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How I feel about AI
Scot politics folk: How likely is it that Reform will get seats in Scotland this year? I've only just started looking at the polls but to be completely honest I haven't been looking into it until now.
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How to write a book with A.I.
1. Don’t
As a hobbyist writer who has published a story or two on Amazon, I was shocked when I checked in on kindle publishing discussion forums and understood how much shady shit is being done by people who approach it as a hustle. Like, gender-swapping a straight story to make gay and lesbian versions, etc
I don't really want to bother, but these numbers? this is just a war of attrition. Each book made $500 in the KU trenches. She expended zero effort writing them, and readers DIDN'T READ THEM.
AI writing is absolutely unbearable to read. It's a slog. (Ask anyone who gritted their teeth through Shy Girl.)
If your product is unenjoyable, what is the point in churning it out? What race are we running here? It doesn't matter if you cook quickly if your food is inedible.
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
Soon does one learn the bitter lesson that humanity is never content just to differ from you and let it go at that. Never.
She’s been doing this to protect herself (and her peace) for years. And good for her.
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Woman blamed for things other people do to her. Checks out.
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social
holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin.
WE MUST FIGHT THIS.
Study must be meaningful.
Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
I contain multitudes
Oh
Oh shit
My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Use, and I cannot state this enough, libraries. UK/RoI authors get paid for library borrows. More than you'd think!
the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠
“Unputdownable” sounds less like you enjoyed it and more like the book took you hostage 😬
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
This is the actual existential risk AI poses. That we outsource all thinking to a gibberish machine until such a time as the ability to keep said gibberish machine’s lights on ceases to exist.
There was a time when the death of KitKat would have sealed Waymo's fate.
Now nearly every one of these damn corporations are "too big to fail."
waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them
roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES
