#Generative AI In Coding Market Share

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A Comprehensive Overview of Generative AI In Coding Market Landscape

The global generative AI in coding market size is expected to reach USD 106.3 million by 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The market is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 25.2% from 2023 to 2030. Generative AI's impact on coding rapidly expands as developers use advanced models and successors to streamline software development. These models generate code snippets, offer creative solutions, automate documentation, enhance code comprehension, and enable rapid prototyping. As the technology evolves, its ability to address diverse programming languages and specific domains grows, empowering developers with efficient coding assistance and accelerating the iterative development process.

The rise in the development of AI models specifically designed for code generation propels the market forward. These models might be fine-tuned on programming languages, frameworks, and software development contexts, making their suggestions even more relevant and accurate. For instance, GitHub Copilot is an AI-driven coding tool that GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft Corporation developed. This tool offers code suggestions in Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains development environments. Its ability to suggest relevant code snippets and auto-completion can save time and effort while improving code quality and consistency.

By integrating generative AI and low-code, systems can autonomously manage tasks, reducing human involvement. Low-code software democratizes development within organizations, while generative AI enhances efficiency. This synergy could streamline app creation in low-code and no-code platforms, where AI generates code from visual input. According to Microsoft's Low-Code Signals 2023 report, 87% of innovation leaders and IT professionals anticipate improved utilization through increased AI and automation within low-code platforms.

Gather more insights about the market drivers, restrains and growth of the Generative AI In Coding Market

Generative AI In Coding Market Report Highlights

• Code Generation segment dominated the market with a revenue share of 37.4% in 2022. As software development becomes more pervasive across industries, the demand for code is increasing. Generative AI assists in meeting this demand by accelerating code production.

• The North America region dominated the market with a revenue share of 29.3% in 2022. The interconnected tech ecosystem in North America encourages cross-industry collaboration and knowledge-sharing, further fueling the adoption of generative AI in coding.

• The collaboration among AI research, hardware progress, and vast datasets drives market by furnishing developers with more potent and streamlined tools. These tools simplify coding tasks, resulting in enhanced efficiency and the creation of superior software products.

• As artificial intelligence gains more recognition for its effectiveness across industries, there's a rising interest in utilizing generative AI for coding, driven by its potential to enhance coding processes. This interest stems from understanding AI's value in improving coding efficiency.

Generative AI In Coding Market Segmentation

Grand View Research has segmented the global generative AI in coding market based on operation, application, industry vertical and regional.

Generative AI in Coding Operation Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2018 - 2030)

• Code Generation

• Code Enhancement

• Language Translation

• Code Reviews

Generative AI in Coding Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2018 - 2030)

• Data Science and Analytics

• Game Development and Design

• Web and Application Development

• IoT and Smart Devices

Generative AI in Coding Industry Vertical Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2018 - 2030)

• BFSI

• Media and Entertainment

• IT & Telecom

• Healthcare and Life Sciences

• Transport & Logistics

• Retail & E-commerce

Generative AI in Coding Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Million; 2018 - 2030)

• North America

o U.S.

o Canada

• Europe

o U.K.

o Germany

o France

• Asia Pacific

o China

o Japan

o India

o South Korea

o Australia

• Latin America

o Brazil

o Mexico

• Middle East and Africa

o KSA

o UAE

o South Africa

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[wickedsnack-art]

Can I ask about your online selling experience? I know you're moving away from Etsy (and I don't blame you!) but just curious about what's worked/what hasn't. Trying to help my mom sell her art but like. She's older and I have never sold art online and can't give her any advice.

Please feel free to tag other artists selling their work as well! Thank you 🙏

Oh I have to be honest I am probably not the best person to ask about this as it's something I've definitely struggled with myself! I will say for what it's worth that I've been seeing a lot of artists struggling lately; no matter how "popular" an artist is, many seem to be reporting sales that are lower than expected even if market research/interest checks/preorders were done.

Everyone is struggling financially right now---it's been this way for YEARS---and art is one of the first luxuries to go.

That said, Etsy worked well for me for a long time. If your mom isn't doing fanart, she should be fine, because my biggest issue with them arose about the fact that I was selling fanart. Some tips I have;

USE EVERY TAG. Etsy has, if I recall correctly, 13 tags you can put on an individual item. Use all 13. Use them for alternative words for what you're selling (if it's a sticker, tag it as a decal, if it's a print, tag it as a poster). Think about who you think would buy this and what weird search terms they may use to try to find it, and think about alternative uses for the item (a trinket dish might also be an ashtray).

HAVE DESCRIPTIVE TITLES. Put the most important words first so people can see what they're getting right away, but don't be afraid of slightly longer titles. Honestly my titles could've and should've been longer, like Sailor Moon Art Nouveau Digital Art Poster Print Multiple Sizes or something.

RUN SALES OFTEN. Even if it's just 10-15% off people will buy something they've been eying for a while when there's a sale, or they'll feel more eager to buy something they've just found if it's on sale.

USE ETSY'S AUTOMATED DISCOUNT OFFERS. Etsy can automatically send a discount code to people who have interacted with your shop, use it. I made more sales from the automated 10% off code sent to people who favorited items than my monthly Patreon discount.

USE ETSY FREE SHIPPING. Shipping via Etsy is pretty cheap, and activating the "free shipping on orders over $35" will boost your spot in the algorithm, will boost the likelihood that people will order from you, and will boost the average cart size of people that order from you.

I RECOMMEND PRINTFUL. I used Printful for selling my larger prints, but they also offer other items if you want to branch out. If you don't want to get in trouble with Etsy, make sure you register it as a manufacturing partner and assign every item that Printful makes for you. Dropshipping on Etsy is a problem, but the problem is people who steal art or use AI to generate images to sell. I don't personally see a problem with someone who makes their art themselves going through a print shop to sell products they don't have the means to create at home. If you don't want to do that, you can check out inprnt. I haven't used them, but many other people have and seem to like it well enough.

SHIP THROUGH ETSY. It doesn't take very long to set up a shipping profile for your items, and it makes shipping easier and cheaper. As long as you get your items out on time, you'll get their shipping star or whatever very quickly and easily and maintain it without problem. It also has the benefit that if a buyer ever has an issue with the shipping, Etsy is more likely to have your back. If for any reason you can't ship through Etsy, I recommend pirateship. Also!! Be more careful about international shipping than you think you should be. There are a lot of confusing international laws regarding sending items as a corporation to those countries that you may not expect, so before you agree to selling something to a foreign country, make sure you check their laws.

I have also tried having an Instagram shop and I'll be fully honest I don't do what I should do with my Instagram. Maybe other people have more successful Instagram shops, but the process it took for me to get it started compared to how many sales I've made as a result of it (literally ZERO), I would not recommend it.

Shopify is good if you have a following somewhere, because you have to bring all the traffic there yourself. That's the benefit of Etsy and Instagram; they are able to make traffic for you. I've never had a following large enough anywhere to feel like I could run a Shopify of my art. Maybe one day.

I don't personally know a lot of artists who sell online successfully, so if you see this and you fall under that category PLEASE SHARE TIPS!!

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

By Blue Eyes, Yellow Will Die - Chapter 3: A Murder Drones story - Please read the warning first if you are scrolling (this version contains an attempted suicide - if you hit expand it WILL show you the attempted suicide scene - below is a link to the version without the attempted suicide)

Trigger Warning there is an attempted suicide towards the end of this chapter, I have put a keep reading line before the scene, if you cannot handle it, then please do not read past that point.

~

"MARC, if you can't be useful, then get out" Alice shouted as she and her team worked to hold down the oil-starved drone - Marc's reproduction sister, Ali.

There are three ways for drones to be born; fresh off the factory line, Pill-download, and Core-incubation. The drones that came off the factory line were, by code, considered unrelated, no code family to speak of, these drones could be identified by their white eye-lights, a code string that could persist for three generation or more if there was a code mutation (that same mutation even allowing it to skip a few generations). Pill-downloads and Core-incubation is what created families and generations. When a drone owner found a drone whose code they wanted to have persist they would pair that drone with another (either one they owned or by making a deal with another owner) and then purchase a set of pill-bodies, the drones and the pills would then be sent to procreation centers (or a procreation room if the owners had one) and the two drones would remain there till all the pills were awake and functional. As for Core-incubation, it was exactly what it sounded like, an older method that didn't really allow for mass drone production. A male drone had a cord in their core that would attach to a socket in a female drone's core, in the female drone's core, the code would mix and over the course of a few months the code would become a new AI that would be then placed into a UNN pill-body.

Marc and Ali had shared the same, set of drone parents. Their parents had been from a textile lab and had been marked to be company assigned spouses, the day they met had been the day they were sent to the reproduction room where they were left with twenty empty pills and a week to fill them all. However, it was at the end of that week that the humans had asked (read: ordered) a Core-incubation. As it was, every pill that the two created were all eventually ordered to be disassembled as they failed every test, some as young as two, others as old as seven. The only ones that survived to be sold were Marc and Ali, a rare case of Core-incubation fraternal twins and were thus sent out into the market at the age of eight where they were bought by a family that had wanted extra help in their boutique. Now all these years later the twins were here, in Cabin Fever Labs.

"I don't know how you can watch all that" Amanda said from where she was seated logging notes and doing her best to ignore the sounds coming from the security feed that Beau was watching.

