The internet was way better than it is now when there was *more* anonymity. The problem isn't that - it's social media, and specifically, the hyper-algorithmic social media of the mid2010s through now. I refuse to give up load-bearing parts of internet culture so these vultures can keep ruining us.
ok I'm flagging in energy so I'm deploying weapons-grade motivation music
music.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_9...
Ah so LLMs operate like senior male academics. Who could have envisioned that technology trained on existing texts could operate in a fundamentally conservative nature
DINOSAURS ARE COOL
TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT
I don't know if it's inflationary necessarily but I do remember this one from the case book in developmental econ.
me: didn't Laswell produce this?
me: *clicks, hears first notes*
me: yep
Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.
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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
