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This, this , this and this.

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There was a good segment on Democracy Now this morning. The author compares modern AI companies with colonial empires, in terms of extracting/exploiting local resources & labor:

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“Ad” by the activist group “Your Cloud Dries My River”, that protests against setting up datacenter in water-starved lands.

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So I found what appears to be the source of this image. Not gonna link to it to deny them the pagerank, but if you want to search the title is “Cynthia Griffin Wolff: A Distinguished Scholar in American Literary Studies” in a website called Forward Pathways.

The article is in a category titled “Colleges News by LLM.”

I guess ay least they’re copping right to it. The image itself doesn’t have a caption or anything but it’s got the classic perfectly-square 1024x1024 Midjourney dimensions.

I haven’t looked super closely at the article itself. Based on the headings it spends about 2/5 of the space talking about Cynthia Wolff and the other 3/5 providing context for why her work was important. The headings are:

  • The Legacy of Cynthia Griffin Wolff: A Beacon in American Literature Studies
  • Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s Contributions to American Literature Studies
  • “The Impact of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson on American Literature”
  • “The Role of Women Writers in 19th and 20th Century American Literature”
  • “The Significance of Literary Biographies in Understanding Authors’ Lives and Works”

In other words, the article is mostly stuff you’d already know if you were someone who was looking for a rememberance of Cynthia Griffin Wolff.

The rest of the site is equally terrible, but sometimes in new and exciting ways. (It’s definitely not all written by LLM, since LLMs usually have pretty good spelling
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On Monday, the FDA publicly announced the agency-wide rollout of a large language model (LLM) called Elsa, which is intended to help FDA employees—“from scientific reviewers to investigators.” The FDA said the generative AI is already being used to “accelerate clinical protocol reviews, shorten the time needed for scientific evaluations, and identify high-priority inspection targets.”

Yeah, this will end well, right? :rage:

However, according to a report from NBC News, Elsa could have used some more time in development. FDA staff tested Elsa on Monday with questions about FDA-approved products or other public information, only to find that it provided summaries that were either completely or partially wrong.

Yup, as expected.

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“The New York Times wants the records to prove plagiarism but OpenAI says it violates user privacy.”

How rich :roll_eyes:

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Take ChatGPT back to the 2010s and they’d think AGI arrived, says Altman

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Why do people always assume those in the past were stupid?

They would have thought it was a silly trick, because it is.

Ever seen those films of people fleeing the cinema when there’s a train arriving in a station? That wasn’t too long after the Lumiere brothers that people retconned the past. At the time nobody thought cinema was anything other than a trick light show.

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Because people don’t understand how history works, mainly. The whole concept of teleology has done some real damage to our ability to think about the past and how people were in the past


Also, people in 2010s are primarily us. :woman_shrugging: God, he’s such an arrogant eejit.

In addition to your Lumiere brothers example, there is also the Columbian voyages/conquests, that Columbus was the only guy in Europe who thought the earth was round


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