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This is what Nietzsche meant by the eternal return, not some metaphysical presence that animates the present through a will to reincarnation, but rather that we as a species are very good at falling back into similar patterns when historical conditions are not transcended or overcome, our social contradictions unresolved. Musk’s Nazi salute doesn’t confirm the Nazi thesis, but his ironic appropriation of a new way to trigger the libs produces meaning they will not be able to control, and which augers a future that could be even darker than it was last time.
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute
Matthew Ellis
When LLMs are promoted as something consumers would adopt voluntarily, it serves as an alibi for the technology’s punitive and exploitative functionality. Sometimes the promise is that generative AI will level the playing field, as with claims that the technology will “democratize” content creation or coding skills. But more typically the emphasis is on how it will save consumers effort — it will make you feel like a boss over some fully compliant servant who does the work for you.
Summaries Without Originals
Rob Horning
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
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