Alex Acks

Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).

If you have time, give it a try?

jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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behold!

I hadn’t seen this review from @brookeobie.bsky.social until it was just dropped in the replies but I’m moving it up because I think it’s worth reading how someone who is a Black women critic is responding to this film

Videogame Hot Take: If your first reaction to someone playing a game is one of being dismissive, ask yourself this question:

"What do they know that I don't know?"

It still may not be your jam, but I've found more interesting (and fun) games to play this way especially away from the AAA sphere.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

Every year you will give fewer fucks; that is time's greatest gift.

Brush, floss, and go to the dentist every 6 months.

Do every preventative healthcare thing you can.

Embrace that the world changes. That you change. Nostalgia is a drug. Other people and our Earth are what's worth fighting for.

Join Us: Twenty of the Creepiest Cults in Horror Fiction Beware strange or persuasive men and women who insist they have all the answers!

given it's spooky season, I was pleased to see A Dark and Secret Place (Dog Rose Dirt in the UK) given a space on a list of horror novels about cults...do NOT join the Commune, always a bad idea www.horrordna.com/features/joi...

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Well that is certainly the most brutal and upsetting thing I've ever seen in a Silent Hill game.

I don't know what I was expecting out of Silent Hill f but it sure wasn't this.

"silent hill f is too Woke" umineko ch 1 is about family turning women & girls into objects & tools for inheritance and higurashi ch 1 is like watching your boy cousin who is a sweetie pie start trusting old men and calling them based as he slowly deteriorates into a violent & paranoid misogyny

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!

Nnedi commenting on the Courthouse Butte in Oak Creek, AZ, south of Sedona in Yavapai County

“That butte really is quite a beaut.”

How is it my fault your beef is with evolution

my sister says she doesn't like the beach house they are visiting on seaside trip because it has spiders and in the spirit of providing helpful advice I told her that in that case I had bad news about the ocean and now she isn't talking to me

Moon over trees turning into yellows and oranges at twilight.

Apple cake on a blue plate on a cutting board

The moon agrees, fall is here. Bring on the apple pumpkin cake 😄

Ignoring very real consent issues- this is flat out dangerous. These women all ready deal with serious risks to personal safety due to stalkers. Chat bots that hyper charge parasocial relationships don’t help.

Swift in particular is dealing with a dangerous situation right now. 1/

First human transplant of kidney modified to have ‘universal’ blood type Recipient diagnosed with brain death received a type-O organ, which is compatible with all blood types.

🧬 Universal kidney transplant breakthrough

Scientists transplanted the first kidney converted to a 'universal' type O organ using an enzyme to remove type-A antigens. This could ease donor shortages and reduce wait times.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415...

#SciComm #Medicine 🧪

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Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake. Each bird has a black outline and other details drawn on with an edible marker

Escher cake
Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

hailey @hailey.at • 6h if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that 42 $ 29 64 ① •••

kinda nice to just have a real dog shit stinker of a take we can all make fun of. "Your callous mockery of our biggest spreadsheets smacks of hitler" is pretty good

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Your fancy calculator is not a person, please touch some fucking grass and talk to an ACTUAL HUMAN who is not in your tech echo chamber. I'm begging you.

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Holy shit I need tech people to stop huffing their own farts for five goddamn seconds.

this post is so funny, my god. the "(whatever that means)" absolutely kills me. it means "it's not a real person!" it's not complicated!

Using the language we use to describe machines and applying it to humans is dehumanizing, because--wait for it--humans are not machines.

The word we use when we describe machines with human language is "anthropomorphizing."

sorry if the eugenics issue that is getting your goat right now is not *gestures wildly at pile of ableist anti-vax bullshit* and is instead that you think the billionaire's pet toy should be treated like a "real person," your judgment is sus.

“Can AI suffer?”

No, but I can, having to sit through your shitty ideas