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How to Think About AI Before It's Too Late
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (1310+ words) The case against AI hype with Cory Doctorow...
America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (14+ words) The future of AI and jobs will be so much weirder than you think....
Nothing on the Internet Is Secure Anymore
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (110+ words) The Atlantic AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we've never seen before. Late last month, I began to consider withdrawing some money from my savings account to buy gold. It's the first time I've ever…...
Listening to All the Music AI Is Trained on Would Take Decades
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (220+ words) We obtained four datasets that reveal an astonishing number of songs. You can search for an artist in the datasets here: What the datasets illustrate, primarily, is the scale and variety of music easily available to AI developers. Companies often…...
AI Watchdog: Spotify Tracks Dataset
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (71+ words) The Atlantic Explore original journalism about this data set through AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. A collection of 114, 000 music tracks ripped from Spotify. The data set was assembled by an unknown AI developer on Hugging…...
AI Watchdog: Sleeping-DISCO-9 M
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (72+ words) The Atlantic Explore original journalism about this data set through AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. A collection of 9, 713, 413 music tracks from You Tube along with lyrics from Genius. com. The data set was assembled by…...
AI Watchdog: Free Music Archive
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (27+ words) The Atlantic Explore original journalism about this data set through AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry....
AI Watchdog: LAION-DISCO-12 M
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (75+ words) The Atlantic Explore original journalism about this data set through AI Watchdog, The Atlantic's ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. A collection of 12, 320, 916 music tracks from You Tube, totaling 91 years of music. The dataset was assembled by LAION, a nonprofit…...
When Robots Come for Dance
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (212+ words) I've seen the tech, and it's impressive. But can they ever feel human? I was impressed, but'I must admit'a part of me felt threatened. And jealous. Despite my more than two decades of dance training, those robots could perform moves…...
Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized
1+ week, 2+ day ago (79+ words) The Atlantic How companies are gaming the chatbot internet Cheap tricks, it seems, can only get you so far. Companies that are caught spamming risk being penalized in future search results, Lily Ray, who runs Algorythmic, an SEO consulting firm,…...