Tag: AI
Unique AI case, first in the country — North Carolina man used AI songs and bots to steal $10M in streaming royalties, feds say
In the first case of its kind in the country, a Charlotte-area man is charged with using AI to manipulate music streaming platforms to siphon off over $10 million in royalties, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Michael Smith, 52, of Cornelius, was arrested Wednesday and is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a news release.
Each charge carries up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Smith’s complex scheme used automated programs, or “bots,” to stream songs created with artificial intelligence, according to an indictment released Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI’s New York Field Office.
He then used the bot accounts to stream those songs billions of times across multiple streaming platforms to boost his royalties to over $10 million, according to the indictment.
Walmart AI reorganizes product catalog 100x faster than humans
CEO Doug McMillon said on the post-earnings call with analysts that Walmart was finding “tangible ways” to leverage generative artificial intelligence to improve customer, member and employee experiences.
One area where Walmart is using generative AI is its product catalog, where it’s used multiple large language models to create or improve over 850 million pieces of data in the catalog.
“Without the use of generative AI, this work would have required nearly 100 times the current head count to complete in the same amount of time and for associates picking online orders, showing them high-quality images of product packages helps them quickly find what they’re looking for,” McMillon said, according to an AlphaSense transcript.
McMillon added that customers and members will get more help shopping on Walmart’s website and app with a new AI shopping assistant that will provide shopping advice and ideas.
AI ‘hate speech’ breakdown
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Firstly, ‘hate speech’ is not illegal in USA and neither is hate. Let’s hope they never will be. Today, however, ‘hate speech’ is effectively illegal or close to illegal because ordinary people as well as AI will flag or punish you for it. Secondly, what does the graph above even mean? Does it mean that AI is more sensitive to ‘hate speech’ at the top of the graph or that ‘hate speech’ is more often directed against groups at the top? I do not recall anyone hating on disabled people, so probably the algorithm is dialed to be more sensitive for groups at the top. The AI could also use a wide variety of ways to determine what gets flagged. The graph was Xed by Elon Musk along with his statement that we should be concerned with how AI is programmed. X is still using ‘freedom of speech but not reach’, which Musk must know is total bs. The algorithm at X is horrible. You lose ‘reach’ if you follow accounts with low numbers of followers, or ‘like’ one of their Xweets, or repost it. This forces everyone into narrow silos that favor cunning over content. The excuse is always advertisers and money, which means we are controlled by the products sold in shopping malls and the hatred of whomever controls the AI. Reddit has a better format than X. Maybe Musk will consider buying Reddit and fixing it’s algorithm which would allow X-like censorship to be tailored to precise subreddits and thus not ruin the entire site. ABN
AI ‘news’ using fake actors but ‘real news’
Well worth viewing. All announcers are AI generated. This may look scary but it will probably render MSM even less believable. The better the AI in any venue, the more people will mistrust it overall. Or so it seems to me today. ABN
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