amount of electronics? Someone just put them to good use.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 18d

Opening strategies in the game of go from feudalism to superhuman AI | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Opening strategies in the game of go from feudalism to superhuman AI - Volume 7

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 18d

Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’ – The Irish Times

Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’

As students get stuck into the academic year, there are strong feelings about whether artificial intelligence should play a role in their education

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 18d

Will AI kill everyone? Here’s why Eliezer Yudkowsky thinks so. | Vox

“AI will kill everyone” is not an argument. It’s a worldview.

How rational is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prophecy?

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 19d

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think

The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 19d

What AI’s Doomers and Utopians Have in Common - The Atlantic

The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 19d

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’ | WIRED

Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’

Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 20d

Researchers embed digital 'fingerprints' into 3D printed parts — tech may make future ghost guns more traceable | Tom's Hardware

Researchers embed digital 'fingerprints' into 3D printed parts — tech may make future ghost guns more traceable

A threat to the anonymity of 3D printing, to make ghost guns traceable.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 21d

‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops | Dazed

‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops

The vast majority of students rely on laptops – and increasingly AI – to help with their university work. But a small number are going analogue and eschewing tech almost entirely in a bid to re-engage...

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 22d

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down - The New York Times

A.I.’s Prophet of Doom Wants to Shut It All Down

Eliezer Yudkowsky has spent the past 20 years warning A.I. insiders of danger. Now, he’s making his case to the public.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 22d

Deliberating On The Many Definitions Of Artificial General Intelligence

AGI is a moniker that has its ups and downs. Believe it or not, there isn't a universally accepted definition of AGI. I explore crucial ins and outs. An AI Insider scoop.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 22d

AI Is Grown, Not Built - The Atlantic

AI Is Grown, Not Built

Nobody knows exactly what an AI will become. That’s very bad.

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Critical Digital Media @digital.therourke.net · 22d

AI-Scraping Free-for-All by OpenAI, Google, and Meta Is Over

The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

The web is tired of getting harvested for chatbots.

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