Today is #NewstodonFriday, a day to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you're a journo or newsroom that we don't know about (or there's someone that should be on our radar), please comment below.
If I want to get the American right all wild about #AI accuracy I'll point out that giving Chat GPT 4o the task to estimate #Trump Bronx Rally crowd size (they claim 25k) but the AI has a different thought (< 5k)
"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"
So a German magazine decided to run an “interview” with Michael Schumacher, in which Schumacher’s “responses” were fabulations generated entirely by #AI.
The real Michael Schumacher sustained a brain injury in 2013 and has not recovered.
The Schumacher family sued the magazine and won a settlement. But the fact that this story ran at all is beyond dumbfounding.
"The vision is that there will be a... Jarvis assistant in your phone that locks you into their ecosystem so hard that you'll never leave," Jenson continued, referencing the superpowered AI assistant in Marvel comics that can make meals for Iron Man and help him fight bad guys. "That vision is pure catnip. The fear is that they can't afford to let someone else get there first."
I am just a human with an opinion. However I also host a music radio show. I know if a song is good or not, independent of which genre it is.
Of course, I also have my own taste. I.e. I'm not interested in anything trying to cling on mainstream, anything where polish ("production quality") is higher than substance (to be honest, production quality is the last thing that matters to me).
So this is a list which meets this criteria. A lot of good tracks are already left out, because others I did find even better. Maybe, if I would have time to listen again in a reversed order, I may have favored another track then and when.
I'm sorry if you feel you should be included here. You probably are, and I'm to blame. I mean it!
Anyway – this list really deals with a lot of different Genres and is meant as a help for anyone who doesn't have time to listen to all tracks, to anyone who knows how unfair that is (because lots of artists are left out) and to anyone having an "off mainstream" taste.
[RUGG] Grandios Roy Orbison country including a real banjo, if my ears don't deceive me. Rich composition, lots of structure (much more than just an ABAB scheme), text mentions "die nmi!" - my real musician handle (right? RIGHT?) - how couldn't I just love it (!!) ?
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#RUGG
• Artist: @sknob
[UDIL] High production standards (multiband compression to the max, arrrrgh) which makes me skeptical (also Euro Dance style. Really? In 2024?) But damn, there is substance and boy, it grooves. Pretty sure the female singer is a sample, as it always repeats. I was once criticized for using such a sample instead of something original back in the 90s in a competition and that's why I wont complain here. I just... mention this :)
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#UDIL
• Artist link(s): @yours_truly
[MOUL] YEAHhhhh!! Dirty electric Cyber tech(no) with a french vibe. Totally a candidate for my Radio Irrtum! Show! A candidate I said. Nothing is decided yet, but I don't claim this without reason. Moule by the way did also a fantastic review session of a lot of tracks very early on at his fediverse account! Thank you, Moule, you crazy horse (or whatever that animal is)!
• Track link: https://fedivision.party/#MOUL
• Artist link(s): @MOULE
[Side note:]
When I am looking forward to find out who the female singer of a track is, and then find out it's just an #AI. Then nope. Totally nope. Especially when you are a male musician: Don't abuse my remaining male hormones like this! I hear a beautiful woman, I expect a beautiful woman, not a filthy male with his AI. Screw all this!
“Training on Reddit posts considered harmful to model accuracy.”
Peer reviewers gave glowing comments like “No shit Sherlock!”
Asked for a comment the ground breaking paper’s author Captain Obvious simply stated “have you ever even been on Reddit?’ He also encouraged Google to instead train on 4chan content instead as that will totally “fix” everything.
Neue Folge im #TheDinerPodcast: Gesellschaft und KI: Wir sind völlig undvorbereitet auf die #Krise in der wir schon stecken. Im Gespräch mit @peterpur über generative #KI, Gesetzgebung und #Lobbying, was wir in der Schule lernen sollten, Lügen in Krisen, #Ästhetik und die stete Frage danach, was wir als #Gesellschaft überhaupt wollen. #AI#AIAct