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What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?
Yeah I need way more money than anyone ever got before. I need it because my shit is difficult right now. But it's important in ways even I haven't been able to work out. OpenAI is a serious business. Help me. Please help me please my serious company is so good. Help me
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/o...
December 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.
www.unep.org
December 28, 2024 at 8:02 AM
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!
www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
If you use AI or allow your students to use it, you’re contributing to the destruction of the planet. Please consider a ban on AI in your classes. Here’s my AI policy if you want a model.
December 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
If you use AI or allow your students to use it, you’re contributing to the destruction of the planet. Please consider a ban on AI in your classes. Here’s my AI policy if you want a model.
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
/hollering to be heard over the deafeningly loud sound of sleigh bells "Folks," defector.com/the-2024-hat...
The 2024 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector
[walks out to greet you as you pull into my circular driveway] There you are! Oh my goodness, look at you! You look so festive! Why don’t you leave your bags in the breezeway for now and come on in? A...
defector.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
/hollering to be heard over the deafeningly loud sound of sleigh bells "Folks," defector.com/the-2024-hat...
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in order to best position ourselves for positionality we strive to activate audiences through organic interactive experiences and authentic brand moments that tap into core tentpoles and build runways for brand activations through leveraged influencers and talent to deliver for distribution partners
The $82.5 million sale of "Hot Ones" studio First We Feast is part of a broader strategy at BuzzFeed to shift away from human editors, writers and content producers in favor of artificial intelligence, which result in "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
BuzzFeed sells "Hot Ones" studio for $82.5 million as it pursues more AI-driven content
The company said the sale will allow it to depend less on human-created content in favor of "high-margin, tech-enabled revenue lines."
thedesk.net
December 13, 2024 at 6:22 PM
in order to best position ourselves for positionality we strive to activate audiences through organic interactive experiences and authentic brand moments that tap into core tentpoles and build runways for brand activations through leveraged influencers and talent to deliver for distribution partners
What a surprise that UCLA has decided not to “liberate” (in their own words) the poorly paid TAs from grading. Other universities similarly prohibit TAs from using the very AI they’re pushing to grade.
UCLA is creating an entirely AI-generated course. Except apparently the grading won't be AI-generated. 🤔
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comp...
Comparative lit class will be first in Humanities Division to use UCLA-developed AI system
The textbook for Zrinka Stahuljak’s winter 2025 course is generated by the Kudu platform.
newsroom.ucla.edu
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM
What a surprise that UCLA has decided not to “liberate” (in their own words) the poorly paid TAs from grading. Other universities similarly prohibit TAs from using the very AI they’re pushing to grade.
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
Wish I could buy ads for the good.store on BlueSky. But since I can't: Give the gift of good store this holiday season! Coffee! Tea! Puzzles! Socks! Soap! Shampoo bars!
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
Good Store
Founded by John and Hank Green with the belief that humanity can be good news. At Good Store, we’re searching the world for the best versions of the products that you use daily, like socks, coffee, or...
good.store
November 21, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Wish I could buy ads for the good.store on BlueSky. But since I can't: Give the gift of good store this holiday season! Coffee! Tea! Puzzles! Socks! Soap! Shampoo bars!
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
The thing that kills me is you don't need a time machine to understand this. My buddy is in his 80s and grew up on Iowa. He point blank said as a kid sometimes other kids just died. That was his childhood.
I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
November 16, 2024 at 3:48 AM
The thing that kills me is you don't need a time machine to understand this. My buddy is in his 80s and grew up on Iowa. He point blank said as a kid sometimes other kids just died. That was his childhood.
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I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though.
November 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM
I'm totally done with X/Twitter. I will still be doing my banking there, though.
Reposted by Lauren Grewe
google 2012: here's how to make tacos
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
October 8, 2024 at 4:41 PM
google 2012: here's how to make tacos
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
google 2018: here's where to BUY tacos NEAR ME
google 2024: hard shell tacos are made from fried corn tortillas, while soft shell tacos are medium or large freshwater turtles with oval-shaped shells covered by skin
Being on Bluesky while Twitter self combusts feels kind of like survivor guilt.
July 1, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Being on Bluesky while Twitter self combusts feels kind of like survivor guilt.
Today I hauled a fridge and freezer worth of food to the trash bin. Our Samsung fridge seems to leak less when it’s at room temperature. Fun times we’re having in midtown.
June 22, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Today I hauled a fridge and freezer worth of food to the trash bin. Our Samsung fridge seems to leak less when it’s at room temperature. Fun times we’re having in midtown.