Will Smith’s concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines Great piece from Andy Baio demonstrating quite how convoluted the usage ethics and backlash against generative AI has become.Will Smith has been accused of using AI to misleadingly inflate the audience sizes of his recent tour. It looks like the audiences were real, but the combined usage of static-image-to-video models by his team with YouTube's ugly new compression experiments gave the resulting footage an uncanny valley e...| Simon Willison's Weblog
I was at a leadership group and people were telling me "We think that with AI we can replace all of our junior people in our company." I was like, "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. They're probably the least expensive employees you have, they're the most leaned into your AI tools, and how's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future and you have no one that has built up or learned anything? — Matt Garman, CEO, Amazon Web Services Tags: ai-ethics, careers, generative-ai, ...| Simon Willison's Weblog
Simply put, my central worry is that many people will start to believe in the illusion of AIs as conscious entities so strongly that they’ll soon advocate for AI rights, model welfare and even AI citizenship. This development will be a dangerous turn in AI progress and deserves our immediate attention. We must build AI for people; not to be a digital person. [...] we should build AI that only ever presents itself as an AI, that maximizes utility while minimizing markers of consciousness. Ra...| Simon Willison's Weblog
I’ve been dipping into the r/ChatGPT subreddit recently to see how people are reacting to the GPT-5 launch, and so far the vibes there are not good. This AMA thread …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
Classic slop: it listed real authors with entirely fake books. There's an important follow-up from 404 Media in their subsequent story: Victor Lim, the vice president of marketing and communications …| Simon Willison’s Weblog