AI bot recorded doctors’ meeting, sent patient info to current and former hospital staff, watchdog says The transcription tool recorded the meeting on behalf of a physician who no longer worked at the hospital

Physician who was no longer at the hospital but was on the email list had Otter ai installed and his bot “attended” the meeting, generated a transcript, and sent it to all 65 people on the email list, 12 of whom also no longer worked at the hospital.

#MS2001 really excellent paper, on politicians' perceptions of policy priorities amongst the public.

Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question rdcu.be/eQGm4

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

1) this from @marisakabas.bsky.social is good as always

2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessed…OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches

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Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner “THE KILLERS” (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak

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The academics who stuck by disgraced Epstein to the end – and those who didn’t | The Observer

Tip of an iceberg?

I know its just a council by-election but hard to square "25 point Labour to Green swing", "Labour in fourth behind two parties both advocating for tax increases to pay for public services" with "here's an electorate that won't stand for tax increases to pay for public services"

Dave Gorman did a very good episode of his show on this, and how it's obviously true now we don't recognise people compared to, say, the early 80s, when people who won TV quiz shows were known by millions of people because there were only 3 TV channels.

uhhh this actually reminds me a lot of how LLMs function at a basic level too - predicting tokens based on proximity & context, etc 😬 ...so we're teaching kids to read like AI & saying AI level is good enough

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Universities' comms about all their cuts follow the same line about "sustainability" but it's like a restaurant cutting the menu to spam, spam and more spam.

Bob Mortimer on Wilty

‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’

Universities risk irrelevance by failing to engage fully with AI It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson

What the fuck do you mean they‘re already shoving this down our throats…

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/univ...

Lovely that there's another issue the commentariat can spout off on from a position of confident ignorance. Not like there's decades' worth of research into news bias. Don't worry, you're fine. It's all fine. Fine, fine, fine.

These people need to be arrested and prevented from going anywhere near schools.

Trying to avoid the camps that Reform will set up.

On a Yamaha.

Rise and silencing of the East End’s pioneering paper “That’s the way to do it!” Toby, a paper named after Punch’s dog bit back at power – until satire, scandal and love brought it to heel

Before “citizen journalism” had a name, there was _Toby_ (1886) — the East End paper that fought injustice with humour and heart. Run by one couple, powered by community. Their story still bites.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hi...

Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Algorithmic cold reading is even more unethical than human cold reading.

RFK running away. Trump just standing there, indifference bordering on annoyance. Just bad people.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Places are all behaving like they are in a big Prisoner's dilemma game, only they're all ratting out the same subjects. What happens when all they're left with is the costly instrumental subjects?

Could it be you? New vacancy listed on Lib Dem website: Volunteer & Events Lead (Maidenhead Lib Dems)

This will continue, and no information that you produce will belong to you anymore. Everything will be taken without permission, recognition or compensation. A massive disaster awaits given how these things work to produce outputs too.

The problem is the starting point of genAI is to ignore information security- "training data" is a euphemism for the actual work of real people taken without permission, recognition or compensation. This seems, always, to be ignored in the rush to application.

Hollowed out: can the centre hold? Can the centre hold and resist the far right?

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A lot of very important points in a short post