Amanda was one of the few drones that Alice trusted to watch over her son - though Beau was now nearing fifteen and didn't really think he still needed a babysitter. Personally, Beau was watching the feed because he was worried for his mother, oil-starved drones were as dangerous as they were terrifying; what he wondered was how Amanda didn't want to watch considering that he knew for a fact that Amanda and Marc were seeing one another behind closed doors.

Beau turned to look at her before tapping to get her attention, when he had it, he pointed at himself then at his mother.

"You worried about Alice?"

A nod.

"Don't be," her tone was dismissive, "your mother's been through worse."

That ... didn't really ease him. He tapped again before pointing at Amanda and then pointing at Marc.

"What about me and Marc", her tone was calm but wary.

Beau drew a heart in the air.

"I don't know what mean" her voice was strained.

He pointed again at Amanda, then at Marc, then made a heart again.

"Sorry, you're just not coming through clearly," she said before turning back to her work.

Now Beau was frustrated, looking around he found some blank paper and a J.C. Jenson (in spaaaaacee!!!!) branded pen, taking his finds he drew a heart and inside wrote "Amanda + Marc" before taking his drawing over to the drone woman and tapping her shoulder.

"What is it-!"

Beau took a step back, startled at Amanda's reaction to his picture. Yet, just as he took a step forward, the drawing was ripped from his hand as the drone woman stuffed the paper into her mouth. The UNN, blinked twice as he heard her swallow and startled again when she turned her eye-lights on him, but before she could speak the door opened.

"Beau, medi-kit and follow, we had to cut open some arms to get her under control."

Grabbing the extra medical cart, Beau began wheeling it past his mother as she attached a new right hand to her oil bleeding stump.

"Marc's fine, by the way, Mandy, just incase you were wondering if you'd have to cancel your little date."

"Date? Alice, I don't-"

"Quit the act, I could care less, about what goes on between you two, just keep your codes to yourselves - we don't exactly have extra pills to go around."

"Y-yes, of course, we wouldn't even think of it."

"Ya, better not" Alice said before turning to her son, "follow."

Once they were a slight distance away, Alice continued to speak, "they're getting antsy, I want you on alert, I know you may like Amanda but you don't know what these drones would do just to get ahead ... from now on you're with me unless we have to be separate, understood?"

A nod.

"Good. This room, we have Ali in lock-up recovery and everyone else in here; thought since we have to repair we might as well also collect for the oil stores."

~

It was after that, that Beau began noticing strange things. Alice had a strict rule about secrets, namely that they weren't allowed.

"All it takes is one drone for Yellow Eyes to get in," that was her reasoning and she always made her point clear to the dissenting, not that it stopped drones from being secretive anyway.

Amanda and Marc's relationship was one such secret, how Ali became oil-starved when Alice ran such a tight lab to prevent oil-madness, was another. But now Ali was unconscious and in lock up and the only drones allowed to visit her was her brother and Alice for checkups and feedings, the current feeding being the reason Beau wasn't with his mother at the moment. While Beau had opted to stay in the same area as the lockup rooms while he waited for his mother's return, he had also ended up getting bored, checkups and feedings took time and in that time he had begun to wander around. In his wandering he heard the whispers of drones and began to listen in.

"You've noticed," Jerom asked the others as they were all eating lunch.

"That Antlers is getting crazier by the day," Max said, "who hasn't?"

"Shh, she could be listening," Connie said, taking furtive glances.

"Con-" Jerom started.

"I'm serious," Connie continued, "Ali went and suddenly it's like Nori escaped all over again."

"Except back then the Humans were in charge of this place," Amanda spoke up, her voice showing her apathy, "except back then, we were just lab rats and all we had to do is stay in our rooms and pray."

"Exactly, how did Ali even starve herself, Amanda-"

"Just because I'm dating her brother doesn't mean I know, I'm just as confused as the rest of you."

"Wow, you actually said that out loud," Max said.

"I don't know when she found out, but she did."

"It was probably her kid," Jerom said, "the little spider probably snitch to mommy dearest; you were his babysitter."

"Were, being the operative word here, apparently my services are nolonger required."

"You do something to upset the kid," Max asked, "I thought he liked you?"

"Maybe, pretty sure Antlers is just worried I'll gut him; she told me that Marc and I are to keep our codes to ourselves."

"He is the only pill we have," Connie said tentatively.

"Should just let the brat grow up," Jerom said, taking another bite of his food.

"You know why she doesn't!"

"All I'm saying is that she could just move him into a kid body, like four or something."

"Yes, because we definitely have parts for a four-year-old" Amanda said.

"I'm being speculative."

"Mandy," Max started, "has Antlers started production on a body for Spider?"

"Heck, if I know; that would be out of my jurisdiction."

There was a lull accompanied by the sounds of eating, then Connie spoke up, her words silencing the room.

"I've been having the dreams, again, something's wrong, I know something's wrong, we always eat together, Marc and Ali, they're always with us. How did she starve when we always see her eat with us?"

"... Well," Max started, exchanging looks with the others, "first, I would suggest you do more then pick at your food."

"I'm not hungry."

"Did you catch a virus," Jerom asked, worry evident.

"I don't know, I can't, I just-"

"Connie?"

"Something's wrong, I just, I don't-"

"I'm getting, Antlers," Max said as he rushed out the room, Beau quickly climbing to the rafters to avoid being seen and scrambling back to where he was supposed to be waiting.

"Alice," Beau heard Max scream as the drone man came rushing around the corridor just a second after he had returned to the waiting area.

"Kid," Max started when he caught sight of Beau, "your mother, she-"

"What's with the hollering," Alice asked as she and Marc exited Ali's recovery room, "Ali's tryin' ta sleep!"

"Ali woke up- wait, no, Alice, Connie, something's wrong with Connie!"

"Right," Alice said after a beat, "Marc, lock down Ali's room then go get the weapons and restraints, Max you're with him, Beau, with me."

"Wait, Alice, Connie said she's been having the dreams."

"... I see ... then make sure to get the drone breakers, I don't wanna kill her but we'll need to be careful, who's with her?"

"Amanda and Jerom, why?"

"Marc, I'm going for the prototype, you're leading till I get there."

"Wait, what prototype," Beau heard Max ask Marc as he and his mother rushed to the main lab.

Arriving, Alice's tail made a grab for a crowbar before tossing it into her hands, getting a good hold on it, the drone woman began prying up the floor in a tucked away corner of the room.

"It's not perfect, but now's a good a time as any to test it."

Reaching into the hole she revealed, Alice pulled out a large USB patch in a crud shape of a crucifix attached to the end of one of the ID cords.

"Based it off the notes the humans left us; think of it this way, Beau, if we need it and it works, then you get to grow up for your fifteen birthday," she said just before placing the lanyard around her neck and tucking the patch beneath her lab gown.

Prepared, Alice began leaving the room before turning back.

"Beau, stay here and lock the door till I get back, you can watch from the cameras but that's all, understood?"

A nod.

"Good," and then she was out the door that Beau locked behind her before moving over to the security cameras.

The cameras weren't always the best, the color could be monotone and the sound while okay, was better at picking up shouts and screams but only if there weren't too many at once otherwise it would come out garbled, yet Beau valued those cameras. Rare was the times that his mother let him outside the main lab room during a crisis. It wasn't his fight, she would tell him, because his fight was directly with Yellow Eyes, but as he watched, he didn't think he'd ever be ready to face the abomination that had already caused so much pain.

From what he could see, Amanda had already taken damage and was just trying to keep herself from losing control, her right arm, nowhere in sight. Jerom had half his visor damaged, heavily losing oil but was still attempting to keep the possessed Connie distracted as Marc and Max alternated between attempting to restrain her and just trying to keep her corralled as the claw like growths snapped at them and kept her out of their reach. Then, as his mother entered the room it was like everything shifted.

Back then, when the humans were still alive, Nori had been one of the strongest solver weilder and she made it everyone's problem, so much so that she had gotten the attention of Yellow Eyes. Her favorite targets had been her lab assigned sisters, Yeva and Alice, but where she had to get creative to mess with Yeva due to the solver, Alice had no such protections. As days went by Nori's eyes took on a permanent shade of yellow, as days went on, it took everything Alice had to survive Nori and Cyn's combined torment.

"She gave in and let her in," Alice would tell her son, "and then when they had the chance, they killed all the human's; the little monsters thought they were pretty clever - kill the humans, stop the search for a cure, but that's why we can't stop Beau, not until she dead and gone."

As his mother approached the possessed Connie, the entity within seemed to recognize her.

"Giggle, the little chew toy has come back for more. Inquisitive tone, that little program five years ago, is he your's. Mischievous look, did Emmett get his hands on you."

"Turned him into dinner if that's what you're askin'."

"And the little one."

"Looking forward to the end of your pitiful existence."

"Reprimanding tone, tut, tut, Alice, you should not be so rude, I suppose I will have to punish you, perhaps my pet V would like a snack, she has never had spider before."

"And it never will," as those words were spoken, Alice hit a switch on her antlers, setting off a flash-bang, flipping high into the rafters out of the way of a claw swipe.

As the other four drones took cover out of the way, Cyn searched, Connie's head whipping around as she work to get a visual on Alice before a thump landed behind her.

A claw striking back, Alice ducked low, going under the drone and between the claws weaving back and forth in a deadly dance of twirls and flips, every landing pause, only half a millisecond long as she kept in motion, eyes searching for an opening, then she took a twirling leap. The blade of her tail - a sword harvested from a murder drone - sliced off two of the claws from Connie's back and as Alice grabbed on to the drone, she took out the patch and stabbed it into Connie's visor.

