There's an enormous difference between reading and teaching the toned-down book and AI-generating a persona to answer student queries based on that neutralized archive. And that's just one problem with this form of historical fantasy-spinning. 10/n
wind's picking up....... we're close...........
Sonja Drimmer
I can’t stop thinking about this bike line I rode on along the waterfront in Seattle. I almost cried.
The threat level is the highest it’s ever been which is why we’re having a massive event at the White House where the president and much of his cabinet will join thousands of members of the public for many hours.
It’s a little on the nose for the weather channel to be airing an episode of tornado alley focusing on DC being destroyed by a tornado rn
This is a problem because as Naomi Seidman addressed (Faithful Renderings), the language of Wiesel's revenge fantasies in the original was radically toned down in English translation to create a more docile narrator. 9/n
The defense is: "we use a vetted set of authorized texts for the purposes of training AI to generate responses to questions." Aside from the uncanny valley horror of necromancy that such automated history-telling incites, there's also the issue of sources being processed like this w/o context. 7/n
BREAM: What would set the threat level at right now?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: It's the highest it's ever been