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  • When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

    The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

    No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

    When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.













  • Big publishers, sure.

    But my publisher is an ordinary human being. I have been to their house and met their family. They are not rich, in fact they are struggling.

    I have also released some work under Creative Commons, so for that stuff, I am my publisher.

    But, there are AIs out there that I don’t want to be trained on my work. The abomination that Palintir are building to wage war on people springs to mind. I don’t want anything to do with that.

    In many jurisdictions we are allowed to assert moral rights over our work. This is the right for it to not be mutilated or perverted or attributed to someone else. In my view, moral rights should extend to assimilation by AI models.

    I can’t stop individual people who I think are bad people from reading it, sure, but surely I should get a say in whether massive corporations who I think are evil can use it for their own enrichment.