I hate how it’s being used as a scapegoat, and is letting rich assholes get away with the typical laziness that they have always employed.

AI is a fucking tool. That’s it! If you use it to write slop, that’s on you, not the LLM.

Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.

But, regardless, nobody gets laid off for reporting sexual harassment.

Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.

What the fuck is an oblast?

“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?

Well, this land should be public land, anyway.

Who the fuck “owns” mountains? I don’t own a fucking mountain. Only nature owns mountains. Give it back to the public, instead of encouraging this nightmare ownership scenario.

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

No. See also: Shareholder Primacy.

Brexit was a Russian op.

The company’s response was an auto-reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.

My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.

Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.

Well done… this is probably the best version of the Saddam meme.

The Prototype series.

Nope, not really. You occasionally find them in some old government building, but only because it’s always existed that way, and they just don’t want to bother replacing it with a modern digital clock.

This line of thinking is the same as saying cursive writing is worth teaching.

Old-world journalism in general has relied far too much on outside contractors, especially for technical subjects, who shop their articles around various outlets. It has dragged their reputation down because they no longer have an identity as a collection of like-minded journalists. Instead, it’s the same collection among all of the news sources with varying levels of quality, mostly poor because they can’t make it as real non-contracted journalists. They don’t even report on the same subject all the time, just shifting around to whatever they want to talk about without understanding the subject matter at all.

Not exactly in this case, because this guy is an in-house “media editor” who has no clue what he’s talking about, but generally speaking.

So, are we saying we’re still going to be happy with a system that you can bypass with “ignore all previous instructions” or some stupid magic phrase like that?

Nobody is bitching about photoshopping, a thing that exists and almost anybody can do to put some person’s face on a naked body or whatever situation they want. It’s existed for decades. Suddenly, journalists are inventing a new moral panic with LLMs, saying they can do whatever they want with pictures, despite the fact that this technology already existed, it’s just a little bit easier now. It’s not a new problem, so reporting on it is just shifting the blame to a new boogeyman.

See, the magic formula is to slap the word “AI” on a headline and boom, instant attention! It doesn’t matter what it’s about, if it’s a new problem, if it’s only slightly related to the main root cause… As long as you’re talking shit about every angle around AI in the most extreme ways possible, mission accomplished. It is outrage reporting because there is no solutioning or historical context. The sole purpose is the outrage, because outrages generates clicks. It’s too hard for journalists to think outside the outrage box.

Trump’s still president for two more years after that. Robert Reich appears to be injecting the good stuff.

Because they are fucking old. Old clocks. Useless clocks. Not a skill worth teaching, except as an anachronism when explaining why Big Ben and similar building clocks work the way they do.

it appears children have fallen out of practice doing so in an increasingly digital world.

Increasingly? Brother, we’re already there. It’s all digital. Have you seen the internet yet?

Schools haven’t adapted solely out of spite, to propagate this self-fulfilling cycle of teaching how they work, so that their own students can read school clocks. As soon as they leave the school zone, that knowledge is practically useless to them.

No, not really.