Great talk by @emilymbender about what are ok use cases of synthetic text and what aren't. But even for those that are ok use cases, we need to ask the question of whether those use cases are worth the environmental impact. https://
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Synthetic text use cases and environmental impact assessment
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Elon Musk and Tech Leaders: Consciousness Extension Debate
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Jack did say "Elon is the singular person I trust to extend the light of consciousness" Maybe they can all go to outer space and "extend" away.
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FTC Warns Generative AI Companies on Consumer Deception
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"Generative AI tools that produce output based on copyrighted or otherwise protected material may, nonetheless, raise issues of consumer deception or unfairness. That’s especially true if companies offering the tools don’t come clean about the extent… https://
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Human Intimacy Cannot Be Reduced to AI Codes
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"Human intimacy cannot be reduced to a set of codes." Read here https://
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ai-girlfriends-heady-cocktail-of-fallacies-and-ethical-quandaries/
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AGI Utopia OpenAI Bringing to the World
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This is the AGI utopia that OpenAI and friends are bringing to the world 😡🤬😡 https://t.co/2sgjAqOIV1
— @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) (@timnitGebru) 16 août 2023This is the AGI utopia that OpenAI and friends are bringing to the world
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TikTok Outing Videos Lead to Violence Against LGBTQ+ Students
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"Another LGBTQ+ man, a student in Addis Ababa, said he has been outed twice on TikTok. In May, shortly after the first outing video appeared online, he was badly beaten at a restaurant by a group of classmates, who fractured his cheek."
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TikTok’s content moderation fails to address hateful content effectively
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@tiktok_us doesn't do shit. They take down a post when its on the media but they are a major vector for all sorts of explicitly hateful stuff.
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Peer-Reviewed AI Research Credibility versus Online Discussion
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Sure. A peer reviewed paper after extensive research by various experts from different disciplines ranging from machine learning to philosophy to art to law is not a valid thing to point to. Y'all's random pontificating on here is sound though. I'll cite that next time.
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Stanford’s influence on Washington rivals major tech giants
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“By the end of their talk, Stanford’s ability to sway Washington sounded almost as powerful as any tech giant.” That’s because it is a powerful tech giant. Stanford is BigTech and BigTech is Stanford. By @nitashatiku