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That moment when the excitable and somewhat internet savvy young child finds you have a novel called "Rule 34"

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You need this today. For morale.

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OMG.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明

As my friend Dougal McNeill put it: "What is an author? Or, one for the "enshittification" files of late capitalism."

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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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#Māori #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand #NewYear #Matariki

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Reminder that you can sign off emails today with: Kia pai te tau hou (Have a good new year) Kia pai to mutunga wiki roa (Have a good long weekend) Ngā mihi o te tau hou (Greetings for the new year)

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I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️

"If you need me," said my 7 year old son, "I'll be in my mind."

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i am losing my mind

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Worth grepping your source code for "polyfill.io" and taking urgent measures to remove that code if you're linking it into your site - the domain name apparently now intermittently serves malicious JavaScript My notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/25/polyfill-supply-chain-attack/ - […]

Original post on fedi.simonwillison.netfedi.simonwillison.net

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"You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out." Wow, Meta made it v v hard - awesome and very clear instructions! #Meta #Facebook #FB #data #AI

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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Dell corporation Putting AI in a beer that nobody will pour Who is it for

I saw this same ad on the highway, so blockchain really is over in marketing. Guess this is what we’ve got now

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Sadly all the good pull quotes need context but this is a brilliant piece of impassioned invective. ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.) www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

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Paywall now lifted: Some endangered native species may have to go extinct because it would be too expensive to save them all, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka suggested on Tuesday. newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/19/c...

Conservation minister says saving every species may be too expensivenewsroom.co.nz Opposition MPs were gobsmacked by Tama Potaka's suggestion that it may be more cost-effective to let species go extinct, reports Marc Daalder

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Species are already going extinct in NZ because DOC is underfunded. They’re just not ones most people care about. www.nzgeo.com/stories/what...

New: Conservation Minister Tama Potaka said yesterday he wants to see costings for saving every species, suggesting it may be more cost-effective to let some species go extinct. newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/19/c...

What happened on Stack H? | New Zealand Geographicwww.nzgeo.com What happened on Stack H?

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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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when we talked to Linda Tirado on the phone she asked, do you want advice, someone to vent to, or a distraction from what's in your head it was the best question anyone ever asked us and we needed the last one and she provided

My favorite thing anyone has said to me during a complaint monologue was “do you want me to give you advice or do you just want someone to listen” yes that second one thanks, I know my options and also hate my options

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ok Bluesky please help me find someone working in quantum computing

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There's Never Been a Worse Time For Freedom of Speech A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Link to blog post and transcript in replies.

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The real conspiracy

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Jolisa Gracewood

Ministers Simeon Brown and David Seymour to New Zealanders, international visitors to our cities and our countryside, and all of our children: www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gove...

Ouch, RNZ - "Skinny Laurence Fishburne in The Matrix" www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Dan Weijers: Life inside the Matrixwww.rnz.co.nz While there's no denying our lives have become better in many ways thanks to the internet and smartphones - genuine human interaction has dropped drastically, leaving society at large in an epidemic o...

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I think you’ve nailed how I feel. The hype curve on this is off the charts.

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The solution to your favorite search engine stuffing AI dogshit into itself is to return to the old ways. You're gonna have to make friends with an autistic person you can ask about stuff.

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“‘The machines are not trying to communicate something they believe or perceive,’ the paper reads. ‘Their inaccuracy is not due to misperception or hallucination. As we have pointed out, they are not trying to convey information at all. They are bullshitting.’”

Researchers Say There’s a Vulgar But More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinationsfuturism.com It's not just your imagination — ChatGPT really is spitting out "********," according to a group of researchers.

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Clippy is somewhere out there laughing his smug little googly-eyed head off at us all right now

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Remember in that movie "Catch Me If You Can" how Leonardo DiCaprio didn't know anything about medicine but he fooled everyone into thinking he was a doctor by learning how to talk like them from watching TV? That's basically what AI is doing, and I don't want it prescribing me medicine.

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"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs." Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817

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