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  • takeda@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
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    4 days ago

    IMO tech bros’ main goal for this technology is to use it to manipulate public opinion on social media. It is perfect for it and the “daydreaming” (bullshitting) is perfect.

    Notice that all social media are involved in it, Twitter was “sold” to xAI, the recent incident with Grok about South African apartheid. The 10 year ban to regulate it by states etc.

    They talk about it increasing productivity (and are hoping that it could be used for that too), but if people would know it is meant for disinformation, they would be even more against skipping copyright for it.

  • takeda@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
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    8 days ago

    The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History

    House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor. By Jonathan Chait House Speaker Mike Johnson Kevin Dietsch / Getty May 22, 2025, 9:21 AM ET

    House Republicans worked through the night to advance a massive piece of legislation that might, if enacted, carry out the largest upward transfer of wealth in American history.

    That is not a side effect of the legislation, but its central purpose. The “big, beautiful bill” would pair huge cuts to food assistance and health insurance for low-income Americans with even larger tax cuts for affluent ones.

    Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, warned that the bill’s passage, by a 215–214 margin, would mark the moment the Republicans ensured the loss of their majority in the midterm elections. That may be so. But the Republicans have not pursued this bill for political reasons. They are employing a majority that they suspect is temporary to enact deep changes to the social compact.

    The minority party always complains that the majority is “jamming through” major legislation, however deliberate the process may be. (During the year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act, Republicans farcically bemoaned the “rushed” process that consumed months of public hearings.) In this case, however, the indictment is undeniable. The House cemented the bill’s majority support with a series of last-minute changes whose effects have not been digested. The Congressional Budget Office has not even had time to calculate how many millions of Americans would lose health insurance, nor by how many trillions of dollars the deficit would increase.

    The heedlessness of the process is an indication of its underlying fanaticism. The members of the Republican majority are behaving not like traditional conservatives but like revolutionaries who, having seized power, believe they must smash up the old order as quickly as possible before the country recognizes what is happening.

    House Republicans are fully aware of the political and economic risks of this endeavor. Cutting taxes for the affluent is unpopular, and cutting Medicaid is even more so. That is why, instead of proudly proclaiming what the bill will accomplish, they are pretending it will do neither. House Republicans spent months warning of the political dangers of cutting Medicaid, a program that many of their own constituents rely on. The party’s response is to fall back on wordplay, pretending that their scheme of imposing complex work requirements, which are designed to cull eligible recipients who cannot navigate the paperwork burden, will not throw people off the program—when that is precisely the effect they are counting on to produce the necessary savings.

    The less predictable dangers of their plan are macroeconomic. The bill spikes the deficit, largely because it devotes more money to lining the pockets of lawyers and CEOs than it saves by immiserating fast-food employees and ride-share drivers. Massive deficit spending is not always bad, and in some circumstances (emergencies, or recessions) it can be smart and responsible. In the middle of an economic expansion, with a large structural deficit already built into the budget, it is deeply irresponsible.

    In recent years, deficit spending has been a political free ride. With interest rates high and rising, the situation has changed. Higher deficits oblige Washington to borrow more money, which can force it to pay investors higher interest rates to take on its debt, which in turn increases the deficit even more, as interest payments (now approaching $1 trillion a year) swell. The market could absorb a new equilibrium with a higher deficit, but that resolution is hardly assured. The compounding effect of higher debt leading to higher interest rates leading to higher debt can spin out of control.

    House Republicans have made clear they are aware of both the political and the economic dangers of their plan, because in the recent past, they have repeatedly warned about both. Their willingness to take them on is a measure of their profound commitment.

    And while the content of their beliefs can be questioned, the seriousness of their purpose cannot. Congressional Republicans are willing to endanger their hold on power to enact policy changes they believe in. And what they believe—what has been the party’s core moral foundation for decades—is that the government takes too much from the rich, and gives too much to the poor.

  • takeda@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Just Deported Another U.S. Citizen Child With Cancer
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    1 month ago

    Actually all news I see, including most of people were know about, including many human trafficked to CECOT were starting here legally.

    Abrego Garcia for example came illegally, but since 2019 he actually was documented, he even had work permit and he had yearly checkups with ICE.

    Many were in the process of applying for asylum, again that was the proper and legal way.

    Those people were caught, because it was the easiest, as they had opening cases in courts and weren’t hiding anything.

    MAGA claimed that they had problem with undocumented ones from gangs, but are cheering when people who put all the effort are being deleted or worse sent to gulag.

  • takeda@lemm.eetopolitics @lemmy.world•Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakesEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Absolutely this. LLM basically is trained to be good at fooling us into thinking it is intelligent, and it is very good at it.

    It doesn’t demonstrate how good it is in what it is doing, it demonstrates how easy it is to fool us.

    My company provides copilot for software engineering and I use it in my IDE.

    The problem is that it produces code that looks accurate, but it often isn’t. I frequently tend to disable it. I think it might help in area where I don’t know what I’m doing, so it can get some working code, but it is a double edged sword, because if I don’t know what I’m doing I will not be able to catch issues.

    I also noticed that what it produces when correct, I can frequently write a simpler and shorter version that fits my use case. It looks very likely like code you see students put on GitHub when they post their homework assignment, and I guess that’s what it was trained on.