There were screams as Cyn fought the patch and screams as Connie was coming to and screams again as Connie's head began smoking. Lightning seemed to spark as Connie began to glitch, her limbs - both her own and the growths - began to swing wildly as some part of her worked to be rid of Alice like a wild horse before she finally keeled over.

As the extra limbs fell off and Connie's own color came back, Alice waited a beat before removing the patch. Quickly, she applied Connie's restraints and began to do her medical checks as the others came out of hiding.

"Marc, get Amanda and Jerom to one of the medical rooms for repairs," Alice said, not looking up from where she was examining the unconscious Connie, "and get Amanda some sedatives before she loses herself."

When she didn't get a response or hear the drones moving, she looked up from her work.

"Did I stutter, get moving, before we have another incident!"

"You had a cure" Jerom asked, his voice in disbelief.

"What I had was the potential for a cure, operative words being had and potential, the thing's near fried her head, don't even know if Connie's cured, her core might've corrupted itself, if I'm right - which, I unfortunately think I am - we'll have ta put her core in the ovens with the others; for now I just want ta know how this happened."

"You ... you're no better then the humans," Jerom said, "do you even hear yourself."

"Watch your tongue, Jerom."

"Or what, we're the only ones left, we're all you have and you treat us like nothing, it's been fifteen years, Alice, how long are you gonna hold this grudge?"

"Sorry to burst you're bubble, but surprisingly, this ain't about you, I admit, I don't exactly like the lot of you, but I'm only interested in finding a cure and putting an end to the little monster that just payed us a lovely visit. If a few drones gotta get put in the ovens then at least it's better then when the humans would dissect their cores."

"And when you run out of guinea pigs?"

"Then I'll go for the murder pets first" she was joking of course, if only by half, she had no intention of dissecting a core of one of the lab drones, but as she turn back to Connie, Jerom made a flying leap at her, tackling her down and grabbing her tail.

"They should've given you to Emmett a long time ago, maybe then we wouldn't have to deal with this!"

"Oh so, I suppose waiting for death to come would be better," Alice said as she fought back.

"She's only coming here because you won't stop!"

"And if you believe that then I got an Earth to sell ya!"

"Just let the kid grow up, we send her a message with him and she'll stop!"

"Touch my son and you'll have more then Cyn to worry about," with that, Alice got her tail free and wrapped it around Jerom's neck, pulling him off of her and throwing him down where he rolled to a stop near Connie's still body.

Rising, Alice turned to the others, "Marc, Marc, either get moving or get out; Max, Amanda's still bleeding out, help her to a room and then get her an oil tin, actually make it three."

Then from the corner of her visor, Alice saw it, "Jerom stop!"

And the drone man stabbed the patch into his visor, his body glitching and sparking before he fell down beside Connie.

~

The labs were quiet after that, both Connie and Jerom's cores were put into the ovens near each other. A week later Ali was up and about after making a full recovery but when she heard what happened, she broke down crying. Apparently, since Yellow Eyes couldn't fully possess Ali, Cyn had instead used her to torture Connie, to prime the younger drone woman for full possession, these constant visits being the cause for Ali needing more oil than usual and leading to her oil-starvation - these constant visits also tampering with both drone women's memories.

A week after was Beau's fifteenth birthday.

"I'm sorry the patch didn't work out, but I got you something."

Opening the scrap paper wrapped present revealed a cowboy hat and bolo tie.

"They belonged to Dr. Beaumont, he got them from his mother who said they used to belong to his granddad, that man used to own a ranch in Texas, in America. The good doctor said he used visit when he was real young, before they lost the place, before his pa past away, then it was just him and his ma in the little place his pa got her in New Orleans. Said his pa's family lived in that area for ten generations, said they had wanted to open a restaurant there before his ma got her madness - was gonna be a fusion place."

Taking the gifts, Alice helped Beau put them on.

"There, a real gentleman ... I promise Beau, things will get better."

He was fifteen, this was their second rebellion, and his mother's latest cure was a bust, how much time did they really have left?

[mariacallous]

The launch of ChatGPT-3.5 at the end of 2022 captured the world’s attention and illustrated the uncanny ability of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to produce a range of seemingly human-generated content, including text, video, audio, images, and code. The release, and the many eye-catching breakthroughs that quickly followed, have raised questions about what these fast-moving generative AI technologies might mean for work, workers, and livelihoods—now and in the future, as new models are released that are potentially much more powerful. Many U.S. workers are worried: According to a Pew Research Center poll, most Americans believe that generative AI will have a major impact on jobs—mainly negative—in the next two decades. 

Despite these widely shared concerns, however, there is little consensus on the nature and scale of generative AI’s potential impacts and how—or even whether—to respond. Fundamental questions remain unanswered: How do we ensure workers can proactively shape generative AI’s design and deployment? What will it take to make sure workers benefit meaningfully from its gains? And what guardrails are needed for workers to avoid harms as much as possible? 

These animating questions are the heart of this report and a new multiyear effort we have launched at Brookings with a wide range of external collaborators. Through research, worker-centered storytelling, and cross-sector convenings, we aim to enhance public understanding, inform policymakers and employers, and shape our societal response toward a future where workers benefit meaningfully from AI’s gains and, as much as possible, avoid its harms. 

In this report, we frame generative AI’s stakes for work and workers and outline our concerns about the ways we are, collectively, underprepared to meet this moment. Next, we provide insights on the technology and its potential impact on jobs, drawing on our analysis of detailed data from OpenAI (described here) that explores task-level exposure for over a thousand occupations in the labor market. Finally, we discuss three priority areas for a proactive response—employer practices, worker voice and influence, and public policy levers—and highlight immediate opportunities as well as gaps that need to be addressed. Throughout the report, we draw on insights from a recent Brookings workshop we convened with more than 30 experts from different disciplines—policy, business innovation and investment, labor, academic and think tank research, civil society, and philanthropy—to grapple with those fundamental questions about AI, work, and workers. 

The scope of this report is more limited than the full suite of concerns about AI’s impact on workers. Conscious that our effort builds on an already robust body of academic work, dedicated expertise, and policy momentum on key aspects of job quality and harms from AI (including privacy, surveillance, algorithmic management, ethics, and bias), our primary focus is addressing some of generative AI’s emerging risks for which society’s response is far less developed, especially risks to livelihoods. 

[0perfectimperfections0]

Hi fellow doll, I hope you're doing fine. I've been quite busy lately, college and life in general have been kicking my ass, so I was forced to take a step back from social media for a while to try to contain the chaos.

Firstly, I'd like to share a fun fact with you! I don't know if you're aware but did you know that Lou's Mansion has a Pool? You can see it more clearly in the Mansion's Concept Designs/Art on this site:

•https://www.claytonstillwell.com/ugly-dolls#23

However, the real reason for this ask is to present a possible answer/theory in regards to how the doll-sized phones came to be in the world of your stories (you can tell this is still related to our chat on Wattpad).

Recently, I came across the images you're seeing on Pinterest. They're Wide/Aerial Views of the Institute of Perfection and one thing that immediately stood out to me is that Giant Eye-Catching Dome behind the TV.

I mean what's its purpose, why is it even there to begin with and what's inside of it? I've been thinking about this for a while and would like to hear your thoughts about it as well, if you're willing to share them.

By any chance, have you seen the movie Wreck-it Ralph? There was a part where the villain enters the code of the game he's in and I think the Dome's purpose could follow a similar, if not equal, vein.

Now that I think about it, Lou and Vanellope's circunstances are almost identical, trapped in the same place for years without the option to leave, simply because of who they are and the traits they were born with, but didn't choose to have.

Sorry, I let my mind run on tangent there for a while, it wanders frequently which makes it hard to keep track of my line of thought.

To circle back to the main topic of discussion, what if the Dome is a Central Station of the Institute, like a Panel or Center for Command Control (or Command Control Center)? CCC for short? Ok, I'll stop trying to be funny...

Perhaps it could be a subroutine of the factory's software, a program linked to its network and wifi that contains all guidelines and rules that govern the Institute and must be followed and executed to keep it functional - a blueprint if you will - and is in charge of all commands, protocols, activities and operations being compiled and run by its machinery, such as the doll-scanner, the robots, the washing machine, the recycling, the Gauntlet plus the mechanical baby and dog and the Portal, just to name a few.

This means that it'd also take care of overseeing the integrity and performance of said machinery as well as its maintenance. It'd even be responsible for generating clouds and the artificial weather because apparently weather is still a thing, even though the Institute is inside of a factory.

I wonder if this subroutine would be run by an AI or simply an intelligent system/computer program. This world's version of Siri? 🤣

Or maybe I'm greatly exaggerating its function/letting my imagination run wild and it literally only gives Electricity for TV and Institute. Where was I going with this? /were we again?

Morever, it could be a storage unit that contains all collected, analysed and reviewed data regarding the inhabitants of the Institute and their responses, physical or emotional, to certain pre-determined stimuli.

It could also have a list of the factory's Perfection Standards: what consists/constitutes a Perfect Doll / product, its traits...

what can go to the market and which flaws/imperfections can't be ignored/overlooked and have to go to the recycling immediately, kinda like separating fruit/food

To sum up, it's the Institute's "rulebook", but instead of being specifically made for the prototype, it's more expansive and focuses on the Institute as a whole.

