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The way these companies keep surfacing new *only trying to do good* rationales for their illegal acts is nauseating: “We built the agent to … give experts new ways to share their knowledge and reach new audiences.”
screenshot of text in Grammarly that says "On the other hand, you can learn other things in your other course work and that is also going to be useful to you. The frcitoin is the point as Jane Rosenzweig has noted. So has Benjamin Riley and John Warner." Under that text is a "pro suggestion" from Jane Rosenzweig: "clarify the value of 'friction' for your reader
A lot of discussion about the "list" Grammarly is using, but I doubt there's a list, just a prompt that yields "relevant" advice. I took the direct route to getting advice from myself, which was...to mention myself. This passage also got me some advice from @biblioracle.bsky.social
This is odd. 1. Why did it require a passerby flagging down a cop to report it (an hour after-the-fact) 2. What’s the point of firing a handgun at the door 3. Why didn’t US Consulate security report it so the vehicle could be apprehended. Weird.
Did Cedric Anger use an AI to write *his* show? Gaumont and #Apple should release more details of how this happened. #TheHunt
Just killed a man's whole family and accidentally installed him as leader of Iran. We created Super Vengeance Boy and are just assuming he'll leave us alone.
Been mulling over the line between a creativity tool and a creativity service all morning.
This is so absolutely predictable:
‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’
Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.
UK Lords Report, as per @diginomica.com
“widespread unlicensed use of protected works, coupled with limited transparency from AI developers about how their models have been trained, leaves rightsholders unsure about whether their content has been used, & unable to enforce their rights when it has.”
My first thought too.
Do it. Quietly place your Orwell Prize on the table in front of you. Or keep it in your lap, like a pet. Don’t be silenced, which is the ultimate goal of their criticism.
A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/
Thanks for putting that in perspective, particularly the “AI is special” trap. Been struggling with that in a document I’ve been working on.
Front Burner has become the best CBC current affairs program on any of their platforms. @jaymepoisson.bsky.social is a national treasure in the tradition of Michael Enright.
I cannot recommend this thorough and nuanced through line of the Iranian-American relationship by CBC’s Front Burner enough. It provides the essential context of the decades old reverberations necessary to begin making sense of what’s happening in Iran right now.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
You might even say “subsidizing”, which is how I view the AI companies using intellectual property for free. “De-risking” the obscene levels of investment is also an idea with traction in some quarters.
AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
BBC has a good ticker of developments if you’re looking for reliable news with a dash of gossip about how the Brits are reacting to the denigration of their PM and what the RAF is up to.
Someone told tech companies the phrase “mass surveillance” is radioactive, so now they spend a bunch of time trying to pretend they are actually doing something different.
Big watching.
Large looking.
Titanic tracking.
Close up of map of eastern Saudi Arabia
About 10-15% of the population of Saudi Arabia is Shia. They live mostly in the Eastern Province and are concentrated mainly in Qatif and Al-Ahsa, across the sea from Iran. They face systemic discrimination and mostly live in poverty.
The Eastern Province is also where the Saudi oil is refined.
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Hegseth and Trump have no idea of what they’ve unleashed, do they?
NEW: More than 1,000 ships have been impacted by GPS jamming and spoofing attacks since the US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/gps-at...
#LunarEclipse FAQ:
Q: Is it safe to look at?
A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse.
Q: Do I need a telescope?
A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up!
Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom?
A: Not at all! The news has that covered.
They’d be the first thing I’d attack if I were a country that shouted death to America for 40 years. What is wrong with these Ai people?
"At one end, the glasses are marketed as an everyday assistant – a voice in the frame that tells you what you are seeing. At the other end, people in Nairobi sit annotating the most intimate moments the camera captures: open-plan offices, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms."
The US created Saddam Qaddafi Bin Laden and the Ayatollahs and every time they tried to destroy their creations something worse emerged
Seems our concerns about trojan horse WIPO exceptions were bang on @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social
Do not give this anti-human, anti-worker trash a single cent or click, ever.
This guy still around?
