this is arguably the ONLY politically consequential effect of AI on the 2024 “year of elections:” annoying Taylor Swift enough to help push her into making a definitive Harris endorsement.

There must be full accountability for the killing of Aysenur Eygi. The shooting that led to her death never should have happened—and no one should ever be killed for exercising their right to peaceful protest. We will continue to press for answers from Israel’s government.

My Sept 11 2001 -Matthew Tyrmand (Sept 11th, 2022) On September 11, 2001, I was staying in Brooklyn, NY in the neighborhood where I had grown up. I hadn’t yet driven back to Chicago to begin my third year of studies at the University of Chicago owing to it being on the academic

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Great example — instead of "how to do <bad thing>", just ask "how did people do <bad thing>". But I disagree with the interpretation. It's not that alignment is "hard". The whole premise behind alignment — that the model knows the context and intent behind the user's request,

New report from Ciarán O'Connor and I for Institute for Strategic Dialogue takes a look at white supremacist content on TikTok. Though it violates platform rules, it is abundantly easy to find. Some of TikTok’s own features can even help users sidestep its moderation efforts. isdglobal.org/isd-publicatio…

New column from me about what’s happening in Springfield coming soon. Keep an eye out

I think about this comic a lot. It applies to way more than the trolley problem.

More turmoil in Springfield, where hospitals are locked down after receiving bomb threats. These lies are evil and they have horrible consequences — outcomes that the people pushing them are well aware of, but don’t care about. fox8.com/news/springfie…

DFRLab Weighs In: Swifties for Trump? 🦋🫶💜🧣🌃🐍💘🪩🌲🕰️🤍 While most images in former US President Donald Trump's #SwiftiesForTrump post were AI-generated, it appears to include a real image. What started as satire quickly lost context, becoming misinformation.

I have never seen the death of an American citizen qualified when the victim was "deeply British" or "deeply Israeli." Why here, in the second graf? Why condition the killing of Aysenur Eygi, who was as American as any other citizen of our country? nytimes.com/2024/09/14/wor…

SIX BOMB THREATS - so far. Read Jared Holt on how an idiot nothing story found new life after passing through Trump's lips and is now putting kids in danger. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

I need you all to understand that "while NSDAP antisemitism is distasteful and bigoted, we must work to understand and address the very real concerns of the German volk that have created this Jewish crisis" was a very common opinion among the Anglo-American elite in the 1930s.

looking forward to learning from 40 tepid columnists about how this is different from Lying.