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The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which causes conflict with the wider society.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
Where we start to move forward is when we learn to ask questions which are less concerned with ‘Are you like us?’, and more interested in ‘What is it like to be you?’
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Compounding these matters, we have discovered evidence that a senior software engineer at Midjourney took part in a conversation in February 2022 about how to evade copyright law by “[laundering” data](https://x.com/nelkmarge/status/1740223308304654514?s=61&t=2voLMkhJf6P349CqztWSAQ) “through a [fine tuned codex](https://microsoft.github.io/prompt-engineering/).” Another participant who may or may not have worked for Midjourney then said “at some point it really becomes impossible to trace what’s a derivative work in the eyes of copyright.”
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Gary Marcus
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