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Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
This is really where shockingly uncritical tech advocates like Kevin Roose are being key-jangled by the tech companies.
You could do the same test for real vs fake rolexs on the general population, and similarly fail to acknowledge the power of the fake comes from copying the real
The men get cheap and ill-fitting dress shoes. The women get grotesque new faces.
today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason
Of note is how this is a potent wedge issue between Trump voters and the administration’s favored donor class
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
one of my obsessions is that when the founders made the president "commander-in-chief" they pretty clearly meant that he was the operational commander of the military, not that he could unilaterally begin hostilities, but it hadn't really occurred to me that this was the mechanism behind the shift
Pedocon Theory still undefeated after all these years
This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:
🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano
✏️ by @newrepublic.com
Forged in dying stars is Sagan, I don't even have to look it up
Though he said forged in *the heart of* dying stars, which is better, more evocative and emotional, which absolutely illustrates the point
It plagiarises something then fucks it up, having no mechanism for assessing what makes it good
Which is why, @nytimes.com, learning that a piece of writing is AI changes how people feel about it, in the same way that most people are repulsed by learning a once-favoured artist is a rapist: because context is inherent to interpreting art, and the sole context of genAI is profound contempt.
Fear 1996 Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon
This headline reads like the elevator pitch to a remake the movie Fear.
You can have a high quality of life in a red state. As long as you have enough money to not need social services. Can leave the state if you need an abortion. Don't mind having to drive anywhere. Are straight, cis, and Christian. But other that, yeah. Red states are totally well run!
For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.
romance in general has always been a huge load-bearing component of the publishing industry, just rarely acknowledged because books for women and girls aren't seen as serious
THIS good lord this
Pretending like we're stupid.
Everyone here knows Fox News lies to its viewers, but this is an example that not even the most diehard members of the cult can deny, and it's important to not brush it off.
My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"
If it is conscious you're a slave owner and murderer
This is the funniest thing to me. Like. Back in 2013 they beat the shit out of a guy who did the Seig Heil on stage at their show.
This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/
Trusting the guy who has had several major changes of heart in the last decade because you think he’s going to be the one to stand up and fight for your specific politics in the senate is rube behavior, I’m sorry. That’s so many major shifts in less than two senate terms!
Not funny people. Private equity only does this when they're very distressed.
"Your money's not here. Your money's in Joe's datacenter, and in Frank's micro cap fund, and in Tim's AI startup"
🔗: peoplem.ag/3N7f1l5
Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.”
📷: Aaron Schwartz/Getty
Steve-O going on podcasts and being the reasonable straight edge guy was not a thing anyone could have predicted 20 years ago.
