These fashions are skilled on textual content scraped from the web, together with all of the poisonous, foolish, false, malicious issues people have written on-line, which they then regurgitate as reality.
When tech firms scrape the web once more, they scoop up AI-written textual content that they use to coach greater, extra convincing fashions, which people can use to generate much more nonsense earlier than it’s scraped time and again, advert nauseam. This drawback—AI feeding on itself and producing more and more polluted output—is just going to develop except we act, and act shortly. Learn the total story.
—Melissa Heikkilä
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The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to search out you at this time’s most enjoyable/vital/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 Elon Musk hasn’t stated if he’ll step down or not
As an alternative, he’s (lastly) questioning whether or not Twitter polls are a sensible technique to make selections. (The Guardian)
+ The moments which have outlined Musk’s Twitter tenure up to now. (WP $)
+ The corporate is quickly altering underneath him, typically hourly. (Vox)
+ Does it actually matter if Musk is CEO or not, provided that he owns Twitter? (The Intercept)
+ Invoice Gates thinks the corporate is stirring up digital polarization. (FT $)
+ Mastodon has gained greater than two million new customers since Musk took over. (The Verge)
2 China is making an attempt to dwell with covid
The federal government’s resolution to shortly abandon its zero-covid technique has left officers struggling. (NYT $)
3 Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to be extradited to the US
Nevertheless it’s not clear when. (Reuters)
+ He spent his first week in jail watching motion pictures and studying articles about himself. (NY Magazine $)
+ Right here’s simply a few of the issues SBF spent one million {dollars} on. (FT $)
+ It’s okay to decide out of the crypto revolution. (MIT Expertise Assessment)
4 Negotiators have struck a landmark deal to guard the planet
If profitable, it’ll shield at the least a 3rd of all land and water by 2030. (Vox)
+ Why the oil-rich Gulf is investing closely in clear vitality. (Economist $)
+ Local weather motion is gaining momentum. So are the disasters. (MIT Expertise Assessment)
5 Lethal strep A infections could possibly be spreading throughout the US
An outbreak within the UK has killed 16 kids, and the US could possibly be subsequent. (Wired $)
