🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/
The extremely dumb thing about this, like your spellchecker getting worse, is that we had perfectly good specialized models for this purpose that were quite effective and now everyone is paying more for non specialized models for the same tasks, that are worse.
If you have ever lost time and money because companies made it really hard to cancel recurring subscriptions, you should know that the Biden-Harris Administration and the FTC are ending that once and for all.
1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia
2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff
https://t.co/PlfzVCZd4P
Ah the ‘is Rocky Horror problematic’ chat. Through a 2024 lens - of course it is. But babies, being gay was *illegal* in England 6 years before Rocky was first staged in ‘73.
It was brave, bold & brilliant for its time. Look beyond the end of your own nose, just briefly. Please.