This is terrifying: a marketer pinged me for quote permission — common for a journalist. Only I didn’t recognize the text as something I’d ever said. Pumping it into Google returned nothing.
I asked where he got it: ChatGPT. AI fabricated a quote and attributed it to me.
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Of course she's brilliant and working with her is the greatest blessing a scruffy music teacher like me could dream of.
But Lucy is what happens when you make instrumental tuition available to disadvantaged children.
Help us to get this message across to those who decide.
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Amid news reports of people struggling to pay energy bills, Shell announces record annual profits of nearly $40bn. That’s more than double $19.3bn S reported in 2021 & breaks the previous $31bn record the oil & gas giant set in 2008
If you represent a defendant who pleads guilty to murder, for all of your advice and all of your preparation and all of your court time, legal aid will pay you £1,484.
25th Nov is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. We will be commemorating known deaths of UK women in the last year where a man has been alleged principal suspect.
Starting at 8am, naming a woman every 5mins, we will still be naming women past 4pm.
I often say the most mind-bending fact about climate is that half of all emissions came in the last 25 years. Maybe even more startling: the weight of that carbon is more than the total mass of everything ever built by humans and still standing on earth. https://t.co/BOaPHQW0cr
To my friends in the media:
This is a time of high drama, I agree. But while you gossip endlesly about who's in and who's out, you have almost entirely ignored the Public Order Bill that was passed in the Commons this week: the most draconian legislation of the modern era.
Ms Oswald-Williams, arrived from Jamaica in the UK in 1962 in her 20s, worked and paid taxes in Britain. She spent most of the 1980s-1990s trying to regain her British status but was forced to travel back to Jamaica when refused free NHS treatment. https://t.co/hQb5eto2Bv
This is important, and I don’t think most folks realize how prison drains money from poor communities as those outside put money into prison accounts for their folks inside to buy food at hideously inflated prices. It’s a national scandal.
There are very few people I’d do this for. But it seems I’m on the train to London to join a very long overnight queue with my dear old Mum.
Here comes a rolling thread about #TheQueue
Schools need libraries.
We are done saying this.
We're going to start building some.
SO
Is there a school - preferably in L5 - that has the need, the desire and the bit of flat ground for a library like this one.
We're going to do this.
"Carrie was a first lady not a politician, despite what her critics said. Her mididresses and boots, long and loose hair in place of a rigid Elnett helmet, brought a breath of millennial life — albeit of the Sloanier variety — to the old place" https://t.co/WHTSLtT7Dw