#LizTruss is… (insert your batshit-crazy synonyms here)

You have to say what an extraordinary job MattStaniek
and the team at #savewindermere have done, utterly brilliant.

Steve Coogan explains how corporate greed is poisoning lake Windermere.

Indeed. A ‘must-watch’, if only to fully appreciate just how deranged (& therefore dangerous) a lettuce can be…

Samples processed by Bangor University wastewater research, breakdown on insta Dr Christian Dunn Teresa May MP Joy Morrissey MP The Guardian Feargal Sharkey The Rivers Trust RiverActionUK Bucks Free Press MaidenheadAdvertiser

'Water companies in England and Wales paid £2.5bn in dividends and added £8.2bn to their net debt in the two financial years since 2021.'

There it is. For all the claims, all the denial, all the lies, all the bullshit there's the reality. We got screwed.

ft.com/content/c3cdfe…

From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction | #JohnNaughton theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #degenerativeai #ai

.EyeEm - Big mistake. This tech is a cul-de-sac and within a couple of years will be in the dust, meanwhile you will have flushed what remaining goodwill there was with your contributors down the drain, and you will shortly follow suit. #degenerativeai #creatoreconomy

'Don't worry, you give us money, and once the AI is good enough, we can ask it how to make the money back.'

- OpenAI business plan

.Reese Witherspoon demonstrating a lack of understanding here👇🏽. The old, ‘it’s here to stay so get used to it..’ mantra is hackneyed, tech-bro #bs which has been, sadly, swallowed by people who should (& could, if they could be bothered to dig a little deeper into the subject) #knowbetter

Adobe Firefly, the 'ethical and commercially safe' AI generator, has been laundering data by using AI images from other platforms to train.

A 'relatively small' amount of 5% still amounts to literally millions of images. Firefly ISN'T ethical.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

adage.com/article/creati… Interesting piece by Tim Nudd - I think it's useful to understand what the current crop of #degenerativeai text-2-image generators are (not) capable of. They're #patternpredictors at best, statistically-based algorithms totally reliant on their training data.

Stability AI reportedly couldn’t pay its AWS bills • The Register

Even with a business model that ripped off authors/creators from the start, ⁦Emad acc/acc⁩ still failed and now leaves a toxic trail of #degenerative #ai fallout. #Piss -up #brewery theregister.com/2024/04/03/sta…

A step in the right direction… from ⁦Meta⁩, perhaps surprisingly… 👇🏽 #artificialintelligence #ai #degenerativeai #nointelligencehere linkedin.com/posts/nickdunm…

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“Shockingly good.” 🤔

What’s your metric for that? 🙄

axios.com/2024/04/05/ope…

Imagine being forced to play a game of Whac-A-Mole where the moles just continuously rob you, but the owner of the machine doesn't care because he's fishing around in your back pocket too.

wired.com/story/openai-g…

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People who accidentally found their doppelgängers in museums - a thread 🧵