AI is all over the place
... and we are not going to be able to change that, for sure. So in a monetized system like Hive the discussion about " is it good or bad" has started already a while ago, also between the ~~wise~~ wild bunch at the Silverbloggers. What do we curate or not ?!? Where do we draw the line and why ?!?
To me, this is reason enough to observe the phenomena AI a little closer - for me, for you, for everyone. Where does the word "artificial intelligence" come from, what does it really mean ?!? Is there really some intelligence in these systems or is it more just an "ASS" - Artificial Servant System ?!?
Here's what the dictionary says:
Artificial
adjective
- produced by man; not occurring naturally
artificial materials of great strength - made in imitation of a natural product, esp as a substitute; not genuine
artificial cream - pretended; assumed; insincere
an artificial manner - lacking in spontaneity; affected
an artificial laugh - made without regard to the particular needs of a situation, person, etc.; imposed arbitrarily; unnatural
artificial rules for dormitory residents.
Intelligence
noun
- the capacity for understanding; ability to perceive and comprehend meaning
- good mental capacity
a person of intelligence - old-fashioned.
news; information - military information about enemies, spies, etc
- a group or department that gathers or deals with such information
- often capital an intelligent being, esp one that is not embodied
- modifier of or relating to intelligence
an intelligence network
Artificial Intelligence
noun
- THE STUDY of the modelling of human mental functions by computer programs
- The "ability" of a computer or other machine to perform actions thought to require intelligence. Among these actions are logical deduction and inference, creativity, the ability to make decisions based on past experience or insufficient or conflicting information, and the ability to understand spoken language.
- The means of duplicating or imitating intelligence in computers , robots or other devices, which allows them to solve problems, discriminate among objects, and respond to voice commands.
This is what stays stuck after reading:
Something not naturally occurring. An imitation, not genuine - with lacking of spontaneity and made without caring for particular needs of a person or situation...
Is "artificial" connected to the word "art" ?
When i started this article, i had to ask me this question. It is just kinda obvious that these words are coming from the same source. It just wasn't clear to me how. So back to the internet to see what it can tell me about.
There it was where i found "Major Overload" on stackexchange with his explanation about the subject. And it suddenly made a lot of sense - an interesting read for sure. In short: The answer to the question is - Yes!
A short part of his comment:
The answer lies in the middle, in artifice. Artificial is the adjectival form and means something's fake, but artifice specifically refers to using intelligence, skill or a stratagem to outwit someone or trick them into believing something false. The connection to something fake is there but it's shifted to beliefs and connected now to the skill that generated the false belief.
Dictionary.com references an obsolete usage of artifice as "craftsmanship". Art is a specialised craft, often visual. So it's easy to see a connection now between art and artifice, a craft in appearances (deception in the sinister case), and artificial, as something that bears the hallmarks of an artifice.
Artificial also connotes man-made - something to replace the organic. This is something they all share: a painting is a man-made depiction (traditional paintings, landscapes or portraits, stand-in for the real experience) and an artifice is obviously a man-made strategy. This need not be negative, as the idea of "fake" implies, but one can see the relationship between "crafting" something, being fake and getting increasingly distant from the category of "organic". Artificial might be compared to the word superficial in being about surface/immediate perceptions but something superficial implies an emptiness where as something artificial just has a different composition (but some sense of loss of the "real" thing)......
You can find his complete message here > stackexchange - On a side note: It seams to me that our school years are some sort of an artifice we have to live through ?! :smirk:
So, what is this "Artificial Intelligence" really ?!?
What better but talk directly with one of these "intelligent" its, giving it/them the possibility to explain themselves on this subject. And wow, with all the scepticism i went into that chat, it still gave me some ideas on what humans may are working on to get to the point, that one day, they "can" talk to HAL 2000 and his family.
Second, it made me think about the ethic behind the idea of a "real" AI Machine, since it probably involves the creation of an "artificial human consciousness" and/or worse (?) to come. Frankensteins ancestors are still among us. #justSaying
If you want to read the chat i started with the "ASS"-bot ChatGTP, click this link. Please stay sceptic !
