https://www.404media.co/project-analyzing-human-language-usage-shuts-down-because-generative-ai-has-polluted-the-data/
Wordfreq shuts down because "I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/creator-of-fake-kamala-harris-video-musk-boosted-sues-calif-over-deepfake-laws/
Online influencer "Mr Reagan" accuses California of bullying humorists.
I got a COVID infection a while ago that permanently disabled me pretty bad. Bedridden, unable to move much, etc.
The thing that really helped me was relaxing and listening to music. That’s what I spent my days doing as I couldn’t do much else. I became a real music nerd and just loved the bliss of hearing music.
A little later (two years). I got another COVID infection — I was taking very strong precautions, and couldn’t see anyone. It turns out I got it from my doctor. Anyways, this infection caused some brain damage which has caused me to mostly loose the ability to hear. And now I’m still mostly motionless alone in bed, but I haven’t even got the comfort of sound or music. Just a mostly silent (tinnitus filled) world.
I’m so scared of getting covid again. But mostly I miss the world and my old life. Being stuck alone in bed with only the internet for company sucks. People tend to be arseholes online. I can’t help but feel I got “natural selectioned”. Me and my wife were planning on having kids soon. Now I barely see her and I’m going to slowly die in a nursing home. There are specific genetic vulnerabilities to illnesses, and natural selection works with them (see what Europeans coming to America did). And I got fucked here. COVID was my end.
https://electrek.co/2024/09/19/electric-car-will-fall-apart-before-its-battery-pack-does-study-finds/
A new study of 10,000 electric cars shows that their battery packs should outlast the vehicles themselves. Geotab, an automotive...
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/19/world-has-now-five-times-more-pv-than-nuclear-power/
Authors of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024 the world had 408 operational reactors producing 367 GW in the middle of the year, which is significantly less than installed capacity predictions for solar by the end of the year and five time less the world's cumulative PV capacity, which is now approaching 2 TW.
https://bigthink.com/the-future/ai-model-collapse/
Generative AIs start churning out nonsense when trained on synthetic data — a problem that could put a ceiling on their ability to improve.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4889914-kamala-harris-gun-owner-oprah/