Sir Norman Fry Compilation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpNTi-9oRQ

And kids. I recently happened to see a pic on a kid's phone of him holding 5 vapes and a tin of snus, when challenged on it he said it was an AI-generated fake.

Appears to have replaced "fake news" as the go-to response

> The solution is clear: yes we use AI, and we're okay with it.

Except that some portion of D'addario's customers--presumably those that actually buy their guitar strings to create music via real guitars--aren't okay with it.

> There's no way Claude/AI recreated another persons app exactly

Entropy doesn't need to be set to zero for legally significant duplication

>I refuse to believe nearly 100% of game developers aren't using AI

Do you refuse to believe nearly 100% of written content isn't made by AI? Was your comment?

I struggle to imagine thinking that no one does things themselves, for fun. What a nihilistic view.

Steam doesn’t need a AI disclosure label for things that are not player-facing IIRC.

It's almost as if people with no power being told to use a thing that's supposed to eliminate their jobs are worried about their jobs.

How strange and inexplicable. So unlike every other time people were forced to do things they didn't want to do by the powerful.

If only we had access to thousands of freely available books to help us understand.

> The already embattled Fender CEO said the other day that he plans for Fender to be at the "forefront" of AI, and that covering others' songs was "analogue AI". >The simple truth of the matter is that contempt for your customers is now normal. I expect this from Fender, now; they are utterly without soul.

I think to some degree this is going to be inevitable for a while. No matter what people think about the ethics of AI or AI use, the fact of the matter is it exists, and it is shaking up and going to shake up a lot of the world. I personally think "AI" isn't really a product anymore than "The Internet" is a product. It's infrastructure in the same way the internet is, or to quote "Halt and Catch Fire", it's "the thing that gets us to The Thing".

The problem is no one really knows what The Thing looks like, so everyone is throwing anything they can think of at the wall and hoping to see what sticks. And they're dong this because they remember Sears and they remember Blockbuster. No one wants to be the next company that was positioned perfectly to integrate the new technology into their business model and missed the boat completely for short sightedness or lack of speed. "$foo but with AI" is the current generation's "$foo but on the internet", and everyone is scrambling hard to not be the next company that someone writes a "whatever happened to them" youtube video about.

Incidentally, this "AI as infrastructure" view I have is also why I really think governments should be getting into the space of building and distributing training data sets and models. Not only because it could reduce the overall amount of bot scraping and traffic if everyone who wants to build could go to a known good and clean source of training data, but also because nominal usage fees could help manage the copyright concerns. I've pitched it before in more detail, but I imagine something akin to radio broadcast royalty licenses, where people whose copyrighted works are part of the government training sets are paid out "royalties" from the pool of money brought in from licensing the training sets.

Lie and doubling down. And a lot of employees and endorsers fighting people in the comments, and calling people names. Not a good look.

Before last year, I might've thought it was okay to throw out silly things as advertisements.

Do we know if it was the worker who presented it as such? Everyone has to learn and if they are learning on the job its up to their employer to ensure that the work product is reviewed or overseen by someone with adequate experience.

Oh...

I've been thinking about this. Almost every way we have to tell human from AI apart can be adopted and automated by AI. It's sort of a corollary of "every metric can be gamed".

It's disheartening for those of us who intrinsically value human authorship.

Marketing has become so disconnected from reality that such things have been normalized and trivialized.

For example: since a few years now, it became extremely common for apps and games to be advertised with fake screenshots, fake gameplay, and fake interactions.

AI just put all that on turbo mode.

A marketing manager coming from apps/games (or other industry where this is common) joining D'addario will just push for AI music to be used because "that's how things are done".