I know the UK is not part of the EU, but I was replying to someone who mentioned the UK.

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Honestly, I would be happy to have some tech banned in my country, especially if it has proven to be a large net negative. I'm looking at Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Generative AI, etc...

I don't live in the UK, but if you want to ban everyone who lives in the UK from accessing your startup... you do you. Generally speaking, reducing one's potential customer base is not considered sound business strategy.

I've bought stuff fairly recently from the Canadian site (newegg.ca) and have been satisfied with it. Certainly won't buy anything else if they put this AI/Paypal crap on their Canadian site.

Unfortunately, it's probably a result of the extreme litigiousness of the US. Even obliquely admitting that maybe possibly hypothetically there's a sliver of a chance OpenAI might have a nanoparticle of blame here is considered way too risky.

OpenAI's response just drips with compassion, no?

The minimum age should be set at 350 years.

You can't rely on a huge and unreliable trade partner with interests that might not align with yours. That's the new reality, sadly. And the world will be poorer for the pigheaded (if not bloodthirsty) pursuit of power and influence on the part of the USA, China and Russia.

The movie analogy is old and outdated.

I'd compare it to a computer game. In any open world game, it seems that there are people living a life - going to work, doing chores, going home, etc. - but it's a carefully crafted illusion. "Carefully crafted" in so far as the developers having put exactly that into the game that is needed to suspend your disbelief and let you think, at least while playing, that there are real people. But behind the facade, they are not. They just disappear when entering their homes, they have no actual desires just a few numbers and conditional statements to switch between different pre-programmed behaviour patterns.

If done well, it can be a very, very convincing illusion. I'm sure that someone who hasn't seen a computer game before might think that they are actual people, but anyone with a bit of background knowledge knows they are not.

For AI, most of the people simply don't (yet?) have that bit of background knowledge.

And yet, when asked if the world is flat, they correctly say that it's not.

Despite hundreds of flat-earthers who are quite active online.

And it doesn't even budge on the point if you argue with it. So for whatever it's worth, it has learned more from scraping the Internet than at least some humans.

We didn't. The media and the PR departments did. In the tech and academia worlds that seriously work with it, the terms are LLMs, machine learning, etc. - the actual terms describing what the thing does. "AI" is the marketing term used by marketing people. You know, the people who professionally lie about everything in order to sell things.

It is not just ludicrous, it is irrationally dangerous.

For any (current) LLM, whenever you interact with them you need to remember one rule-of-thumb (not my invention, read it somewhere and agree): The LLM was trained to generate "expected output". So always think that implicitly your prompt starts with "give me the answer you think I want to read on the following question".

Giving an EXPECTED answer instead of the most likely to be true answer is literally life-threatening in a medical context.

is not only not giving up some of those ill-gotten gains, by at least, say, LOWERING THE RENT, but remember 40% or so of the rental market is now owned, directly or indirectly, by VC. There's no way they will stop colluding.

Who would opt in to this? No matter how well the company tries to police this, there will be AI generated slop of artists singing terrible lyrics that they would never do in real life. Does is matter that the company can issue take down request after the fact when your new hit single "Adolf's Solution" featuring your likeness adorned with a silly mustache has already gone viral? Maybe that's on the nose enough for an LLM to shut down, but there are plenty of other terrible things that can be made with this and 4chan will try to make them all.

It's a license between an AI music generator and WMG. Presumably someone can ask for it to be generated and it probably gives you a 30 second sample before you have to pay for it. At that point the artist likely will have the ability to veto the creation, or to take it as their own,

And I suppose it's a way for smaller artists to make some money because obviously the AI maker is going ot have to pay WMG for the license to do it.

If the artist approves then whoever created the song presumably just has to pay up for it and they get the download. And chances are it's non-exclusive, so WMG and/or the artist get the ability to have that song for them as well.

And there's likely to be logs to, so if someone did do a deep fake, you have their billing address and know who actually created it so you know it was AI generated. The fact it's not anonymous is likely a huge guardrail in what can be preduced

You do realize that what you're describing is all of about ten lines of Javascript with the right libraries (audioTrackList property, subtitle library, currentTime property), right?