Originally published in Lucire A year ago, we lost our good friend Helen Baxter. This loss was most deeply felt by no one more than her husband and partner of 25 years, Chelfyn. In the past year, he has come across a way to honour her memory. Head to the YouTube channel Zoechelfyn, […]
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Francis Saele posted a link to an article by Steve Carey in Inc. on his Linkedin, and I found it very worthwhile sharing, too—even if Inc.’s firewall comes down on you saying that you’ve exceeded your quota of free articles. (That quota appears to be zero for some of us. Fortunately there are always ways […]
It should be no surprise that “AI” started off being far more ethical, but it has since been corrupted. We know Google fired those who warned about its dangers. Here’s one more perspective via Mastodon, from Fabio Manganiello. (There was no embed code, so this is a copy and paste.) My background is in #AI […]
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Another thing I experienced before others: “AI” scraping causing a substantial increase in bandwidth, notably at Autocade in 2023. In Wikipedia’s case, this happened last year, as the “AI” bots sent their bandwidth up 50 per cent. Casey Newton writes: Post by @caseynewton View on Mastodon The bots steal, do not give attribution, and […]
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I thought Emerald Sky Group had removed its disinformation post, falsely claiming to be working with me and having my endorsement. It’s a blatant attempt to trade off my reputation, even though I’ve spotted articles where their lads are bragging about how good they are. Well, you can’t be that good if you need to […]
There is a lot of disinformation when it comes to politics—and now you know why it was important for me to get rid of the disinformation about me. No, it’s not because anything written about me could have affected an election. But it is about a medium that takes effort to stay clean and usable, […]
After four months, we received another notice from Copytrack—it must be our 14th. As usual, I went back through our digital files and sent them our licence info. But this time, I got rather fed up, since we’ve successfully proved our position 100 per cent of the time, and I think we should be whitelisted. […]
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Hat tip to Stefan Engeseth on this one: an excellent podcast with author, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari. Among the topics he covers, as detailed in the summary in Linkedin’s The Next Big Idea: • AI is the first technology that can take power away from us • if we are not careful, AI […]
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I’m going to have to write off what Disqus owes us. No response to this thread, and no response to a DM I sent at their request. Please DM us your account name and site shortname and we will be happy to look into this for you. — DisqusSupport (@DisqusSupport) July 8, 2022 I assume […]
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Sean O’Grady puts into his opinion piece what so many of us have said. He does it far better than I could. They backed Johnson through the Dominic Cummings scandal, through the resignations of two ethics advisers, through the scandal of a party donor paying for the decoration of his flat, through the mishandling of […]