Daily Tech News 8 April 2024

• All AIs are racist, but some are more racist than others. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Microsoft's Copilot gives you racial stereotypes in cartoons, which... They're cartoons, people. Though the Jewish boss with the bagel hat is certainly something.
  
  Anyway, it gives you racial stereotypes if you specify a race when you're generating a cartoon, so maybe that's your problem.
  
  Midjourney presents us not so much with racial stereotypes as temporal ones; I don't think it's been outside since 1952.
  
  ChatGPT just says fuck you and rewrites your request with a bunch of WASPs plus a token Asian chick.
  
  Meta AI actually does okay with this. It pushes too hard on the diversity-at-any-cost side, but it also produced a sample image of a Jewish woman that is 100% believable without a single specific marker. (The picture actually looks like someone I know.)

• AMD's Zen 5 mobile chips are coming this year maybe. (WCCFTech)
  
  These will feature a mix of full-size Zen 5 and the smaller Zen 5c cores.
  
  Where Intel's smaller efficiency cores are a completely different design to their performance cores, Zen 5c is functionally identical to Zen 5, but squashed down and running at lower clock speeds. At a given clock speed they perform identically, but Zen 5c is smaller and uses less power.
  
  Replacing mainstream chips with eight Zen 4 cores we can expect four Zen 5 cores plus eight Zen 5c. Zen 5c could deliver close to the performance of existing Zen 4, so these should be deliver great performance and good battery life.
  
  
  
• Spotify has demonetised all tracks that have been played less than 1000 times. (DJ Mag)
  
  Spotify says that affects only 0.5% of tracks on the platform, which seems unlikely because (a) power laws don't work like that and (b) if that were the case they wouldn't bother.
  
  The UMAW puts the number at 86% which seems far more plausible.
  
  
  
• The Opera browser now supports running AI locally on your computer. (Opera)
  
  I don't know if I would trust Opera in its current incarnation. It used to be good, but then the company was bought by Chinese interests and the entire development team walked out to set up Vivaldi.

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