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AI rewriting the content in historical document transcription.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b6qa67q2qrr77rcetegdfbfe/post/3mlrieau4h227
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
National biocontainment facilities to be built in Surrey from next year. So hopefully it'll be just like the opening titles of the movie Outbreak, or something.
I guess that's the final comp.risks
Briefly delighted to learn that one of the cable-laying vessels mentioned in this piece, was previously named "Clark Cable".
https://www.keystone-collective.org/greece-is-building-its-own-internet-turkey-would-like-a-word/
A NATO ally's warships have now challenged civilian cable ships working in Greek waters three times in eighteen months. Each incident, taken alone, could be a misunderstanding. Together, they look like a policy. There is a concept in international relations called the fait accompli, the established fact, the thing that
A reminder that one of the reasons people love AI as you can ask it to justify any dipshit idea and it'll just write whole documents about it being a great idea, write the PowerPoint decks, the Capex requests etc.
One of the many problems is people don't realise they're a dipshit, and giving them an infinite bullshit machine to flood the zone with makes it almost impossible to argue against - you're pissing in the wind.
I remember speaking to someone who, maybe a decade ago, worked at a ride share app company.
They left shortly after a meeting in which the company was looking at ways to slow cities from investing in their public transport.
On its face a business or technology might not be objectionable, but there's an inevitability to the direction that investment demands.
Kevin Beaumont