Professor Sinclair said the SRY test could only determine whether or not the gene was present.
A searing essay that says out loud what should be, but probably isn’t, obvious about the corporate stenography so ubiquitously passed off as journalism.
I think it’s been so broadly normalized over decades, many folks that still have jobs in the U.S. journalism industry don’t even often notice they’re doing it.
Regrettably, it’s not contained to the US.
Manson told us that he’s not surprised to see GitHub doing this with an AI model, but he said it’s pretty offensive to see the Raycast ad inserted by Copilot into his own PR like he wrote it.
“I wasn’t even aware that the GitHub Copilot Review integration had the ability to edit other users’ descriptions and comments,” Manson told us. “I can’t think of a valid use case for that ability.”
A GitHub rep says: “the behaviour became icky”. Huh, no kidding!
In fact, the $6.5 million trial didn’t even conduct a single real-world evaluation of how kids would try to get around the scheme.
The shortcomings of the teen social media ban might be coming home to roost.
The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own.
Wikipedia editor, Ilyas Lebleu, who goes by Chaotic Enby on Wikipedia and who proposed the guideline said that it seemed unlikely the policy will last because previously the editor community has been divided on the issue. However, Lebleu said “The mood was shifting, with holdouts of cautious optimism turning to genuine worry.”
Sometimes I like to go on side quests. These are some of them.
An adventure through the vagaries of search engine suggestions.
A Mastodon bot posting anonymous edits to the English language Wikipedia originating from Australian government networks. Just for fun I also built an experiment to watch Wikipedia edits in real time.
I help organise the Brisbane chapter of Hacks/Hackers, an event series where people get together to discuss the intersection of storytelling and technology.
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