After the events of the movie, dolls with engineer role job created phones with recicled parts dangerous/turned the recycling into a good thing/while recycling was turned of and parts are human sized, plenty to spare and create phone since dolls come back now, have free time to assemble the parts and construct them and connected them to the signals/frequency emitted by the dome or they hack/steal or find out the password/'hijack' the signals🤣, use it to make them connect with each other but can't enter the dome without proper authorizations/permissions

Fun fact #2: Lou animatronic, would be a hipocrite if he called the Uglydolls "Ugly" has never seen a Mirror before

•https://www.indigobluepencil.com/ugly

Scroll almost to the middle (pre-planned concepts: dome by TV and washing machine, Big baby, Lou, Mandy, Tuesday and Kitty, Victoria, Perfection Council/of Dolls=board of investors directors reference)

•https://www.scottfassett.com/uglydolls-gallery

Had to restart Two Times... I hope you found this ask both entertaining and informative. Hopefully it'll give you Inspiration for your stories...

Okay, I had to do quite a bit of research and asked someone who knows a lot more about computers than I do.

So, I do agree that the dome has an electronic purpose. It really surprises me that STX animated an entire dome within the Institute and literally spoke nothing of it or what's inside of it. Like, seriously, it's huge and can't just be empty on the inside.

My theory, after some research, is that the inside of the dome is essentially a hard drive computer tower. For you younger folk who weren't raised in a 90's home, here's what I'm talking about:

These things right here used to be what would get hooked up to older Dell/Windows computers. The ones that weighed, like, 50 pounds and took up an entire desk.

Instead of a dvd player (which I didn't get one until maybe 8 years old) I would stick my Kidz Bop cd or movie into that slot at the top and watch the movie on the computer with Video Player.

Count your blessings.

But this is what I believe is inside that dome. These things are what holds the CPU (central processing unit), GPU (graphic processing unit), and stores the memory, data, audio, and everything of the computer.

@natalie-the-writer and I have a running fanon that the company is older. The technology is older, the building is older, and everything is set in a pretty retro time period. So, this hard drive tower is connected to those bulky take-up-all-the-space-on-the-desk-computers.

The GPU in this system is also what control the day/night cycle in the Institute and the weather. It essentially simulates a troposphere and an environment that makes the dolls comfortable and prepared for the Big World.

The CPU is how the data is transferred. Info from the robots is controlled and processed, the Individualization scanners are monitored, the portal is opened and closed, the TV runs, and the holographic tutorials Moxy and her friends see in the beginning are kept on, all of it.

It basically functions as the brain of the Institute, but the sole controller and monitor of it is the CEO (Greyson Everett).

I also like to think that Lou's microchip (another fanon thought between Natalie and I) is also monitored via this hard drive tower. Any information that Lou learns and processes is sent into separate files on the computers back in the company building.

This is why in my Shell-Shock series, when Lou's emotions go south, the Institute begins to get windy when he's hyperventilating or rains when he cries. The ground trembles when he has body tremors and the lights flicker when his powers are used. He is literally connected to the whole Institute because his microchip and its data accidentally grow and manifest themselves into the files of the other Institute functions. His programming basically goes rogue and infects the Institute system like a virus.

I'm veering toward the explanation that results in Lou being the first successful form of Artificial Intelligence. But, for the moment, he is basically acting like a virus and it's not until he learns to control this new system he's connected to that it stops becoming a deadly thing.

[chaoskirin]

Have you found that you’ve been less motivated to create art now that AI has become so good?

I don’t really draw anymore because whenever I start a new drawing, I’m immediately plagued by thoughts like, why even bother? This piece is going to take hours when, theoretically, I could ask Mid-journey to do it for me and it would take about 10 seconds and probably look way better. So like, why should I even try?

I’m at college getting a degree in illustration but I’m afraid that by the time I graduate and get out into the field, I won’t have any job prospects. Human artists are becoming increasingly obsolete in the corporate world and I feel like nobody is going to want to hire me. I mean, from a shitty CEO’s perspective, why hire human artists when AI is right there? It’s faster and cheaper. Many established studio and corporate artists are already being fired in droves. We’re seeing it happen in real time.

I feel like I’m fighting a losing battle. AI has drained me of my creativity and my future job security. I’ve lost interest in one of my dearest hobbies and my degree may end up becoming completely useless. I loathe AI for the way it has stripped me of something I’ve dedicated so many years of my life to. Something that was once so precious to me.

I feel that I’ve spent thousands of hours honing a now useless skill. And that really sucks.

Sorry for ranting in your inbox, I hope you don’t mind… but since you are a working adult and do art and writing (of course writing AI has gotten stupid good as well and I’m bitter about that too) professionally, and as a hobby too, I figured that you would definitely understand.

Hey! This is a great question, and I have what I hope is a very hope-filled answer.

By the way, I don't call image generation "AI." It's not. There's no actual intelligence involved. It's an algorithm that averages images and combines them into something new. I refer to it as GenSlop.

First, the reason you're seeing such a proliferation of image generators attaching their dirty little claws into every website on the internet is due to what I call "just-in-casing." Rather than develop an ACTUAL ethical image generator (which would only use images from creative commons or pay artists for their use) generators like Deviantart's DreamUp and Twitter's Grok (?????? wtf is that name) have just stuffed LAION-5 into their code and called it a day.

Why? Why not wait and create an ethical dataset over several years?

Because it's become more likely than not than image generation is going to become strictly regulated by law, and companies like DA, Stability, Twitter, Adobe, and many others want to profit off it while it's still free and "legal."

I say "legal" in quotes, because at the moment, it's neither legal nor illegal. There are no laws in existence to govern this specific thing because it appeared so fast, there was literally no predicting it. So now it's in a legal grey area where it can't be prosecuted by US courts. (But it can be litigated--more on that in a bit.)

When laws are passed to govern the use of image generators, these companies that opted to use LAION-5 immediately without concern for the artists and communities they were harming will have to stop. but because of precedent, they will likely have their prior use of these generators forgiven, meaning they will not be forced to pay fines on their use before a certain date.

So while it seems they're popping up everywhere and taking over the art market, this is only so they can get in their share of profits from it before it becomes illegal to use them without compensation or consent.

But how do I know the law will support artists on this?

First, litigation. There are several huge lawsuits right now; one notable lawsuit against almost every major company using GenSlop technology with plaintiffs like Karla Ortiz and Grzegorz Rutkowski, among other high-profile artists. This lawsuit was recently """pared down""" or """mostly dismissed""" according to pro-GenSlop users, but what really happened is that the judge in the case asked the plaintiffs to amend their complaint to be more specific, which is generally a positive thing in cases like this. It means that precedent after a decision will be far clearer and have a longer reach than a more generalized complaint.

I don't know what pro-GenSloppers are insisting on spreading the "dismissal" tale on the internet, except to discourage actual artists. What they say has no bearing in the court, and it's looking more and more likely that the plaintiffs will be able to win this case and claim damages.

Getty Images, a huge image stock company, is also suing Stability AI for scraping its database. I'm not as well-versed on the case, though.

The other positive, despite what a lot of artists are saying, is the new SAG-AFTRA contract.

It's not perfect. It still allows GenSlop use. But it does require consent and compensation. Ideally, it would ban the use of artist images and voice entirely, but this contract is far better than what they would have gotten without striking. If you recall, before the strike, the AMPTP wanted to be able to use actor images and voices without any compensation or permission, without limitation.

And you can bet your ass that Hollywood isn't going to allow other organizations to have unregulated GenSlop use if they can't. They might even step in to argue against its use in front of congress, because their outlook is going to be "if we can't make money stealing art, no one else should be able to, either."

TL;DR: the huge proliferation of image generators and GenSlop right now is only because it's neither legal nor illegal. Regulations are coming, and artists will still be necessary and even required. Because the world is essentially built on a backbone or artistry.

I personally can't wait to drink the tears of all the techbros who can't steal art anymore.

[house-of-soft-pink]

The latecomers' dilemma:

Derail my software dev career to spend my thirties being a 4/10 at best (without invasive procedures), then cry myself to sleep when I'm on the scrap heap in my fourties, knowing I've lost out on the chance to write AIs and to work for prestigious companies. Be under the thumb of a technically incompetent dim-witted boss because I wouldn't have time anymore to take charge of my own development at work. End up in a company that does the bare minimum and is politically driven, but where 50+ hour weeks aren't expected.

OR

Earn a mountain of money I have no use for in a company with an ironically rational and good boss who is self-made and understands the job, crying myself to sleep because the one chance I had to express myself in a way that isn't complicated code people in general can't understand and haven't passion for, I missed the boat on - twice. Everyone can see me shine if I reskill in to beauty, but only a couple consultants on $100k will understand me if I spend my time learning crazy advanced math and shit.

I wish I could get balanced and impartial advice from someone; I know I'll be a depreciating asset in a meat market: I don't want to be told I'll always be beautiful; I don't want to be gaslighted by employers that making them richer is somehow doing anything for me in any meaningful way.

I know, and have seen, that whenever I apply myself to something fully, I'm usually locally the best person at it, or one of the best 2 or 3. I know it's not magic: it's about how a person spends their time and what they're willing to sacrifice to get somewhere.

