When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don't even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

I'm in the 40% that can't afford it and am not going to be able to in my lifetime.

The absolute insanity of me!

I just want to say, I am so so so sorry you had to see that.

I accidentally saw some CSAM in the 1990s and you are right, it is burnt into your mind. It's the real limit case of "what has been seen cannot be unseen" - all I could do was learn to avoid accessing those memories.

If you can access counselling for this, that might be a good option. Vicarious trauma is a real phenomenon.

Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

I have had this feeling too recently. One thing I did which has helped me is to unsubscribe from most news/politics except here at Beehaw.

For starters, nearly all of the imaginary women generated by the site have cartoonishly large breasts

That wasn't my experience when I went there just now. I think maybe it learned from the author's preferences more than the author realises.

I went there and clicked "pass" on everything and it generated a range of different body types of AI women. There were also way more heads without bodies than bodies without heads.

I found another article that gives a few numbers.

One mental health worker in the western province of Herat who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals said the Taliban had barred health professionals from publishing or sharing statistics on suicide, which had previously been published regularly.

Herat had the most reported suicide attempts of the provinces for which data was obtained: 123, including 106 by women. There were 18 reported deaths, 15 of them women

One of my loved ones is in hospital (in another town) so I'm really hoping they are okay.

I still feel really shy about posting here, but I'm trying to be more myself on the internet lately. Or in general.

I didn't even realise he is trying to look tough. He looks anxious.

Thanks, interesting stats in this article.

Just a guess but climate change events (and corresponding headlines) have really ramped up in the last three years.

And as the saying goes, there are no pockets in a shroud.

I have several hypotheses:

• the same force that stops them decaying also stops their hair from ever getting mussed up, falling out, or growing longer

• only we can't see their reflection, they themselves can see it

• vampires are essentially a representation of a parasitical upper class and as such they look like idealised wealthy aristocrats

Thanks, that's a fascinating read, especially the part about the decisions which distorted women's voices. It reminds me a bit of the choices made with early colour film stock, which was so bad at dark skin tones.

Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice.

As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince).

As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word.

Then there's the permanent kidney failure...

It's quite weird. I thought the article was going to be about how an eating disorder helpline had to withdraw its AI after it started telling people with EDs how to lose weight - which really did happen.

It feels like maybe the editor told the journalist to report on that but they just mucked around with ChatGPT instead.

I’m in America, so for me, “East Asia” is actually the far west. For them, America is the far east.

It's not the far west of Asia though. It's the east part of Asia.

Similarly, you are from North America. Where I live doesn't change that about you, because it's a position relative to the land mass we call "America" not to the location of whoever happens to be speaking.

I'm not OP but the author's starting point is about the expression of solidarity with a group of ordinary people, and how this is being undermined by media. Pretty sure this kind of solidarity is part of socialist praxis?

Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable.

I don't think it was meant to be reassuring. @rayyyy@kbin.social is right, don't mess around with fungi. You can get irreversible kidney damage.

I don't think the 13 year old was in any position to make an informed choice. Many people grow up to hold very different beliefs to those of their parents.

I'm not buying the family's claim that there was no mental illness involved with the mother, either.

Tangential observation: if people weren't fast enough to dodge an out of control bus or not strong enough to escape an attacker, that doesn't somehow make it less tragic to most people. It's strange to me that it's somehow different when it comes to death stemming from low innate intelligence.

That tracks.

Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.

I understand your concerns but: sometimes the role of an ally is to listen, to acknowledge, and to bear witness.

Not to jump in screaming "here I come to save you". The immediate knee-jerk focus of "should we invade" is galling, sure, but I don't think the alternative needs to be to let's all look away and block our ears.

Knowing what other people in this world are going through is important part of being a human.

When I met someone who is in exile and I was familiar with the basics of why she is an exile, that mattered to her.

I'm just one ill woman in a small country of 5 million, but when I saw some people online warning that their country had just blacked out their internet, the fact that I was already up to speed with the implications in that context meant I could immediately contact our foriegn affairs minister to ask we send a signal that the world is watching -and I got a reply, too, about the diplomatic actions we were taking.

