The Omnibus AI Thread

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    Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users

    In short, Meta has decided that if you can't beat the bots, you might as well join them To drive "engagement" they're going to create all kinds of fake profiles that they hope you will think are real people and interact with them. Yeah, not happening.
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    Yeah, don't think we'll really see a difference. Most of social media is already littered with fake profiles. And even the "real" profiles are basically people posting about their fake lives.
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    Been retracted.

    I'm not sure "lost capitalisation of proper nouns" is a mark of AI anyway. Most journals want papers submitted using LaTeX, which is a stylesheet/html-like formatting tool. By default, it will only capitalise the first word of a sentence, so in one of my recent submissions we found abbreviations like DNA were being reverted to lowercase, as were names of countries etc. We got around this by encapsulation i.e. {A}merica or {DNA} but I could see some submissions using stylesheet options to do so and thus reverting back if some editor applies the wrong stylesheet to a submission (they are separate files).
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    I had my first day of spring classes today, and I told my students that the main reason not to use AI to write their essays is because AI isn't actually intelligent, it's just an algorithm that compiles bits and pieces of consensus from around the internet.
    I warned them that when they use AI, it won't sound like them, but we'll see if that matters one bit. I'm teaching a dual enrollment class this semester, and I'm hoping they care enough that it makes a difference.
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    AI Could Pump Out More Air Pollution Than All Of California’s Cars In Five Years

    One of the tech reporters that I follow has a bit of a scattershot track record of picking things that'll be hits (thought that podcasting was going to be huge, but didn't think that the iPhone would be, for example). And I've noticed that there's a certain tone to his statements when he makes pronouncements that turn out to be wrong. His tone about AI being huge in the future is like that of when he's wrong, so I'm thinking that there's a good chance we'll see a big implosion soon.
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