Article about an AI that aims to give treatment suggestions to doctors, with some alarming results.

Yes, it was quite good. They didn’t really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

Me too.

In our case it was a city of about 40,000 that only existed for two weeks, so it’s hard to say how it might scale

Keeping order is one thing, but police do a bunch of things no one else has time for.

Endless follow ups, liaising with social workers, taking long statements for inquests, or spending all day protecting someone’s right to peacefully protest.

Maybe it’s because I live in a country where the police don’t carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don’t think that’s entirely true.

I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

Ah that explains it. Thanks!

I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.

I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

That tracks.

Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.

The being baptized part is relevant to converts, and the being a godparent part would have relevance for all transgender catholics.

Apart from my illness support group, I’m only on fediverse social media now, and only via web browser. It’s a breath of fresh air.

I’m realising there are subtle ways that enshittification constrains and shapes actual conversations between us.

Thanks for posting!

I’m not OP but the author’s starting point is about the expression of solidarity with a group of ordinary people, and how this is being undermined by media. Pretty sure this kind of solidarity is part of socialist praxis?

I don’t really understand some of this. Why pair it with a VAT? VAT itself is a known to be a regressive tax because poor people/ households spend a higher percentage of their incomes on consumption (food etc) so the effect of a VAT is to raise their overall tax percentage.

This is definitely what happens in my country, where we have a flat 15% VAT on all goods and services. As someone on disability that means I’m being taxed an extra 15% on most of my income.

I believe this indicates that the problem with sensitivity is ‘skin deep’

So, if that’s the case it’s to do with your nerves.

If I were you I would explore neurological interventions like botulism toxin/botox injections before jumping straight to surgery.

Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

I couldn’t replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

This. Last time New Zealand carried out this exercise there were only 3 who didn’t.

It’s just… always been my main browser.