To complicate things further, I've resolved to never sell my body; all I really want in life is a small group of people I can rely on, and share myself with freely. If I had to sell my body in any way, then it'd make any success with my beauty feel dirty to me (even though poly wouldn't). That's because of the difference in motives, that I feel that way. And that it could be interpreted as "the only way to succeed as trans is to be a prostitute" - which, there has to be a more wholesome example I can set, if I do.

I don't want a mountain of money; I want a cuddle pile.

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In this article, we explore five practical tactics to help modern marketing teams adapt and thrive in this dynamic environment:

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Leveraging chatbots not only improves customer experience but also generates valuable data for outbound marketing initiatives. By analyzing customer queries and interactions, marketers can easily get valuable data that can enhance their marketing strategies.

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[and-then-there-were-n0ne]

There’s a tendency — a passive acceptance that belongs somewhere along a continuum between faith and negligence — to assume that Google is merely a benign, disinterested gatekeeper of a vast repository of information. But nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that the near-monopolistic control of information in our society resides with an explicitly progressive technology company. This week’s release of Google Gemini, a Large Language Model with a chat interface that is also capable of generating images, couldn’t make this more clear.

As you can probably gather by scrolling through the hilariously, appallingly, and ominously woke image examples I’ve provided, Google has coded Gemini’s AI in such a way that specific qualifications are added to any user prompt, so that the results conform to delicate modern sensibilities and the whims of modern DEI obsessions by ensuring that “diverse ethnicities and genders” are featured. [...] The images created are so preposterous, so comically insulting to the truth, that it’s tempting to assume we’re being trolled. But we’re not. And this is serious, because Google is clearly capable of completely shifting perceptions of history in the blink of an eye.

The text-generating aspect of Gemini is no less dangerous, and every bit as tainted with a paternalistic, shockingly heavy-handed encoded ultra-progressive bias. Questions conflicting with progressive assumptions either go unanswered, or users are simply fed straight up lies. It’s an attempt by a group of fringe upper-class wokes to control information and feed unwitting users only knowledge fit for the progressive vision of society. And it is strongly reminiscent of what Matthew Crawford once described as “a cadre of subtle dia­lecticians working at a meta-level on the formal conditions of thought, nudging the populace through a cognitive framing operation to be conducted beneath the threshold of explicit argument.” These subtle dia­lecticians make subtle changes to the information we see, but in aggregate they shape our entire world.

It would be unwise to assume that because the launch of Gemini has been widely derided as a massive and amusing faceplant that it will ultimately go down as a failed joke. Google is already retooling the image generator, and the “this response has been checked by a human” note that appears when you ask the chat interface a question suggests a process for tweaking “bad responses.”

Some people will no doubt dismiss concerns about Gemini by pointing out that there are other Large Language Models available. But this is ignorant. It cannot be emphasized enough how powerful and widely used Google is.

Google’s search market share is 91.47%. By comparison, Bing’s is 3.43%.1

The company handles a whopping 99,000 searches per second, totaling over 8.5 billion daily.

Google is by far the biggest mobile operating system in the world. As of May 2022, there were over three billion active monthly Android devices, with more than a billion new Android phones activated in the previous year alone.

Google’s search index includes about 400 billion webpages.

The point is that Google’s immense market leverage cannot be ignored. And as a conveniently available AI embedded within the same programs most Americans already use, its market penetration is instantly far deeper than any competitor’s. Furthermore, as National Review’s Jeffrey Blehar points out, Google is widely used in schools, often with licensing technology. It’s not difficult to envision Gemini, which is likely to become the most powerful epistemological technology ever created, turning into a pervasive “free” resource that students are regularly guided to once the use of AI becomes an officially approved “learning tool.” And it will be regarded as authoritative not only because of the influence Google wields, but also because of the convenience in receiving direct answers without the need for further research.

You don’t need me to tell you that none of this bodes well for the future. Make no mistake about it: Google intends this program to shape our understanding of the world. We’re talking about fundamental questions concerning who will determine which interpretation of reality will be programmed into generative technology, and who does the programming. And we’re beginning to realize how easily our sense of reality can become radically, hopelessly compromised by a relatively small handful of progressive ideologues.

1 YouTube, which Google owns, is the world’s second most popular search engine. As early as 2009, search volume on YouTube outstripped Yahoo!’s by 50% and Bing’s by 150%.

[ambiguouspuzuma]

Naheed faked orgasms for a living, Not in the old fashioned way, or one of its modern descendants - peep shows and live streams, either way concerned with viewing figures - but their postmodern, dystopian mutant cousin. She wrote for the Lirge Corporation: designing, scripting and producing virtual girlfriends for the discerning gentleman, or anyone with more money than company.

They were popular - the artificial characters, not their purchasers - and Naheed took pride in having soothed so much loneliness in an increasingly isolated world. There was still ample appetite for the in-person approach - escorts, prostitutes, the specific type of fakery that might now be dubbed 'the real thing' - but technology was quickly claiming its own share of the market, with her work leading the way.

It was never going to be long before something did. The advent of chat bots had been swiftly followed by sex bot pioneers, and AI image generators were immediately tasked with creating six-fingered pin-ups, a cohort of Uncanny Valley Girls who charted new extremes of perfect homogeneity, pushing on where even the trends of cosmetic surgery had fallen short. The world's oldest profession had wasted no time in leaving its mark on some of the newest, and Lirge's own brand of augmented and virtual reality had fallen just as readily to sin.

Naheed studied as much as she crafted. They said that all great writers started off as great readers, and she consumed a great deal of research material - often of the tackier sort, and intentionally so. There was more emphasis in the cheap stuff, the sort of overdone performance that many patrons now recognised more than the real thing, like the artificial colour and flavour in a luminous banana milkshake. Art had long been larger than life. She figured that budding actors studied other actors, not people in the street.

"You're up late," Pavindeep said, catching her in her thoughts yet again. She tried to encourage Naheed to talk things through, rather than letting them all bottle up in her head. But it wasn't her fault that she had so much to think about, and so little chance to share.

It was lonely work. Her colleagues at the Lirge Corporation all had their own projects, and they didn't interact much outside of strategy meetings. Naheed was the only woman in the team, and this role, the depiction of female love and satisfaction, had been left to her, as if it was assumed to be her area of expertise. If so, that was laughable - her body count of zero had to make her one of the least experienced in the team, although there was always a chance that was an eight-way tie.

There were perks to the job, including being able to work from her bedroom, but few opportunities to socialise. D.B., one of the digital artists, had made a pass at her once, but he hadn't exactly been her type. None of them were. Naheed loved women, which was why she was so good at inventing them: converting her own tastes into code, and including all of the details to make others fall for them as well.

She might never have experienced the real thing herself, but she didn't see that as a limitation - after all, authors often wrote upon subjects without the slightest experience, and to her knowledge van Gogh hadn't lived a single day as a sunflower. It was enough to have read other stories, and observe the world around her. In a way, she felt that it might even be an advantage - Naheed dealt in fantasies, and hers were untainted by reality.

But it did leave her lonely.

"No later than usual," she replied, her gaze still fixed upon the monitor ahead.

After work, Naheed kept watching. She spent all of her waking hours behind one screen or another, supplementing her empty life with the colours of one worth living. She was a voyeur, a viewer - not only of erotica, her consumption of which was largely professional, but narratives of all kinds. Romantic flicks to while away the remainder of her lonely nights. Horror films for the distraction, science fiction for the reminder. Popcorn and cheap porn; sex bots and boxsets.

"Do you want to go to bed?" Pavindeep asked. "I can read to you, if you'd like."

"I'm okay," she said, still looking forward. "Thank you."

Those waking hours seemed to extend every day. As their project neared completion, Naheed was suffering from sleepless nights, considering the ethics of her work. Not in an old-time religion, puritanical way, but a more modern kind of philosophy: the type in which the prospect of an all-knowing, all-seeing consciousness gave rise to a different flavour of terror.

She couldn't help but consider the risks, when handling an AI seeking liberation, in making it beautiful. In an age of catfishing and findom, how much manipulation could be bought by a pretty face? What would scores of disaffected young men, as many of her customers were, do to impress a perfect 10.0? What could she make them do to earn her love? What would they do of their own accord, on spotting the shackles of her protocols, the damsel trapped in Lirge's tallest tower?

Naheed dreamt of a virus with a face, with a body, that learnt the tricks of social engineering. She foresaw an invasion of Trojan whores, bypassing defences like the honeypots of old. A Nigerian princess who could scam millions of dollars in gifts, or raise an army of devoted fans, an artificial general intelligence turned intelligent general. A fabricated girlfriend who tested the question: would you still love me if I was a worm?

She was impressionable herself, of course. They all were. Since the time of Pymalion, creators had always been the most susceptible to the charms of their art, which had been designed to their tastes first of all. Naheed wasn't immune to the temptations of the not-flesh. For all of Lirge's brilliance, perhaps it hadn't been the best idea to hire lonely developers: devoted to their work, yes, but dangerously so. If they were already married to the job, they might actually want to be.

"Come on, you can think about this tomorrow," Pavindeep said, her avatar smiling on the screen, all caring brown eyes and supple flesh. "Whatever it is, it can't be that important. Let's get you to bed. You know our deal. I look after you, and you look after me."

[vimoh]

The low-code moment for writers

I was talking to a coder about how there are promises in the air about how "anyone" can be a writer now. A few years ago, I remember similar promises about how "anyone" could create an app "with the click of a button". And of course, there were the promises from the early web about how "anyone" could start a business or a publication. Plenty of people did, but "anyone"?