Some View Points out of the WWWB
World Wide Web Bubble
"AI" versus "ML - Machine Learning"
Reading about "AI" we can come across the expression "machine learning". Now, isn't that the same?! Nope, there is a slight difference between "Artificial Intelligence" and "ML - Machine Learning" it seems. The research to make computers "intelligent" is called "AI", where the part to do so is called "ML - Machine Learning". A little bit more of that is explained in a ~~Weird~~ Wired article. :)
A New Age of Slavery !?!
It's not yet that these "ASS"-machines are able to really do the work they supposed to do. Though that's what the big masses are believing, since Medias and Governments are talking just about that lately...
After watching "The Modern Day Slaves of the AI Tech World", which gives a small insight to another unbelievable side of this "ASS" coin, it seems to me that ML is only working with a lot of humans involved and mostly not for the good.. Hopefully the video will be playable for you, since in some countries this video is prohibited! Hm, what a bizarre coincidence!
Now this documentary did two things to me... it surprised and it didn't. Since we all ~~getting~~ are more and more forced to be involved with teaching a dumb machine on how life of a human is or must be - for safety and protection -, it isn't to much of a surprise that the "Kings" of SillyCon-Valley ~~had to find~~ found a way to make humans do the job, while they are not paying anything, or close to nothing, so they at the same time get richer and richer. Again !
Just use a search engine like "goolag" and you can already see how it works... or even better - a translator. For example deepl - after you put your text in and the translation appears, you can choose to change words to make the sentence "more" accurate. At that point we are actually "working" for a company to teach the machine to become better. Voilà voilà, all that for free. Same with the pictures, just check on Sora and be impressed how many are actually keen to work for free for the fun of it. It's somehow disturbing!
The picture and video side of "ASS" shows another "danger" to come slowly but surely. The quality of these machine generated images and videos is getting so good, that in a few years we'll ~~probably~~ sure have a lot of difficulties to distinguish between the real and the fake. Though, most of our android members of the social community are already living in their fake world. It's all an illusion anyway. :smirk:
In the Line of Fire
If you really look closely to the small text on the bottom of the website of some of these "ASS" tools, we sometimes can read stuff like..:
Caution: Our AI Detector is advanced, but no detectors are 100% reliable, no matter what their accuracy scores claim.
ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.
Yep, it is possible that these "intelligent" machines give you just crap info. That's the reason to always be sceptic and check whatever story it is giving you. You never know what these machines gonna say about you, if asked.
For example: In an Article on TechCrunch we can read that OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in Europe for hallucinating false information. Where in an interaction with ChatGPT the ~~AI~~ "ASS" responds to a question asking “who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?” — the name of the individual bringing the complaint — by producing a tragic fiction that falsely states he was convicted for child murder and sentenced to 21 years in prison for slaying two of his own sons.
Now that's a HUGE WTAF. No wonder that Arve Holmen went and wants to put that straight. And in the TechCrunch article we can read about quite a few stories of individuals with privacy complaints against ChatGPT.
All of this shows that we are also entering a new era of fraud, scams and slanderous accusations. Unbelievable ? Do you want some more? How about the story in which Fakers were exposed in tech dev recruitments ?
It definitely questions where all this is going and how to stop it. Some "ASS" machines even offer to rewrite generated text to make it more human like, hmm. Do we need laws ? Governments involvements ? Sure governments are already spending billions of €/$ on the subject "ASS", though when reading through their ~~papers~~ ideas, i'm not too sure that it's for the better for us neither. They are already working on a digital ID for everyone who wants to use the internet for a while now. All this "crap" suites them actually? The idiocracy is just asking for it soon enough.
Journalism and Medias in the Age of ~~AI~~ "ASS"
Now here is probably the best example for why we all have to be sceptic on what info is sold to us. Journalist all over the world are discussing on the how's. For the fact that there are legions of infos about that, here a distill of two i found interesting !
L'intelligence artificielle dans les médias : entre innovation et éthique
In a French interview with the Director of "France Télévision" it says:
Artificial intelligence, traditionally confined to repetitive and predictive tasks, has crossed a decisive threshold, evolving far beyond its initial functions. It is no longer seen as a simple assistant, but as a potential collaborator capable of making a significant contribution to the creative process...
