AI is worse than useless. It is easily the single most destructive force Silicon Valley has invented in the last fifty years.
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
I cannot over-emphasize the colossal loser energy of taking a platform where once the biggest stars in the history of popular culture voluntarily posted original content every day because they enjoyed it into a pyramid scheme where the worst dipshits on earth pay to be fake friends with each other.
Update to a story from last month: a lawyer who submitted a list of non-existent cases made up by a legal software AI feature has now been referred to the professional standards body. He has also apologised and voluntarily paid the other party's costs www.crikey.com.au/20...
my iPhone step counter and standing notifications thing is constantly telling me I reached various goals while I was seated and completely immobile. I think it’s correct not to rely on that as a data point
This is really is an astounding collection of talents. To name just a few: Jeff Tweedy, Waxatachee, The War on Drugs, Bluesky heroes @themountaingoats.bsky.social, and my personal favs, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.