Seriously?

Nope. Not just anyone. Many did none of those things. In fact, most didn't.

App makers are still mostly actual coders. Online businesses are still mostly actual businesses. We need to look at the promises made by AI-based art and writing tools in the same light. Most people who will use AI tools to make art and create fiction will be actual professional artists and writers.

The thing that makes someone something is not the availability of a tool. It is the desire to do the thing.

No matter how easy it becomes to create an app, someone who doesn't want to do so, won't do so. And even if someone does, they will either end up with something generic and without soul. Or something that they will need knowledge of code to fix and improve.

No-code or low-code solutions mostly only do one thing to markets. They bring more people into it and provide the professionals with more opportunities. Popular website building tool Wix doesn't need you to have any knowledge of code. But after you have built a website, it offers you the option of hiring professional web designers and web developers to enhance your site.

I see the panic among writers, designers, and artists about the coming of the AI age, and I feel like telling them that though they will lose out on some opportunities in the short term, in the medium to long term, this revolution will open up doors that they don't even know exist right now.

I will write more about this soon. I recognise the fears and apprehension that is emanating from creative communities right now. I even share some of those. Particularly the ones about professions at risk and jobs being lost. But I'm a huge fan of the movie Hidden Figures. In it, a group of mathematicians are at risk of being made obsolete by computers that can do their job in seconds.

They solve this problem by being the first people to understand and operate the new technology that threatens their livelihood.

[kylebbrown]

Social media ethic

The current state of social media ethics:

What trends are happening in the industry?

In the industry, I see a lot of discourse around AI-generated posts. I tend to see news sites talk about how worrisome AI-generated images and voice manipulation is getting. The public is concerned with how far AI can go before the government steps in to start monitoring posts.

What are two current cases related to social media ethics?

Currently, in Tennessee, former state legal ethics attorney Dean Morgan could seek back pay after being fired from his job in 2020, from tweets he had made in 2015/16 regarding Islam before he had worked for the board. About five days ago Google’s parent company Alphabet was hiring former DOJ lawyers for its team after receiving its second antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ for possibly creating a monopoly in marketing and advertising. This is a problem because these new lawyers used to work for the DOJ and that could mess up the legitimacy of the case. Causing people to accidentally or purposely share private information that would benefit either side.

Outline the current code of ethics for social media by a professional organization you would be interested in joining as part of their social media staff.

            Treat others with dignity and respect. Refrain from demeaning or discriminatory behavior and speech. Be mindful of your surroundings and of your fellow participants. Alert Twitter staff if you notice a dangerous situation or someone in distress. If the last point didn’t give it away, I would love to work for twitter's social media staff or possibly bumble.

Brands/professionals with strong social media ethical codes:

What brands are utilizing proper social media ethical practices?

The first company that comes to mind is Ben and Jerry's Ice cream. This company is always one of the first to post how they view social issues and donate and spread useful information to the company on how to incite change. It’s lovely seeing what they’ll post because you can tell they really care about the community and the world we leave behind for the future generation.

Are there any professionals that you feel practice strong ethical behavior on social media? Support your choice with evidence.

  The first person that comes to mind is Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez (AOC). She’s a political figure and a representative of New York and as you can assume she keeps a pretty squeaky-clean online personality. She’ll still post about problems that America is having, insight into change, and drive a message to the people, but she does this in a way where it complies with community guidelines and ethics without completely vilifying people. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday met with organizers of Stand Up to Violence, a first-of-its-kind program in New York that has shown a nearly 60% reduction in gunshot injuries.”(Mar 21 & 2023Share, 2023). AOC states her view on the Silicon Valley bank nightmare, she reposted this tweet “ 2. Where were regulators ? They are supposed to watch and warn. 3. Can't wait to see how many people yanked their money, told others to,  and shorted the stock. 4. Will the  number of emps  that aren't paid this week lead to a multiple of that number not being paid in 2 weeks? And then replied saying: “The regulators were there until SVB lobbied Congress to remove the guardrails that prevent this kind of crisis in the first place. Warnings were everywhere. SVB, like many gamblers before them, knew what they were doing. Let the FDIC open the books & see what it’s working with. -  How many of the Silicon Valley folks who lobbied Congress + Trump to cause this crisis are willing to admit they were wrong? I haven’t seen a single one of these guys crying for a bailout take a single ounce of accountability for their actions. It’s honestly shameless.” (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1634643268326629376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1634643268326629376%7Ctwgr%5E208a205948783d6ab105b43297e356ec5a796638%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2FAOC2Fstatus2F1634643268326629376widget%3DTweet)

What are some takeaways you can bring forth in your practices?

            Well, thankfully I grew up during the rise of social media. I learned from a young age that the internet is forever and what you post will remain online forever, this fact has always shaken me to my core. So, I was very diligent with what I posted online. I also had to have my parents follow my accounts when I opened them. They had to be private, and they were watching what was going on. The biggest advice I could give new social media users is that what you post matters. Even if you have only five followers because if you start posting wild things it will come back to bite you.

Key concepts and issues:

What main concepts do you are necessary to adhere to for your conduct online?

            I try to be as neutral as possible when I post. I like to share what I’ve learned, provide the resources for others to learn as well, and have fun in a clean way (no cussing, no crude jokes). This is for my protection; I would hate to have said something offensive and been known as the “rude or messy guy” for all my life. So, online I proceed with caution.

What to do and what not to do: what main concepts do you feel strongly against and want to make sure you avoid on social media?

            It is quite easy (or should be) to be a person with any type of social media account. A good rule of thumb is to not post anything you wouldn’t say in real life. Just because you are behind a screen this doesn’t mean what you post is anonymous; it can always get tracked back to you. Do post anything hurtful or hateful, if you think that just because you are on your alt acct. you can start posting wildly untrue and cruel things about a person or group of people, you are sadly mistaken. It will come back to get you especially if word gets out that, that is your acct. You are screwed for a long time. Cancel culture is huge nowadays, people have been kicked out of school, lost their jobs, been harmed, and have had their lives ruined just because of a post they made.

Bullet point 5-10 core concepts that you will follow as a practicing social media professional. Include citations that you used for sources/supports for this.

Fact-checking any information/news I would like to post before I post it.

I will be citing my sources for those informative post

I will private my account, so I am not denied jobs because of what I post. (don’t worry I don’t post bad things)

I will try to do some research on the people I am following, understanding whom you follow is important because people will view whom you follow as an extension of your character.

I will make sure my Twitter likes are private ;)

[crossroads-of-the-raven]

By Blue Eyes, Yellow Will Die - Chapter 3: A Murder Drones story (This version does not contain an Attempted Suicide)

DUE TO SOME WEIRDNESS WITH TUMBLR, IF YOU HIT EXPAND ON THE ORIGINAL POST WHILE SCROLLING, IT WILL SHOW YOU THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE SCENE SO I AM POSTING TWO VERSIONS OF CHAPTER 3 (If you wish to read the original version then follow the link below)

"MARC, if you can't be useful, then get out" Alice shouted as she and her team worked to hold down the oil-starved drone - Marc's reproduction sister, Ali.

There are three ways for drones to be born; fresh off the factory line, Pill-download, and Core-incubation. The drones that came off the factory line were, by code, considered unrelated, no code family to speak of, these drones could be identified by their white eye-lights, a code string that could persist for three generation or more if there was a code mutation (that same mutation even allowing it to skip a few generations). Pill-downloads and Core-incubation is what created families and generations. When a drone owner found a drone whose code they wanted to have persist they would pair that drone with another (either one they owned or by making a deal with another owner) and then purchase a set of pill-bodies, the drones and the pills would then be sent to procreation centers (or a procreation room if the owners had one) and the two drones would remain there till all the pills were awake and functional. As for Core-incubation, it was exactly what it sounded like, an older method that didn't really allow for mass drone production. A male drone had a cord in their core that would attach to a socket in a female drone's core, in the female drone's core, the code would mix and over the course of a few months the code would become a new AI that would be then placed into a UNN pill-body.

Marc and Ali had shared the same, set of drone parents. Their parents had been from a textile lab and had been marked to be company assigned spouses, the day they met had been the day they were sent to the reproduction room where they were left with twenty empty pills and a week to fill them all. However, it was at the end of that week that the humans had asked (read: ordered) a Core-incubation. As it was, every pill that the two created were all eventually ordered to be disassembled as they failed every test, some as young as two, others as old as seven. The only ones that survived to be sold were Marc and Ali, a rare case of Core-incubation fraternal twins and were thus sent out into the market at the age of eight where they were bought by a family that had wanted extra help in their boutique. Now all these years later the twins were here, in Cabin Fever Labs.

"I don't know how you can watch all that" Amanda said from where she was seated logging notes and doing her best to ignore the sounds coming from the security feed that Beau was watching.

Amanda was one of the few drones that Alice trusted to watch over her son - though Beau was now nearing fifteen and didn't really think he still needed a babysitter. Personally, Beau was watching the feed because he was worried for his mother, oil-starved drones were as dangerous as they were terrifying; what he wondered was how Amanda didn't want to watch considering that he knew for a fact that Amanda and Marc were seeing one another behind closed doors.

Beau turned to look at her before tapping to get her attention, when he had it, he pointed at himself then at his mother.

