Author: nick

[ad_1] These closely related lawsuits are different, at least in degree, from previous lawsuits over allegedly defamatory AI output: Rather than alleging thoroughgoing hallucination, or (as in Battle v. Microsoft) the merging of two unrelated documents about similarly named people, they involve claims that AI output summarizing published documents overstates the allegations in those documents—a sort of claim that’s pretty common in normal libel litigation against newspapers. 1. The SEC charged Sergii Grybniak with securities with violating [1] the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of…

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[ad_1] I propose that the world is upside down, that the way we live is the opposite of what we’re told it is: we don’t experience Progress, we experience Anti-Progress. My five most recent essays (listed below) lay out an account of the present era that is radically different from the conventional narrative. It’s worth noting that my writing is not “validated by credentials so you should listen to this person” or by data-based claims that “he called the exact top and bottom of the market and has beaten the market indices for 27 years.” The foundation of my work…

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[ad_1] Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the terrorism threat level is “the highest it’s ever been” as he blamed Democrats in Congress for failing to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after a brief extension of life granted in April expired. He conceded there are other “ways that we can get to what we need to do, but it makes it significantly more difficult. We can cut through a lot of the bureaucracy with 702 and go after the terrorists that are trying to attack us every single…

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[ad_1] Arnold Oliver for Informed Comment Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation to your fellow human beings around the globe. It is worth your time to give it some thought. To assist you we will briefly describe what internationalism is, its origins, how those who believe in it operate in the modern world, and its opponents. It is a simple concept, and refers to the belief that all humans are of equal worth, and deserving equal rights politically and before the law. In addition, all…

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[ad_1] After a pleasant half-awakening by the inevitable 4:15 am American Robin alarm, I had long since drifted into a deep sleep. “Woooop! Wooop!  Woooooop! This is the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department. Occupants of number eight one eight—lower apartment—we have a search warrant. Come out the side door with your hands up, nothing in your hands!” blaring through the open, street-facing window of our second floor bedroom. Thus was I rudely awakened at 7 am on this 9 June, hot summer morning, a short walk from downtown Appleton, Wisconsin. It had been less than a year since new tenants moved…

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[ad_1] Paul Rogers for  OpenDemocracy In a further fracturing of the very shaky ceasefire between Iran and the United States, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) this week shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz. At any other time, the US would have seen this as an unacceptable act of war requiring a very strong reaction. But where Donald Trump’s unpredictable social media output would usually have breathed hellfire and damnation, this time it talked a proportionate response. It seemed a welcome sign that Trump’s advisers, and maybe even the president himself, are…

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