USA Today bestselling writer - also swordsman & scientist on the side! Loving life and working to make it better for folks around me, one day at a time.
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8 Aug 2023
Again, folks: this was never AI. Some writer made that up, and nobody else bothered fact checking before going cyber-bully on the guy. There was no machine learning involved. Literary analysis is fair use, assuming he downloaded the books from his library.
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8 Aug 2023
I don’t think the stats are super useful either. However, this sort of literary analysis is always protected by fair use laws, IF the books were legally obtained. If he downloaded them all from his library, it’s 100% legal. He denies using pirate copies.
7 Aug 2023
No, these stats are NOT useful.
No, you could not generate these stats without STEALING all these books (and I sincerely fucking doubt Benji Smith paid for all the books he used for data collection).
Yes, I am mildly intoxicated.
blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down…
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8 Aug 2023
This would make sense if there was actually an AI being trained. But the site never involved AI use in the first place - that was an incorrect assumption someone made - so this is a cautionary tale on cyber-bullying, not an AI issue.
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8 Aug 2023
Not gonna debate AI with you either. But Prosecraft didn’t involve machine learning. Someone thought it did, panicked, and then others spread the panic without fact-checking. This was a literary analysis tool, not an AI.
8 Aug 2023
Prosecraft is no more. Why? Because writers got pissed. Because we won’t take shit and let our work be fed into machines. The fight is just starting, but we’re in this for the long haul. (Not gonna debate AI with anyone, so save your “it’s just like using a calculator” comments)
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7 Aug 2023
Fact Check Cont.
6. Again, illegal immigration is down since he took office.
7. Source? Haven’t heard that one.
8. False. Border has NEVER been open. Same controls are in place as during Trump, minus COVID restrictions.
9. Which has no evidence yet, or the House would impeach.
6 Aug 2023
McCarthy thinks Joe Biden is a fine president, no reason to impeach him.
He’s either blind, stupid, or he thinks we are.
Here, @SpeakerMcCarthy, are 9 REASONS to impeach Joe Biden:
1- He opened our border during his own pandemic lockdown.
2 He allowed millions of UNVACCINATED illegals in, while forcing you and me to get injected or lose our jobs.
3- He left Americans behind in Afghanistan.
4- He has Alzheimer’s.
5- He started a war with Russia.
6- He has added to the homeless crisis by bringing in 15,000,000 illegals.
7- He allowed unverified foreign agents into our country without caring who they are or what they plan to do here.
8- He facilitated the trafficking of guns, drugs, women, and children by leaving the border open.
9- The Biden grift allegations.
God SAVE America 🇺🇸
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7 Aug 2023
Fact check:
1. The courts required this.
2. Illegal immigration is sharply down since Biden took office.
3. No, he didn’t. But he DID leave allies in the lurch, which wasn’t cool.
4. False.
5. Patently false. Russia started a war with Ukraine, and NATO is helping Ukraine.
6 Aug 2023
McCarthy thinks Joe Biden is a fine president, no reason to impeach him.
He’s either blind, stupid, or he thinks we are.
Here, @SpeakerMcCarthy, are 9 REASONS to impeach Joe Biden:
1- He opened our border during his own pandemic lockdown.
2 He allowed millions of UNVACCINATED illegals in, while forcing you and me to get injected or lose our jobs.
3- He left Americans behind in Afghanistan.
4- He has Alzheimer’s.
5- He started a war with Russia.
6- He has added to the homeless crisis by bringing in 15,000,000 illegals.
7- He allowed unverified foreign agents into our country without caring who they are or what they plan to do here.
8- He facilitated the trafficking of guns, drugs, women, and children by leaving the border open.
9- The Biden grift allegations.
God SAVE America 🇺🇸
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7 Aug 2023
Technically not a lie. The metrics we use to measure economic health are good indicators for large corporation health and top 1% income health. The disparity in wealth in the US is at its highest point; this means the overall economy can be good without it being good for all.
7 Aug 2023
I paid $4/gallon for gas today in Florida
It only cost $3.29 a few weeks ago
They’re lying about the health of this economy
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4 Aug 2023
At present, there’s precisely one AI which claims to have consent for all AI training: ProWritingAid. None of the others do. Not Photoshop’s healing brush or generative fill. Not Google search. Not Bard or Bing or ChatGPT. Not Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. Not Dragon. Not Siri.