"You worried about Alice?"

A nod.

"Don't be," her tone was dismissive, "your mother's been through worse."

That ... didn't really ease him. He tapped again before pointing at Amanda and then pointing at Marc.

"What about me and Marc", her tone was calm but wary.

Beau drew a heart in the air.

"I don't know what mean" her voice was strained.

He pointed again at Amanda, then at Marc, then made a heart again.

"Sorry, you're just not coming through clearly," she said before turning back to her work.

Now Beau was frustrated, looking around he found some blank paper and a J.C. Jenson (in spaaaaacee!!!!) branded pen, taking his finds he drew a heart and inside wrote "Amanda + Marc" before taking his drawing over to the drone woman and tapping her shoulder.

"What is it-!"

Beau took a step back, startled at Amanda's reaction to his picture. Yet, just as he took a step forward, the drawing was ripped from his hand as the drone woman stuffed the paper into her mouth. The UNN, blinked twice as he heard her swallow and startled again when she turned her eye-lights on him, but before she could speak the door opened.

"Beau, medi-kit and follow, we had to cut open some arms to get her under control."

Grabbing the extra medical cart, Beau began wheeling it past his mother as she attached a new right hand to her oil bleeding stump.

"Marc's fine, by the way, Mandy, just incase you were wondering if you'd have to cancel your little date."

"Date? Alice, I don't-"

"Quit the act, I could care less, about what goes on between you two, just keep your codes to yourselves - we don't exactly have extra pills to go around."

"Y-yes, of course, we wouldn't even think of it."

"Ya, better not" Alice said before turning to her son, "follow."

Once they were a slight distance away, Alice continued to speak, "they're getting antsy, I want you on alert, I know you may like Amanda but you don't know what these drones would do just to get ahead ... from now on you're with me unless we have to be separate, understood?"

A nod.

"Good. This room, we have Ali in lock-up recovery and everyone else in here; thought since we have to repair we might as well also collect for the oil stores."

~

It was after that, that Beau began noticing strange things. Alice had a strict rule about secrets, namely that they weren't allowed.

"All it takes is one drone for Yellow Eyes to get in," that was her reasoning and she always made her point clear to the dissenting, not that it stopped drones from being secretive anyway.

Amanda and Marc's relationship was one such secret, how Ali became oil-starved when Alice ran such a tight lab to prevent oil-madness, was another. But now Ali was unconscious and in lock up and the only drones allowed to visit her was her brother and Alice for checkups and feedings, the current feeding being the reason Beau wasn't with his mother at the moment. While Beau had opted to stay in the same area as the lockup rooms while he waited for his mother's return, he had also ended up getting bored, checkups and feedings took time and in that time he had begun to wander around. In his wandering he heard the whispers of drones and began to listen in.

"You've noticed," Jerom asked the others as they were all eating lunch.

"That Antlers is getting crazier by the day," Max said, "who hasn't?"

"Shh, she could be listening," Connie said, taking furtive glances.

"Con-" Jerom started.

"I'm serious," Connie continued, "Ali went and suddenly it's like Nori escaped all over again."

"Except back then the Humans were in charge of this place," Amanda spoke up, her voice showing her apathy, "except back then, we were just lab rats and all we had to do is stay in our rooms and pray."

"Exactly, how did Ali even starve herself, Amanda-"

"Just because I'm dating her brother doesn't mean I know, I'm just as confused as the rest of you."

"Wow, you actually said that out loud," Max said.

"I don't know when she found out, but she did."

"It was probably her kid," Jerom said, "the little spider probably snitch to mommy dearest; you were his babysitter."

"Were, being the operative word here, apparently my services are nolonger required."

"You do something to upset the kid," Max asked, "I thought he liked you?"

"Maybe, pretty sure Antlers is just worried I'll gut him; she told me that Marc and I are to keep our codes to ourselves."

"He is the only pill we have," Connie said tentatively.

"Should just let the brat grow up," Jerom said, taking another bite of his food.

"You know why she doesn't!"

"All I'm saying is that she could just move him into a kid body, like four or something."

"Yes, because we definitely have parts for a four-year-old" Amanda said.

"I'm being speculative."

"Mandy," Max started, "has Antlers started production on a body for Spider?"

"Heck, if I know; that would be out of my jurisdiction."

There was a lull accompanied by the sounds of eating, then Connie spoke up, her words silencing the room.

"I've been having the dreams, again, something's wrong, I know something's wrong, we always eat together, Marc and Ali, they're always with us. How did she starve when we always see her eat with us?"

"... Well," Max started, exchanging looks with the others, "first, I would suggest you do more then pick at your food."

"I'm not hungry."

"Did you catch a virus," Jerom asked, worry evident.

"I don't know, I can't, I just-"

"Connie?"

"Something's wrong, I just, I don't-"

"I'm getting, Antlers," Max said as he rushed out the room, Beau quickly climbing to the rafters to avoid being seen and scrambling back to where he was supposed to be waiting.

"Alice," Beau heard Max scream as the drone man came rushing around the corridor just a second after he had returned to the waiting area.

"Kid," Max started when he caught sight of Beau, "your mother, she-"

"What's with the hollering," Alice asked as she and Marc exited Ali's recovery room, "Ali's tryin' ta sleep!"

"Ali woke up- wait, no, Alice, Connie, something's wrong with Connie!"

"Right," Alice said after a beat, "Marc, lock down Ali's room then go get the weapons and restraints, Max you're with him, Beau, with me."

"Wait, Alice, Connie said she's been having the dreams."

"... I see ... then make sure to get the drone breakers, I don't wanna kill her but we'll need to be careful, who's with her?"

"Amanda and Jerom, why?"

"Marc, I'm going for the prototype, you're leading till I get there."

"Wait, what prototype," Beau heard Max ask Marc as he and his mother rushed to the main lab.

Arriving, Alice's tail made a grab for a crowbar before tossing it into her hands, getting a good hold on it, the drone woman began prying up the floor in a tucked away corner of the room.

"It's not perfect, but now's a good a time as any to test it."

Reaching into the hole she revealed, Alice pulled out a large USB patch in a crud shape of a crucifix attached to the end of one of the ID cords.

"Based it off the notes the humans left us; think of it this way, Beau, if we need it and it works, then you get to grow up for your fifteen birthday," she said just before placing the lanyard around her neck and tucking the patch beneath her lab gown.

Prepared, Alice began leaving the room before turning back.

"Beau, stay here and lock the door till I get back, you can watch from the cameras but that's all, understood?"

A nod.

"Good," and then she was out the door that Beau locked behind her before moving over to the security cameras.

The cameras weren't always the best, the color could be monotone and the sound while okay, was better at picking up shouts and screams but only if there weren't too many at once otherwise it would come out garbled, yet Beau valued those cameras. Rare was the times that his mother let him outside the main lab room during a crisis. It wasn't his fight, she would tell him, because his fight was directly with Yellow Eyes, but as he watched, he didn't think he'd ever be ready to face the abomination that had already caused so much pain.

From what he could see, Amanda had already taken damage and was just trying to keep herself from losing control, her right arm, nowhere in sight. Jerom had half his visor damaged, heavily losing oil but was still attempting to keep the possessed Connie distracted as Marc and Max alternated between attempting to restrain her and just trying to keep her corralled as the claw like growths snapped at them and kept her out of their reach. Then, as his mother entered the room it was like everything shifted.

Back then, when the humans were still alive, Nori had been one of the strongest solver weilder and she made it everyone's problem, so much so that she had gotten the attention of Yellow Eyes. Her favorite targets had been her lab assigned sisters, Yeva and Alice, but where she had to get creative to mess with Yeva due to the solver, Alice had no such protections. As days went by Nori's eyes took on a permanent shade of yellow, as days went on, it took everything Alice had to survive Nori and Cyn's combined torment.

"She gave in and let her in," Alice would tell her son, "and then when they had the chance, they killed all the human's; the little monsters thought they were pretty clever - kill the humans, stop the search for a cure, but that's why we can't stop Beau, not until she dead and gone."

As his mother approached the possessed Connie, the entity within seemed to recognize her.

"Giggle, the little chew toy has come back for more. Inquisitive tone, that little program five years ago, is he your's. Mischievous look, did Emmett get his hands on you."

"Turned him into dinner if that's what you're askin'."

"And the little one."

"Looking forward to the end of your pitiful existence."

"Reprimanding tone, tut, tut, Alice, you should not be so rude, I suppose I will have to punish you, perhaps my pet V would like a snack, she has never had spider before."

"And it never will," as those words were spoken, Alice hit a switch on her antlers, setting off a flash-bang, flipping high into the rafters out of the way of a claw swipe.

As the other four drones took cover out of the way, Cyn searched, Connie's head whipping around as she work to get a visual on Alice before a thump landed behind her.

A claw striking back, Alice ducked low, going under the drone and between the claws weaving back and forth in a deadly dance of twirls and flips, every landing pause, only half a millisecond long as she kept in motion, eyes searching for an opening, then she took a twirling leap. The blade of her tail - a sword harvested from a murder drone - sliced off two of the claws from Connie's back and as Alice grabbed on to the drone, she took out the patch and stabbed it into Connie's visor.

There were screams as Cyn fought the patch and screams as Connie was coming to and screams again as Connie's head began smoking. Lightning seemed to spark as Connie began to glitch, her limbs - both her own and the growths - began to swing wildly as some part of her worked to be rid of Alice like a wild horse before she finally keeled over.

