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What? At the Washington Monument?
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Not at the Lincoln Memorial either.
And also, I gather that the design changes are meant to thwart forgery, but the aesthetics of this are just awful, innit.
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Oh FFS. I’ve done it, because I had a work request that was so general/non-specific in nature that it was obviously either generated by AI or copy and pasted out of a “how to…” document. In that situation, I think the only appropriate responses are calling it out so meaningful work can be accomplished, or having another AI generate a response. The latter is easier, but calling out thoughtless AI use as bad behavior is the only way for us to do better and not give in to drowning in in the sea of slop.
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I really thought that would be the effect of trying to operate in the Trumpocene era, but The Onion is flourishing, instead. I guess having something clearly identifiable as satire is a welcome relief.
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I was with it right up until the suggestion that AI shaming needs justification beyond the perfectly valid reasons listed right there. No further argument needed, especially not this disingenuous “protecting the privileged class” bull.
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RFIs cross my desk that some crappy contractor generates using AI. They are usually total bs but try to create the impression that design problems exist. We reject those out of hand. If i can’t understand what they are asking, why bother sending it.
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It feels like a sufficient and valid justification for “AI shaming” is that people are trying to take credit for work which they did not do. All the other stuff is valid, too, of course. Except the disingenuous ones intended to undermine all the real reasons, obviously.
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I’ve seen a few places refer to AI as “the plagiarism machine”.
Ironically enough, I can’t recall or correctly cite thise sources…
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I have seen it called that by many folks on tumblr.
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I know it from this:
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Oh thnx that reminds me, gotta get ChatGPT to send some crypto to Waymo so I can get to my Airbnb.
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XUEWU LIU, A Chinese inventor who has no medical training or credentials of any kind, is charging cancer patients $20,000 for access to an AI-driven but entirely unproven treatment that includes injecting a highly concentrated dose of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleach solution, directly into cancerous tumors.
One patient tells WIRED her tumor has grown faster since the procedure and that she suspects it may have caused her cancer to spread—a claim Liu disputes—while experts allege his marketing of the treatment has likely put him on the wrong side of US regulations. Nonetheless, while Liu currently only offers the treatment informally in China and at a German clinic, he is now working with a Texas-based former pharmaceutical executive to bring his treatment to America. They believe that the appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as US health secretary will help “open doors” to get the untested treatment—in which at least one clinic in California appears to have interest—approved in the US.
Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement is embracing alternative medicines and the idea of giving patients the freedom to try unproven treatments. While the health secretary did not respond to a request for comment about Liu’s treatment, he did mention chlorine dioxide when questioned about President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed during his Senate confirmation hearing in February, and the Food and Drug Administration recently removed a warning about the substance from its website. The agency says the removal was part of a routine process of archiving old pages on its site, but it has had the effect of emboldening the bleacher community.
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Liu claims he has injected himself with the solution more than 50 times and suffered no side effects. “This personal data point encouraged me to continue research,” he says.
Liu has been making the solution in his rented apartment in Beijing by mixing citric acid with sodium chlorite, according to an account he shared earlier this month on his Substack that revealed that a “violent explosion” occurred when he made a mistake.
“The blast blacked out my vision,” Liu wrote. “Dense clouds of chlorine dioxide burst into my face, filling my eyes, nose, and mouth. I stumbled back into the apartment, rushing to the bathroom to wash out the gas from my eyes and respiratory tract. My lungs were burning. Later, I would find 4–5 cuts on my upper thigh—shards of glass had pierced through my pants.” Liu also revealed that his 3-year-old daughter was nearby when the explosion happened.
Liu began a preclinical study on animals in 2016, before beginning to use the highly concentrated solution to treat human patients in more recent years. He claims that between China and Germany, he has treated 20 patients to date.
When asked for evidence to back up his claims of efficacy, Liu shared links to a number of preprints, which have not been peer-reviewed, with WIRED. He also shared a pitch deck for a $5 million seed round in a US-focused startup that would provide the chlorine dioxide injections.
The presentation contains a number of “case studies” of patients he has treated—including a dog—but rather than featuring detailed scientific data, the deck contains disturbing images of the patients’ tumors. The deck also contains, as evidence of the treatment’s efficacy, a screenshot of a WhatsApp conversation with a patient who was apparently treating a liver tumor with chlorine dioxide.
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It’s too bad he’s from CHY-NA and not white, or he could have a cabinet position!
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Well, on this one at least, he may be right. And I hate it. Lots.
(In case there is any doubt, DO. NOT. DO. THIS!!!
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Bleacher community? Ye gods that is so fucked up. 
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