Interesting Links Catchup 17-18/10/2024

[andrewducker]

1. Why you shouldn't hand control of franchises to their fans

(tags:fandom movies TV )

2. Amazon and Google are giving people incorrect information by misquoting fact-checkers

(tags:amazon google lies )

3. This approach to euthanasia makes me very uncomfortable

(tags:euthanasia society death religion )

4. Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI concepts we've seen

(tags:ai 3d art Adobe )

Comments

[lilysea]

yes, I've heard stories from disabled people Canada about disabled people who did NOT have terminal illnesses being pressured to consider MAID (medically assisted dying).

[andrewducker]

Yeah, very much do not want that.

[symbioid]

There's a problem I've noticed with fact checking headlines, where they either repeat the claim or the negation of the claim and the phrasing of it can make it confusing. I haven't read the article so don't know if that's part of the issue, but yeah. The headline writers of the fact checks need to standardize on phrasing... Or do better, because it's not clear sometimes. It's frustrating so you have to read the article to make sure it says what you think, etc...

[andrewducker]

As they say in the article
"We use the commonly-followed ClaimReview web standard as a way to tag and identify the claims and verdicts in our fact checks, to make it as easy as possible for social media and search engine companies to recognise the information we publish."

[calimac]

2) I'm reminded of the tip I was given when learning to write academic papers: if you have to present a theory or idea you vehemently disagree with, be sure to quote it directly rather than paraphrase it, to avoid the possibility of any misunderstanding that it's your own belief. But it seems that AI is not capable of grasping that something is a quotation.

[anna_wing]

I'd expect a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle pressure, whether religious or not, on the elderly infirm by their heirs, to accept being, shall we say, put to sleep in order to "not be a burden" on their families or on the State. And eventually a reduction in funding for hospices, end-of-life care, and possibly even care provisions for some kinds of chronic illness and critical injury.

[andrewducker]

Yup. Really not good.

[andrewducker]

Bits of Canada seem to be doing exactly that.