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e meme-worthy. Yeah, AI art. It might be the same for movies. It could be that there'll be something about the lack of humanity in the movie that even though it looks perfect, your brain might say uncanny valley or something. Apparently ChatGPT is admitting that their guardrails for safety on their AI might weaken in long conversations, which is a big deal because some parents are suing the AI co…

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magine that the AI is thinking in a totally different way than a human thinks. And then we would keep working on trying to get the AI to think the way a human does. And then someday we would realize it already does. It's exactly the way we think. All we do is recognize patterns. And if we're bad at it, we're analogy thinkers. And if we're good at it, maybe it just gives you an idea of what things to think about or look into more deeply. But there might be some people who can get closer to logic. Not many.

According to Futurism, there's some lawsuits about authors wanting to get paid, and apparently Anthropic decided to just pay the authors instead of go ahead with the lawsuit, which if they lost, and I guess they thought that was a good enough chance they might lose a trillion dollars. So the authors that were suing Anthropic, an AI company, for what they would say would be illegally using their copyrighted materials to train it, rather than fight it,

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they're going to figure out some kind of payment system. So authors are going to get paid. And then what happens to the other AI companies who no doubt will also get sued if one of the big ones already settled and said, "All right, all right, we'll just change our business model and you'll get some money." But I would expect that the amount of money will be similar to the outrage that musicians h…

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