When I protested Apartheid I was just a child. Years later, I found out some of those suffering under Apartheid had heard of our tiny country's protest and taken comfort from it at that time.

No, I did not solve anyone's problems, and nor did they want me to - but it still matters.

It's both.

Different people are suffering from climate anxiety, fear, dread, unease, rage, terror, grief, denial, angst, anger, avoidance, etc.

There is no One Size Fits All when it comes to how we feel about this stuff.

That's ludicrous.

This is the first I'm hearing about this person but it sounds like another clown show, distracting everyone and sowing chaos while disaster capitalists profit.

This is really sad. The boy was only 13 when they went out there.

It's a bunch of crimes.

He illegally imported endangered species parts.

Then he cloned them and implanted an embryo which meant he ended up with an endangered species clone.

Then he got hold of wild Montana sheep and bred them with his clone.

With the intention of using them in captive hunting parks, it's illegal to use wild game in captive hunting in his state.

The whole time he was repeatedly moving his frankensheep across state lines using forged vet certificates.

There was a time in my life where I got one meal a day for a few cents from charities.

On the weekends we had to sit through a religious sermon before they let us eat, and I will never forget how it made me feel to sit there for a full hour listening to this smug arrogant man lording it over us and telling us how he was so powerful he could materialise his body on other planets but he chooses not to because he is more enlightened than we are.

I'm waiting for the part where the US insurance companies are discovered using that data en mass to increase premiums and deny coverage.

That's going to be my "I told you so".

Yes, it was quite good. They didn't really cover all his genocide crimes. I guess it would take a book.

Germany, France and Spain also have killed and kidnapped citizens.

You may wish to rephrase that...

I was a bit offended by tourists doing that mmhmm thing until I found out that it's considered polite in the US.

I was interpreting it as "yes I know you are thankful to me, and so you should be! By the way, I'm an oaf."

And they may sleep better because they are healthier. It's most likely part of a cascade of effects.

Things like food insecurity affect cortisol levels in young children, for example. Poverty takes a physical toll.

I had a funny experience of this recently. I was looking for conservation and found what I thought was an empty "Conservative" community over on kbin so I started posting conservation articles there.

Turns out it did have one poster but they are banned by Beehaw so I only saw them when I was logged out. Anyway he was annoyed and told me Conservative is a political term meaning conserving traditions.

So I started posting articles about conserving traditions, especially about how conserving the traditions of Indigenous people is good for the environment. But he still complained.

They ended up polling the !conservative@kbin.social community to see what it should be about, majority voted for environmental conservation anyway.

Definitely, but it wore off after two or three years. Perhaps longer for some of the songs.

Maybe it's because I live in a country where the police don't carry guns (and sex work is legal), but I found it really hard to put my finger on exactly what they are advocating for here.

They seem to be saying that police only exist to enforce middle class interests? I don't think that's entirely true.

I would like to see more change in how policing is done, but the idea that communities self-police is idealistic. Sure they do in some ways, but it can be just as selective and just as damaging as anything police do.

Be careful with ChatGPT. It sometimes gives medical advice that is harmful.

Berson = Beehaw person.

I don't understand why you would make this joke.

Is this story a political talking point in the US or something? It just sounds super sad to me.

This article is about something that was in the movie, though.

The closer we get to the bomb’s completion, the more marbles go into the bowl. But there’s no mention in the film of where two-thirds of that uranium came from: a mine 24 stories deep, now in Congo’s Katanga, a mineral-rich area in the southeast.

As the marbles steadily filled the bowl onscreen, I kept seeing what was missing: Black miners hauling earth and stone to sort piles of radioactive ore by hand.

It was a stylistic choice, as the author confirmed with Nolan at the premiere. Compare with, say, the opening of Uncut Gems where the stylistic choice was to show the conditions in which it was mined.

Personally I think this article is well worth reading. In the West, a lot of the general public's knowledge about colonial activities in DRC is sort of frozen somewhere around the 19th century.

I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.