Human Intelligence® News Update (2/10)
Humans create. AI imitates. Welcome to your weekly roundup about human creativity in the age of AI.
Human Creativity
CERTIFIABLY AUTHENTIC - HI Reliably Proves What’s Real
Human Intelligence® co-founder Kira Cleveland responds to a recent post by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, who said not only is it impossible to identify GenAI works once they’re in the wild, it would be wise to prove authentic human-made content at the jump, rather than after it’s loose in the world. Kira’s take? No, duh. It’s been HI’s thesis since 2024, and we’re the only player reliably doing it. For reals » [4-min read]
LAMPOON L’ABRUZZO - Stop Harshing Huang’s Mellow, People
And now for a wee bit of satire. Writer Forest Abruzzo pens a smile-inducing sendup of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s woe-is-me vibe from a recent Gizmodo article. Abruzzo spotlights the billionaire’s sulk and pout about people demanding that governments impose mandatory safeguards on AI purveyors. Who the heck are they to stomp on his fortune just because the technology is potentially super harmful? Read the screed » [2-min read]
QUAD GOD - The Man Who Broke Physics
Gravity shmavity. At 17, Ilia Malinin was the first figure skater to land a quadruple axel - a jump no one else can land. Not once, but twice, back-to-back, landing on a blade that’s 3/16 of an inch wide. Now age 21, he commands the biomechanics and near-impossible physics necessary to nail the gold medal-determining 4.5 minute “free skate.” Read about and watch human determination in action. [20-min read; 8-min watch]
POWER MOVE - Upscale Fashion House Hires Living, Breathing Artists
According to history and a wealth of fashionistas, Hermès is a storied institution that’s been defining sophistication since 1837 - from equestrian outfitting to handbags to hats. Nearly 200 years later, its website could easily be infused with GenAI “art.” But it isn’t. Its images bear the imperfections of hand-drawn illustrations. On purpose. Because human-drawn feels far more luxurious than anything AI can cobble together. [5-min read]
Human VS Robot
POISONED DATA-TRAINING - What If We Just Contaminated the AI Soup?
That’s the pitch behind “Poison Fountain,” a recently launched project that calls on website operators to feed “poisoned” content to AI crawlers, thereby scrambling the data-training stream. If pulled off at a large enough scale, it could reign in unbridled AI and be a serious thorn in the industry’s side, turning their billion-dollar slop machines into malfunctioning messes. Is the initiative enough? » [3-min read]
NO FUN - We Automate Tasks We Don’t Value
“The current zeitgeist of AI coding is to use the AI to do as much as possible as quickly as possible, and for me that just throws out the baby with the bathwater,” says software engineer Stephen Brennan in his latest introspective about why he doesn’t enjoy Claude Code and other LLM-based coding agents. The baby he’s talking about? Actually learning something, which has to be done the hard way » [8-min read]
ATLAS SHRUGGED - Hyundai Motor’s Labor Union Says No to Humanoid Robot
South Korea’s largest labor federation has taken a firm stance against the introduction of Atlas, an AI-powered humanoid robot, on Hyundai production lines. The accusation: Hyundai is choosing profit maximization over human wellbeing. The demand: a conversation with and agreement from workers before such an employment-disrupting change. Doesn’t seem like too much to ask » [3-min read]
VIBE CODING - The Old Man and the C++
In the age of AI Everywhere, do companies still need expensive (i.e., human) code developers? After all, vibe coding can largely replace them, right? Former expensive developer-turned-entrepreneur Joe Procopio unpacks the realities and myths of the billion-dollar no-code push, including how it’s gutting senior talent from tech teams while opening scary security breaches. Check it out » [9-min read]
Artificial “Intelligence” & Other Myths
GENERATIVE JUSTICE - GenAI Courtroom Content Is Eroding Public Trust
Synthetic media manipulation has officially made it into the halls of justice, from fake bodycam footage to fake (and disturbing) defendant showdowns. This raises new doubts about fairness and public trust, says Washington DC Court of Appeals chief judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, particularly since courts lack the tools to verify evidence authenticity. Stay on your toes, especially if you get called for jury duty. » [10-min read]
APP LEAK - AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users’ Private Conversations
“How do I painlessly kill myself?” “How do you make meth?” Those were merely two of millions of private chats exposed by Chat & Ask AI, a popular AI app found in the Google Play and Apple App stores. Discovered by an independent security researcher who goes by Harry, it underscores the industry’s dearth of rigorous pre-release testing as well as the dark interactions folks are having with AI. Learn what happened » [4-min read]
CALLING ALL ATTACKERS - Moltbot Strips Away Your Security … By Design
According to security researchers, open-source AI assistant Moltbot (rebranded as OpenClaw) is not broken. It’s working exactly as designed, accessing a user’s every file, account, and credential in order to do its agentic thing of proactively executing commands and interacting with external services. Which makes it a dream for hackers and a nightmare for users. And it may be a preview of the agentic future » [13-min read]
AAMEREEDD - AI-First Studio Bungles the American Revolution
Director Darren Aronofsky’s new studio Primordial Soup is fully embracing generative video, launching big with its YouTube series On This Day…1776. According to the website, Aronofsky’s ambition is “to fuse art and technology into a new creative model.” According to critic Jon Skillings, it’s “a hellish broth of machine-driven AI slop and bad human choices.” Decide for yourself » [11-min read]
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