Slop is like an indicator mineral. If a business owner demonstrates the utter lack of discernment to use AI for flyers, ads, menus, etc, it's a pretty good guess they don't have discernment elswhere, that they exploit their employees/suppliers, take shortcuts, and have contempt for their customers.
AftermathHello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social doubles down? Damn straight. More of this please.
‘The Odyssey’ Translator Emily Wilson Doubles Down Against Nolan’s ‘Emotionally Empty’ Movie: ‘We Need Art That Is Truthful’ About the ‘Necessity of Compassion’Emily Wilson, the author whose translation of 'The Odyssey' influenced Christopher Nolan's adaptation, doubles down on hating the movie.variety.comSo, OpenAI lied about ChatGPT solving math problems? You don't say? The absolute gullibility of people to believe the AI hype amazes me. AI didn't 'solve' anything. It didn't 'escape containment.' GENERATIVE AI CANNOT THINK. Everything else follows from that (or doesn't, really)
OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approachwww.scientificamerican.comAbsolutely horrifying. If Democrats don't have a plan to immediately undo the damage of the Roberts court and neuter it from here on out, they need to step aside for people who do.
Jessica ValentiA teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization
Not just control over time in the short term (al a the 8 hour day movement) but over the medium and long term. If the rich can go to college on demand, but a poor kid has to work a few years first, those years have been robbed from them, their agency denied, income & security deferred.
Roosevelt InstituteFor too long, economic success has been measured by aggregates like GDP that fail to capture how people are actually experiencing their economic lives. But the ultimate measure of an economy is whether people have the security, agency, and time to live the lives they want.
What an utter fraud. Non-zero chance thatCopilot hallucinated it and convicned Zufi that he is cleverest little boy ever to exist.
WIREDZulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Science would disagree. www.wired.com/story/micros...
@graceblakeley.substack.com has it right. Not just headline but the bit about making sure that capital and AI-boosting politicians (I'd add complicit higher ed leaders and cowed union bosses) ~must be made to pay~ for what they're doing to our democracy, our economy, and the environment.
Nobody Asked for AIWe tend to think that markets reflect consumer choice. But the artificial-intelligence boom has been powered by the investment decisions of concentrated capital rather than by consumer demand.jacobin.com