It's term time again and I'm back in college. One professor has laid out his AI policy: you should not use an AI (presumably Chat GPT) to write your assignment, but you can use an AI to proofread your assignment. This must be mentioned in the acknowledgements. He said in class that in his experience AI does not produce good results and that when asked to write about his particular field it produces work with a lot of mistakes.

Me, I'm just wondering how you can tell the difference between material generated by AI then edited by a human, and material written by a human then edited by an AI.

While googling around for stuff about them I found this article about a sting Hope Not Hate did on them. They produced a slideshow of doom for a fictional wealthy investor, imagining a proposed eugenicist city state on the Isle of Man.

What is it with these people and islands? Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Nauru. I assume none of them realize the inherent economic and planning disadvantages of building your empire on a tiny island....

Yikes !

Their attitude to kids, based on that nightmarish Guardian interview, is extremely fucked. Hopefully their children will break the cycle.

I am very sure that the only reason they talk about positive eugenics is because negative eugenics, literally forcing some people to not have kids, is taboo. Then again they are pretty stupid and arrogant so maybe they really believe they're breeding superbabies....

The people of Muskogee will have their revenge on Jack Dorsey

A shame. Seems like they were clearly inspired by it .... I guess you can't copyright a vibe.

I hope Toni Basil and the Ting Tings get big royalty cheques.

"Isn't this a racist thing to say? Not according to Hitler!"

Only got a paragraph in because of the cheerful citation of aporia (the big Nazi website)

I love how he goes on and on about how it actually totally makes sense for the average IQ in Malawi to be 60 because most people don't graduate school, ignoring that Lynn's methodology wasn't up to any basic standard

And by love I mean I fucking hate it

I read it in high school. Iirc, the main character in 1984 deeply hates a woman he works with and his violent fantasies about her are tied up in his desire to rebel against the regime. He later overcomes his desire to commit violence against her by having sex with her. His contempt for her fairly leapt off the page when I read it. I'm sure it's arguable what Orwell meant or intended.

In another scene, the middle-class protagonists watch a working-class woman hanging out washing and tell themselves that if there was any hope for freedom, it lay in "the proles" (members of the mass underclass, like that woman). But the way they look at her and talk about her is dehumanizing.

It's probably easier to just read 1984 yourself and make up your own mind. it's not a very long book.

Eurgh. I'm now feeling angry at the thought of someone who is doing a degree in global health but gets persuaded that AI safety is more important.

Isn't this just an economic move dressed up as an ideological one?

If only all those sneaker companies had thought to say they had to move their factories from America to Chinese sweatshops because American workers were too woke.

The backlash already happened - it's been a few years of far right protests against drag shows and prides. Not that it can't get worse!

All that cash Open AI gave to Labour was worth it, huh

I had to use clipchamp for something recently and my god, what an awful, enshittified piece of software. It's sending me emails now!

I am no tech expert but I use tuta for email and disroot for forms, pads and file sharing.

Wow, this is like the 12 inch single of Blue Monday that supposedly cost more to manufacture than they made on sales. But shit.

Ahh I remember this article, it removed my illusions about lab grown meat. Thanks for bringing it back

That too - a significant section of the tradcath subculture spends most of its time fulminating against "Bergoglio" these days.

Also, if they happen to be the pro-Russian/anti-Ukraine kind of right-wing shithead, then the political alignment of some Orthodox churches may be amenable.

The left did not push Elon Musk away. The left has fundamentally different interests and values to the billionaire and alleged rapist.