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The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it closed an investigation into Tesla for allowing video games to be played on in-dash center touch screens while vehicles were…
LawBot ChatGPT’s propensity to make stuff up strikes again — and this time, it’s gotten a lawyer in deep trouble. As described in an early May affidavit, an attorney representing a…
AI-pocalypse Now Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has signed onto a one-sentence open letter warning about the “extinction” dangers posed by artificial intelligence. Yes, we’re LOLing — after all,…
Today’s links Ian McDonald’s “Hopeland”: A novel so eerily good it almost made me angry. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon:…
I’m giddy. Texas House names Ken Paxton impeachment managers; Senate trial will start by Aug. 28 On Monday evening, the Senate unanimously adopted a resolution that laid out an initial…
This article came out in 2020, and I missed it until today. It’s a very interesting read. I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book Jeffrey Epstein’s little black…
Today’s links Monopolizing turds: The FDA granted a pharma company a literal monopoly on shit. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2013, 2018 Colophon:…
This profile of Lindsay Dougherty fucking awsome and well worth the read. Two weeks in, the writers strike already has at least one icon—and she’s not a writer. Lindsay Dougherty is a…
A lawyer used ChatGPT to research a legal brief and it didn’t work out. ChatGPT makes stuff up or uses very thin sourcing, and is not a replacement for a…
My latest for KnowTechie covers the rise of AI powered fraud. I also touched on some of this issues in a recent essay about how AI is empowering greed and…