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Comment Re:Sorry authors. (Score 1) 29

My browser has read your post before rendering it. Putting it through an AI does the same as my browser does. It uses it as input, does some fancy processing and gives me an output. The browser takes the bytes and renders them into truetype letters, the AI can for example summarize it. In the end are both processing the input to give an output created from the original content.

Comment Re:Not much different from disclosing paid actors (Score 1) 24

But who are the people using the AI?

I've got the impression the "AI will replace us" people do not think about the AI we have, but about some form of robots that autonomously do everything on their own. But every image generator has a person who uses it. Who first thinks about what they want, then try designs with different prompts and ideas, then refine a good candidate with the more direct tools, refine the image in an editor afterward, possibly train models to create more consistent images of the same character/thing/style and so on.

If you think AI is creative on its own, ask a LLM about a joke. Most will tell you something about atoms or scarecrows over and over again. AI is good at executing things, good at knowing things, but where should creativity come in? In the best case there were a lot of learned "presets" that are chosen depending on a random seed that would appear like creativity, but in practice the creativity has to come from a human controlling the thing.

I don't see this as a large problem and not only to save jobs, but also just because nobodys said these tools must be able to replace humans or human creativity. Photoshop also does not replace your drawing skill or other things that are more comfortable with using advanced tools but are not provided by the tool itself.

Comment Greatest pressure (Score 1) 64

"the greatest competitive pressure we've ever seen"

Given that they didn't have much competition before, that's no real superlative. Google managed really late to become part of the game. Remember their old announcements about Bard and how they struggled to catch up at all (even though they invented LLMs)? They managed to get good by now, but before Anthropic was the only competition for OpenAI.

Comment Re:Aussie teens already defeating the block (Score 1) 49

Great, tell the politicians how you trick the face detector, so they can introduce a new law forcing you to upload your full id, or letting yourself be verified by some GAFAM company who they trust more than the webcam verification companies. These are possibly shady, but better than giving Meta your data so they can vouch for your age.

Comment May contain AI (Score 1) 24

We'll probably soon be seeing "May contain AI" disclaimers on everything. How do you want to be sure that no component of your ad pipeline uses AI? You can't. And probably a few indeed do use AI.

By the way, can we get disclaimers on food ads if they use glue instead of milk when presenting how it allegedly looks like when you pour milk on cornflakes?

Comment But it's containerized! (Score 2) 18

Installing someone's system image instead of just a software was a dumb idea from the very first docker release on. We are lucky if people are able to build secure software, but docker requires them to also build secure system images. It also discourages people from running updates, saying "you can just deploy the new image in no time". Yeah, but I'd rather update when my OS has the update, not when some random guy uploading stuff to dockerhub finally gets around to rebuild the image.

Comment Re:Total Failure by Disney (Score 1) 41

Add to that:
- ChatGPT/Sora gets an advantage over other video generators
- ChatGPT gets more (paying) users and makes more profit (to the benefit of all investors)
- OpenAI has less legal problems
- OpenAI's investors have less concern about OpenAI's legal problems
- Disney's content is present on another platform and having users interact with it, which is basically a free ad
- There are probably a lot of ideas how to monetize such creations, from ads for related Disney movies to selling prints or even plushies of the creations that make Disney money (and not OpenAI)

It is a bet on OpenAI's continued growth, but it may be a good investment in the future.

Comment Re:CVE process must step up (Score 1) 31

Do you want to base your security on "Automating this with AI will not always work reliably" after someone demonstrated that it sometimes works? The attacker needs to find only one vulnerability and doesn't have a disadvantage if the first 99 tries failed and only the 100th managed to get into your system.

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