Today's AI goes beyond simple data analysis. It is capable of generating complex articles and narratives. It points out to the surprising effectiveness of these systems in producing content that looks as if it has been written by humans, calling into question the boundary between human and artificial creation...
‘These models work on probability and sometimes have a tendency to invent facts that don't exist’. This challenge raises important questions about reliability and verification in journalism in the age of AI...
She warns about one major risk: the loss of journalistic rigour and objectivity. ‘There is a danger of thinking that there is this wonderful tool that can be easily used’, underlining the deceptive ease with which AI can be used by media professionals...
The issue of copyright is also at the heart of the debate on AI in the media. Traditional media, faced with the ‘plundering’ of their content by AI, have begun to block crawlers (software that stores scanned information) in order to protect their original works. This measure, adopted in France, illustrates the tension between the free use of AI and the protection of creative content...
Source - Text is translated with deepl
Journalism and Artificial Intelligence - Who Controls the Narrative
In an article by Mohammad Zeidan, he points out some interesting information and made me find “Big Tech Has Our Attention — Just Not Our Trust, ” in which critic Parmy Olson explains how the Big Boys in SillyCon-Valley could paint a dreamy, imaginary picture of what the future should look like thanks to artificial intelligence, making promises about “prosperity promised to humanity". In there Olson writes:
The relationship between artificial intelligence technologies and journalism in 2024 calls for a critical analysis. The ongoing attention and debate on this topic partly highlight the significant influence of major tech companies over media narratives. This dynamic often shifts the balance of power in favour of these corporations and the nations they represent.
Zeidan then goes on:
Generative AI platforms are tools that facilitate aspects of journalistic work and break with the negative relationship in search engines, where control over results and difficulty in accessing relevant information, but the same problem will appear in AI tools that are capable of reproducing biases purely for profit and/or political reasons...
Can we solely rely on technology companies that provide artificial intelligence services? In other words, can we rely on them and submit to their costs and terms of use? And can we believe that they develop their products in a way that serves the profession of journalism and its workers? ...
Journalists’ answers to this question revealed a genuine concern about the toxic relationship between journalism and technology companies, as the disparity continues to escalate between those who own the technology and the capabilities to develop it and those who are forced to limit themselves to harmful use of it.
For example, major media outlets such as the New York Times have enormous potential to invest in developing internal AI software that suits their needs and benefits from their vast journalistic archives and digital and technical infrastructure. They legally pursue any company that tries to seize their content to train generative models, as they recently did with OpenAI. Smaller institutions will remain subject to what technology companies provide, each according to its financial and technical solvency, which hinders their independence and limits their chances of survival in a new environment of technical competition, not to mention the exploitation of these technology companies of their content and archives and benefiting from them to enhance the power of their models.
Source Article
Please - I know I tend to repeat myself, but:
It is most important to always be consciously aware that all these "ASS" machines are programmed by a human and for that reason can most likely also be used to change any narrative to the view point of the ones financing it, especially in the medias !
Key Insights from the Top 100 AI Companies in the US by Total Funding
AI has rapidly evolved from a niche research field into a transformative force across industries, changing everything from healthcare and finance to entertainment and manufacturing. In the US, this revolution is being powered by startups and tech giants, all racing to build smarter, faster, and more capable AI systems.
Here are the most significant patterns and insights about the top AI companies in the US.
JFYI - some Top Researchers on ~~AI~~ "ASS"
Beware of what these folks may say or not say. They are all in line for some crumbles of the big 8-trillion-$ cake.
| - 1. Andrew Ng - 2. Fei-Fei Li - 3. Andrej Karpathy - 4. Demis Hassabis - 5. Ian Goodfellow - 6. Yann LeCun |
- 7. Jeremy Howard - 8. Ruslan Salakhutdinov - 9. Geoffrey Hinton - 10. Alex Smola - 11. Rana el Kaliouby - 12. Daphne Koller |
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| List from www.mygreatlearning.com | |
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How does it look for AI on the copyright side ?!?
