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"The advent of #AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences... #LLM synthesize their own answers, treating content such as...text, code, music, or image.as digestible raw material. Writers and other creators risk losing the connection they have to their audience, as well as compensation for their work" #chatbot #ChatGPT #LargeLanguageModel
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/generative-ai-search-llmo/678154/
"The cause of saving the planet has become a trillion-dollar business, a global scramble in which wealthy nations are looking to the developing world not just for natural resources, but for nature itself. The wealthy players include...Europeans, Americans, Arabs and Chinese. #African political leaders are enthusiastic about what so-called green foreign investment might mean for their own economies" #conservation #safari #tourism #wildlife #environment #GreenInvestment
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ"Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds"
CW: photos of meat processing:
The article is about a new report called: "Still butchering the planet". PDF here:
Key findings:
🔪 Since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015, over half a trillion dollars in credit have been provided to the world’s largest 55 industrial livestock companies – an average of $76.9 billion per year – fuelling the expansion of global meat and dairy production.
🔪 As of March 2023, a total of $323.3 billion in shareholdings and bondholdings were held by private financial institutions in the world’s largest 55 big livestock companies.
🔪 Expansion of meat and dairy production is completely at odds with the imperative to restrict global temperature rise in order to avert
catastrophic climate change.
🔪 Despite this, our analysis shows that finance for big livestock companies is on the rise. In the four
years between 2019-22, there was an overall 15% increase in finance to the 55 big livestock companies
compared to 2015-18.
🔪 Just five of the 55 companies – JBS, Marfrig, Cargill, Tyson Foods, and Minerva – combined cause an
estimated 595 million tonnes CO2-equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions per year1, more than the
total emissions of the UK and Ireland2.
🔪 At company level, Barclays is the largest global creditor to JBS, Morgan Stanley is the largest global
creditor to Tyson Foods, and BNP Paribas is the largest global creditor to Cargill.
🔪 The biggest creditors to the top 55 big livestock companies were: Bank of America ($28.8 billion), Barclays ($28.2 billion) and JPMorgan Chase ($26.7 billion).
🔪 The biggest investors in the top 55 big livestock companies were BlackRock ($37.8 billion), Vanguard
($24.4 billion) and Capital Group ($21.4 billion).
🔪 To mask their impacts, livestock companies are increasingly resorting to creative accounting, pulling the wool over investors’ and regulators’ eyes.
#meatIndustry #BigMeat #BigDairy #banks #finance #investor #slaughter #slaughteringThePlanet #butcheringThePlanet #Cargill #JPMorgan #BlackRock #Barclays #BoA #Vanguard #Capital #Tyson #Minerva #JBS #Marfig #climateChange #deforestation #biodiversity #pollution #sustainability
"US govt sends the #dairyindustry billions of dollars each year [in subsidies] ...These subsidies also incentivize overproduction...currently over 1 billion pounds of cheese and millions of pounds of butter [are] stored underground...Each year, millions of gallons of milk are dumped on fields or sent down drains. 29% of school children throw away govt-purchased milk cartons — unopened" #vegan #bigdairy #milkalternatives #oatmilk #govsubsidies #environment #veganfood
https://www.eater.com/24120058/dunkin-alternative-milk-surcharge-class-action-lawsuit
https://www.eater.com/24120058/dunkin-alternative-milk-surcharge-class-action-lawsuit
Joanna Bryson, blatheringThe Deaths of Effective Altruism | WIRED
The EA saga is not just a modern fable of corruption by money and fame, told in exaflops of computing power. This is a stranger story of how some small-time philosophers captured some big-bet billionaires, who in turn captured the philosophers—and how the two groups spun themselves into an opulent vortex that has sucked up thousands of bright minds worldwide.
https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/
"The computing industry isn’t just fast-moving. It’s also reckless...Instead of operating with a deep understanding or respect for law, policy, justice, health,
...tech firms tend to do whatever they want...If colleges of computing serve to isolate young, future tech professionals from.. another school’s culture and values—engineering’s studied prudence, for example, or the humanities’ focus on deliberation—this tendency might only worsen." #computerscience #highered https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/computing-college-cs-majors/677792/
...tech firms tend to do whatever they want...If colleges of computing serve to isolate young, future tech professionals from.. another school’s culture and values—engineering’s studied prudence, for example, or the humanities’ focus on deliberation—this tendency might only worsen." #computerscience #highered https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/computing-college-cs-majors/677792/
AaronWIRED: Here Come the AI Worms
https://www.wired.com/story/here-come-the-ai-worms/
"The American Southwest has become the site of a collision between two civilization-defining trends. In this desert heat, the explosive growth of generative AI is pitched against a changing climate’s treacherous extremes. " #generativeAI #climatechange
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/ai-water-climate-microsoft/677602/
Electronic Frontier Foundation“The amount of people who are surprised by how much data goes elsewhere is a sign that 23andMe isn’t explaining things very clearly,” EFF’s @Thorin told @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/23andme-dna-data-security-finance