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The Internet Is Mostly Bots

How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago

The Bitter Lesson

DAIR, Credo AI and Signal Foundation on AI Ethics

AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born

Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It's being 'deployed as surveillance'

As Kubrick told Gelmis, “the computer is the central character of this segment of the story,” making reference to the final act of the film that features HAL as a major antagonist. Explaining his stance further, Kubrick explains, “One of the things we were trying to convey in this part of the film is the reality of a world populated — as ours soon will be — by machine entities who have as much, or more, intelligence as human beings, and who have the same emotional potentialities in their personalities as human beings”. Stanley Kubrik, on 2001 A space odyssey

A lawyer got ChatGPT to do his research, but he isn’t AI’s biggest fool | John Naughton

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Another warning about the AI apocalypse? I don’t buy it | Ivana Bartoletti

The Magic and Minstrelsy of Generative AI

Artificial generative intelligence risks a return to cultural colonialism

A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did.

‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI

Don't believe ChatGPT - we do NOT offer a "phone lookup" service

The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking

Love and Loathing in the Time of ChatGPT - 3 Quarks Daily

Intro to AI for GLAM

Ethics of AI

23 resources to get up to speed on AI in 2023

Check out this ShareGPT conversation

A reading list for AI-curious library professionals

Art, AI and figuring the future - Griffith Review

How Did A.I. Art Evolve? Here's a 5,000-Year Timeline of Artists Employing Artificial Intelligence, From the Ancient Inca to Modern-Day GANs

Whispers of A.I.'s Modular Future

Pictures?

https://www.meta.ai

Australian Portrait Prize to Allow AI Entries, 'Art is Not Stagnant'

Got photos with Shutterstock? Your pics will be used to train Meta's AI

Robot dogs have unnerved and angered the public. So why is this artist teaching them to paint?

Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Will AI cannibalise Adobe's customers? - Inside Imaging

Meet the artists reclaiming AI from big tech – with the help of cats, bees and drag queens

‘There’s no such thing as a neutral algorithm’: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney

Twitter users to fact-check fake images - Inside Imaging

Adobe Firefly an AI 'co-pilot' - Inside Imaging

How Will AI Transform Photography?

Readers Respond: AI Photography

90 Miles’ is so tethered to photographic language that it is unaware of the loss of meaning that occurs when ideological and aesthetic concepts are transferred from one medium to another. It capitalizes on the surface resemblance of AI to photography but misses the crux of what gives documentary photography its power — empathy.

The Problem of AI Photography is Not the Medium, It's the Message.

I like the English expression "to take a picture", which means that through the catalyst of one's own perception and with the camera as a tool, one takes something from a place. There's a beautiful word for that: serendipity. It means finding something without searching for it. Being able to stroll, having a plan to experience something or a reason why you go to that place too. But then, within this framework that you have created, to take the freedom to let the images come to you. I think this is something that the AI tools in their current form do not favor. Because the user interface of Dall-E, Midjourney or of Stable Diffusion is a text mask. After all, we are talking about the "prompt-to-image" genre of AI tools. With these tools, you must be upfront: You must know exactly what you want and then put it into words. Heinrich Holtgreve https://dotsperinch.substack.com/p/how-does-ai-see-the-world-heinrich

Brief aside: yes, for me they are photographs. I couldn't care less about supposed indexicality or the presence of a lens. For me, the most important aspect of photographs is that they are made to be shared. Photography acquires most of its meaning in that process. It simply doesn't matter to me whether there was a camera when a photograph was made. What matters is how we see and treat it, given the context. Jorg Colberg on AI & Photography

Post Photographic Perspectives - Gallery - Fellowship

Hito Steyerl on Why NFTs and A.I. Image Generators Are Really Just 'Onboarding Tools' for Tech Conglomerates | Artnet News

Heather Elder Represents | Are We Going Out of Business? A Photography Rep's Point of View on AI

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

In Defense of the Poor Image - Journal #10 November 2009 - e-flux

Touching the future - Griffith Review

AI Images - Cybernetic Forests.

Artificial Intelligence, Pornography and a Brave New World