Digital Ethics Feed Gerd Leonhard PUBLIC

“This wasn’t just some good-old-fashioned plagiarism, like Melania Trump ripping off a Michelle Obama speech. Rather, the anonymous author of “The Rationalist”—an avatar named “PETRA”—disclosed that the article had been assembled using ChatGPT and similar AI tools. Furthermore, Kantrowitz wrote that Substack indicated it wasn’t immediately clear whether “The Rationalist” had violated the company’s plagiarism policy. (The offending post is no longer available.) “The speed at which they were able to copy, remix, publish, and distribute their inauthentic story was impressive,” Kantrowitz wrote. “It outpaced the platforms’ ability, and perhaps willingness, to stop it, signaling Generative AI’s darker side will be difficult to tame.” When”

ChatGPT’s Mind-Boggling, Possibly Dystopian Impact on the Media World
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/chatgpt-journalism-ai-media
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“Books, articles, blog posts, and tweets predicting “disruption” and prescribing “digital transformation” have been common enough over the past decade. The latest AI to appear in this debate is the “large language model” or LLM. Last year, a Google software engineer named Blake Lemoine claimed that one of these—LaMDA—was sentient”

ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions
https://quillette.com/2023/01/26/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-professions/
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“NEXT: The virtual humans are coming; I wrote about their rise back way back in November 2020 in Kim Kardashian, Virtual Humans, and How Weird Becomes Mainstream. This year, the story has only accelerated. See Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator, a tool that allows anyone to make their own photorealistic avatar; meanwhile, New Zealand-based virtual humans startup Soul Machines – tagline ‘say hello to digital people’ – recently announced a new partnership with Microsoft. If you haven’t yet had your first interaction with an AI-fuelled almost human, then expect it to happen next year. Uncanny is the word.”

New Week #64
https://nwsh.substack.com/p/new-week-64
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