New episode of Tom and Jerry just dropped.
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New episode of Tom and Jerry just dropped.
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
I am increasingly convinced that “apolitical“ means “I‘m kind of dumb, sorry.”
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
Congratulations to my fantastic colleague Dr Marc Collinson @marccollinson.bsky.social on the public of his book ‘Migration on the Ballot? Smethwick and the 1964 General Election’.
@bangorhistory.bsky.social
Jesus fucking christ it turns out that they are just dumb as fuck
As a mediocre man I heartily endorse this statement.
You’re not wrong!
It’s unsettling sharing a School with Philosophy because I’m having a cup of tea in the lounge watching YouTube videos of celebrities eating hot wings and some Philosopher colleagues are a few tables down discussing Plato and morality.
Colour me surprised!
Bragging that your PhD was so shit AI could churn it out like a turd.
If I were him I would have hid under a rock and died quietly
Haha
Kwasi Kwarteng as the bitcoin market crashes around him..
Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny
I think that suggests he’s doing things on purpose.
When you assumed the man who almost single handedly crashed a G7 economy had already hit rock bottom.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Well it’s difficult to condemn things one is not aware of. So the answer would be that they are both morally repehensible, unlike Wikipedia.
Ooh looks great, congrats Allan!
Jesus Christ
Well I’ll defer to you on that, but you cannot suggest that when it comes to authors’ rights, academic publishers and gen-AI are the same?
But we weren’t discussing academic publishers. And in that example, we as authors agree to how those publishers use our work. There are contractual rights. GenAI profits from an author’s work without their consent. There are no rights, no agreements.
Well I don’t want to disappoint your expectations of indignation, but I believe one of those things profits from my work, and one of them does not.
She doesn’t use genAI for historical research, she uses genAI to plagiarise the work of historians who conduct research.
And how much the author v how much the AI corporation has donated to fascist organisations.
To know which is all round better I'd need to see how much water the author uses to create the passage vs what the AI uses.