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Can a media outlet be sued for libel due to #generativeAI errors? We're about to find out. From the NYT article: "The news was featured on MSN.com: “Prominent Irish broadcaster faces trial over alleged sexual misconduct.” At the top of the story was a photo of Dave Fanning.But Mr. Fanning, an Irish D.J. and talk-show host famed for his discovery of the rock band U2, was not the broadcaster in question.“You wouldn’t believe the amount of people who got in touch,” said Mr. Fanning, who called the error “outrageous.”The falsehood, visible for hours on the default homepage for anyone in Ireland who used Microsoft Edge as a browser, was the result of an artificial intelligence snafu.A fly-by-night journalism outlet called BNN Breaking had used an A.I. chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a BNN employee. BNN added Mr. Fanning to the mix by including a photo of a “prominent Irish broadcaster.” The story was then promoted by MSN, a web portal owned by Microsoft.The story was deleted from the internet a day later, but the damage to Mr. Fanning’s reputation was not so easily undone, he said in a defamation lawsuit filed in Ireland against Microsoft and BNN Breaking. His is just one of many complaints against BNN, a site based in Hong Kong that published numerous falsehoods during its short time online as a result of what appeared to be generative A.I. errors."

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It's freaky Friday, y'all. I'm gonna be non-professional for a sec and announce the launch of our limited documentary history podcast featuring the early American radical you've never heard of: the amazing Frances Wright. I've been working on this project for a year with Eleanor Rust, digging in archives, roaming cemetaries, talking to inspiring scholars.See the link below to go to your fave pod-platform and like/follow/subscribe/whatever. First episode drops June 19.Why should you listen? We're at a weird time in the US, one not unlike the era Frances lived in. We're debating the future of gender, class, faith, and race--but that's always been what Americans have argued about. Frances leaped into these arguments, writing books, editing a newspaper (one of the very first women in the US to do so), founding an interracial commune, and giving lectures that often resulted in riots. Walt Whitman loved her, as did Mary Shelley. She was a complicated bad ass... and she's been nearly completely neglected by popular history.Not any more! #history #feminism #abolitionism #femalebadasses

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We forget that when we talk about democratizing content, we're talking about everyone--even evil, spiteful, hateful people. I've been banging on about content moderation in music for a while, and doomsday is here. Music needs to prepare for the hellmouth that social media/UGC sites have faced for decades, thanks to the ease of #AI generation.

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A past peril of pop songs: death by laughter. Women in the early 20th century were warned of the dangers of extreme laughter, which, some reports wailed, resulted in death. "Etiquette columnists even scolded ‘smart ladies’ not to show their teeth, convulse their diaphragms or make any noise at all while cachinnating. (This technique was known as ‘the new laugh’.) Meanwhile, vaudeville houses and nickelodeon storefronts lured in thrill-hungry patrons by blaring ‘laughing song’ phonograph records from outside the theatres. In the wise words of the notorious ‘Laughing Girl’ Sallie Strembler: ‘HAHAHAHA-HEHEHEHEH-HOHOHOHO!!!!’ Loosely paraphrased:Abandon restraint all ye who enjoy themselves here."#ladiesdontlaugh

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Cool lil teeny brains can do cool stuff with way less power... but only live for a few months #organoids "FinalSpark says its Neuroplatform is capable of learning and processing information, and due to its low power consumption, it could reduce the environmental impacts of computing. In a recentresearch paperabout its developments, FinalSpakr claims that training a single LLM like GPT-3 required approximately 10GWh – about 6,000 times greater energy consumption than the average European citizen uses in a whole year. Suchenergy expenditurecould be massively cut following the successful deployment of bioprocessors."https://lnkd.in/g2BsCWVn

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Just as there is really only one airport self-help/biz book and only one music DSP user interface, there is now only one dating app. Form/function collapse

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Every plant species has its own frequency 🤯 "Air bubbles pop as water travels from a plant’s roots up through their stems, emitting an ultrasonic click. Each type of plant that has been studied — wheat, corn, grapevine, and cactus, for example — has a unique frequency."

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For my fellow media nerds: A tracker that follows all the #AI and media outlet deals 👀

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Real talk: If you think certain AI-generated tracks sound better than the overwhelming majority of human-made music, you're listening to the wrong artists. I find stunning new artists more or less daily, with unique, well-mixed (not compressed and clipped to hell), passionately performed songs that say something surprising. I'm not magic; it's all out there. Go and listen more, get curious. AI is mid. Art is real and it's everywhere. We should be very, very grateful for that.

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