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SCOUNDREL.AI is the official blog of elsewares, llc, a development and design studio in Chicago.

Disaster At 1 MPH: AI's Creeping Existential Risk

By elsewares

November 24, 2023

I was already in the process of writing a response to this Big Technology article by Alex Kantrowitz when news of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI was announced Friday, and it took me until today to reorganize myself enough to respond. That was enough time to find out that Meta

AI copyright policy

Copyleft: Make Generative AI Public Domain

By elsewares

November 04, 2023

Back in August, a federal judge decided that works of generative AI aren't protected by copyright, and I agree. AI accelerationists (and AI companies) disagree. Discourse!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Weirdness of AI Art

By elsewares

October 30, 2023

Stripping down the amount of prompting that we give generative AI art models shows us what they -- and their trainers -- are really about.