My opinion, in brief, is that LLMs cannot legitimately be used to write academic essays.
– Iris van Rooij: Against automated plagiarism
Forfatter: Morten Juhl-Johansen
Efter alt
I don’t understand how COVID is spiking again after we’ve tried everything from pretending it’s over to pretending it never happened
– LordsofHardwired på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Dødvægt i vægtskålen
Jagten på den vundne tid
Fra spade til spadestik
I’ve stopped caring about new tech and become more political because in general we have sufficient technology to make everyone’s lives better.
The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough or good enough technology. The problem is that the people in power aren’t interested in making everyone’s lives better.
– Mallory på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Akademiker-reservat
Antarctica is the most educated continent because everyone living there that can get a college degree has a college degree.
– Rationalwiki: Antarctica
Værdifuldt versus fyldt værdier i
The bug in capitalism is the implicit assumption that people’s willingness to pay for something indicates it is of positive value. People are willing to invest in a Ponzi scheme because of the opportunity to get rich. That doesn’t mean Ponzi schemes have value to society.
Dare Obasanjo på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Kunstig versus manglende intelligens
Tak til altid intelligente SMBC Comics – link til oprindelige stribe
Hvil. I fred om nødvendigt
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
– Clarence Darrow, The story of my life (1922) – (diskussion af citat)
Art of the grift
Do AI art and ChatGPT output qualify as art? Can they be used for art? Sure, anything can be used for art. But that’s not a substantive question. The important questions are who’s getting paid, who’s getting ripped off, and who’s just running a grift.
– David Gerard: Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI