Testimony started w/a bang last week as David #Pecker, the fmr publisher of The #NationalEnquirer, said that he had entered into a secret plot w/ #Trump & #MichaelCohen to #CatchAndKill negative stories about Trump as he ran for president in 2016. #GaryFarro, the 3rd to testify, started off w/dry details about banking transactions. But #Farro is leading us to the #HushMoney payment
Today’s testimony & the texts being shared provide a look at the sleazy negotiations that were occurring behind the scenes in early Aug 2016, while #Trump was the #Republican nominee & only a few months #out from being elected. Publicly, at this time, Trump was consolidating a skeptical #GOP establishment behind his candidacy. Privately, his fixer, #MichaelCohen, was discussing the finer points of a #HushMoney w/ #KarenMcDougal & the owner of The #NationalEnquirer.
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The Weekly Injection: New Releases From JUDAS PRIEST, SONATA ARCTICA & More Out Today 3/8
Plus releases from Skeletal Remains, Midnight, Gost, and Exhorder
#AI#GenerativeAI#Web#Search#SearchEngines#Chatbots: "The Browser Company’s new app lets you ask semantic questions to a chatbot, which then summarizes live internet results in a simulation of a conversation. Which is great, in theory, as long as you don’t have any concerns about whether what it’s saying is accurate, don’t care where that information is coming from or who wrote it, and don’t think through the long-term feasibility of a product like this even a little bit. Or, as Dash put it, “It’s the parasite that kills the host.”
The base logic of something like Arc’s AI search doesn’t even really make sense. As Engadget recently asked in their excellent teardown of Arc’s AI search pivot, “Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?” But let’s take a step even further here. Why even bother making new websites if no one’s going to see them? At least with the Web3 hype cycle, there were vague platitudes about ownership and financial freedom for content creators. To even entertain the idea of building AI-powered search engines means, in some sense, that you are comfortable with eventually being the reason those creators no longer exist. It is an undeniably apocalyptic project, but not just for the web as we know it, but also your own product."
"AI search is about summarizing web results so you don't have to click links and read the pages yourself.
If that's the future of the web, who the fuck is going to write those pages that the summarizer summarizes? What is the incentive, the business-model, the rational explanation for predicting a world in which millions of us go on writing web-pages, when the gatekeepers to the web have promised to rig the game so that no one will ever visit those pages, or read what we've written there, or even know it was us who wrote the underlying material the summarizer just summarized?
If we stop writing the web, AIs will have to summarize each other, forming an inhuman centipede of botshit-ingestion. This is bad news, because there's pretty solid mathematical evidence that training a bot on botshit makes it absolutely useless. Or, as the authors of the paper – including the eminent cryptographer Ross Anderson – put it, "using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects":" https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle
Some Saturday mornings, I look at the week's blogging and realize I have a lot more links saved up than I managed to write about this week, and then I do a linkdump. There've been 14 of these, and this is number 15:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
With a tenth of the population and workforce, they think they are owed half the country’s CPP. This should be a last straw insult. Canada should have its own referendum on kicking Alberta out, land-lock them, stop subsidies and payments, impose its own charges for anything flowing out, sue for all damages from excessive emissions and say good riddance.
Tonight, AEW is LIVE from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois! AEW's second PPV in as many Sundays begins at 7pm with ZERO HOUR on Youtube and continues at 8pm on PPV! The card for ALL OUT includes:...
Watch the #highlights from the main event of #fultoninoue featuring #naoyainoue and #stephenfulton In the fight, it was all Inoue scoring a highlight reel ko......
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AEW PRESENTS: ALL OUT! Discussion Thread 09/03/23
Tonight, AEW is LIVE from the United Center in Chicago, Illinois! AEW's second PPV in as many Sundays begins at 7pm with ZERO HOUR on Youtube and continues at 8pm on PPV! The card for ALL OUT includes:...
All The Angles of Naoya Inoue Highlight Reel KO of Fulton | Now Unified Champion | FIGHT HIGHLIGHTS (youtu.be)
Watch the #highlights from the main event of #fultoninoue featuring #naoyainoue and #stephenfulton In the fight, it was all Inoue scoring a highlight reel ko......
Just BRISBANE Things BRISBANE CRIME OUT OF CONTROL! Did you know?
_> What lies, tard? That Australia is a pozzed cuck state that America bosses about? That Brisbane (Based QLD, kek) is full of Jeets?...
Ancient humans traveled half the world to Asia before main migration out of Africa (www.science.org)
Discovery deep in Laotian cave shows humans voyaged out of Africa by at least 68,000 years ago