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<p>&quot;The New York Times has reportedly approved artificial intelligence tools that newsroom staff can use for editing copy, summarizing information, coding, and writing. The publication announced in an internal email that product and editorial staff will receive AI training, according to Semafor, and introduced a new internal AI tool called Echo for summarizing articles, briefings, and other company activity.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/613989/n</span><span class="invisible">ew-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/nyt/" rel="tag">#NYT</a> <a href="/tags/newyorktimes/" rel="tag">#NewYorkTimes</a></p>

<p>Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts<br>—</p><p>Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-ai-veterans-affairs-canceled-contracts-senators-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doge-ai-veterans-affairs-canceled-contracts-senators-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dog</span><span class="invisible">e-ai-veterans-affairs-canceled-contracts-senators-trump?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/va/" rel="tag">#VA</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>

<p>A <a href="/tags/celebration/" rel="tag">#Celebration</a> of <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#Flowers</a> by Kaye Menner<br>A pretty <a href="/tags/colorful/" rel="tag">#colorful</a> floral image for all occasions. <a href="/tags/enchanting/" rel="tag">#enchanting</a> display of <a href="/tags/delicate/" rel="tag">#delicate</a> flowers. Wide variety <a href="/tags/prints/" rel="tag">#Prints</a> &amp; lovely <a href="/tags/products/" rel="tag">#Products</a> at:</p><p><a href="https://buff.ly/FHMYHJF" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>buff.ly/FHMYHJF</a></p><p><a href="/tags/flower/" rel="tag">#flower</a> <a href="/tags/floral/" rel="tag">#floral</a> <a href="/tags/spring/" rel="tag">#spring</a> <a href="/tags/colorful/" rel="tag">#colorful</a> <a href="/tags/pretty/" rel="tag">#pretty</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>

<p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-us-can-survive-without-almost" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/the-us-can-survive-without-almost"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/the-us-can-su</span><span class="invisible">rvive-without-almost</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/cliffsedge/" rel="tag">#cliffsedge</a> <a href="/tags/blueamp/" rel="tag">#blueamp</a> <a href="/tags/cliffschecter/" rel="tag">#cliffschecter</a> <a href="/tags/davidhuster/" rel="tag">#davidhuster</a> <a href="/tags/briankarem/" rel="tag">#briankarem</a> <a href="/tags/cliffsnote/" rel="tag">#cliffsnote</a></p>

<p>ChatGPT is down for some users and John-Anthony Disotto from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@TechRadar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TechRadar</span></a></span> is getting a real insight into how it&#x27;s affecting people. Poor Jack from the UK says he needs the AI chatbot to help him complete some college work due in a few hours <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/flipboard.social/blobpeek.png" class="emoji" alt=":blobpeek:" title=":blobpeek:"> </p><p><a href="https://flip.it/IU9bHD" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/IU9bHD</a></p><p><a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a></p>

<p>Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: <a href="https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935?s=43" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935?s=43"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/trq212/status/2052809885</span><span class="invisible">763747935?s=43</span></a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/whatgoesaroundcomesaround/" rel="tag">#WhatGoesAroundComesAround</a></p>

<p>DeepSeek Open Source FlashMLA – MLA Decoding Kernel for Hopper GPUs — <a href="https://github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashMLA"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/deepseek-ai/FlashML</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a><br><a href="/tags/hackernews/" rel="tag">#HackerNews</a> <a href="/tags/deepseek/" rel="tag">#DeepSeek</a> <a href="/tags/open/" rel="tag">#Open</a> <a href="/tags/source/" rel="tag">#Source</a> <a href="/tags/flashmla/" rel="tag">#FlashMLA</a> <a href="/tags/mla/" rel="tag">#MLA</a> <a href="/tags/decoding/" rel="tag">#Decoding</a> <a href="/tags/kernel/" rel="tag">#Kernel</a> <a href="/tags/for/" rel="tag">#for</a> <a href="/tags/hopper/" rel="tag">#Hopper</a> <a href="/tags/gpus/" rel="tag">#GPUs</a> <a href="/tags/github/" rel="tag">#GitHub</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>Even though <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#Signal</a> *itself* has sound security - taken in isolation - it&#x27;s always moored in an ecosystem (that of smartphones which run <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#iOS</a> or <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a>) which, by default, have <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> set up to shoulder-surf Signal, sending reports back to the mothership. In <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#iOS</a>, that AI is called &quot;<a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> Intelligence&quot;, and in <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a>, it&#x27;s called <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> Assistant. Repeat, these are on by default. *Only a small percentage of your family, friends, colleagues, and fellow country-persons will pain-stakingly disable these.*</p><p>Sure, Signal itself is secure by default, but &quot;a chain is only as strong as its weakest link&quot;. And the weakest link is the ecosystem which Signal is moored in - that of smartphones policed and patrolled by AI, which report back to their respective motherships *in a strong majority of cases*.</p><p>Alternatives like <a href="/tags/deltachat/" rel="tag">#Deltachat</a> (for normies willing to open their wallets/purses to rent an auto-crypt-compatible email address) and <a href="/tags/xmpp/" rel="tag">#XMPP</a> (easily free to use, however realistic and mature only for non-iOS/<a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#MacOS</a>-users at present) have comparable E2E encryption. Deltachat and XMPP *don&#x27;t* require smart-phone &quot;moorings&quot; - thereby making it much more realistic to dodge the almost-pervasively AI-patrolled ecosystems.</p><p><a href="/tags/infosec/" rel="tag">#infosec</a></p>

