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THIS IS HUGE! Would you believe what started as a study on Gila monster venom in the 1980s led to the development of peptide medications, diabetes medications, GLP-1-based therapies, and NOW the FIRST ever FDA approved treatment for severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
December 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Would you believe what started as a study on Gila monster venom in the 1980s led to the development of peptide medications, diabetes medications, GLP-1-based therapies, and NOW the FIRST ever FDA approved treatment for severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
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I regret to announce i’m completely brainrotted by these two. #arcane #jayvik #viktorarcane #jaycetalis
December 21, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I regret to announce i’m completely brainrotted by these two. #arcane #jayvik #viktorarcane #jaycetalis
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
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Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute
Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...
rooseveltinstitute.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Once again, the reason AI is facing a backlash isn’t because people are anti-tech, it’s because this is what AI *actually does* in the world — make services worse and people’s livelihoods more precarious
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This is why there's been such an aggressive, obnoxious push to market AI as an inevitable, essential technology for the future. They desperately need to frame any and all justifiable skepticism as anti-progress cowardice before everyone realises it's actually just common sense to think this is shit.
I cannot express how bad this story is for generative AI. OpenAI is burning hundreds of millions of dollars to try and make GPT-5 a meaningful upgrade, and it isn't working. Where does all of this go? How does this result in anything?
December 21, 2024 at 1:57 PM
This is why there's been such an aggressive, obnoxious push to market AI as an inevitable, essential technology for the future. They desperately need to frame any and all justifiable skepticism as anti-progress cowardice before everyone realises it's actually just common sense to think this is shit.
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Somehow AI bros found this post and trying to use their dumb logic saying “if you’re anti AI, you’re anti reference”
Excuse me???? Maybe fuck off, I do not support AI nor do y’all have a right to take steal images for your AI training and then claim it as “references”
Excuse me???? Maybe fuck off, I do not support AI nor do y’all have a right to take steal images for your AI training and then claim it as “references”
To the people who still say “using refernces is cheating” in 2024; give this to them
Okay then I CHALLENGE YOU to draw an existing tractor from complete memory, you must draw every detail perfect, the brand and logos, the colors, the shades everything must be 100% correct all from your head only
Okay then I CHALLENGE YOU to draw an existing tractor from complete memory, you must draw every detail perfect, the brand and logos, the colors, the shades everything must be 100% correct all from your head only
December 20, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Somehow AI bros found this post and trying to use their dumb logic saying “if you’re anti AI, you’re anti reference”
Excuse me???? Maybe fuck off, I do not support AI nor do y’all have a right to take steal images for your AI training and then claim it as “references”
Excuse me???? Maybe fuck off, I do not support AI nor do y’all have a right to take steal images for your AI training and then claim it as “references”
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December 21, 2024 at 12:54 AM
