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May be in Kirikiriroa, or Ankh-Morpork.

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明's avatar Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
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As my friend Dougal McNeill put it: "What is an author? Or, one for the "enshittification" files of late capitalism."

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

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And then there’s Count Binface on the far right, mostly not in the photo …

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Madam Snazzy's avatar Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social
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Reminder that you can sign off emails today with: Kia pai te tau hou (Have a good new year) Kia pai to mutunga wiki roa (Have a good long weekend) Ngā mihi o te tau hou (Greetings for the new year)

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Davis's avatar Davis @davis.social
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I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️

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D 's avatar D @finnatic.bsky.social
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Sigh: "Please provide detailed message in this field (at least 100 characters)." ... another step to try and stop you from saying "Hey, no. And no means no."

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Mike Riversdale's avatar Mike Riversdale @miramarmike.bsky.social
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"You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out."

Wow, Meta made it v v hard - awesome and very clear instructions!

#Meta #Facebook #FB #data #AI

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Sean T. Collins's avatar Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.bsky.social
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<Eleanor Rigby voice> Dell corporation Putting AI in a beer that nobody will pour Who is it for

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hilzoy's avatar hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social
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Every since I read this ProPublica piece a few years ago, I use this "pretend we're talking about a guy named Bob" test all the time. (Here it's about antitrust, but it's useful everywhere.)

www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

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Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask's avatar Marc Daalder 😷 Wear a Mask @marcdaalder.bsky.social
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Paywall now lifted: Some endangered native species may have to go extinct because it would be too expensive to save them all, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka suggested on Tuesday.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/19/c...

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it's charloh! from online (it/its) 's avatar it's charloh! from online (it/its) @charloh.bsky.social
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when we talked to Linda Tirado on the phone she asked, do you want advice, someone to vent to, or a distraction from what's in your head it was the best question anyone ever asked us and we needed the last one and she provided

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There’s something about that serial that gives me strong 1920 Cthulhu vibes

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Josh's avatar Josh @joshuadrummond.cynics.guide
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ok Bluesky please help me find someone working in quantum computing

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Barry Deutsch's avatar Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social
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There's Never Been a Worse Time For Freedom of Speech

A #PoliCartoon by me and Becky Hawkins.

Link to blog post and transcript in replies.

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Rory #ToitūTeTiriti's avatar Rory #ToitūTeTiriti @nightwyrm.xyz
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I think you’ve nailed how I feel. The hype curve on this is off the charts.

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Pookleblinky's avatar Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social
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The solution to your favorite search engine stuffing AI dogshit into itself is to return to the old ways. You're gonna have to make friends with an autistic person you can ask about stuff.

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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“‘The machines are not trying to communicate something they believe or perceive,’ the paper reads. ‘Their inaccuracy is not due to misperception or hallucination. As we have pointed out, they are not trying to convey information at all. They are bullshitting.’”

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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Clippy is somewhere out there laughing his smug little googly-eyed head off at us all right now

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Existential Comics's avatar Existential Comics @existentialcomics.bsky.social
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Remember in that movie "Catch Me If You Can" how Leonardo DiCaprio didn't know anything about medicine but he fooled everyone into thinking he was a doctor by learning how to talk like them from watching TV? That's basically what AI is doing, and I don't want it prescribing me medicine.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs."
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817

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D 's avatar D @finnatic.bsky.social
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I’m waiting for Apple Intelligence Max

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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reposting without apology

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Mike Dickison's avatar Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social
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It would be an excellent mission for those of us with Labour MPs to write an actual letter to them and ask when this will be happening, just in case they want our vote next election.

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Tom V's avatar Tom V @tomwv.bsky.social
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A constant feature of NZ politics in my lifetime has been RW governments pointing at Australia's better wages and standard of living as a reason to enact policies exquisitely tailored to make the gap larger.

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Nicola Ga-stan's avatar Nicola Ga-stan @nicgaston.bsky.social
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TIL… the USA has a cricket team?! 🤯

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John Bull's avatar John Bull @garius.bsky.social
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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.

They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments

vimeo.com/293437684

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Watershitdown's avatar Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social
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#nzpol
How much would one have to 'donate' to NZfirst to facilitate Shane Jones wear an inflatable T-rex outfit during work hours.

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Josh's avatar Josh @joshuadrummond.cynics.guide
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look, I'm all for teaching Beowulf in English classes, because if nothing else it's going to be very funny (for context, this is Beowulf)

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti)'s avatar Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social
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I love that people who know how behind-the-curtain operations of LLMs were joking about how often The Onion was going to fuck shit up, and that once again The Dodgeball of Prophecy has been unleashed once again.

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