Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

Parents tried to shield their children from seatbelts. Instead they went though the windshield.

Seatbelts are mandatory. Vaccines should be too.

In some ways, it felt like another 'Ohio diner safari' article (let's interview these 4 Republicans about why they hate Joe Biden).

"Oh, look at these parents, let's hear how religious they are and not responsible for their actions."

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

A disappointing but correct outcome.

AI reporters should know chatbots make up quotes, and there are only 3-4 in an article, so why not double-check they are correct with a little Ctrl+F?

Basic skill.

(Follow up to our episode, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @leolaporte.me)
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Also journalists. Science reporting is sometimes ok, but often overblown and therefore trust-eroding. The crazy overblown headlines are often written by editors, not writers.

Also, competent journalism doesn’t just platform good coverage, it actively refuses to platform malign false beliefs.

So mandate vaccination unless there is a valid medical exemption. Do not allow entry to public spaces without vaccination. It is very simple.

Called schools

Garbage in, garbage out 🥴

Amen

This comment and the convo that follows are interesting because afaict nobody called them evil until you argued it's counterproductive to call them evil. Someone did call them stupid, but if it isn't stupid to keep your kids from getting vaccinated, what use is it even having the word "stupid?"

A big part of how we got to here is treating gaps in understanding as merely differences of opinion, or deferring to "sincerely held religious beliefs" that are antisocial and dangerous.
Especially when the people who are wrong about everything have no reservations about calling us stupid or evil!

Personally crushed sounds like a good outcome

Join the fight quitgpt.org

Oh the poor republicans who are currently in total control of the entire federal government. They need a win so bad.

News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

Murdoch media's Thomson: “We’re essentially an input company...The great threat in the age of AI is going to be to what you might call output companies. We’re an input in the way that semiconductors are an input, in the way that datacentres are an input.”
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Wonder what he had to say about Open AI’s decision to NOT alert authorities about the Tumbler Ridge shooter. Sam can rot in hell.

His kink is doing terrible things and fashioning himself as the earnest and misunderstood victim.

The essential Scarborough. He keeps wanting to help Republicans. He admits it.
"I just wish these Republicans weren't so stupid. I wish they'd listen to me. I'm trying to help them out a little bit here, just to make it fair fight in the fall."
No, Joe, we want to defeat them.

Exclusive | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff, Calls Backlash ‘Really Painful’ The startup’s deal to do classified work with the Defense Department drew criticism from staff and other AI researchers.

Cry me a river, Sam:
“To try so hard to do the right thing and get so absolutely like, personally crushed for it...is really painful.” He calls it "a complex but the right decision with extremely difficult brand consequences."
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In the comments she's so sympathetic about "parents wanting to do the right thing? and "they don't know who to trust"

And this post from her (after a lot of commenters were not buying the religious exemption BS) looking for even more parents who don't vaccinate to interview.

More from my book, The Web We Weave, (which Taylor blurbed). Plus a 1795 fave: “My sight is every-where offended by these foolish, yet dangerous, books. I have actually seen mothers, in miserable garrets, crying for the imaginary distress of an heroine, while their children were crying for bread.”

Thanks to you and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Fascist fucks.

Thompson argues that "the way to address this new reality...is with new laws." Sure, if only. But our new reality is an all-powerful president and a fascist takeover.

I hear constant calls for companies to set guardrails on their products. Here people are arguing that governments should be exempt from any such conditions. I disagree.

The idea that an already almost-all-powerful, unaccountable president should have unquestioned and total power to decree even illegal uses of a company's tools is, especially given current actors, obviously untenable.

I'm by no means suggesting that company CEOs should hold more power than elected officials. I have many stated problems with Anthropic's view of "safety." But I am saying that conscience and accountability work both ways. This govt already has too much power; we need checks.

Anthropic and Alignment Anthropic is in a standoff with the Department of War; while the company’s concerns are legitimate, it position is intolerable and misaligned with reality.

I so disagree with Thompson here, for he does not account for dealing with an authoritarian, fascist regime waging illegal wars. Companies refuse to sell their drugs to states to kill people. If only IG Farben had refused to sell Zyklon B to the Nazis.
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Cloudflare sucks.

is it righteously helping to stoke fears based on falsehoods? is saying things like “shield… from vaccines” in a headline no quotes / air quotes helping?

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No longer "it's the economy, stupid." Now: It's Stupid's Economy. His war. Blood on his bruised hands. His inflation, too.
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