Microsoft tried something bold,
Using AI to tell a story to be told
Suggesting a food bank as a tourist site,
In a place where hunger's not such a plight
But after the outcry not a minute too late
Microsoft retracted their words before they sealed their fate

#microsoft #ai #foodbank #tourism #poetry

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-retracts-ai-written-article-advising-tourists-to-visit-a-food-bank-on-an-empty-stomach-182701884.html

‘If you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries.

Are they voting to fund their libraries?
Are they voting to keep them free?

Then vote for those guys.
They're probably the good guys.

And by the same token, the book burners, the book banners, they're probably the bad guys.’

— @neilhimself

https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/

@bookstodon #libraries #news #reading #politics #usa #books

More #ElonMusk #news
X has threaten to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by #Elon. He whined their research seems intended ‘to harm Twitter’s business by driving advertisers away’ with ‘incendiary claims’.

[What's attracting hate speech customers is just one factor that's driving normal customers away. Advertisers don't like that, so they leave.]

#Mastodon #Sunday
#Twitter #twittermigration

The main "alignment problem" we face today doesn't have anything to do with #AI

"The paperclip-maximizing, grandparent-devouring transhuman colony organism that calls itself a Private Equity fund is endlessly inventive in finding ways to increase its profits by harming the rest of us. It's not just hospices – it's also palliative care."

via @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/05/any-metric-becomes-a-target/

Why Meta’s move to make its new AI open source is more dangerous than you think

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23817060/meta-open-source-ai-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-llama2 #Vox #news

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

OpenAI quietly pulled its AI Classifier, an experimental tool designed to detect AI-written text: "As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy."

#OpenAI #AIClassifier #writing #language #artificialintelligence #AI #generatveAI #neuralnetwork #llm #machinelearning #technology #tech

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openai-discontinues-its-ai-writing-detector-due-to-low-rate-of-accuracy/

U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case in Our Nation’s History

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/trump-trial-2024-historic-jack-smith-indictment.html

#Slate #TrumpTrial #USvTrump #MostImportantCase #NationsHistory #JackSmithIndictment #Politics #News

Donald Trump scored a partial victory in a defamation lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania election worker, who claimed the former president’s rhetoric about the 2020 vote led to death threats against him and two heart attacks.

Judge Michael Erdos granted Trump immunity from two of the claims in the 2021 lawsuit by voting-machine supervisor James Savage. He’d alleged Trump damaged his reputation by falsely claiming Savage tampered with the 2020 election
#Trump #news

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-31/trump-gets-partial-immunity-in-election-worker-s-defamation-suit?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner