Rage & Serenity

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she got angry and said "then they need to pick a different word". and so you need to pick a different word.

don't think this is exclusive to public spaces like the mall or the park or whatever either. she has a tablet and access to the internet, just the same as you do. she can read, write, and make her own decisions. she has a husband.

That initial accidental google I did of a mutual returned an AI summary that was absolutely correct, and featured information about them that would not have been obvious from a quick perusal of their blog. The first few times I googled myself the AI overview was 100% correct. The version of that post that is circulating is not the one where I shared that the AI gave me someone's real name. I had hoped that it had screwed up and it wasn't their real name after all, but no, I checked with them, and just by googling someone's Tumblr URL, I got their honest to goodness legal name. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? Like yeah I get that it's fun to go, "Haha, AI bad at collecting information," but that's not the problem. The problem is that sometimes AI good at collecting information, and it can collect a lot more a lot faster than a normal human can, by running multiple searches simultaneously and cross-referencing a lot of different documents all in a few seconds, for a level of snooping that would take a real person hours or even days, if they could do it at all.

^ it should look like this ^

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

go for it, rozanov!

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Mississippi has disqualified the attorneys on both sides of a contract dispute after finding that their failure to verify AI-generated research led to fabricated ​legal citations in court filings.

In an order, opens new tab on Monday, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock ‌in Aberdeen, Mississippi, said attorneys for the plaintiff and defendant had acknowledged that case citation errors in recent filings in the lawsuit stemmed from the use of AI programs.

“This case presents the court with an unusual scenario — attorneys ​for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Aycock wrote. The attorneys at a hearing ​in the case “expressed embarrassment and apologized to the court,” Aycock wrote.

Both sides will ⁠need to find new lawyers, the judge said. Lawyers may use AI tools, but they ​are required to verify that materials submitted to a judge are accurate.

Aycock barred the lawyers on each ​side who either used AI for legal research or for drafting the filings at issue — Kathleen Wilson and Kathryn Williams — from appearing in the Northern District of Mississippi for two years. Wilson was fined $2,500, and Williams was fined $3,500.

The ​other lawyers who were disqualified, Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway and Mark McClinton, were serving as local counsel ​to Wilson and Williams and were not directly involved in drafting the filings. They were each ordered to pay $1,000.

Wilson, ‌Ridgeway, ⁠Williams and McClinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The case involves a contract dispute over legal fees with the city of Aberdeen. The plaintiff and a representative for the city did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

State and federal judges increasingly have sanctioned attorneys for misusing artificial intelligence tools that can make up case citations, ⁠misquote the law or generate non-existent legal sources.

“In an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example ​of the risk associated with serving as a rubber stamp when acting ​as local ⁠counsel,” Aycock wrote in Monday's order.

Then he says, “I mean, the problem isn’t the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesn’t matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I don’t need to know.”

“You don’t need to know… people’s gender?”

“No. I don’t care, I don’t need to know, and I don’t want to remember it.”