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Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI ( gizmodo.com )
GPT-4 performance comparable with physicians on official medical board residency examinations. Model performance near or above official passing rate in all medical specialties tested ( ai.nejm.org )
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet ( www.staygrounded.online )
Not paywalled, you can just click "No thanks" on the popup.
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation ( www.wired.com )
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control ( www.wired.com )
That graphic sums up my entire educational experience....
‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death ( www.theguardian.com )
While social media firms have long faced scrutiny from Congress and civil rights organizations over their impact on young users, the new wave of lawsuits underscores how parents are increasingly leading the charge, said Jim Steyer, an attorney and founder of Common Sense media, a non-profit that advocates for children’s online...
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'Scripture is very clear': New House Speaker tells Congress God has 'ordained' them ( www.alternet.org )
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, in his first remarks after being elected Wednesday afternoon, told Members of Congress that “Scripture” and “the Bible” are clear that they have been “ordained” by God.
How the “Surveillance AI Pipeline” Literally Objectifies Human Beings ( www.404media.co )
The vast majority of computer vision research leads to technology that surveils human beings, a new preprint study that analyzed more than 20,000 computer vision papers and 11,000 patents spanning three decades has found. Crucially, the study found that computer vision papers often refer to human beings as “objects,” a...
The Researchers Studying AI That Are Actually Producing Propaganda ( theluddite.org )
California bill to have human drivers ride in autonomous trucks is vetoed by governor ( apnews.com )
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.
Is SEO killing creativity? ( www.payperinvest.com )
Some topics doesn’t need more than some words to explain it all....
Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet ( theluddite.org )
Cyberspatial Feudalism: Understanding Twitter's Rebrand, Worldcoin, and the Rest of Tech ( theluddite.org )
AI is going to eliminate way more jobs than anyone realizes ( businessinsider.mx )
ChatGPT gets code questions wrong 52% of the time ( www.theregister.com )
Giant space umbrella tethered to asteroid could protect Earth from climate crisis, study says ( www.independent.co.uk )
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. ( arstechnica.com )
Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
Nitter is a read-only front end for Twitter ( nitter.net )
Since Twitter was bought by the world’s biggest manbaby I’ve been using Nitter to avoid giving them any traffic/analytics/etc....
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
disconnect.blog/…/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-s…
Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: How AI is rewriting the internet ( www.theverge.com )
Disabling Self-Driving Cars with a Traffic Cone ( www.schneier.com )
CEO lays off 23 of 26 of support staff in favor of AI ( www.businessinsider.com )
In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.
How Twitter lost its place as the global town square ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A series of disastrous missteps over the past year has robbed Twitter of its relevance
San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones ( www.techspot.com )
The Crucible of Mediocrity: Lessons from the Physical World for the AI-Generated Internet ( theluddite.org )