I don’t want to believe this. I wish more movies like this would come and we return to the times when making fun of serious things was a way how to cope with them and explore them.
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Existential concerns about technological future and societal collapse
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Is there an option to just exit 2024 and go into cryogenic slumber until 2028 (or, should I say 2032 at this point – how bad is it gonna get before it gets good again?)
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Social Platform Owner Spreads Misinformation About Democratic Nominee
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The owner of one of the biggest social platforms spreading misinformation about the Democrats' like presidential nominee – this is already an immensely problematic election
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X Auto-Opts Users Into Grok Data Sharing Without Consent
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X is automatically opting users in to sharing data w/ the Grok chatbot for training and fine-tuning. Historically this is the kind of thing that pisses people off, particularly if they're not aware of it in advance. You can turn it off here: https://
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AI at Work: Impact on Loneliness and Employee Wellbeing
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Is #AI at Work Making Us Lonelier and Less Healthy? Recent research from authors David De Cremer and Joel Koopman, published by the Harvard Business Review, dive deep into the impact of AI on workplace #wellbeing, revealing some startling insights: Loneliness Spike:
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Work-life balance crisis: hospital care versus workplace demands
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The porridge I was feeding my father in the hospital almost splashed off the spoon as I rushed to respond to my colleague. But my colleagues weren’t exactly holding their breath for my input.
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LAION Lawsuit: Plaintiff’s Claim Coverage Limitations Identified
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The problem we discussed above, is that the plaintiff filed a claim that does not and cannot cover the whole of LAION's activities. That was a mistake.
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LAION Image Embeddings: Legal Implications of Lossy Reproduction
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LAION computes embeddings, they are compressed forms of the images, could be easily argued to be another lossy Reproduction. (If Robert's lawyers had done their job well, this would have come up.)
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Embeddings as Derivatives: TDM Exception Legal Analysis
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I think this is a technical mistake: an embedding, as used in the comparison, is a compression of the original input through a neural model that can be reconstructed. It's a derivative! TDM exceptions do now allow creating derivatives either, let alone disseminating them.
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Text Mining vs Generative AI: Research Tool Distinction
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That definition makes it clear TDM is intended as research tool, intended to produce only statistics, not extract expressions into a neural database. There is a qualitative difference in ML being used for mere analysis and research, and ML being used for generative applications!