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… something AI is incapable of doing because past data sets do not allow for the breaking of rules while making sense.

An AI machine will never be surprised at what it made. An AI machine will never know fragility.

That’s just the minimum baseline of creativity: to put things together in a way that statistically speaking (using *past* data) makes sense. That’s writing (or whatever else) 101.

Truly creative people break all of the rules while making sense…

You can tell that AI boosters aren’t versed in actual creativity by looking at how they describe what creative people do: it’s not just putting things together in a fashion that statistically speaking makes sense.

i’ve said this before, but when i’m writing and it really starts to flow, it feels like i’m playing piano. human writers don’t simply put words together—we allow intellect and inspiration to collide. a machine will never be inspired.

a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "

He already did it

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Two unpublished works by Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe found

The two short stories will appear in the April issue of Kodansha's literary magazine Gunzo.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I lived in (through — what a ghastly time it was!) the 1980s so:

A) no, we do not, and

B) no, we did not

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

A good deal of the argument that AI can produce publishable research is based on the fact that bad research already gets published. Hallucinations don’t matter, they say, because academics sometimes cite things they haven’t read. Guys, you aren’t making the argument you think you are.

This reminds me of this great Fred Willard quote from an outtake of Waiting for Guffman where he talks with great conviction about something and then says “that’s not true but it sounds good”.

So I guess all the hallucinations don’t matter because it’s fast? I mean I was a theoretical cosmologist in the past and had to carefully check every detail. Maybe in the social sciences details don’t matter?

I’ve seen so many reports of lawyers using AI, and judges then noting that it hallucinated cases that never existed. I guess many social scientists or historians don’t care about how AI tends to create its own “facts”?

I’m not judging, just observing (or rather observing, then asking): why do these people look like the two sole surviving victims of an attack of murder bees?

guess it's good they waited until after art basel qatar tho

2022: We worry that substantive due process lets judges impose their policy preferences under the guise of “fundamental rights” that don’t appear in the Constitution

2026: Surprise! The due process clause requires schools to out trans students to their parents. We found it hidden there all along!

Happy #AardvarkWeek Tilli!

Get ready to giggle, our girl Tilli is slurping up grub at lightning speed in this hilarious video. That loooong, sticky tongue is built for business, and she puts it to work, along with her oversized ears, adorable sniffer, and powerful digging claws.

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."

Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.

The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Schließung des Görlitzer Parks: „Das ist ein Triumph des Sauerlands“ Mit Orten wie dem Görli betreiben Konservative Populismus gegen die Innenstädte, sagt der Humangeograf Bernd Belina. Getrieben würden sie von der AfD.

Mit Orten wie dem Görli betreiben Konservative Populismus gegen die Innenstädte, sagt der Humangeograf Bernd Belina. Getrieben würden sie von der AfD.

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

You know this situation where you just read a headline and you instantly know it’s a NYT or WSJ piece because someone completely out of touch with lived reality and decency tried to somehow present the insane as just another completely reasonable option?

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

Seth Rogen accepting Catherine O’Hara’s posthumous award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for The Studio #ActorAwards

Fun fact: in Germany, Mr Clean is called Mr Proper