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🤖 Business Insider reportedly tells journalists they can use AI to draft stories

The Verge

A dedicated FAQ reportedly addressed whether journalists can explicitly use AI to assist with writing first drafts. “Yes, but you must make sure your final work is yours,” it answered. The guidelines stressed final products must be the journalist’s own work, however, adding that journalists would be responsible for stories under their name.

What’s the end-goal here? Are journalists going to work themselves out of a job? Does BI think this will produce a higher quantity and quality of journalism? And what happens when AI starts training on all the AI journalism? Does the world just

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🏛️ Sen. Chris Murphy warns Trump is exploiting Kirk's death to squash dissent

NPR

Murphy’s comments came as at least 30 people across the country have already been fired or investigated over social media posts about Kirk’s death and amid calls from Republican officials and right-wing influencers for more crackdowns.

Who knew Republicans were so woke? It all feels a little PC/cancel culturey to me; I mean, folks are just speaking their mind, right? I guess the right isn’t afraid to go broke anymore. No two snowflakes are alike, after all.

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🤖 Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers

CAAAC

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This entire site is pure delight—beautifully done corporate-esque web design. Of course, we need alignment for our alignment; otherwise, how could we possibly stay aligned with our fellow aligners doing their great alignment?

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Introducing the new and improved TIV Featured Post

If you're reading this, you're probably thinking, "Great, another idiot with a Ghost blog who is probably going to try to ask me for money. And this idiot isn't even a journalist or a real writer."

DAMN STRAIGHT!

I'm here to bleed your wallet dry—capitalism, baby; it's a game and there can only be one winner: me.

Okay, to be a little bit more serious... if you've enjoyed reading the links I've shared with commentary in the past, nothing will change. Not only that, I'm committed to getting back to more frequent link blogging as I've gotten some things

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🐺 How to tell the difference between a lone wolf and a coordinated effort by the radical left

McSweeney’s

If a Democrat calls Republicans “fascists,” he basically just signed their death warrants.

If a Republican calls Democrats “Marxists,” or “the enemy from within,” or “vermin,” or “human scum,” he’s just trying to fire up the crowd.

It really feels like we are living in some bizzaro upside world where where left is right and right is evil and moronic.

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