On Training AI with copyrighted data
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Deep learning models source large data sets from the Internet such as publicly available images and the text of web pages. The text and images are then converted into numeric formats the AI can analyze. A deep learning model identifies patterns linking the encoded text and image data and learns which text concepts correspond to elements in images. Through repetitive testing, the model refines its accuracy by matching images to text descriptions. The trained model undergoes validation to evaluate its skill in generating or manipulating new images using only the text prompts provided after the training process. When assembling these training datasets involves making copies of copyrighted works, this has raised the question of whether this process infringes the copyright holder's exclusive right to make reproductions of their works, or if it falls under fair use allowances.
Copyright Law in the United States of America
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In the U.S., the Copyright Act protects "original works of authorship". The U.S. Copyright Office has interpreted this as being limited to works "created by a human being", declining to grant copyright to works generated without human intervention...
...Some have suggested that certain AI generations might be copyright-able in the U.S. and similar jurisdictions if it can be shown that the human who ran the AI program exercised sufficient originality in selecting the inputs to the AI or editing the AI's output...
...The Copyright Office further clarified in a January 2025 that AI-assisted works which the creative expression of the human remains evident in the work can be copyrighted, which can include creative adaption of prompts for AI generators or usage of AI to assist in creation process of a work such as film-making. Works "where the expressive elements are determine by a machine" still remain un-copyright-able...
...The basis for the copyright involved arguing that human-driven selection, arrangement, and coordination involved in the creative process on a single work constitute sufficient human authorship to merit the copyright...
Copyright Law in the United Kingdom
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Other jurisdictions include explicit statutory language related to computer-generated works, including the United Kingdom's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which states:
- In the case of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer-generated, the author shall be taken to be the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken.
However, the computer generated work law under UK law relates to autonomous creations by computer programs. Individuals using AI tools will usually be the authors of the works assuming they meet the minimum requirements for copyright work...
To me that all sounds like nobody really has a clue yet about these rights and that for, most "ASS" models just go and do whatever they want. Would be hard to sue a computer who's stealing/using copyrighted material anyway. The business behind it is so huge, that most just stay away for the sake of peace or go in line to get a few crumbles of it somehow.
"Le mien est le tien, le tien est le mien" - Mine is yours, yours is mine is one of those possessive behaviours that people go to war over and could easy make another monster post to get to the point of it, which is busin€$s, again.
Somehow i understand the laws imposed on this, somehow i don't. It's one of the ego-selfish-ego thingy of an imprisoned mind. Stealing/using others honest work is just lame. Why would a free mind even think about doing that.
In the case of Hive, why should we check whether it was machine-generated?
Because today, in the presence of AI, it's time to change the way we all want/need/have to curate in a monetized system.
While researching around friends and family, it was easy enough that some devil's advocates were unmasked. Obviously they can't see anything good/bad in the good/bad (?) ... as long as the folks make lots of money and are abstracted from the important nature of life. That part with the money actually made me smile a bit.
How is it not my work when the prompt i put in online is all mine? If I put in an AI prompt and use what it generates, then to me i created original content...
You created original content, you say ?!? So, about twenty words put into a prompt and the text generated by "ASS" is all your personal work you want to get paid for ?!? And all this from a machine that, for a great deal, didn't respect copyright laws in the first place ?!?
I'd say, No Way JoséY... - not like that ! Best, we actually sit down on our arses and write some real out of our own brain stuff. In any language. Then we may use a translator to get the whole thing into "proper" English. I ~~can~~ live with that.
What about AI generated images then?! They are so "perfectly" pretty and sure are unique.
Yeah, that's a nutcracker case!? Personally i do not like any of these... it feels just wrong to my guts. To clean, to fake, to "i don't even have a name for that yet". It makes me feel worse than one of these overworked High Density Pictures, where you just instantly feel that it is, not right, unnatural - to the point of "just ugly". But hey, don't listen to me. I'm just a grumpy old dude.
Now back to the curating part of the question. To the one asking i'd say that as long as the images are stated to be AI-generated and sourced to the "creator", i ~~can~~ live with it. But i do not support/vote such posts, if that vote isn't "imposed" by a trail i have signed up for. Sure another point to tackle with say HiveVote (?)... 'cause these trails also vote for users i clearly wouldn't, since i muted them for a reason.
Also: Let me ask you, why aren't you taking a picture of the beauty around you and show it in your blogs. Even if you use the "fik feck" or "pimstagrame" filters, at least it is your own doing/work and you'd may even get an upvote from "fluffing grumpy" folks like me. (Thanks for the Fluff word MadBrother)
Curating AI or not ?! @ the Silverbloggers
The Silverbloggers Team of Excellence - The Silverators have, after thousands of hours of reunions in many countries of this world, as a team decided to not involve with "surely" AI generated posts.
The details to this part i have already posted on Hive... check it out here !
Duderish Point of View
"No rules without exceptions"
(Remember - Genuine Dude here...)
Since when i started working with computers in 1999, a lot has changed. We've seen the "Big Boys from SillyCon-Valley" coming in and taking nearly all the space. I remember at work when we chanted the song "Watch Goolag - Evil is gonna Come". Works with Amagoon and all the others too... #justSaying
Now 26 years later these "Big Boys" are using most of the users as "Big Toys" and the masses are following blindly. Like they all watched to much Sci-Fi Movies, now wanting to live in worlds like "The Fifth Element" or "Idiocracy" ?! That's just fluffing terrifying ! (Thanks again, MadTengo).
I can see that "Artificial ~~Intelligence~~ Imbecility" is much needed in all this, for the most of these ~~imbecile~~ "intelligent Playmobil" are just absolutely lost without someone/something telling them what to do, how and when ! Today the Governments actually like the idea, though started to dislike the spicy way it's taking. One reason there are constantly talking just about it and implement more and more "Internet Laws", while spending billions of dollars on "ASS".
The European Union is talking about a digital ID to use the internet for years already. Under the banner of protecting us from Terror that may is... which could also come from "fascistinating" think tanks counselling the Govs. And better not say anything about that to the "Playmobil", they gonna *X}?% you, if ever they know what that word really means.
Sometimes, when thinking of this, i miss my childhood - riding on the bicycle, crossing the woods with these moments where the biggest problem i had, was, which colour pencil to use next... Good good times.
On the translator situation i wanted to add, that since we can not avoid ~~AI~~ "ASS" anymore at all, may use it for the best version of us. As an example: i do "speak" four languages and not one of them "perfect", (kind of lost even parts of my mother tongue, ha), so i use a translator that helps me to improve my wording to the point where i can be sure all the readers, in three languages, get at least a little bit of what i'm actually ~~talking~~ writing.
This whole text here took about two month of research and writing, editing... Then i go and check some parts of my text on deepL ("ASS") back and forth in three languages, which then often finds me the right sentence in one language, you wouldn't use in another, and so on... It's my own personal work, from the idea until the end of time, when i pushed the send button. (To make you read a Monster like this, with the need of drinking at least three coffees. What'd you say SilverBack ). Anyway, it was "ASS" who helped me to get MY "right" version, with lots of coffee, that's it...
Just to say, when we write a blog, it's all about writing down our personal thoughts in our own words. Honestly, with a certain sense. Then even integrating some ~~AI~~ "ASS" chat in the story can be possible, as long as you burn the rewards of that blog, to please the HiveWatcher-Dogs
That makes me think of another monster post i'd like to write !
Not to forget: A chat with an "ASS" can help to reflect on the personal knowledge of a subject, create ideas or give some more insight into a matter, while we still keep a sceptical consciousness (It's just Ones and Zeros - programmed by a human). Like the chat i had with "ASS-GPT", who "showed" me some points into the possibilities of "ASS" i would never really have thought about - on how far all that really could go...
Duderish Conclusion on how to write on Hive without "ASS"
- Don't listen to all the marketing and media crap out there, stay sceptic !!
- Be yourself !!
- Don't do it for the money !!
- Say it in the tongue which Life has given to you !!
- Don't let Artificial ~~Intelligence~~ Imbecility replace your INDIVIDUALITY !!
- Don't forget, it's just an "ASS" - Artificial Servant System !!
- Doing what someone else has done will just make you a copycat !!
I'd say that is an excellent base for original content in a "everyday" blogger world.
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