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aha you give the actual real answer that most of us would probably give, if we only got to say one thing. Money kind of makes a lot of problems go away.
can anyone speak to why payment processors care about AI porn at all? With the duopoly of PayPal and Stripe, I'm not totally clear why the payment processors think that AI Porn will impact their bottom line in the slightest. If people take issue with the payment processors' implicit approval of these practices, what are they gonna do? It's not like there are any viable alternatives.
Do we think this is because of anything other than the fact that last year was a presidential election year? The opinions of the masses are VERY malleable to messages of political campaigns. Less active campaigns = fewer strong opinions about wedge issues.
This must be Grok's ultimate mission, create an AI in Elon Musk's image so he can live on forever in the AI. It would totally track with his weird mission to pollute the planet with his progeny. His main goal in life seems to be legacy, having as many people as possible say "Elon Musk is cool" for as long as possible.
right? it was like the only thing that made me sort of okay with the lack of sales.
i guess my point is that I understand why the researchers are doing it - the UN gave them money to research ways the UN could use AI, so that is what they did. It's not like the research is unethical in the sense that it directly harms participants. Maybe it's a dumb waste of money, but at that point, the question is more for the UN leaders that said "we should give someone money to research AI". And I don't know that 404 Media has the pull to interview those people.
definitely licensing issues, 100%. The record company owns the old song and doesn't want to allow it in the game again, at least not for a reasonable price. Could the artists re-record songs to bypass the record company, like Taylor Swift did? Yeah sure, but only if they are still around, and only if they care that much about being in the Tony Hawk remake. Re-recording songs includes re-doing all the mixing and mastering, and that is a decent chunk of time and money for essentially no return on investment. Most of the bands in original Tony Hawk that are still around are pretty focused on ROI at this point.
I feel like the article answers the question, or rather it gives the researchers a chance to answer the question:
When I spoke with them, both Albrecht and Fournier-Tombs were clear that the goal of the workshop was to spark conversation and deal with the technology now, as it is.
“We’re not proposing these as solutions for the UN, much less UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). We’re just playing around with the concept,” Albrecht said. “You have to go on a date with someone to know you don’t like ‘em.”
Fournier-Tombs said that it’s important for the UN to get a handle on AI and start working through the ethical problems with it. “There’s a lot of pressure everywhere, not just at the UN, to adopt AI systems to become more efficient and do more with less,” she said. “The promise of AI is always that it can save money and help us accomplish the mission…there’s a lot of tricky ethical concerns with that.”
She also said that the UN can’t afford to be reactive when it comes to new technology. “Someone’s going to deploy AI agents in a humanitarian context, and it’s going to be with a company, and there won’t be any real principles or thought, consideration, of what should be done,” she said. “That’s the context we presented the conversation in.”
The goal of the experiment, Albrecht said, was always to provoke an emotional reaction and start a conversation about these ethical concerns.
“You create a kind of straw man to see how people attack it and understand its vulnerabilities.”
So if you read the headline and have the obvious visceral reaction, if you are asking yourself that question from the article, it kind of sounds like that is the point. They're doing it now so that if people see it and say "that's stupid", hopefully that stops xAI or someone else from trying this to profit on the suffering of poor people. Alternatively, if people see it and say "wow this actually helped me understand", that is also useful for the world at large. It doesn't sound like the latter is the case, but that's why you test a hypothesis.
i gotta say...if i lived in Corpus Christi, I would be panicking if I read this headline. Like I would immediately start planning a move.
there are apparently a few cases where they didn't get the same song, but they got a new song from the same artists. But yeah...it's a bummer from a game preservation perspective
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Less than 20% of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4’s soundtrack is made up of songs from the original games [VGC]
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
This snip at the end is so good:
Iaso said she thinks AI companies follow her work, and that if they really want to stop her and Anubis they just need to distract her.
“If you are working at an AI company, here's how you can sabotage Anubis development as easily and quickly as possible,” she wrote on her site. “So first is quit your job, second is work for Square Enix, and third is make absolute banger stuff for Final Fantasy XIV. That’s how you can sabotage this the best.”
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Remake reports persist as Square Enix releases Final Fantasy 9 anniversary movie [VGC]
(www.videogameschronicle.com)
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awh that's wholesome