“This was the largest raid or action like this we’ve seen so far" in Oregon, the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition said.

The problem isn't that generativeAI will get so good it will replace artists. It can't and never will.

The problem is that uncreative and incurious people will flood every venue with so much regurgitated slop that no artist has a chance of ever being seen or found.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Brutal.

This whole article is an outrage. They're using imaginary chatGPT creations to justification for their regressive health policies. www.notus.org/health-scien...

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Mary Oliver taking us all to task.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Today we received a termination letter from the Trump appointed IMLS director for our grant that funded evidence synthesis training. We were told that our work "no longer serves the interest of the United States."

Rare bit of good news…

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ICE rips a man with legal status in the US away from his family, dumps his wife in the woods, and leaves his wife sobbing; Click to hear his neighbor talk about the ICE CRIME: Link: www.reddit.com/r/50501/comm...

In 1971, shortly after the EPA was founded, the agency commissioned dozens of photographers to document environmental issues and scenes across the U.S. The "DOCUMERICA" project captured pollution, urban decay, conservation efforts, and everyday American culture.

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's