Category: WTF (Page 2 of 2)
STAND WITH UKRAINE 🇺🇦
Luckily the researcher had told us that they had carried out their research using ChatGPT. In response to being asked about articles on this subject, the AI had simply made some up. Its fluency, and the vast training data it is built on, meant that the existence of the invented piece even seemed believable to the person who absolutely hadn’t written it.
Huge amounts have been written about generative AI’s tendency to manufacture facts and events. But this specific wrinkle – the invention of sources – is particularly troubling for trusted news organisations and journalists whose inclusion adds legitimacy and weight to a persuasively written fantasy.
A government official in India has been suspended after he ordered a reservoir to be drained to retrieve his phone.
It took three days to pump millions of litres of water out of the dam, after Rajesh Vishwas dropped the device while taking a selfie.
19 students and 2 teachers lost their lives at the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, a year ago, on May 24, 2022. May these innocent lives rest in peace.
Not much, if anything has changed for the better. More guns. More mass shootings. Americans, as a whole, appear to have become desensitized to mass killings that occur with alarming regularity. In the year since 21 people were killed at Robb Elementary School, the US has seen at least 600 other mass shootings.
NY Times » How grief has warped the lives of the Uvalde shooting victims’ families and friends.
Mother Jones » The Uvalde Massacre Could Have Been Prevented had it not been for the disastrous police response
Axios » Politicians have expanded gun access in the US since Uvalde
Bloomberg | NBC | Politico | Washington Post
CBS » Some colleges and universities are investing in and accept donations from the same oil companies that drive global warming.