...really hate that eik and Alfred's forging bonds conversation states pretty much outright that alfred overcame his disability/chronic illness through exercise 🙃 was honestly a stain on an otherwise really nice conversation
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“The man Meta has appointed to help address "ideological and political bias" in artificial intelligence is a conservative influencer who believes that pesticide turns children LGBTQ+ and that the COVID-19 vaccine caused Matthew Perry's death.”
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Yet another example of how so much of this is about language, and who gets to define what words mean. It's like how they managed to make 'anti-DEI' into everything but what it obviously is about: racism.
Article on BBC news. Title: AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs Description: Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.
I really dislike how science has started calling almost any fancy computational technique AI. 🧪
The framing of this entire article makes it sound like a benevolent AI independently made these drugs.
That is *pure fantasy*.
Instead: a team of scientists made a machine learning model for a study.
Less strange when we recontextualize his big early boost. It was really in rating women’s attractiveness (I substituted a word here for the fragile and liberal among us).
Sex work is sex work.
He isn’t selling friends here. He is selling…well. I think the training guidance edits tell it.
this is sexual harassment but obsessively talking about trans ppl’s genitals isn’t?
Illustration of some sharks giving advice 1.) Its okay to ask for help 2.) You are not a burden 3.) Murder is okay 4.) Your feelings matter There is nothing unusual
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
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How many stories about Zuckerberg causing harm do we have to ignore because of oligarchy?
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This was a fringe idea a couple of years ago, pushed by DeSantis and conservative lawyers, and now it is a key argument for government censorship of campus speech.
Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They can’t recognize the agency of regular people on the street so they truly believe it was their media coverage, colleges, nonprofits, and politicians who “let” it happen and they’re trying to correct their “mistakes” by purging Black people from public life.
Watching video today of ICE agents roaming the streets of American cities and reading about the anger and fear of Bostonians during the Fugitive Slave crisis is a reminder of why it is so important that the institutions charged with interpreting the past be allowed to do so without interference.
If they have an extra 20 guys to arrest sandwich man, you would think that the Epstein files would be released by now. Didn't they say there may have been 1000+ victims? You have to wonder about priorities when a guy who threw a sandwich at an agent in protective gear is arrested before the pedos.
It’s really not appreciated how committed our institutional elites are to making sure there’s never ever another moment like 2020 and the George Floyd protests. They believe this was the lowest point of their lives, they’re embarrassed it happened and they think *they* fueled/started it.
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
And this is why using AI to learn any language, let alone languages that are not English. never made sense to me.
Because even if a language is represented, the vast majority of training data is English.
#LangSky #polyglots
I hope this piece will be followed by one each on the principled sacrifice of the what, 13 now? authors who withdrew from the long-list to show the vast majority of queer writers stand with trans people.
1st-time writers struggling for ££ who put solidarity first.
THAT's a story I want to hear.
As one of the debut authors who pulled out, I think it's hilarious to talk about "bullying". Like...you shat on my birthday cake and I said "nah, I don't want to eat this now"...that's not bullying that's self preservation
Feel like this little sob story *could* have mentioned that Boyne's Polari nomination came five days after he wrote a piece referring to trans-inclusive women as the evil wives in the Handmaid's Tale, "ready to pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her".
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I agree with Damien. However, I think there is a twofold issue here. The first is Damien's point: the design of these "tools" creates a situation where people are deferring to, over relying on, and offloading work onto "AI."
The second issue is the social and cultural authority afforded to "AI."
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People often mistake my commitment to wanting everyone to have human rights and healthcare to mean I love everyone or something.
I do not.
I just think baseline survival shouldn't be based on who I personally like.
I reserve the right to hate folks and never ever give them a moment of time, tho.
We have a moral obligation to make them feel unwanted, unwelcome, and unloved…both professionally and personally. Don’t greet them. Don’t indulge their small talk. Don’t extend them any courtesy. Make them dread waking up in the morning and having to do this.
THIS. The Kumbaya shit led us here because too many tolerated rank bigotry and hate by simply naming it "politics" and saying it shouldn't ruin relationships.
It absolutely should ruin a relationship if someone holds hateful, harmful beliefs.
