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Technology@beehaw.org•Hundreds of OpenAI staff tell board to resign or they'll quitEnglish
30·2 years agoRemarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.
I am so confused.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to KnowEnglish
2·2 years agoAh that explains it. Thanks!
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to KnowEnglish
11·2 years agoI thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.
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World News@beehaw.org•John Oliver's campaign for puking mullet bird delays New Zealand vote for favorite feathered friendEnglish
7·2 years agoThe top result is already out. Obviously the John Oliver fans got their wish and Pūteketeke won. Thousands of them had to be disqualified for cheating, though.
We are all waiting now to see who is in second. Fingers crossed for the Fairy Tern, New Zealand’s most endangered bird!
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his criticsEnglish
10·2 years agoI’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his criticsEnglish
16·2 years agoThat tracks.
Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacyEnglish
6·2 years agoApart from my illness support group, I’m only on fediverse social media now, and only via web browser. It’s a breath of fresh air.
I’m realising there are subtle ways that enshittification constrains and shapes actual conversations between us.
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World News@beehaw.org•Nations overwhelmingly vote for humanitarian truce at the UN, as Gazans say they have been ‘left in the dark’English
4·2 years agoWe are “social animals” though. It’s normal for the social animals to attempt to regulate what each other does and how they treat others in the group.
You see this in apes, elephants, whales, etc.
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World News@beehaw.org•Israel-Palestine megathread for the remainder of the weekendEnglish
4·2 years agoI think Medecines Sans Frontiers is good?
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World News@beehaw.org•Zelensky asks to visit Israel in show of solidarityEnglish
2·2 years agoNever has the “Just a moment…” snippet view been more apropos.
Yes, it’s a massive level of cringe.
Gmail is convenient, but if it’s about to be filled with 😊 and 👍 then I’ve got to stop using it for any serious communication.
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World News@beehaw.org•At least 9 Americans killed in Hamas attack on IsraelEnglish
1·2 years agoI agree, it is technically true. Sorry if I sounded too nitpicking, I’ve just come back from a week with no internet access /news so for a moment I thought you were talking about all of them doing it during the events of the last few days!
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World News@beehaw.org•At least 9 Americans killed in Hamas attack on IsraelEnglish
13·2 years agoGermany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.
You may wish to rephrase that…
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Technology@beehaw.org•First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated SelfieEnglish
5·2 years agoYes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.
I couldn’t replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.
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Technology@beehaw.org•First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated SelfieEnglish
98·2 years agoWhen will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?
The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.
No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.
When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.
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World News@beehaw.org•‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalistsEnglish
7·2 years agoI’m just pointing out that he doesn’t have any more allegiance to US foriegn policy than any other non-American has.
If you have a problem with people trying to influence election results in other people’s countries, then you should have just as big a problem with the CIA as you have with Assange.
I’m far from being a fan of his but I am a fan of human rights and this whole thing has been a travesty. And something I notice a lot is the sentiment that Assange should have been loyal to US interests.
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World News@beehaw.org•‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalistsEnglish
7·2 years agoIt scares me how human rights goes out the window when it comes to people who are disliked.
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World News@beehaw.org•‘There simply is no moral high ground anymore:' Stella Assange argues her husband’s situation is used as justification by authoritarian regimes that imprison journalistsEnglish
4·2 years agohis own personal foreign policy
Assange is an Australian.

Article about an AI that aims to give treatment suggestions to doctors, with some alarming results.