California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AIOct 29
gavin newsom just signed eight bills that effectively turn ai into the most heavily regulated nascent consumer technology in modern history
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Substack's Easter Miracle
tuesday report #11 // substack dismantled by elon musk, tentatively permitted to once again exist; broad AI recap, from racist robots to olympic surveillance; tok links; assorted clownery
Mike Solana
Apr 11, 2023
Welcome back to the Pirate Wires weekly digest. First, a bunch of job openings. Iām looking for a designer, editors, writers, and ā please save me ā a director of operations. Details here.
Now, a brief lead story, and a storm of links to catch you up on everything you need to know. Onward.
California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AI
AI: White Lives Don't MatterOct 24
when prompted with thousands of hypotheticals, most models massively prefer white men (and ice agents) to suffer more than other groups, and only one model was truly egalitarian
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Wikipedia Declares Trump an AuthoritarianOct 10
a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion of consensus and shaping the record that now informs chatgpt and google
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