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In Mississippi, lawyers on both sides of a court case were caught using AI, essentially two LLMs arguing against each other. The judge dismissed all lawyers from the case and canceled the trial:
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
@natlash.bsky.social compared samples of measles from the US and Canada and found that the Texas out leak last year and the ongoing Utah outbreak strains are very closely related. Just out @propublica.org: projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...
@natlash.bsky.social compared samples of measles from the US and Canada and found that the Texas out leak last year and the ongoing Utah outbreak strains are very closely related. Just out @propublica.org: projects.propublica.org/measles-outb...
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NEW: Donald Trump Jr. invests in a co. trying to build an oil refinery in the U.S.
Then the richest man in Asia invests... in the same company.
Then... his co. gets policy concessions from the Trump Admin.
@josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @justinelliott.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“That is a serious, serious gap in safety.”
A School Bus Killed a 5-Year-Old. The Crash Is Among Dozens Missing From the Bus Company’s Federal Safety Record. By @wmariano.bsky.social @joeljacobs.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social w/ @wbur.org
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
I'm not an optimist, but i want to believe there's some hope for this world when a vaccine skeptic doctor with millions of followers can publicly admit he was wrong about lifesaving vitamin K shots for babies.
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When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.
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