New premium column from Ed Zitron, digging into OpenAI and Oracle's deal.
BlueMonday1984
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Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years
He still maintains a solid reputation with FOSS freaks, fascists and pedophiles to this day. Given the Venn diagram of these three groups is a circle, this isn't particularly shocking.
Literally what I and many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing
- Baldur Bjarnason, talking about Trump's plan to turn LLMs into propaganda machines
Remember when I told you that using these LLMs was like giving US tech a bigotry dial for all your writing?
- Baldur, once again, on Facebook obeying in advance with Llama 4
(On a brighter note, that's a pretty clever Touhou nod in the thumbnail)
Being compared to whackjobs with a worse grip on reality than him definitely helped.
Somehow, ~~Palpatine returned~~ Scott came off as a voice of reason
In more low-key news, French voice actor Françoise Cadol has accused Aspyr Media of making an AI replica of her voice for the latest Tomb Raider remaster (the French one specifically, though its probably not the only one with AI slop voices).
Examples of the AI-generated voicelines have popped up on social media.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind cost 1 million to make in 1984. (No idea what that would be adjusted for inflation).
I checked a few random inflation calculators, and it comes out to roughly $3.1 million.
The video's also all over Twitter, thanks to nonexistent moderation.
Wright thinks the podcasts are great:
I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites. Because there’s a lot of really good stuff out there.
Evergreen reminder that AI boosters are literally incapable of telling good work from bad work
OpenAI's trying to make an AI-generated animated film, and claiming their Magical Slop Extruders^tm^ can do in nine months what allegedly would take three years, with only a $30 mil budget and the writers of Paddington in Peru for assistance.
Allegedly, they're also planning to show it off at the Cannes Film Festival, of all places. By my guess, this was Sam Altman's decision - he's already fawned over AI-extruded garbage before, its clear he has zero taste in art whatsoever.
Another possibility is that Altman's bought into his own hype, and genuinely believes OpenAI will achieve AGI before the money runs out. Considering the tech press has been uncritically hyping up AI in general, and Sammy Boy himself has publicly fawned over "metafiction" "written" by an in-house text extruder, its a possibility I'm not gonna discount.