Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
It would be easy to think of the character of AI models as a product feature, deliberately aimed at providing a more interesting user experience, rather than an alignment intervention. But the traits and dispositions of AI models have wide-ranging effects on how they act in the world. They determine how models react to new and difficult situations,... See more
Claude’s Character
Many people don't consider that when they use the internet, be that making a simple HTML/CSS site, or using a site through a big conglomerate, scrapers are scraping and crawlers are crawling the content unless you've specifically configured robots.txt and no-index rules to prevent it.
Olu • Is using Lensa art theft? | The ethics of AI generated art
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockettlareviewofbooks.org
A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
on metaphors for LLMs
Many methods for creating these models don't (and to be honest can't) attach the name, website and other details of every image and piece of text used to a create a new image in the metadata to every step of the process.
Olu • Is using Lensa art theft? | The ethics of AI generated art
The “story seeds” control allowed writers to experiment with using Wordcraft to generate ideas at the very beginning of the writing process. MT described the “story seeds” control as giving her “a place on my computer to go that looked like a blank page but did not behave as such.” E
Daphne Ippolito • Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
As more artists gain access to AI and take up the tools, artists will have a whole new look — both how they look making art and how their art develops.
Steven Vargas • How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself
However, we often found that it was the unexpected differences between the prompt and the generated image’s interpretation of it that yielded new insight for and excitement from participants.
Dava Newman • When happy accidents spark creativity: Bringing collaborative speculation to life with generative AI
The issue here does not concern how many jobs will be created, how much income generated, how many pollutants added... Rather, the issue has to do with the ways in which choices about technology have important consequences for the form and quality of human associations.