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"Tangled Terms: How We Talk About Transformative Agreements"
#OpenAccess

Broncos predicted to save Cowboys from themselves via blockbuster trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos/news/broncos-predicted-save-cowboys-themselves-blockbuster-trade/4b6c86d02df7fefad…

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A morning of Swedish jollification in the village shop here in Galloway, Scotland, in honour of Sankta Lucia.

Sources: carmakers find a workaround for chip shortages amid Nexperia's internal battle, buying wafers from its Dutch arm and then shipping themselves to China (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb384dae-e927-469e-bd7f-c82b7760b9f5

From where I sit, I don’t think it’s a trap. It’s been clear for a while that they’re digging themselves deeper in a hole the longer they keep doing what they’ve been doing, and that they’re going to need to declare “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” so they can switch to some different awful thing.
However, this is very much a “don’t let your guard down” moment. They’re gearing up for some different horrible thing. They’re not disappearing.
https://nrw.social/@elala/116058473879752331

"You put your nightmares up there, you put your dreams up there and people can see them better because they can stand outside of it and recognise themselves inside it."
—Holly Hunter
#acting #coaching

Submitting to an academic conference and once more am completely amazed that people who call themselves academic technologists use LaTeX to make PDFs to communicate their research. This is by far the worst widely-adopted software I've ever used, and I really hope I don't ever use it again. Awful nonsense, which I think is only still in use for the purposes of gatekeeping other disciplines away from interacting with computer science.

It’s always so weird when someone you looked up to and liked suddenly out of nowhere starts defending “AI”, especially uninvited (e.g. when you have a conversation with someone else on social media).
I think it’s a reflexive way to try to distract themselves from them knowing that AI has tons of problems yet they’re still using it because it’s convenient in some fashion.
Sure landmines are convenient too for some uses, yet…