Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.
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Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes (www.theverge.com)
Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and the challenge of stopping it from spreading....
Religious 'Nones' are now the largest single group in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material (arstechnica.com)
Apparently, stealing other people’s work to create product for money is now “fair use” as according to OpenAI because they are “innovating” (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES (www.sagaftra.org)
this agreement is causing a great deal of distaste in VA spaces this week, perhaps best exemplified by this tweet which asserts that the deal was not sent to membership. as far as i can tell through the grapevine a lot of VAs concur that this was foist upon them suddenly and they were given no chance to vote on it or similar,...
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8149733...
Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (1ft.io)
Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents “flaws” and “failures.”...
Male players: Why do you play female characters? (kbin.social)
Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls....
Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions (meta.stackoverflow.com)
The original post uses "roll-up" instead of "catch-all" for some reason....
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp (slate.com)
What if Quebec Had Voted For Independence? (piped.video)
I know this isn’t a very popular topic across Canada, but its still an interesting video.
Each Bitcoin transaction uses 4,200 gallons of water — enough to fill a swimming pool — and could potentially cause freshwater shortages (www.tomshardware.com)
Ad blocker uninstall rises due to YouTube ban (samrome58.substack.com)
AI-generated child sexual abuse images could flood the internet. A watchdog is calling for action (apnews.com)