<p>RE: <a href="https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.panic.com/@cabel/116553</span><span class="invisible">522656332225</span></a></p><p>It is true. It is hard to overstate how unpopular this technology is outside of its dedicated userbase, and tech bros trying to hype it up.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-generative-ai/#consumer-sentiment" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-generative-ai/#consumer-sentiment"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-gene</span><span class="invisible">rative-ai/#consumer-sentiment</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>

Massive compute power applied to massive data sets can produce outcomes that are worse at the task they’re (ostensibly) intended for than much simpler, easier to understand, less wasteful, and less intrusive data-light methods. It requires an extreme form of bias to believe that big compute + big data is always better.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/datascience/" rel="tag">#DataScience</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/computerscience/" rel="tag">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="/tags/ecologicalrationality/" rel="tag">#EcologicalRationality</a><br>

<p>The present perspective outlines how epistemically baseless and ethically pernicious paradigms are recycled back into the scientific literature via machine learning (ML) and explores connections between these two dimensions of failure. We hold up the renewed emergence of physiognomic methods, facilitated by ML, as a case study in the harmful repercussions of ML-laundered junk science. A summary and analysis of several such studies is delivered, with attention to the means by which unsound research lends itself to social harms. We explore some of the many factors contributing to poor practice in applied ML. In conclusion, we offer resources for research best practices to developers and practitioners.<br></p>From The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions here: <a href="https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00160-0" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(24)00160-0"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext</span><span class="invisible">/S2666-3899(24)00160-0</span></a>. It&#x27;s open access.<br><br>In other words ML--which includes generative AI--is smuggling long-disgraced pseudoscientific ideas back into &quot;respectable&quot; science, and rejuvenating the harms such ideas cause.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/machinelearning/" rel="tag">#MachineLearning</a> <a href="/tags/ml/" rel="tag">#ML</a> <a href="/tags/aiethics/" rel="tag">#AIEthics</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/pseudoscience/" rel="tag">#pseudoscience</a> <a href="/tags/junkscience/" rel="tag">#JunkScience</a> <a href="/tags/eugenics/" rel="tag">#eugenics</a> <a href="/tags/physiognomy/" rel="tag">#physiognomy</a><br>

<p>&quot;Before ChatGPT distorted Eugene Torres’s sense of reality and almost killed him, he said, the artificial intelligence chatbot had been a helpful, timesaving tool.&quot;</p><p>Fair enough.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.plzK.QwsxM26gEO7Y&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.plzK.QwsxM26gEO7Y&amp;smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec</span><span class="invisible">hnology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O08.plzK.QwsxM26gEO7Y&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a></p>

AGI is just 1 trilllion 4-bit floating point numbers in a trenchcoat.<br><br><a href="/tags/agi/" rel="tag">#AGI</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a><br>

Mel Andrews on the connections between a naive belief in scientific objectivity (facts and data are &quot;real&quot; and &quot;correct&quot; and &quot;neutral&quot;) and eugenics:<br><p>Francis Galton, pioneering figure of the eugenics movement, believed that good research practice should consist in “gathering as many facts as possible without any theory or general principle that might prejudice a neutral and objective view of these facts” (Jackson et al., 2005). Karl Pearson, statistician and fellow purveyor of eugenicist methods, approached research with a similar ethos: “theorizing about the material basis of heredity or the precise physiological or causal significance of observational results, Pearson argues, will do nothing but damage the progress of the science” (Pence, 2011). In collaborative work with Pearson, Weldon emphasised the superiority of data-driven methods which were capable of delivering truths about nature “without introducing any theory” (Weldon, 1895).<br></p>From The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning &amp; the Theory-Free Ideal.<br><br>I&#x27;ve lost the reference, but I suspect it was Meredith Whittaker who&#x27;s written and spoken about the big data turn at Google, where it was understood that having and collecting massive datasets allowed them to eschew model-building.<br><br>The core idea being critiqued here is that there&#x27;s a kind of scientific view from nowhere: a theory-free, value-free, model-free, bias-free way of observing the world that will lead to Truth; and that it&#x27;s the task of the scientist to approximate this view from nowhere as well as possible.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/datascience/" rel="tag">#DataScience</a> <a href="/tags/scientificobjectivity/" rel="tag">#ScientificObjectivity</a> <a href="/tags/eugenics/" rel="tag">#eugenics</a> <a href="/tags/viewfromnowhere/" rel="tag">#ViewFromNowhere</a><br>

<p>New Open at Intel Podcast! I spoke with Andrew Brown of Exam Pro about his free generative AI bootcamp for developers, <a href="/tags/deepseek/" rel="tag">#Deepseek</a>, keeping up with AI development and its rapidly moving pace, and a lot more. Check it out!</p><p>Episode: <a href="https://openatintel.podbean.com/e/mastering-generative-ai/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="openatintel.podbean.com/e/mastering-generative-ai/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">openatintel.podbean.com/e/mast</span><span class="invisible">ering-generative-ai/</span></a></p><p>Clip: <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/ofsiK5cF1u0?feature=share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="youtube.com/shorts/ofsiK5cF1u0?feature=share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/shorts/ofsiK5cF1u0</span><span class="invisible">?feature=share</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a></p>

<p>终于知道为什么都说 <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/情商/" rel="tag">#情商</a> 高了。 <a href="/tags/grok/" rel="tag">#Grok</a>-3</p>

<p>&quot;CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/sale</span><span class="invisible">sforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/salesforce/" rel="tag">#salesforce</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>

Regarding the last couple boosts: among other downsides, LLMs encourage people to take long-term risks for perceived, but not always actual, short-term gains. They bet the long-term value of their education on a chance at short-term grade inflation, or they bet the long-term security and maintainability of their software codebase on a chance at short-term productivity gains. My read is that more and more data is suggesting that these are bad bets for most people.<br><br>In that respect they&#x27;re very much like gambling. The messianic fantasies some ChatGPT users have been experiencing fits this picture as well.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/chatgpt/" rel="tag">#ChatGPT</a> <a href="/tags/gpt/" rel="tag">#GPT</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#Gemini</a> <a href="/tags/gamblingaddiction/" rel="tag">#GamblingAddiction</a> <a href="/tags/nihilism/" rel="tag">#nihilism</a><br>

One definition of the word &quot;artifice&quot; is: crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. One would be fully justified interpreting the phrase &quot;artificial intelligence&quot; as an elaborate trick resembling intelligence.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a><br>

<p>&quot;Rita Contreras, a hairstylist in Brooklyn, said that in the past six months, the number of clients walking in with AI images has ballooned.</p><p>[...]</p><p>“I have to just say, ‘This is not a real person. This is not real hair,’”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://archive.is/erYG5" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/erYG5</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;3 mos ago 325,000 Serbians took Belgrade (some estimates had many more). That’s 5% of the pop taking on Serbian Pres Vučić&#x27;s autocracy</p><p>If we show up similarly to protest our rubber-chicken <a href="/tags/fascist/" rel="tag">#fascist</a>, that&#x27;s 17MM. How about 15MM of us do this? 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍&quot;</p><p>READ/TURN OUT! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/15-million-vs-one-wannabe-king-america" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/15-million-vs-one-wannabe-king-america"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/15-million-vs</span><span class="invisible">-one-wannabe-king-america</span></a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#protest</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/nokings/" rel="tag">#nokings</a> <a href="/tags/la/" rel="tag">#la</a> <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#losangeles</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#california</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#immigration</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#democracy</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

<p>NEW <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#SUBSTACK</a>: 11 MILLION Americans Stand Up! <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> &#x27;s Sad, Flaccid Parade Can&#x27;t Get It Up</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/11-million-americans-stand-up-trumps" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/11-million-americans-stand-up-trumps"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/11-million-am</span><span class="invisible">ericans-stand-up-trumps</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#protest</a> <a href="/tags/la/" rel="tag">#la</a> <a href="/tags/losangeles/" rel="tag">#losangeles</a> <a href="/tags/california/" rel="tag">#california</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/nokings/" rel="tag">#nokings</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#italy</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a></p>

<p>What the actual...</p><p>We all know the tricks with the &quot;serving suggestion&quot; photos on <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#food</a> packaging, right? Same ingredients, but prepared by a professional chef - and then often coated in something to make &#x27;em shiny, cotton pad dipped in boiling water for steam, the old glue instead of milk trick...</p><p>But this, from Mars&#x27; Ben&#x27;s Original brand? Not only is that nothing like the contents of the pack, it doesn&#x27;t actually exist. It&#x27;s <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> generated.</p><p>This Food Does Not Exist.</p><p>How is this legal?</p>

<p>Dear AI,</p><p>Please stop existing. Humans used to use the internet freely, without having to prove they’re humans.</p><p>Sincerely,<br>A human (no, really, I am)</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/bots/" rel="tag">#Bots</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#Human</a> <a href="/tags/proveyouareahuman/" rel="tag">#ProveYouAreAHuman</a></p>

<p>I was listening to a podcast where the guest argued: when it comes to art, today&#x27;s AI is like a tool, but in the future, maybe it could be an artist.</p><p>As he explained why, it became clear why I disagree with him. He defines &quot;art&quot; as a product that is valued by art critics and by consumers. I agree that AI generated content may become more common and broadly accepted in the future, but I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s a good thing, and I wouldn&#x27;t call it art!</p><p>I see art as more of an activity than a product. An artist does art. Whatever the output of that process is, valuable or not, is also called &quot;art.&quot;</p><p>Am I saying only humans can make art? Not at all. But to be &quot;art&quot; it has to be self-expression. The artist must have something to say. As long as we are designing the AI, training it, and prompting it, then it will be a tool. Without us it has no initiative, no opinion, and no creative urge.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>