AI data centers also use large amounts of water:
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Why you should be frightened by AI
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One of the silver linings is that AI inferencing isn't latency sensitive, so whereas a lot of data centers have to be placed close enough to large centers of population (often financial hubs) AI data centers can be literally anywhere in the world. It doesn't matter if your ChatGPT is 10ms or 90ms away. So there is scope to put them in places with a lot of renewable energy - a lot of spare wind, cold air for cooling, water. Some innovative places have started to use data centers to heat the water - cold water goes in, through the servers, and then the hot water goes to heat local buildings.
Not only is AI prone to inventing false information (and citing false sources), but apparently it can also invent completely nonsensical posters illustrated with nonsensical words that explain nothing about anything.
How does anyone, anywhere think this kind of thing is acceptable? I think this... thing... is based on something real, but what? It's impossible to tell because it is chopped and screwed beyond reason.
And yet, Google proudly displays this nonsense as a "top search result"!
Have humans really become this stupid?
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Listened to talk radio lately? Been on social media?
They have.
They have.
(Sorry, Bergan....!!)
Here is more as AI affects the work of voice actors in this Reuters segment.
I've been experimenting with AI voices and apps to create content with AI voices.
When it comes to writing the content (to be voiced), I've found with OpenAI that if you feed it RSS feeds and certain rules, it will create good scripts. However, like when I wanted it to come up with facts about a song (with an RSS feed supplied) it would sometimes make up BS. Example, it would say The Doobie Brothers "Keep this train a rollin" was written during the sessions for the Cycles album (1987), when it actually appeared 7 years earlier on the One Step Closer album.
11Labs v3 is inconsistent. I'll create an Australian voice with a text prompt, then when I go to give it a script to read, it'll do it in a US Southern Accent. There are some good voices on 11Labs that will sound authentic with AI scripts, but there's some that have been recorded by the human voice over initially that sound very ordinary.
Gemini TTS seems promising early, but it doesn't produce a WAV or MP3 file (when doing it through something like Make.com). It does it as a PCM16, then you need FFMPEG to convert it. I'm trying an app to do that locally off my PC, but I'm having issues with the multi-speaker element - trying to create a multi-voice news team or morning crew.
When it comes to writing the content (to be voiced), I've found with OpenAI that if you feed it RSS feeds and certain rules, it will create good scripts. However, like when I wanted it to come up with facts about a song (with an RSS feed supplied) it would sometimes make up BS. Example, it would say The Doobie Brothers "Keep this train a rollin" was written during the sessions for the Cycles album (1987), when it actually appeared 7 years earlier on the One Step Closer album.
11Labs v3 is inconsistent. I'll create an Australian voice with a text prompt, then when I go to give it a script to read, it'll do it in a US Southern Accent. There are some good voices on 11Labs that will sound authentic with AI scripts, but there's some that have been recorded by the human voice over initially that sound very ordinary.
Gemini TTS seems promising early, but it doesn't produce a WAV or MP3 file (when doing it through something like Make.com). It does it as a PCM16, then you need FFMPEG to convert it. I'm trying an app to do that locally off my PC, but I'm having issues with the multi-speaker element - trying to create a multi-voice news team or morning crew.
Sounds like it would be faster and more accurate to use an actual person.
The problem with AI as it applies to radio, is that if radio is ever going to be relevant again to younger listeners, AI won't help. Those under 35 who consume audio are primarily driven by a desire for authenticity and meaningful connection. AI cannot do that. In fact, it does exactly the opposite which will simply be another nail in radio's coffin.
In a discussion some time ago about the impact of AI on Christian radio for example, I shared that for those of us working the format, our ability to be vulnerable is one of our greatest strengths. When listeners hear our vulnerability, when they hear that we don't have all the answers, when they realize that we are authentically sharing from our own lives, not preaching at them, we are able to meet them where they are. And that creates an opportunity for us to encourage them in a way that gives them hope.
In a discussion some time ago about the impact of AI on Christian radio for example, I shared that for those of us working the format, our ability to be vulnerable is one of our greatest strengths. When listeners hear our vulnerability, when they hear that we don't have all the answers, when they realize that we are authentically sharing from our own lives, not preaching at them, we are able to meet them where they are. And that creates an opportunity for us to encourage them in a way that gives them hope.
Radio companies are using AI to create content for one rea$on only, and it's not to improve accuracy, authenticity or meaningful connections.
AI is also bad news for healthcare:
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.apnews.com
That tracks. I've caught both copilot and ChatGPT saying Charlie Kirk is not dead. I use AI regularly but always with a hefty pinch of salt
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When I was trying to look up George Foreman’s Olympics history the weekend after he died, some AI search result said he was still alive.
That should be a 20 pound brick of salt!
AI (which is basically a very fancy database with advanced search capabilities and some other bells and whistles) can be a useful tool, but like anything, overuse or misuse can end up doing more harm than good in the long run, not only culturally, politically and socially, but in particular, environmentally, because with great power comes great greenhouse gas emissions.
Sources:
- Associated Press: As AI becomes part of everyday life, it brings a hidden climate cost
- CNN: Study reveals how much energy AI uses to answer your questions
- CNN: Google's greenhouse gas emissions are soaring thanks to AI
- MIT: Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact
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It has old knowledge, and unless you allow it to "search the web" to correct itself, it will insist until it's blue in the face that everything is how it was in roughly early 2024. It swore to me that the July 2024 election in the UK hadn't happened, and the previous government were still in place.
Oh I go one better. I hit it with 3-4 links from mainstream sites like CNN, MSNBC etc and it will correct itself. I should see what Grok and a couple other AIs do in addition to ChatGPT and Copilot.
Meanwhile, AI has hit country music. Billboard reported that an artist generated by AI topped its digital sales chart.
www.nbcnews.com
The truth is that it doesn't take much to top the digital sales chart. It's not the end of the world. But as usual there are a lot of Chicken Littles ready to say it is.
A mysterious stranger rode into town and topped a country music chart. He might not be real.
Breaking Rust adds to a growing list of artists either found to be or suspected to be fueled by generative AI.
www.nbcnews.com
The truth is that it doesn't take much to top the digital sales chart. It's not the end of the world. But as usual there are a lot of Chicken Littles ready to say it is.
You'd think someone would have pointed out the insignificance of Billboard's digital sales chart by now to the many mainstream news media that have published these Chicken Little reports. I have yet to see a correction published anywhere. Either no one at the TV networks, newspapers or internet publications that have based their coverage on the mistake belief that all Billboard charts are equal (or that there is only one Billboard chart) can understand the difference, which I can somewhat understand when non-specialist general assignment reporters are doing the writing, or the editors are dismissing an important piece of information as trivial and irrelevant. SMH.Meanwhile, AI has hit country music. Billboard reported that an artist generated by AI topped its digital sales chart.
A mysterious stranger rode into town and topped a country music chart. He might not be real.
Breaking Rust adds to a growing list of artists either found to be or suspected to be fueled by generative AI.
The truth is that it doesn't take much to top the digital sales chart. It's not the end of the world. But as usual there are a lot of Chicken Littles ready to say it is.
Some good news to report, though, for this thread's OP, David Eduardo: Google's AI now omits your World Radio History from the ownership history of Merchandising Week!
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The news business today is about creating click bait. So they write misleading headlines that say things like this:
That Breaking Rust song topping the Billboard country charts? It’s AI-generated
A new country song is taking the music world by storm — and it happens to be AI.
nypost.com
What it does is calls into question the credibility of the Billboard charts. People look at this and say "How can this be?" But it doesn't take much to top the digital sales chart. Two years ago, the phenomenon was Oliver Anthony's Rich Men North of Richmond. I met the singer. His name isn't Oliver. The artist was a figment of his imagination. The whole thing became a huge story, and ultimately the singer left the music business.
The thing to know about Breaking Rust is it's not a creation of the corporate music business. It's one guy in Ohio. That's what AI does. It levels the playing field so that one guy can get more attention with something he created in his laptop than anything coming from billion dollar record labels. All it takes is 3 minutes. A 3 minute song that connects with people can change lives. That's the lesson of Oliver Anthony.