1 Aug 2023
We’re not banning AI. Our policy requires that projects:
✅ Involve human creative input
✅ Credit and obtain permission for any artist's work that it references
We want Kickstarter to be a place where creators can embrace emerging tech. But it's crucial to continue honoring and supporting the humans behind creative work.
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4 Aug 2023
OK, there’s a few issues with this. :) I get a blanket ban is not desirable or possible. However, this release is vague as heck and isn’t helping folks figure out what you will and won’t allow.
1 Aug 2023
We’ve been paying attention to the conversation about AI. Today, we’re announcing an AI policy, shaped by feedback from our creators and backers, that directly lays out how we’ll approach Kickstarter projects that involve AI. updates.kickstarter.com/intr…
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3 Aug 2023
False. None of the indictments had ANYTHING to do with statements made challenging election results. That’s not illegal. Marco, I think you need reading glasses, maybe? Because that’s NOT what the indictment says. Liar, liar, pants on fire?
2 Aug 2023
Apparently it is now a crime to make statements challenging election results if a prosecutor decides those statements aren’t true.
So when should we expect indictments of the democrat politicians who falsely claimed Russia hacked the 2016 election?
Community note
This week’s criminal indictments of former President Trump explicitly state that it is not a crime to challenge elections or to make false statements about them.
The indictments allege Trump and co-conspirators took actions to commit fraud and impede government functions.
scribd.com/document/66246…
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31 Jul 2023
So the stuff about Grammarly announcing they were using our stuff for AI training was made up, turns out. Not real.
31 Jul 2023
We replied here and hope you also find the information to be helpful and reassuring: gram.ly/3Ozfiv4. Rest assured, what you write when using Grammarly remains private, and Grammarly is completely safe to use. (2/2)
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30 Jul 2023
To be fair, Facebook, Google Docs, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Cloud, Google Drive, and other apps have similar wording. This isn’t unique to Grammarly. Mostly free apps, and we all know if we’re not paying we are the product. But if they’re doing this with paid customers..? Less OK.
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28 Jun 2023
The idea that negative interactions with humans around us causes harm to mental health is not even vaguely new. You need to read your Marcus Aurelius. ;)
27 Jun 2023
That "microaggressions cause harm" is now accepted by my field of clinical psychology despite no experimental evidence and only weak evidence that PERCEIVED microaggressions are associated with worse mental health is really wild.
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28 Jun 2023
Google Scholar gives me 22,200 links to studies on ‘microaggression harm’. While some of those are likely less reliable, surely SOME of them are valid? scholar.google.com/scholar?h…
27 Jun 2023
That "microaggressions cause harm" is now accepted by my field of clinical psychology despite no experimental evidence and only weak evidence that PERCEIVED microaggressions are associated with worse mental health is really wild.
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28 Jun 2023
They’re not AI - just badly machine translated works from Asia - and they’re not controversial. This has been happening for years. Most of the problem books have already been taken down, and Amazon is busily shutting off their KDP accounts right now to ensure they don’t get paid.
27 Jun 2023
With the controversy around AI books invading the KU store, I decided to review one of them.
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25 Jun 2023
That is, thankfully, not true of ANY modern doctor’s office. Any doctor who is doing as this person says is doing so *intentionally*, and you should go get a new PCP. #RN
25 Jun 2023
Biological females not being notified of cervical screening because they are registered with GP as male.
Biological males showing up to clinics believing they have a cervix because they identify as female.
Medical mayhem caused by ignoring biology and diluting language.
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25 Jun 2023
(con’t.) Therefore, we need to approach AI regulation with that in mind. AI text gen can’t be spotted; if we try, we will accidentally catch 25% human gen text in our net, with that % higher every year until it’s 100%. Solutions need to keep that in mind.
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25 Jun 2023
(cont.) More, this will not get better. With each update, AI text gen gets closer to human, increasing the error rate. We can’t embed codes or metadata because on text, OCR or even save as TXT removes that. AI gen text will *never* be able to be IDed accurately. /2
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25 Jun 2023
Main reason is ID of AI text generations doesn’t work. It’s about 90% accurate at spotting GPT4 work; but it ALSO catches 25-50% false positives. If Amazon were to use the BEST id tech we have, they would remove *at least* 25% of all human written stories from their store. /1
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