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Thanks, Liberty. I'd love to read it. (No obligation, of course, but feel free to send it to (my full name)@outlook.com)

That sounds really interesting! Can you give me an example of a strange agent? (Or point me in the direction of some good writing on it? Maybe yours?)

"If I had to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages and ninety-nine would be blank. On the last page I should write: ‘I recognize only one duty, and that is to love.'" - Albert Camus (Notebooks vol. I)

"... novelist Sally Rooney had no Twitter account—this must explain her prolific output. But the logic is back to front: it’s only top-selling authors who can afford to forgo social media. Call it Deactivation Privilege." #writingcommunity

The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age | The Walrus

Why are we letting algorithms rewrite the rules of art, work, and life?

"Do we want to drown in a sea of virtually generated influencers that steal celeb voices to read AI-generated scripts and then ask you to buy their affiliate products, thank you, please?" #writingcommunity

The Begging Creator Economy

Ernest Hemingway, the House of Medici, and AI bulls conspire to (not) pay creatives on the internet

I didn't do a fancy graphic with the proper font yet, but submissions are open now! 🪐 500-2,500 words 🪐 £0.02 per word 🪐 no fee 🪐 1-14 Oct open for writers who are members of marginalised groups 🪐 15-31 Oct open for everyone sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds...#SFF#Horror#LitMag

"Perhaps the cruelest irony is that we’re traumatizing people to create the illusion of machine intelligence. The trauma inflicted on human moderators is justified by the promise of future AI systems that will not require human intervention." #technology#AI

The Human Cost Of Our AI-Driven Future | NOEMA

Behind AI’s rapid advance and our sanitized feeds, an invisible global workforce endures unimaginable trauma.

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

AI be gaslighting more than ever "... bigger, more-refined versions of LLMs are, as expected, more accurate,... That is good news. But they are less reliable: among all the non-accurate responses, the fraction of wrong answers has increased... *pretending* to be knowledgeable..." #technology

Bigger AI chatbots more inclined to spew nonsense — and people don't always realize

Artificial-intelligence models are improving overall but are more likely to answer every question, leading to wrong answers. Artificial-intelligence models are improving overall but are more likely to...