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@jackiefishman my honest advice is just to skip this discourse because it's so inane and is the same thing that comes up every few months, but if you want to get annoyed ... https://t.co/9OF3OVmFYn
like everyone else i watched with cringe seeing that pr person crash out yesterday. good pr people surely rolled their eyes, because they know she wasn't talking about them, and good reporters rolled their eyes because ... come on, man, seriously? just silliness all around.
reality check: i've been getting a *ton* of 2FA requests over the past few weeks for a bunch of different services. like at least once a day for a handful of things (microsoft, uber, apple, linkedin (??), and a few others). is this just me or is anyone else seeing this?
and, tbh, just the fact of it happening is still useful information. if a heartfelt explanation of someone's convictions is some jumble regurgitated back from a prompt, that says enough in itself
i think it's gonna be sooner rather than later that people see stuff like this and just shrug. to be clear: i think that's fundamentally horrifying and awful for society, our brains, our culture, and there's basically no upside to that development, but i do think it's coming
NEW: Haley Stevens may have leaned on AI to generate an essay explaining her choice to endorse Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race.
The post includes recognizable AI-isms. A Pangram analysis contends that it was likely 90% AI.
https://t.co/HWz15gM17e
again, it's not that i think that's okay. it's just so widespread that we're going to become inured to it, because if we got ourselves in a tizzy over every instance, it's all we'd talk about. sort of an incidental, inadvertent variation of the "flood the zone with shit" strategy
@AGoldmund This was one of my favorite podcast episodes like ever, just amazing. (Also that line about buttons being a promise is incredible, how did she think of that??)
@TaylorLorenz I know this isn’t exactly what you had in mind, but start consulting if you have time. It basically subsidizes my business, that’s where the real money is for independent folks (who don’t do ragebait, anyway)
So. Im on a United flight. It has Starlink. I told my wife it had Starlink. She facetimed me so I could say goodnight to my son (he’s a toddler). It worked perfectly. Like crystal clear. Cabin crew IMMEDIATELY told me I couldnt be on the phone during the flight and asked me to hang up.
I said “It’s via Starlink?” - they said no sorry. I hung up, without question.
Discuss?
@bendreyfuss lmao i'm poking around my soulcycle profile (lol the denver one closed cuz no one went there, myself included) and literally today is 10 years since my first class ever, your bday class!