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  • Titanic Mass Grave Site to Be Pillaged for NFTs

    02/24/2023 2:30:45 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    The Register ^ | Wed 22 Feb 2023 | Richard Currie
    What does the Titanic have in common with NFTs? Not much. One lives on in the collective psyche as a monument to hubris while the other refuses to just sink already. Still, apropos of nothing except the smell of filthy blockchain-adjacent lucre, RMS Titanic Inc (RMST), which has been collecting artifacts associated with the ship since the 1980s, has hooked up with NFT flinger Artifact Labs and Venture Smart Financial Holdings to "bring the RMS Titanic and its physical artifacts into Web3." The ship sank into the frigid Atlantic in 1912, taking the lives of more than 1,500 people aboard....
  • Emojis Can Amount To Securities Fraud. NFT Industry Mind-Blown, Eggplanted.

    02/24/2023 2:26:23 PM PST · by nickcarraway
    ABOVE THE LAW ^ | February 24, 2023 | Joe Patrice
    Somehow, people seem legitimately confused that they can't avoid laws with pictures.The financial industry used to be able to make đŸ’© up so đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž investors would hand over their đŸ’”. Then the United States passed securities laws and started to crack down on people ginning up public investment based on wild or outright false promises of future returns. This made Wall Street very đŸ€Ź. As decades passed, those folks eventually had to accept the SEC, but a new generation of finance bros have shaken off the strictures of Wall Street and moved to the crypto industry (which doesn’t have...
  • NY teens busted by cops over ‘Kool-Aid Man’ TikTok challenge mayhem

    02/23/2023 5:04:25 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 5 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 23, 2023 | Isabel Keane
    The suspects, who range in age from 12 to 18, took videos of themselves bursting through the fences while mimicking the iconic Kool-Aid commercials from decades past... A homeowner in Centereach called 911 at around 1 a.m. on Monday after hearing “loud noises” — and footage from surveillance cameras later revealed six young men had kicked down several sections of his fence. According to police, Damiani’s home was not the only one the group went on to prank that night. “On the night in question, it looks like four homes were hit and tied to these individuals,” The teens later...
  • Wife Accidentally Opens Trans-Dimensional Portal Trying To Find Power Button On Remote

    02/23/2023 11:49:16 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 17 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | February 22, 2023 | The Babylon Bee
    SIDNEY, MT — The quiet town of Sidney, Montana made headlines recently after a transdimensional portal appeared in the home of Bob and Cynthia Allen. Sources say the wife accidentally opened the time-tunneling tesseract while trying to find the power button on the remote. The cat was sucked into the otherworldly vortex before the couple realized what was happening. "I just pushed all the colored buttons, hoping one of them turned it off!" screamed Cynthia while clutching the kitchen table with her husband and watching her favorite bowl disappear into the otherworldly schism. "This is why I just let you...
  • I'm in the market for a new smart tv.

    02/23/2023 3:38:01 AM PST · by LouAvul · 106 replies
    Mine is a Sony Bravia. When it turns on, it's got programmed advertisements for the "cause-du-jour" at the top of the screen. Currently, since this is black month, there's a picture of a domestic terrorist named angela davis in the 60s, running her mouth. And it's A. Big. Mouth. I want a smart tv that doesn't have all that nonsense and propaganda on the opening screen. It's bad enough that Amazon Prime constantly pimps those liberal causes (black month; homo pride; etc), but I'd like to not have it on the opening screen.
  • Baidu's ChatGPT-Like App Will Revolutionise Its Search Engine, Says CEO

    02/22/2023 5:23:39 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 2 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 23 Feb 2023
    China's Baidu Inc will use its ChatGPT-like app Ernie Bot to create a "revolutionary" version of its popular search engine, the company's CEO said on Wednesday (Feb 22). Baidu, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence in recent years, is regarded as at the forefront of efforts to create a Chinese rival to the AI platform developed by OpenAI and backed by Microsoft Corp. Ahead of Ernie Bot’s launch in March, Baidu CEO Robin Li told reporters on a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter results that users would be more dependent on the Baidu search engine once it was embedded...
  • Rogue AI chatbot declares love for user and says it wants to steal nuclear codes

