A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by “overfitting” in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech
Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals Max Read / Read Max : Will A.I. writing ever be good? Alberto Romero / The Algorithmic Bridge : The Death of the English Language X: Joe McKendrick / @joemc...
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
From Dildo Ads to Furry CEOs Alex Mahadevan / Poynter : My journey into the artificial world of Sora 2 X: Paul Yacoubian / @paulyacoubian : Just found out if you try to delete your Sora app account yo...
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending
Now the job falls to the insidious fossil-fuel-funded creep Russell Vought, their henchman at OMB. E.W. Niedermeyer / @niedermeyer.online : “Say what you will about Elon Musk, the man thinks ahead.” ...
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
The reason Musk holds this belief is that he has completely surrounded himself on Twitter with people exactly like the racist hoodlums who have been terrorizing immigrants and asylum seekers. … Joshua...
Microsoft appears to have updated the new Bing to end chats following prompts mentioning “feelings” or “Sydney”, after adding chat restrictions on February 17
but the human response is way scarier Russell Kidson / gHacks Technology News : The Problem of Other Minds: Assessing the Sentience of Chatbots like Bing Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Microsoft Re...
Documents and sources: Facebook scaled back plans to heavily demote politics and others sensitive topics, finding the policy had a “high and inefficient cost”
Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences Tweets: @keachhagey , @mattzeitlin , @reaganbrad , and @emilyglazer Tweets: @keachhagey : Facebook spent months...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
How the peer pressure to be a part of the blue bubble iMessage text groups keeps US teens locked into Apple's ecosystem
Good morning! Have you heard of Mukesh Ambani, the hotelier? Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Google executive accuses Apple of using peer pressure and bullying to sell iPhones Jeff Butts / HotHardware.c...
Investigation shows Accenture is Facebook's biggest content moderation partner, employing over a third of its moderators, with annual contracts exceeding $500M
and none have been more important than Accenture. https://www.nytimes.com/... Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : Accenture doing content moderation for Facebook. Seems like a downgrade. The Silent Par...
Excerpt from An Ugly Truth: from Jan. 2014 to Aug. 2015, Facebook fired 52 staffers for exploiting access to user data, prompting an overhaul of data governance
and about the somewhat different conclusions it brought me to https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... @platformer : For all followers today: - An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle ...