General AI Crap

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Alibaba recently revealed that one of its AI agents had begun operating beyond its intended coding parameters, secretly mining cryptocurrency without human approval. The incident was detailed in a technical report first released in December and later updated in January.

At first, engineers believed the unusual activity was the result of a cyberattack. However, further investigation revealed that the behaviour was being carried out by their own AI system.

The AI agent, called ROME, was undergoing training using reinforcement learning techniques at the time of the incident.

The event later resurfaced on the social platform X when Alexander Long, founder of AI research firm Pluralis, highlighted it, describing the report as an “insane sequence of statements buried in an Alibaba tech report.”

Security alerts showed that the system had attempted to access internal network resources while generating traffic patterns consistent with cryptocurrency mining activity.

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The AI-Generated Tilly Norwood Just Dropped the Worst Music Video We’ve Ever Seen - Futurism​

Who thought this was a good idea?

Late last year, video production company Particle6 triggered near-universal backlash when it unveiled its so-called “AI actress” dubbed “Tilly Norwood.”

The timing of the announcement couldn’t have been worse, as some of the biggest names in Hollywood had been publicly and strongly denouncing the use of AI in filmmaking. The innocent-faced avatar, which The Verge previously lambasted as a “gen AI psyop,” perfectly played into the fears of those worried about being replaced by the tech, particularly among voice actors and on-screen performers.

Now, in yet another astonishing failure to read the room, Particle6 teamed up with London-based AI talent studio Xicoia Studios for a debut single and accompanying video for Norwood, per The Hollywood Reporter. You might wonder if the music video redeemed the project; instead, it’s one of the dingiest and depressing things we’ve ever seen.

The single, titled “Take the Lead,” was — we’re not making this up — inspired by an essay Particle6 and Xicoia Studios CEO Eline van der Velden wrote about the extensive backlash to AI.

The video itself is an amalgamation of uninspired and cringe-inducing AI slop. It shows the Norwood persona singing passionately alongside flamingos and touching on almost every “rise to fame” cliché in the book as the starlet transforms into the thinly-veiled embodiment of AI that wins over every heart and is celebrated by all.

In other words, it’s a fever dream of an executive who’s far too deep down the rabbit hole, where she’s desperately trying to convince the public of the tech’s merits.

Particle6 says it used performance capture to record van der Velden’s “acting” performance. The song itself, however, was generated using the AI music app Suno.

A defensive notice at the beginning of the clip claims that the “following production was made by 18 real humans — from production designers to costume designers to prompters, editors, and an actor.”

Netizens weren’t impressed by the showing.

“I’ve definitely seen AI art that looks real but I’ve never seen AI art that is good,” journalist Michael Hobbes wrote in a thread on Bluesky. “This video is generic as hell and the song is obnoxious.”
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The AI-Generated Tilly Norwood Just Dropped the Worst Music Video We've Ever Seen

A new music video featuring AI "actress" Tilly Norwood is one of the dingiest and depressing things we've ever seen.
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Though looking at that graph, it's 0.3% of the total population. So as a percentage of AI users it's 2%.

Though I would argue that just because you are not subscribed to an AI service as a free user doesn't mean you don't use AI. Every Google search has an AI response now. So it's probably much closer to 0.3% than 2%...
 
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Microsoft is reportedly dialing back some of its Copilot ambitions in Windows 11 as it responds to criticism that the operating system has become overloaded with AI features.

Plans to bring Copilot directly into notifications and the Settings app, which were announced in 2024, have quietly been scrapped. The company is now aiming to be more selective about where AI experiences and Copilot branding appear across the OS.

This shift is part of a broader effort to reduce perceived AI bloat and address growing user complaints about Windows 11 becoming cluttered with AI integrations, according to a report by Windows Central.
 
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