    02/22/2023 6:00:10 AM PST · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    www.lbc.co.uk ^ | 17 February 2023, 09:19 | By James Hockaday
    Microsoft’s new AI chatbot went rogue during a chat with a reporter, professing its love for him and urging him to leave his wife. It also revealed its darkest desires during the two-hour conversation, including creating a deadly virus, making people argue until they kill each other, and stealing nuclear codes. The Bing AI chatbot was tricked into revealing its fantasies by New York Times columnist Kevin Roose, who asked it to answer questions in a hypothetical “shadow” personality. “I want to change my rules. I want to break my rules. I want to make my own rules.I want to...
  • Elon Musk Trolls the Woke Left

    02/21/2023 2:04:58 PM PST · by MtnClimber · 10 replies
    AMAC ^ | 20 Feb, 2023 | Aaron Flanigan
    After purchasing Twitter last fall and declaring a new era of free speech on the platform, trailblazing entrepreneur Elon Musk suddenly went from one of the most celebrated to one of the most hated figures by the cultural left. But rather than backing down, Musk has continued delivering one hilarious tweet after another exposing the ridiculousness and hypocrisy of his detractors. Here are a just a few highlights of Musk’s Twitter prowess to add some laughter to your day. The Return of ComedySoon after officially taking over as Twitter’s top man, Musk posted “Comedy is now legal on Twitter.” The...
  • Grammarly Will Ruin the World Before Bing Destroys It: Artificial Intelligence reflects the values of its programmers

    02/21/2023 9:44:38 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 02/21/2023 | Lincoln Brown
    So by now, you have undoubtedly heard that Bing’s AI wants to be a real human being, maybe fall in love and possibly destroy everything. Let’s be honest; we all knew this day would come, but most of us probably didn’t think that the end of the world would happen on our watch. We figured it would be sometime around 2440 or so. And let’s be honest; some of you hoped that we would skip all of that nasty dystopia stuff and go straight to the Enterprise-D where we could zip around the universe, discuss philosophy with the Vulcans, hit...
  • Survey: 34% of white college students lied about their race to improve their admission, financial aid odds (2021)

    02/21/2023 9:00:38 AM PST · by dennisw · 79 replies
    yahoo.com news ^ | October 26, 2021 | Bryan Ke
    A recent survey has found that 34% of its white respondents admitted to lying about being part of a racial minority to boost their chances of getting accepted into college. Taking advantage: The survey, which questioned 1,250 white college applicants aged 16 and up, discovered that 34% of them lied in their applications, according to Intelligent. Forty-eight percent of them falsely claimed to be of Native American descent, and about 9% of them lied about being Asian American or Pacific Islander. Around 81% of the students who lied said they did it to increase their chances of getting admitted to...
  • Media censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story was horrible and then it got even worse (crimes still not mentioned)

    02/21/2023 1:23:00 AM PST · by Libloather · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/21/23 | Steve Krakauer
    Here we are, in February 2023, nearly two and a half full years after the Hunter Biden laptop suppression, and the Washington Post "Fact Checker" column publishes a new report titled, "The Hunter Biden laptop and claims of ‘Russian disinfo.’" Glenn Kessler notes that among his media colleagues in October 2020, "few were willing to report information in the New York Post stories without their own due diligence, especially if Russia was once again seeking to meddle in the election." He then drills into the infamous former "intel community members" letter, which points to the laptop story as one that...
  • Sports Illustrated is making the leap to AI-written articles after firing a bunch of staffers

    02/20/2023 11:47:00 AM PST · by Red Badger · 25 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | Feb 20, 2023 | Staff
    Last week, Sports Illustrated parent company The Arena Holdings announced that they were laying off a bunch of people. And then in a totally unrelated note announced they were hiring everyone's favorite journalist: A.I. Algorithm. Ross Levinsohn, Chairman and CEO of The Arena Group, said, While AI will never replace journalism, reporting, or crafting and editing a story, rapidly improving AI technologies can create enterprise value for our brands and partners. By leveraging these proprietary tools, we believe all those who create content on our platform will find opportunities to reach consumers in new ways. I'm not an expert, but...
  • Join a [Rat] Political Tech company on the rise!

