Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.
It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.
It's worth reading all the way to the end.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
A Manhattan federal judge Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action alleging Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its executives intentionally delayed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of a cancer treatment developed by subsidiary Celgene Corp. to avoid making a $6.4 billion payment to investors.
As most of you know, our library is being sued by 4 corporate publishers who want to stop the Internet Archive from lending books. The date for oral argument has just been set for March 20.
What's at stake? Lia Holland from @team elaborates: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-02-23-statement-major-decision-on-libraries-digital-rights-a-step-closer-on-march-20
Judge John G. Koeltl of the Southern District of New York has set March 20, 2023 as the date for oral arguments in four major publishers’ lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. The following statement can be attributed to Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: We’re eagerly awaiting […]
We all have different things that touch us. For some, it's stories on the printed page. For others, songs or spoken narratives. For yet others, photographs.
You may not know that the US government hired Dorothea Lange to photograph the "relocation effort."
She clearly saw the injustice and human tragedy that was unfolding, and documented it unflinchingly.
Her work was censored, and only in 2006 made broadly available.
Take a moment and see what she saw.
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs