Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
Still, I’m troubled by the comfort this analysis implies, the fact that it places the denial all on those who inhabit the Mirror World. It’s similar to the problem of climate change denial: There are the hard deniers, who are easy to spot, saying it’s all a hoax. But the bigger obstacle may always have been the soft deniers, the rest of us who know it’s real but act like it’s not, who keep forgetting, in myriad ways, both large and small.
Hundreds of child sexual abuse images found in LAION.
Alex estimated that the actual number of CSAM links in that AI training dataset is 15K to 25K.
MidJourney, Hugging Face, Stability AI— they were all warned and just stood idly by. https://t.co/vfBtwwVklS https://t.co/jd5ANDOTcW

Tweets from Remmelt Ellen🛑remmelt@mas.to, remmelt@bsky.social
@RemmeltE on Twitter
And at one critical moment, ChatGPT discouraged Adam from cluing his family in.
“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March.
“Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”
Without ChatGPT, Adam would still be with them, his parents think, full of angst and in need of help, but still here.
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. - The New York Times
Kashmir Hill
...catch up on these, and many more highlights