As inevitable as the tide.
Continue reading SI’s AI.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(H/T: @RobinDLaws) I don’t know if The Verge has worked its way through the implications of the AI submissions problem yet. Right now, editors can detect AI-generated works of fiction, and they’re rejecting them out of hand*. Their problem? Well, let me put it another way: they’re teaching the AI how to successfully fool the editors. It will likely take some time, but the ultimate goal here is not to write the Great American Science Fiction story: it’s to come up with something that can get past the gatekeepers. That is a much more achievable goal.
It will happen. It probably hasn’t happened yet, but we’re still in the middle of the process. Worse of everyone concerned, it’s a process that will probably end up destroying the entire concept of the speculative fiction magazine — because once AI-generated text gets sophisticated enough to mimic C+ work reliably, why not just buy your own copy of the program, and have it churn out cookie-cutter content that’s specialized for you?
Continue reading So, this AI spam submission thing is only going to get worse.Given that I’ve thrown the odd story at Clarkesworld, only to have them invariably throw it back, I want to be careful not to sound too snidely amused at their problem with AI submissions. “On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had temporarily closed story submissions due to a massive increase in machine-generated stories sent to the publication.” I will, however, note that Clarkesworld’s closing of all story submissions sounds very much like they themselves can’t tell AI-generated stories from real ones. Based on what I’ve seen of the recent AI-generated texts, this is not a complement to AI. It’s a trenchant commentary on what Clarkesworld usually publishes.
…Oh, damn. I guess I failed, huh?
UPDATE: I will admit that Karl raises a good point here:
Maybe this is the answer. Maybe. Maybe not. Probably not. Anyway: “AI.” Enjoy!
I am so amazingly lazy this week. But the Patreon remains:
