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I’m a law professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech.

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As a person who just flies, it's absolutely impossible for me to tell how much of this is a shift from the past versus increased reporting now that Boeing's in the spotlight

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/24-injured-after-technical-problem-latam-sydney-auckland-flight-nz-herald-2024-03-11/

jtlg,
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@annmlipton I don’t even know how a plane could do this.

jtlg,
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@annmlipton I get this on an abstract level, but I think I will need to find an explanation that gets into relative velocities and does some calculations for me to actually believe it.

jtlg,
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@annmlipton I repeat, I still don’t know how a plane can physically do this. Are they equipped with downward lateral thrusters? Someone is going to have to explain this with force diagrams and high-school-level equations before it makes any sense to me.

jtlg, to random
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In the most New Jersey story of the week, the man who dunked his head in a pickle barrel turned himself in. The pickles could not be reached for comment.

https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2024/03/customer-who-dunked-head-in-pickle-barrel-at-nj-deli-may-need-plea-dill.html

jtlg, to random
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Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet.

In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines, filters, and moderation systems

Call it Gresham's Law 2.0: bad content drives out good.

I'm starting this thread to document it, because there is a lot happening all at once.

jtlg,
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Fake Funeral Live Stream Scams Are All Over Facebook

https://www.404media.co/fake-funeral-live-stream-scams-are-all-over-facebook/

"Scammers are copying genuine funeral service announcements, making their own Facebook accounts, then directing vulnerable victims to a fake livestream page. “It causes panic on the day where you shouldn't be thinking of that,” one impacted person said.”

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

"Savvy SEOs at big media publishers (or third-party vendors hired by them) realized that they could create pages for ‘best of’ product recommendations without the need to invest any time or effort in actually testing and reviewing the products first."

#greshamslaw20

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Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food on DoorDash and Grubhub

https://www.404media.co/ghost-kitchens-are-advertising-ai-generated-food-on-doordash-and-grubhub/

"It’s common for advertisements to stage or edit pictures of food to make it look more enticing, but in these cases the ghost kitchens are showing people pictures of food that literally doesn’t exist, and looks nothing like the actual items they’re selling, sometimes because the faulty AI is producing physically impossible food items. "

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/

"We have recently been getting bombarded with Instagram Reels of influencers explaining how they make five figures a month by using AI to create tons of viral TikTok pages using stolen celebrity clips juxtaposed next to Minecraft gameplay footage."

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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Tech writer Kara Swisher has a new book. Enter the AI-generated scams.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/amazon-ai-fake-books-authors/

"Swisher looked at the screen and saw a book claiming to be a new biography of her, with an image on the cover that she immediately pegged as an AI-generated fake. … A closer look suggested that the book itself might be largely or entirely AI-generated, substituting generic descriptions of Swisher for factual details or anecdotes."

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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My Robotic Doppelganger Is The Grim Face of Journalism's Future!

https://foreverwars.ghost.io/my-robotic-doppelganger-is-the-grim-face-of-journalisms-future/

"On the zombie edition of the Washington Independent I discovered, the piece I had published more than ten years before was attributed to someone else. Someone unlikely to have ever existed, and whose byline graced an article it had absolutely never written."

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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Google Is Finally Trying to Kill AI Clickbait

https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-artificial-intelligence-clickbait-spam-crackdown/

"Google is taking action against algorithmically generated spam. The search engine giant just announced upcoming changes, including a revamped spam policy, designed in part to keep AI clickbait out of its search results."

#greshamslaw20

jtlg,
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The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.

https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization

"Bit by bit, the internet has been remade in Google’s image. And it’s humans — not machines — who have to deal with the consequences."

#greshamslaw20

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[I can't prove this one is related, but I have a strong hunch that it is.]

Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-is-your-news-site-going-out-of-business

[TPM's programmatic advertising revenue declined from ~$1.7M in 2016 to ~$75K in 2023.]

"If you look at that graph you can see that if your business was ads and remained ads you’re toast."

#greshamslaw20

jtlg, to random
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Some companies speedrun the content moderation learning curve. Others have 43-part letsplays where they die in the same early boss fight over and over and somehow manage to get the tutorial level into an unwinnable state.

jtlg, to random
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Today I learned that “carbonated Skittles energy drink” is a thing, with about as much caffeine as a triple espresso shot.

https://cellucor.com/products/c4-energy-x-skittles?variant=39651511631934

jtlg, to random
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SDXL Lightning is (a) remarkable (b) nightmare fuel.

https://fastsdxl.ai

I prompted it with “Elmo” and what came out is more like Five Nights on Sesame Street

luis_in_brief, to random
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TFW when an academic paper on colonialism is paywalled. :thonking:

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief But is it on SciHub?

jtlg, to random
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Sotomayor: I came into this thinking there are different functionalities for websites. Social media, email, etc. This law might be legitimate as to some sites. Maybe direct messaging should give you notice, or have a 30-day period. Why at this stage, on a facial challenge, should we say there's no legitimate sweep?

A: It was passed with viewpoint discrimination. It also is shot through with content-based provisions

jtlg, to random
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Q: You could have brought an as-applied challenge limited to Facebook and YouTube.

A: We think this statute is unconstitutional in all its applications.

Q: But on remand, it's still a facial challenge. There's nothing to sort out on remand, For practical purposes, it's done.

A: There's the whole merits. We haven't won on the merits yet.

Q: All or nothing.

jtlg, to random
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It's time for the NetChoice oral arguments. I've got my headphones in and my browser open, and will try to live-tweet through it. I really have no idea what to expect.

jtlg, to random
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Ed Lee on Matthew Sag on Tim Lee and me on the generative-AI copyright lawsuits:

https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2024/02/25/must-reads-timothy-lee-grimmelmann-sag-on-ai-lawsuits-samuelson-on-remedies-destruction-of-ai-models/

luis_in_brief, to random
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Oooooooooooooof.gif https://octodon.social/@derwinmcgeary/111983740022658876

jtlg,
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@luis_in_brief sometimes the dunk exposes a deep truth, and sometimes the dunk makes it harder to see the problem

jtlg, to random
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“To even entertain the idea of building AI-powered search engines means, in some sense, that you are comfortable with eventually being the reason those creators no longer exist.”

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

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Matt Levine: “I think sometimes about Ted Chiang’s essay arguing that popular fears about runaway artificial intelligence are really about modern corporate capitalism, that modern corporations actually do what we worry superintelligent AIs might one day do. … Here, the AI chatbot was benevolent and human; the corporation was not.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-20/bill-ackman-s-stocks-went-up?srnd=undefined

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