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New special issue of GPEM on Evolutionary Computation in Art, Music and Design!
Edited by Penousal Machado and Juan Romero
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-025-09519-4
GPEM journal has a new special issue on "twenty-five years of grammatical evolution"!
Edited and with an introduction by Mahdinejad, Murphy and Ryan.
Special issue: https://link.springer.com/collections/ifgcbejghh
Introduction: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-025-09512-x
Papers follow:
Automating Away What is Dangerous, Dirty, Dull and Difficult - and #Drumming
https://jmmcd.substack.com/p/automating-away-what-is-dangerous?sd=pf
@niemanlab However, I think the "friendly-fire" uses of ChatGPT will be just as influential as adversarial uses.
A lot of people who currently write derivative blog posts with little quality control will now have a slightly easier way to do the same. But gaining attention becomes harder, and *stable online reputation* more valuable. Posting vague or unreliable GPT-text does little damage to reputation now but that will change, I hope.
The Future of Trust: "we will see ChatGPT and tools like it used in adversarial ways that are intended to undermine trust in information environments, pushing people away from public discourse to increasingly homogenous communities"
Janet Haven, @niemanlab
https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-trust/
It's 2048. A busy time in the PI business. It's Friday night, and you're a quarter way through the bottle under the desk. In walks a tall, well-dressed dame-bot. She sits down and lights up. It's been a long week. But you mostly work weekends.
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