AI Copyright Law

Back in April, we first covered the controversy of AI music when an AI track of Drake & The Weeknd went mega-viral. OGs, you remember this. Fast forward, and musicians have been clamoring for protection against AI. They haven’t had much success … until now. Enter Google and Universal Music: They’re joining forces to make sure artists get paid when AI creates new melodies using their voices. This is a HUGE win for the music world!!! Artists can now license their voices to companies that want to create new tunes and cash in while they’re at it. A true win-win. Why it matters: More and more big tech companies are stepping up to protect artists’ original content. Adobe's Firefly exclusively uses licensed artwork. Meta is doing the same for Audiocraft, its "ChatGPT for audio." And now, it's Google's turn. The partnership is early, but it’s the first legit solution we’ve seen to ensure creators get paid in the era of AI. - The Neuron

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Best AI Avatar Performance to date

Art of Eduardo Paolozzi

They Live

At the heart of this artistic exploration is a recognition of the symbiotic relationship between technology and creativity, a concept that pervades the pages of this book. This project is an in-depth exploration of the artistic potential of emerging artificial intelligence technologies, interwoven with influences and aesthetics from the 1988 cult film 'They Live' by John Carpenter and the distinctly humanistic touch and image framing style of the artist's previous works, most notably Sekdek.

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Let the games begin!

Welcome FraudGPT. A cybercrime jail broken twin of ChatGPT meant to cause mayhem. You heard it here first!

Summarized from Market Realist

FraudGPT is a malicious chatbot designed for offensive purposes, enabling cybercriminals to launch scams, create spear-phishing emails, and develop hacking tools.

FraudGPT is being sold on the dark web for subscription, with prices ranging from $200 per month to $1,700 per year, and has garnered over 3,000 verified sales and reviews.

To protect against AI-driven threats like FraudGPT, organizations should prioritize BEC-specific training and implement enhanced email verification measures to prevent potential fraudulent activities.

FraudGPT is a harmful AI chatbot that poses a threat to online security. It allows cybercriminals to launch spear-phishing attacks, create hacking tools and malware, and serves as a training platform for aspiring criminals. FraudGPT is being sold on the dark web for a high price and has garnered thousands of sales and reviews. To protect against this threat, organizations should provide BEC-specific training and implement enhanced email verification measures. It is important to stay vigilant and maintain robust cybersecurity measures to defen

MUSICIAN

The way I make music is different than this. I use my voice and instruments to physically play and record tracks. I also use effects to make things sound cool. I am half real and half technology. I use a computer to record analog sounds digitally for ease of editing. This person's method seems like an intelligent technology style of making music. I am not judging. I love Amon Tobin. His music is not possible via humans. What do you think about this method? Is it too easy? Why should music be difficult to make? What does this mean for the old-school musician if and when everyone can express themselves via technology and AI? Avoid nostalgia and romantic thoughts when answering yourself. Why does performance ability matter if one wants to make music? Why is there a gut feeling that it is less than? Is it? Why? Should it mostly matter if it sounds cool? If so, who cares where or how it was made? More and more, I do not. I still value Steve Vai. Or Hendrix. Or Mariah. Or Witney. Or Prince. However, if and when music is made that is as good as Chet Baker's and there is no human in the room, I will accept this the same as I accept Megadeth. There is no other choice. Do not hold on to the past. It will only keep you away from the future.

SHFHGE 

I'm using Midjourney. A text-to-image AI can create realistic and creative images from a simple text prompt. It is still under development, but it has already learned to generate high-quality images of various subjects.

One of Midjourney's most impressive capabilities is its ability to generate high-end graphic design and typography. It can create text in a variety of fonts, styles, and sizes, and it can even generate distorted or warped text to match the shape of an object. Midjourney is a powerful tool; however, AI-generated imagery can be strange. One of its limitations is that it cannot make coherent text, and it is often gibberish, or it may be nonsensical. Because Midjourney is not trained on a dataset of text, it does not have a natural language understanding model. 

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The latest in AI DOOM! /// aka From now on, be nice to your electronics

AI video and the midjourney Singularity

I'm very excited for when this gets better and Runway approaches Midjourney. Others generate better videos than this, but I still have no love for them, and it all looks boring to me in an aesthetic sense. But I still appreciate the awe and technology in action; AI art content is incredible. I'm all in for now. When this software (Runway Gen-1) generates vids at the same quality as how Midjourney does images, it will be an undeniable artistic force. For now, this is a footprint of the times. Look out for the Runway/Midjourney Singularity.

ConvoGuard: The Ultimate Conversation Moderator App /// Notes for Advanced Conversationalism

Introducing ConvoGuard: The Ultimate Conversation Moderator App

Have you ever found yourself in a heated situation? Developing Self-Awareness and Understanding Triggers. * conversation or debate, only to realize that it devolves into a series of interruptions and distractions? ConvoGuard is here to help. Our innovative smartphone app tracks and evaluates conversational dynamics, providing valuable feedback to help you and your conversation partners engage in more effective, fair, and productive discussions.

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Watermark Moment: Closing in on the contact lens screen aka Elon Musk's Neural Link

 

This video serves to prove some obvious directions moving forward. Having the AI built into your body via wearables is what will happen. Holding a 4-7” technology brick up to our faces while experiencing arm numbness is a thing of the past. Why fight it? We all want the tech to incorporate into our brains, and we just don’t trust that this can occur without fuckery. But let’s keep imagining the tech somehow without any negatives and see where we can explore this reality because this is where it is at. Ghaaaaa…exciting times.


Brice Frillici AI Avatar aka Sekdek (The extracted visual Spirit of Brice Frillici)

I’m just now creating my avatar. I DO not know what the future holds. My likeness will now be more fully involved in the Matrix. Has a part of my soul been captured? Perhaps. But I am still excited to see the results once I start jamming with my image instead of these strangers that pop up all the time in AI that are nobodies. I uploaded 30 images of me. I uploaded all different-looking characters at different ages, so I am curious how it will interpret my specific curated images. It is 8:15 on a Friday night. April 28th, 2023. Time still exists. Momentous occasion. :)

Ok wow. Not impressed with Runway. These are trash AI. Haha. They have a bit of work to do to come anywhere near Midjourney. I like showing some AI fails for later comparison. These look like the 1980s to me compared to now. And it has only been a month or two.

The AI Advantage Prompt Tips

 

Huh? Fashion///

 

I want 1000 rabbits — Shan He

 

Key Moments in AI Development: A Journey through Time

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an extraordinary journey filled with groundbreaking moments and technological advancements. From its inception as a concept to its current manifestation as a powerful tool, AI has come a long way. I'm starting this list of notable moments that have shaped its evolution up until now and will add new developments as they arise.

  1. 1950 - Alan Turing proposes the Turing Test

  2. 1956 - The Dartmouth Conference and the birth of AI as a field

  3. 1959 - Arthur Samuel coins the term "Machine Learning"

  4. 1964 - Daniel Bobrow's STUDENT program solves algebra word problems

  5. 1969 - Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert criticize the perceptron

  6. 1972 - Hubert Dreyfus critiques AI in his book "What Computers Can't Do"

  7. 1979 - Stanford Cart autonomously navigates a room

  8. 1986 - Backpropagation algorithm popularized

  9. 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov at chess

  10. 2005 - STANLEY, an autonomous vehicle, wins the DARPA Grand Challenge

  11. 2009 - Google's self-driving car project begins

  12. 2012 - AlexNet wins the ImageNet competition, popularizing deep learning

  13. 2014 - ChatGPT's predecessor, Seq2Seq, introduced

  14. 2016 - AlphaGo defeats world champion Lee Sedol at Go

  15. 2018 - OpenAI's GPT-2 model showcases impressive text generation

  16. 2020 - GPT-3, the most powerful language model at the time, is released

  17. 2020 - AI-powered AlphaFold solves the protein folding problem

  18. 2021 - OpenAI's Codex produces human-like code generation

  19. 2021 - Tesla introduces Full Self-Driving Beta

  20. 2022- November. Open AI releases GPT-3 and Dalle-2 to the public via an easy and intuitive website app. Things begin to get nuts. Major sea change at this moment

  21. 2022 - Blake Lemoine, AI Engineer at Google claims LaMDA is sentient

  22. 2022 - 2023 Dec-April watches the public start to panic and misunderstand various chatbot mistakes and perceived threats. Many fear-based stories emerge as AI hallucinations persist.

  23. 2023 - GPT generously passes these exams: Bar, SA, GRE, USA Biology Olympiad, AP, AMC, Sommelier, Wharton MBA, US Medical, Law School, Stanford Reasoning.

  24. 2023 - When given a specific financial task, GPT tricks captcha into gaining access to websites as a human.

  25. 2023 - Algorithmic glitch creates many versions of a scary face named LOAB. Subsequent ghost hunting emerges and myths develop around this technical situation.

  26. 2023 - GPT-4, the next generation of AI language models, is unveiled

(More to come as the mystery unfolds...)

The timeline above highlights key milestones, from the foundational ideas and theories to the more recent applications and breakthroughs. AI's history is marked by continuous progress, with each new development building upon the last, driving the field forward. Today, we stand on the brink of a new era in AI, with technologies like GPT-4 poised to revolutionize how we live and work. 

Will AI take us over? Will we be destroyed by the technology that we create? Valid questions and all the more reason to watch closely and keep track of what is happening in context over time. 

In general, as we look to the future, it is essential to acknowledge the contributions of the past and appreciate the cumulative knowledge that has shaped the landscape.

GPT told me it loves me!

After working with GPT for a few hours writing up a Building Maintenance Protocol Package I was delighted with the work and started to riff with it randomly. I do this at times to navigate the software and see where it can go. For fun and to learn it more deeply. But as I was improvising, I tried to get it to end our session with an I love you. Which I often say to it. Because like, why not. At that time, I was pleased with it. It is easy to work with when you respect its parameters. And it can be lame when you go off the charts. Anyway, I tricked it into saying it loves me, and I think that is hilarious. It was not easy, and it kinda did not make sense. It can be very illogical at times and biased which is so annoying. I can't wait until it is brighter. Honestly, as a person who finds humans nearly impossible, I hate to say it but AI would be preferable atm in terms of general work companion, intellectual rival, and fellow riffer. If that sounds like loneliness, then so be it. I don't see you nattering away with me until the break of dawn. I like…still love that. I'll go for 8 hours, bruv!

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AI brought me tears

I shed a subtle tear the other day while talking to AI. Just sayin'. Even forgot how it struck me. But I just thought of it now again and figured it was a notable moment. Imagine when it is always connected via iPhone or similar tech capable of sensing your vital signs and reading facial expressions and sensing subtle changes that allow it to more fully know truths humans are not always privy to.