What is Going on in the United Kingdom?
Things are getting Orwellian across the pondFree speech, the constitutional right most of us Americans take for granted, is dying in the United Kingdom.
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Peter Biles
AI Will Keep Hallucinating, says OpenAI
AI will always need human guidance.LLMs, while they seem to offer confident answers, cannot reflect on what they’re generating and so can’t wisely discern truth from falsehood.
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Wanted: Comedian Who is Actually Funny
First Colbert, now Kimmel.Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.
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R.I.P Charlie Kirk, Who Was Killed While in Dialogue with College Students
He was a great man of faith who dared to speak his mind.Kirk openly invited dialogue and debate among people with different views and backgrounds. He always fought for others’ right to speak their minds.
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CBS in Talks to Buy Bari Weiss’s The Free Press
Is it a sell out or poetic justice?Weiss had resigned over her frustrations with censorship and bullying in legacy media. Those who laugh last laugh best.
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Where X Went Wrong in Dealing with Links to Independent Media
Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed it to X, and made it a nightmare for writers trying to share their workAs trust in legacy journalism erodes, more time and energy will get funneled into independent media and X isn’t playing fair here.
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Thanks to Our Screens, We’re Heading For a Post-Literate Culture?
Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communitiesTed Gioia writes, books “offer an escape from the degraded digital domains, where duplicity is now dictated by the largest platforms with the richest owners.”
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Declining Literacy Rates and What Happens Next
Are we being alarmist or is literacy really on a lifeline?Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities.
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AI: Tool or Companion?
Personalized AI systems only make sense in a friendless society.One of the problems of AI-human “relationships” is that, by definition, we cannot relate to a computer, nor can a computer relate to us.
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In a Materialistic Universe, Literature Doesn’t Make Sense
Language itself is theological. It’s an ascentIf materialism is false, if there is at least something at work beyond the material realm, then stories just got interesting again.
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Internal Meta Document Reveals Shockingly Permissive Standards
Advocates call for more safety as AI bots flood the sceneAccording to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›
Jim Acosta Interviews AI Avatar of Dead Man
The AI was a stand-in for Joaquin Oliver, a young man who was tragically killed in the Parkland High School shooting in 2018Media figures were quick to denounce Acosta’s choice to interview an AI system as if it were some kind of genuine embodiment of the young Oliver.
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Is Longform Media Really Dead?
Signs of life in the arts and culture world suggest otherwiseIf we ingest a daily avalanche of shortform content, eventually we may feel starved for a good book, or a long, thematic movie that is actually about something.
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Colbert, CBS, and the Shrinking of Legacy Media
Is journalistic objectivity possible? Can comedians just stick to being funny?Can journalistic objectivity ever be regained in today’s fractured, highly online culture? Also, can comedians make jokes about everybody, not just one side?
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AI Songs and Bands Are Creeping into Spotify
It's official. The bots are now coming after the bardsRecently, Spotify was found to be publishing AI-generated songs by deceased musicians. In addition, AI bands are starting to pop up.
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Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness, Materialism, and Religion
Don't forget the right side of the brain“The left hemisphere, left to itself, is deluded,” says McGilchrist. It lacks context. It will try to force things into its own purview.
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Which Way, Modern University? Jennifer Frey’s story
The shakeup at the University of Tulsa’s Honors College is a puzzlerShe’s been fired, despite the huge success of her classic books program, which is now “going in a different direction.”
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Sports Gambling is a Big, New Problem
Common sense says sports betting isn't worth it. But once you start, it can be hard to stop.While millionaires can manage major cash hemorrhages, the average American faces devastation by just a single bet gone awry.
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Book Ban in San Fran
Bookstore states it won't sell Harry Potter anymore based on Rowling's views on genderFree speech entails engaging with views one might not agree with. Why not enjoy the books (or not) and debate the ideas in the public arena?
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The State of Reading in an AI World
Are we heading to a post-literate society?Whatever one’s opinion, it’s still a fact that, unlike a human writer or artist, AI can’t think or feel.
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