Tag: aI

AI’s deadly (hopefully) Nightshade.

There’s something ironic about the fact that this article about an AI-art poison uses AI art, but one step at a time. You have to give the poison time to work:

Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago which was designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release.

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Nightfall Games discovers AI art masquerading in… their Terminator TTRPG project.

Ironic or not, Nightfall Games isn’t laughing about it: ” In a post shared by the company on Tuesday, December 19, the studio confirmed that there were at least 16 illustrations from the T2 Judgement Day sourcebook which had been generated through the use of AI” (more here). Nightfall Games now has to replace the art, which means that they have to go spend more money on the art*. They’re still going to do it, but that won’t change the fact that the project is now a bit less profitable for everybody.

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SI’s AI.

As inevitable as the tide.

Findings from Futurism suggest Sports Illustrated has been publishing AI-generated content and disguising it by including bylines and photos for authors that don’t exist.

The report, published Tuesday, revealed that a number of headshots from SI’s authors could be found on a website used to buy AI-generated headshots. Futurism continued digging for answers but found no evidence the writers in question actually existed outside of SI’s website.

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Tweet of the Day, This Is Why I Am Absolutely Keeping AI Art From My Book Covers edition.

Apparently, this is what you get when the freaking Mouse is paying the invoice. Look, I get that a lot of creative types don’t have any money. Shoot, I have far less than I like, myself. So I don’t want to judge too harshly. Just… try not to be standing underneath when this fad collapses under its own weight, okay?

Via @Strangeland_Elf.

Tweet of the Day, Who Gets Sued? edition.

Because if this post is true, somebody’s getting sued.

Via @wastelandJD. If money is changing hands, then there is an established value for the product. IANAL, but I’m pretty sure that whoever generated that audio file did not acquire the rights for the songs that were scraped to make it*. Whoever sold it to Warner should be sue-able. Again, IANAL.

What a fascinating time to be alive.

Moe Lane

*Assuming that the song was made via AI, that is. If that’s a real person, then this isn’t an “AI pop singer” at all.

Tweet of the Day, This Is Expected And Good edition.

It, as the article noted, going to be a problem for Hollywood. I know, I know: you’re all just crying over that…

Via @Strangeland_Elf.

The click-baiters will continue to seek AI content.

Behold! The future, for some.

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Chaosium reveals ELDER, The Call of Cthulhu AI Chatbot.

Elder is trained exclusively on Call of Cthulhu, huh? …Gee, I can’t think how that could possibly go tentacle-shaped.

I kid, I kid! This is a smart concept. It’s perfectly ethical, too: the developers are officially working with Chaosium to create something that can be used to deal with rules questions and whatnot. They’re only using Chaosium’s own stuff, too, so there’s no worries there (they also explicitly promise that they’re not using AI-generated art in any way). Frankly, I wouldn’t mind something like this for GURPS.