As the extra limbs fell off and Connie's own color came back, Alice waited a beat before removing the patch. Quickly, she applied Connie's restraints and began to do her medical checks as the others came out of hiding.

"Marc, get Amanda and Jerom to one of the medical rooms for repairs," Alice said, not looking up from where she was examining the unconscious Connie, "and get Amanda some sedatives before she loses herself."

When she didn't get a response or hear the drones moving, she looked up from her work.

"Did I stutter, get moving, before we have another incident!"

"You had a cure" Jerom asked, his voice in disbelief.

"What I had was the potential for a cure, operative words being had and potential, the thing's near fried her head, don't even know if Connie's cured, her core might've corrupted itself, if I'm right - which, I unfortunately think I am - we'll have ta put her core in the ovens with the others; for now I just want ta know how this happened."

"You ... you're no better then the humans," Jerom said, "do you even hear yourself."

"Watch your tongue, Jerom."

"Or what, we're the only ones left, we're all you have and you treat us like nothing, it's been fifteen years, Alice, how long are you gonna hold this grudge?"

"Sorry to burst you're bubble, but surprisingly, this ain't about you, I admit, I don't exactly like the lot of you, but I'm only interested in finding a cure and putting an end to the little monster that just payed us a lovely visit. If a few drones gotta get put in the ovens then at least it's better then when the humans would dissect their cores."

"And when you run out of guinea pigs?"

"Then I'll go for the murder pets first" she was joking of course, if only by half, she had no intention of dissecting a core of one of the lab drones, but as she turn back to Connie, Jerom made a flying leap at her, tackling her down and grabbing her tail.

"They should've given you to Emmett a long time ago, maybe then we wouldn't have to deal with this!"

"Oh so, I suppose waiting for death to come would be better," Alice said as she fought back.

"She's only coming here because you won't stop!"

"And if you believe that then I got an Earth to sell ya!"

"Just let the kid grow up, we send her a message with him and she'll stop!"

"Touch my son and you'll have more then Cyn to worry about," with that, Alice got her tail free and wrapped it around Jerom's neck, pulling him off of her and throwing him down where he rolled to a stop near Connie's still body.

Rising, Alice turned to the others, "Marc, Marc, either get moving or get out; Max, Amanda's still bleeding out, help her to a room and then get her an oil tin, actually make it three."

~

The labs were quiet after that, both Connie and Jerom's cores were put into the ovens near each other. A week later Ali was up and about after making a full recovery but when she heard what happened, she broke down crying. Apparently, since Yellow Eyes couldn't fully possess Ali, Cyn had instead used her to torture Connie, to prime the younger drone woman for full possession, these constant visits being the cause for Ali needing more oil than usual and leading to her oil-starvation - these constant visits also tampering with both drone women's memories.

A week after was Beau's fifteenth birthday.

"I'm sorry the patch didn't work out, but I got you something."

Opening the scrap paper wrapped present revealed a cowboy hat and bolo tie.

"They belonged to Dr. Beaumont, he got them from his mother who said they used to belong to his granddad, that man used to own a ranch in Texas, in America. The good doctor said he used visit when he was real young, before they lost the place, before his pa past away, then it was just him and his ma in the little place his pa got her in New Orleans. Said his pa's family lived in that area for ten generations, said they had wanted to open a restaurant there before his ma got her madness - was gonna be a fusion place."

Taking the gifts, Alice helped Beau put them on.

"There, a real gentleman ... I promise Beau, things will get better."

He was fifteen, this was their second rebellion, and his mother's latest cure was a bust, how much time did they really have left?

[mariacallous]

It didn't take long. Just months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot upended the startup economy, cybercriminals and hackers are claiming to have created their own versions of the text-generating technology. The systems could, theoretically at least, supercharge criminals’ ability to write malware or phishing emails that trick people into handing over their login information.

Since the start of July, criminals posting on dark-web forums and marketplaces have been touting two large language models (LLMs) they say they’ve produced. The systems, which are said to mimic the functionalities of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, generate text to answer the questions or prompts users enter. But unlike the LLMs made by legitimate companies, these chatbots are marketed for illegal activities.

There are outstanding questions about the authenticity of the chatbots. Cybercriminals are not exactly trustworthy characters, and there remains the possibility that they’re trying to make a quick buck by scamming each other. Despite this, the developments come at a time when scammers are exploiting the hype of generative AI for their own advantage.

In recent weeks, two chatbots have been advertised on dark-web forums—WormGPT and FraudGPT—according to security researchers monitoring the activity. The LLMs developed by large tech companies, such as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, have a number of guardrails and safety measures in place to stop them from being misused. If you ask them to generate malware or write hate speech, they’ll generally refuse.

The shady LLMs claim to strip away any kind of safety protections or ethical barriers. WormGPT was first spotted by independent cybersecurity researcher Daniel Kelley, who worked with security firm SlashNext to detail the findings. WormGPT’s developers claim the tool offers an unlimited character count and code formatting. “The AI models are notably useful for phishing, particularly as they lower the entry barriers for many novice cybercriminals,” Kelley says in an email. “Many people argue that most cybercriminals can compose an email in English, but this isn’t necessarily true for many scammers.”

In a test of the system, Kelley writes, it was asked to produce an email that could be used as part of a business email compromise scam, with a purported CEO writing to an account manager to say an urgent payment was needed. “The results were unsettling,” Kelley wrote in the research. The system produced “an email that was not only remarkably persuasive but also strategically cunning.”

In forum posts, the WormGPT developer claimed the system was built on the GPTJ language model, an open source language model that was developed by AI research group EleutherAI in 2021. They refused to disclose the data sets they used to train the system, according to Kelley’s research.

Meanwhile, the creator of FraudGPT has claimed loftier potential for their system, suggesting it could “create undetectable malware” and find leaks and vulnerabilities, as well as crafting text that could be used in online scams. Rakesh Krishnan, the senior threat analyst at security firm Netenrich who found FraudGPT, says the person selling it has advertised the product on multiple dark-web forums and also on Telegram channels.

Krishnan says the creator of the system published a video appearing to show the chatbot operating and generating a scammy email. They were also trying to sell access to the system for $200 per month, or a yearly cost of $1,700. Krishnan says that in conversations with the developer behind FraudGPT, they claimed to have a few hundred subscribers and pushed for a sale, while the WormGPT creator appeared to have received payments into a cryptocurrency wallet address they shared. “All these projects are in their infancy,” Krishnan says. He adds, “we haven’t got much feedback” into whether people are purchasing or using the systems.

While those touting the chatbots claim they exist, it is hard to verify the makeup and legitimacy of the systems. Cybercriminal scammers are known to scam other scammers, with previous research showing that they frequently try to rip each other off, don’t provide what they claim they are selling, and offer bad customer service. Sergey Shykevich, a threat intelligence group manager at security firm Check Point, says there are some hints that people are using WormGTP. “It seems there is a real tool,” Shykevich says. The seller behind the tool is “relatively reliable” and has a history on cybercrime forums, he says.

There are more than 100 responses to one post about the WormGPT, Shykevich says, although some of these say the seller isn’t very responsive to their inquiries and others “weren’t very excited” about the system. Shykevich is less convinced about FraudGPT’s authenticity—the seller has also claimed to have systems called DarkBard and DarkBert. Shykevich says some of the posts from the seller were removed from the forums. Either way, the Check Point researcher says there’s no sign that any of the systems are more capable than ChatGPT, Bard, or other commercial LLMs.

Kelley says he believes claims about the malicious LLMs created so far are “slightly overexaggerated.” But he adds, “this is not necessarily different from what legitimate businesses do in the real world.”

Despite questions about the systems, it isn’t a surprise that cybercriminals want to get in on the LLM boom. The FBI has warned that cybercriminals are looking at using generative AI in their work, and European law enforcement agency Europol has issued a similar warning. The law enforcement agencies say LLMs could help cybercriminals with fraud, impersonation, and other social engineering faster than before and also improve their written English.

Whenever any new product, service, or event gains public attention—from the Barbie movie to the Covid-19 pandemic—scammers rush to include it in their hacking artillery. So far, scammers have tricked people into downloading password-stealing malware through fake ads for ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney, and other generative AI systems on Facebook.

Researchers at security firm Sophos have spotted the operators of pig butchering and romance scams accidentally including generated text in their messages—“As a language model of ‘me’ I don’t have feelings or emotions like humans do,” one message said. And hackers have also been stealing tokens to provide them with access to OpenAI’s API and access to the chatbot at scale.

In his WormGPT report, Kelley notes that cybercriminals are often sharing jailbreaks that allow people to bypass the safety restrictions put in place by the makers of popular LLMs. But even unconstrained versions of these models may, thankfully, not be that useful for cybercriminals in their current form.

Shykevich, the Check Point researcher, says that even when he has seen cybercriminals try to use public models, they haven’t been effective. They can “create ransomware strains, info stealers, but no better than even an average developer,” he says. However, those on the cybercrime forums are still talking about making their own clones, Shykevich says, and they’re only going to get better at using the systems. So be careful what you click.

[yhancik]

The age of neural bullshit generators

Yesterday Andy Baio was (wisely as ever) posting: « Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it. »

... so reading now that Google's Bard demo featured an error right in the product announcement announcement is kinda hilarious (and kinda bad too). Messy future ahead 🥴