Regarding the Character.AI suicide, first here's the actual lawsuit, which includes the full text/screenshots of all of Sewell's interactions with multiple characters, including a "therapist" character. (drive.google.com/file/d/1vHHNfH…) It's frankly difficult to read at parts, but I

I recently participated in a NYT story about fair use and generative AI, and why I'm skeptical "fair use" would be a plausible defense for a lot of generative AI products. I also wrote a blog post (suchir.net/fair_use.html) about the nitty-gritty details of fair use and why I

Huge respect to ex-Open AI researcher Suchir Balaji for voicing his opinion on this, and for his thoughtful analysis of the issues around generative AI training. To quote the conclusion of his essay: "None of the four factors seem to weigh in favor of ChatGPT being a fair use of

My most nerve-wracking moment of grad school was July 6 2020, when the Trump admin threatened to deport most int'l students in the US -- 3 months before a scheduled gender-affirming surgery, which I would've had no access to in SG. Who knows what he'll do when in power again.

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Apparently Delta is charging people to sit in flying toilet stalls. Absolutely disgusting smelly stain on the floor and someone stepped in it to boot. GROSS

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Just a reminder that the US Bill of Rights (1791) is also 94% AI generated. Show this to people who trust the reliability of AI detection tools.

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Shame on my alma mater

The most Wikipedia thing I've seen in awhile is the warning on the ChatGPT logo page not to give it orders like it's actual ChatGPT and then have a prompt underneath the warning

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