Reina @Reina@antabaka.me

@Wolven US cops spend on average 71 hours on gun training but only 21 hours on deescalation. Total police training is about 750 hours for US vs 4000 over hours for Germans and almost 5500 hours for Finland.
source: BBC

never change, the onion, never change

These models are bad at facts and figures, as some have already pointed out in response to this thread. They are crap at fact-checking, too!

But you know what ChatGPT is great at? Creating misinformation. It is Mansplaining-as-a-Service (I wish I had invented this term!).

It generates confident-sounding plausibly-looking factually-incorrect text. Generating misinformation just became whole lot faster and cheaper!

Meanwhile, we only have a precious few overworked fact-checkers. 👀

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something i’m interested in (for no real reason): if you have used multiple kinds of (microblogging) fedi servers, do you have a preference? and if so, what is it?

(boost if you want to! no pressure)

So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

@andrew [points at the sign]

it spreads

If you’re a trans person in the UK get yourself on a GIC waiting list. It doesn’t matter what stage of your transition you really at, it doesn’t even really matter if you’re not sure you need the GIC yet. Get yourself on the list. You’ll probably receive some pushback from your GP, remind them that you’re required to give you a referral.

The reason why I say this is because I know a lot of trans people who leave getting a GIC referral until well after they’ve started private care, which is something that can cost a lot of money. Furthermore, if the UK keeps going the way that it’s going you’ll probably need that gender dysphoria diagnosis

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Artist Jonathan Harris and his painting titled “Critical Race Theory”.

Yesterday, I had my first experience with that silly chat bot being used in class. We were researching the current SCOTUS justices and their confirmation processes and I realized several students were using the chat bot for research. They said "it's so much faster than Google." I definitely did an old man eye roll and also laughed because the information it gave them factually was incorrect.

This future is stupid.