Oh no.
Now the Opera browser fully embeds AI. When will the others follow suit? When will I have to start using Lynx?
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/opera-one-ai-browser-linux

#AI #NoAI #AvoidAI #Browser #WebBrowser #InternetBrowser #Opera #Firefox #Chrome #Chromium #UngoogledChromium

On my other account over at indiepop.band I just now replied to a post with the following:

“AI is always merely mimicking, imitating, trying to resemble something.”

The original post links to an article which in turn links to a study saying that “60% of musicians are already using AI in their productions (59.5%, to be precise). Of the 1,299 independent artists surveyed, 11% admitted to using it for songwriting, 20.3% said they’ve used it during the production process, and 30.6% confirmed that they’ve used it for mastering. 38%, meanwhile, have called on artificial intelligence to create their music’s artwork.”

I feel like I’m on a very, very futile path with my warnings about AI, and yet I will continue walking it.

AI is not good and will do a lot of harm. Yes, any AI.

https://www.musicradar.com/news/musicians-already-using-ai

Original post: https://mastodon.social/@martinic/110298165466901043

#AI #NoAI #AINotArt #AvoidAI

@duckduckgpt

Are you for real?! I *do not ever* want GPT BS in my search results. Will have to look for a new main search engine, guys. SearX is already top of my list, and there are some promising others. ByeBye DuckDuck 👋

https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine

#NoAI #AvoidAI #NoChatGPT

Very, very soon we will not be able to tell real from fake anymore.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/ai-imager-midjourney-v5-stuns-with-photorealistic-images-and-5-fingered-hands

#AI #NoAI #AINotArt #AvoidAI #FakeNews #DeepFake

“Everything is moving in the direction of what you might call snippet culture: a world in which all entertainment has a snack-sized version meant for idly consuming on the subway.”

“After all, the Spotify redesign is one more nail in the coffin of the album. More importantly, it’s another shift toward a world in which ‘content’ is dictated by algorithm.”

“(…) we cobble together experiences rather than engaging with things that have been deliberately, even thoughtfully, put together.”

@meanwell posted this excellent article from The Star: https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/03/11/spotifys-snippet-culture-redesign-just-another-algorithmic-brick-in-the-wall-of-joyful-discovery.html

The text also quotes a tweet by columnist Kyle Chayka, “Algorithmic feeds have pushed content creators to conform to the acceptable esthetic and cultural average; A.I. generation will just automatically produce that average from the start.” (https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1620891495502057472)

I will now try to establish two new hashtags to comment on the ongoing threat that music and the arts are facing: #TheReignOfTheAlgorithm #ArtUnderDigitalFire

#Spotify #Streaming #Music #Album #Capitalism #NoAI #AIisNotArt #AINotArt #IAmNotARobot #AvoidAI #NoAIArt #NoMusicLM #NoStableDiffusion #NoDALLE #NoMidjourney #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation #NoChatGPT

“We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.”

Couldn’t agree more with this text by @danmcquillan I found through a boost in my timeline. Nodding fervently at sentences like, “ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’.” Or, later on, “(…) the social benefits are still speculative while the harms have been empirically demonstrated.”

This is the article: https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
And the original toot: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/109902038793206048

#NoAI #AINotArt #AvoidAI #BanChatGPT #NoChatGPT #AIDoesHarm

Meet Rozy, “virtual influencer“ from South Korea

https://www.instagram.com/rozy.gram

This is what young girls will now want to look like — sure to be disappointed; this degree of perfection is unattainable (and not desireable!) for humans. But they will still try. Young psyches destroyed.

Of course it’s all about consumption; shopping, “enjoying life”, travelling — cementing a lifestyle that’s destructive to our environment and extremely colonialist.

#AInotArt #AIisDangerous #AvoidAI #RejectAI #IgnoreAI