Jordan-117

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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
*DoD Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Nobody would have an issue with that. The problem here is DoD insisting on that kind of control, then threatening and retaliating against Anthropic for declining to participate rather than simply walking away and engaging with a competitor.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Why is DoD contracting with Anthropic exclusively rather than OpenAI or Google? Their models are all roughly as powerful and they seem both more capable and more willing to cozy up with the military (and this administration) than a relative
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Hasn't the state of the art in genAI tools been making its way to open source/local inside of a year? Between that and pressure from Chinese firms, it would be hard for the current leaders to monopolize and enshittify their produc
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
What's pretend-rhetoric about it? They're positing agents will prove to be very capable, but that this would ultimately be a bad thing by automating away too much of the economy. You can argue whether that's plausible or not,
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
I could maybe see the worth of this if it was a $60k medical bill to save a dying cat. But even a successful clone will only be physically identical, not behaviorally. And it feels like the resemblance would just magnify all the differenc
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
They apparently did a find + replace across their database to change the Nora alias to the blogger's name. So any archives of content referencing her would instead point to him, muddying the waters and blaming him for anything she was
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Seems more like Ars trying to avoid piling more attention on the name of a person that isn't actually involved. And again, the accusation against Archive.today isn't just that they removed their "Nora" alias from a snaps
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Specifically, they changed a "commenting as: [their alias]" UI element to "commenting as: [name of the blogger they were fighting with]". Compare (the changed element is near the very bottom of the page; replace the &quo
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
The accusation is not that they alter pages at all -- they obviously need to in order to make some pages readable/functional, bypass paywalls, or hide account names used to do so. The Wayback Machine does something similar with YouTube
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Even if they did, so what? There's nothing wrong with a news article removing personal information as a precaution. It's light-years away from altering the content of an archival snapshot in order to target someone else.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Silently? It tells you right there in the article: "Nora [last name redacted]". Maybe they could add a more fulsome explanation in an editor's note but it seems pretty obvious in context. If AT is appropriating some random pe
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Interesting theory. It would also be a good way to subtly undermine the viability of news outlets, not to mention the insidious potential of altering snapshots at will. OTOH, I'd expect a state-sponsored effort to be more professional
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
There's a pretty massive difference between altering a snapshot to make it archivable/readable and doing it to smear and defame a blogger who wrote about you.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Follow-up: maybe you're confusing Ars Technica with Wikipedia, whose admins did redact Nora's last name from discussions? If so, that's a weird equivalence to draw, since the change was disclosed and done to protect persona
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
They didn't just remove her name, but replaced it with the target's name. I don't know what you're talking about re: Ars removing her name from old articles.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Did you not read the article? They not only directed a DDOS against a blogger who crossed them, but altered their own archived snapshots to amplify a smear against them. That completely destroys their trustworthiness and credibility as a so
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Killing legislators or physically threatening them into overturning the results. But siccing the mob was just a last-ditch move. The main plan was sending fake electors with fraudulent certifications and counting on Pence to derail the form
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
It's definitely worse, I'm just saying one shouldn't lay the blame entirely on the government here -- CBS is an eager partner in this, not a victim.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
You can call your local affiliate to complain: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-tv-stations-affiliates/ Better yet, call their advertisers: https://stopmediabiasnow.com/cbs-advertisers/ Watch
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
It's a change Carr has publicly contemplated making, but hasn't yet. This is more about CBS under Ellison-controlled Paramount (who is on a quest to consolidate a conservative media empire) to curry favor with the administration b
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Tbh, in this case the fault lies more with CBS for obeying in advance. The FCC hasn't actually made the rule change yet.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Elsewhere I've seen a post from the author talking about how his old articles hit so many of Wikipedia's identified signs of AI-generated text. As somebody who's own style hits many of those same stylistic/rhetorical tec
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
The clear difference between this and Stephen Glass-style confabulation is intent. There's no indication Edwards knowingly, deliberately invented quotes. It was a clumsy mistake.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
That site (9o3o) is actually a web frontend for Flashpoint, so totally legit!
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Yes, it's all user-curated: https://flashpointarchive.org/datahub/Curation_Tutorial
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
It's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
More alarmingly, the laser weapon was deployed before the FAA actually shut down the airspace: https://apnews.com/article/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-close... I'd say these trigger-happy clowns chasing tough-guy
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
They're not equivalent in value, obviously, but this sounds similar to people arguing we shouldn't allow same-sex marriage because it "devalues" heterosexual marriage. How does treating an agent with basic manners detrac
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by Jordan-117 8mo ago
Reminds me of the staggering number of people who don't get marginal tax rates, even thinking they should pass up certain raises so they don't get pushed into a higher tax bracket and pay a higher rate on their whole salary.

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