Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop
It’s On AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of Wikipedia — and its editors are fighting back. As 404 Media reports, a team of Wikipedia editors has assembled to create “WikiProject…
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Former OpenAI Employee Says Company Had Plan to Start AGI Bidding War With China and Russia
Big Talk In a new interview, a former OpenAI employee made a striking claim about his ex-employer’s plans for artificial general intelligence (AGI) — or, more specifically, how to make…
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels”
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at riskLibrarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International “Data Cartels”
A24 Admits Those Ads for "Civil War" Were AI-Generated
Online Outrage Alex Garland’s drama-saddled “Civil War” has already caused its fair share of online outrage, from audiences scratching their heads at certain plot elements — California and Texas as…
In Tests, GPT-4 Strangely Itchy to Launch Nuclear War
A team of Stanford researchers tasked an unmodified version of OpenAI’s latest large language model to make high-stakes, society-level decisions in a series of wargame simulations — and it didn’t…
Viral Images of Dead Infants in Israel-Gaza War Are AI Fakes, Experts Say
Fake AF A striking number of viral photos on both sides of the Isreal-Hamas conflict have been revealed to be AI fakes — and according to experts, the problem is…
Pluralistic: Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict (01 Nov 2023)
Today’s links Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict: If conservatives were really interested in millennial life-chances, they’d demand inheritance taxes, not Social Security cuts. Hey look at this:…
Community Notes and war crimes
The recent violence in Israel and Gaza has been accompanied by a surge of misleading and false claims on social media platforms such as X/Twitter regarding various aspects of the…
War, stock photos, and breaking news
if at first you don’t succeed, try again with yet another fake accountIn July 2022, an allegedly New York-based pro-Russia Twitter account by the name of @marymodestus began tweeting “breaking…
Donald Trump, World War III
On Truth Social a Twitter-like service, (that may still be worse than Twitter) indited former U.S. President posted “WORLD WAR III” without context today (April 9, 2023). At this moment…