Interesting Links for 25-01-2023

[andrewducker]

1. CNET's AI journalist is an error-prone plagiarist

(tags:journalism ai plagiarism )

2. LA's Grand Experiment in UBI (turns out giving money to people in poverty is really helpful)

(tags:GuaranteedIncome poverty USA )

3. The Netflix co-CEO says Netflix has "never canceled a successful show"

(tags:netflix business tv viaSwampers )

4. Why South Africa is siding with Russia

(tags:Russia southafrica )

5. Wagner loses up to 80% of prison recruits amid reports of Putin rift

(tags:Russia Ukraine war prison )

6. Ukraine announces purge of top officials over corruption and bribery allegations

(tags:corruption Ukraine )

7. NVidia will make it look like you're staring directly at the camera. That won't feel creepy at all!

(tags:nvidia eyes )

8. "Macroeconomic Changes Have Made It Impossible for Me to Want to Pay You"

(tags:satire business employment unemployment redundancy )

9. The UK is awful for investing in itself. And it's even worse in the North

(tags:uk investment OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

On no topic in particular - is there good news anywhere?

Because I need distraction. I'd like hope that life for ordinary people (either side and most definitely down from my own comfortable but not at all secure-feeling life) could have hope. Security. Dignity. But I've seen not much in my life to contradict my view that the vasty majority must spend our existence doing whatever the absolute ultra elite want doing, for the benefit of said ultra elite. Who are where they are overwhelmingly because their ancestors were. And those ancestors were who they were because they were rich and / or very very nasty and effectively violent. Which still seems to be true....

Almost all of us only get to live because we have/produce value for the benefit of those who already have and/or control almost everything. Except those who have it even worse, being very directly enslaved or controlled by violence - they have to do what their direct "owners" want.

[simont]

#1: "error-prone plagiarist" seems like exactly what you'd expect if you make a giant pattern-matching system and train it on lots of other people's work! The news is surely not that it's terrible, it's that the people deploying it for some reason expected anything else.

4.

[trailer_spot]

Thanks for the South Africa link. I was wondering about that. Not sure if the article covers the whole story, but it provides at least some context.