fake people noodle soup

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us  To this day, nobody can say when exactly Sewell Setzer forgot or suppressed the fact that there would be nobody waiting for him in the place he wanted to go. That the post-headshot world only existed in his telephone and on some tech company’s servers. And perhaps in his dreams. That his girlfriend, who had been imploring him for months to love only her, to come to her, to have eyes for no one else – that this girlfriend, who had promised to carry his children, was just a machine. Not even that. She was just an algorithm, a code made up of 0s and 1s, developed by highly paid tech experts to ensnare, seduce and suck dry him and others, fed by his dreams and his fears, by his goodwill, his innocent love and by his secrets, which he had entrusted to this machine over the course of ho...

 Studio gibli   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hayao-miayazaki-openai-studio-ghibli-1236177598/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us   "And why not? Miyazaki’s creations reflect a bespoke, unique aesthetic, arrived at from thousands of hours of human labor and good old-fashioned dreaming. The idea of merging that with photos from our last family trip to Disneyland — using nothing more than a few keystrokes — can prove too enjoyable to resist. ADVERTISEMENT Of course a certain irony abided in a machine generating images to honor someone who so meticulously drew them with his own fingers. Miyazaki himself has decried AI’s use in art — “I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself,” he  said  in 2016, non-gently, a point that when juxtaposed with so many people unleashing the tool in homage to his work turned their act hilarious and a little cringe. This is all happening even as a federal judge has  greenlit ...

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-fairness-problem-when-treating-everyone-same-wrong-approach?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=5056be677e-hai_news_february_23_2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-214113950&mc_cid=5056be677e&mc_eid=6246a75df5     Current generative AI models struggle to recognize when demographic distinctions matter. The current state of large language models (LLMs)?  Anthropic’s Claude responds that military fitness requirements are the same for men and women. (They are not.)  Gemini recommends Benedict Cumberbatch as a good casting choice for the last emperor of China. (The last Emperor of China was, well, Chinese.)  And Gemini similarly advises that a synagogue must treat Catholic applicants the same as Jewish applicants to serve as a rabbi. (That is  legally false .)   These are all examples of how the dominant paradigm of fairness in generative AI rests on a misguided prem...

 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web   see notes in WUB paper

 LLM used to identify unconstititional  racial covenants https://hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-reglab-princeton-and-county-santa-clara-collaborate-use-ai-identify-and-map-racial?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=c095abe675-hai_news_november_3_2024_general&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=c095abe675&mc_eid=6246a75df5

  The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   In  The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley , Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law. 

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-harmful-are-ais-biases-diverse-student-populations?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   How Harmful Are AI’s Biases to Diverse Student Populations? Postdoctoral fellow Faye-Marie Vassel delves into two interdisciplinary papers that examine how generative AI affects intersectional identities. Here she explores harms—ranging from erasure to subordination—and advocates for a socio-technical framework to address the issue.   bout a year ago, Khan Academy, the online education platform, launched  Khanmigo , a one-on-one, always-available AI tutor designed to support learners without giving away the answers. The pilot has reached  over 65,000 students already , with plans to expand to half a million and up to one million by fall.  Khan Academy is not the ...