Generative-AI models by Meta and others have been trained on a secret trove of more than 170,000 books to gain their power. In a new analysis, Alex Reisner uncovers the authors whose work has been fed into popular AI programs: https://t.co/LO1rivpGEa
@svershbow@lyzl I’m on a class email for someone who has an email address close to mine. I live in Mass. and the school is in Fla. I’ve tried to get out several times, but people auto reply to old emails and it all just starts again. I’m tempted to sign up for things just to mess with them.
Working at a public #library is wild swings between “sorry to bother you/TY so much for your help/it’s amazing this is all here” & “why don’t you have faster wifi/free printing/more Macs?” Yay for the 1st group; to the 2nd, I say, you vote increased library budgets, right?
The provision is called the REINS Act, and is designed to get Congress more engaged in the details of how laws they pass get implemented--by forcing Congress to vote every major regulation up or down. https://t.co/VKTESZPNqZ
@clhubes@zachsilberberg They rebuilt our town’s high school in the lot behind where my kids went to preschool. There was a fence with screening on it. The teachers had them cut away the screening so the toddlers could watch the construction. What a gift to those teachers.