Kevin Beaumont

Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed “AI educator” and “ambassador” for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were “plagiarizing” her unique AI prompts.

Futurism

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

Bandcamp have put policy measures in place against GenAI “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp. Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.”

Bandcamp Updates

Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Chief of police is going to lose their job methinks after using Microsoft Copilot 365 to write a Word document which had errors throughout rather than do his job.. then lying about it to press.

BBC News

West Midlands Police 'extremely sorry' for errors as Mahmood loses confidence in chief constable

A report says the force made a series of mistakes when fans from Israeli club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, were banned from a match against Aston Villa.

If you are depressed about your company buying Microsoft 365 Copilot (the one for Office - I know they have multiple products with the same product name) or Security Copilot, don’t be. Companies are very good at buying Microsoft products and then never deploying them properly, and/or renewing them without using them. Enterprise IT is basically a yearly cycle of “do we need to renew this PO?” followed by “I dunno if anybody uses it but just renew it in case they do or politics”.

Despite breathless headlines warning of a robot takeover in the workforce, a new research briefing from Oxford Economics casts doubt on the narrative that artificial intelligence is currently causing mass unemployment. According to the firm’s analysis, “firms don’t appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale,” suggesting instead that companies may be using the technology as a cover for routine headcount reductions.

Fortune

AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune

"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as go...