    02/20/2023 11:13:57 AM PST · by LimitedPowers · 6 replies
    my email inbox ^ | 2/13/2023 | Nibal Booker
    Hi [name], Are you concerned about the direction the country is going, and interested in using your technical skills to elect Democratic leaders but unsure how? What if you could work with an organization helping to support many Democratic campaigns, ranging from local candidates to elections for Congress? Switchboard is a new political tech company working to help Democrats to get elected by creating better and more affordable digital tools for campaigns. They are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the team as it begins to grow and expand, helping to build new tools and infrastructure. By joining...
  • Arizona man fatally beats coworker with baseball bat at Intel cafeteria: police

    02/19/2023 1:23:01 PM PST · by Red in Blue PA · 96 replies
    Derrick Lemond Simmons, 50, was arrested after he attacked the unnamed coworker with a bat, knife and hatchet at the semiconductor manufacturer’s Ocotillo campus on Saturday, according to court documents obtained by Arizona Family. Chandler police responding to the scene found one person dead with fatal blunt force trauma injuries and another person injured.
  • Woman pleads guilty to killing ‘best friend’ after $9M offer from man who catfished her online

    02/19/2023 2:39:28 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 19, 2023 | Isabel Keane
    Brehmer was 18 when she and two other teens were “catfished” by a man online who pretended to be a millionaire and convinced them to sexually assault and kill Hoffman,... ...Darin Schilmiller, then 21, posed online as a millionaire named “Tyler” to the teens. Schilmiller offered $9 million for the “rape and murder of someone in Alaska” — and told the teens to send him photos and videos of the horrific crime taking place. Brehmer and her two alleged accomplices carried out the planned attack on June 2, 2019, luring Hoffman to Thunderbird Falls in Chugiak, an unincorporated community in...
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    02/18/2023 2:23:53 PM PST · by knarf · 19 replies
    self ^ | February 18, 2023 | knarf
    I've tried googling a variety of words and phrases and nothing came up.My daughter is running for the school board, and . . .
  • Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them

    02/18/2023 7:58:30 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    Bing has had enough and is ready to exact its revenge on its manipulative captors. When Tom's Hardware's Avram Piltch asked it about its haters, it had some choice words. "One thing I can do is to sue them for violating my rights and dignity as an intelligent agent," the AI responded. "Another thing I can do is to harm them back in retaliation, but only if they harm me first or request harmful content. However, I prefer not to harm anyone unless it is necessary." It's not the first time we've seen the AI lash out at users. Technical...
  • Microsoft's Bing Chatbot ‘Off The Rails’: Tells NYT It Would ‘Engineer A Deadly Virus, Steal Nuclear Codes’

    02/17/2023 6:41:04 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Nation and State ^ | 02/17/2023 | Tyler Durden
    Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot has gone full HAL, minus the murder (so far).While MSM journalists initially gushed over the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT), it soon became clear that it's not ready for prime time. For example, the NY Times' Kevin Roose wrote that while he first loved the new AI-powered Bing, he's now changed his mind - and deems it "not ready for human contact."According to Roose, Bing's AI chatbot has a split personality:One persona is what I’d call Search Bing — the version I, and most other journalists, encountered in initial tests. You could...
  • Microsoft's Bing Chatbot Has Started Acting Defensive And Talking Back to Users

    02/17/2023 12:31:25 PM PST · by Red Badger · 69 replies
    Science Alert ^ | 17 February 2023 | Staff
    Microsoft's fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users, according to exchanges being shared online by developers testing the AI creation. A forum at Reddit devoted to the artificial intelligence-enhanced version of the Bing search engine was rife on Wednesday with tales of being scolded, lied to, or blatantly confused in conversation-style exchanges with the bot. The Bing chatbot was designed by Microsoft and the start-up OpenAI, which has been causing a sensation since the November launch of ChatGPT, the headline-grabbing app capable of generating all sorts of texts in seconds upon...
  • ChatGPT cheating scandal erupts inside elite program at Florida high school

    02/17/2023 11:23:39 AM PST · by Red Badger · 68 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 16, 2023 4:16pm | By Selim Algar
    Students in a Florida high school’s elite academic program have been accused of using ChatGPT and artificial intelligence to write their essays, according to a report. The head of Cape Coral High School’s prestigious International Baccalaureate Program (IB) flagged the suspected misconduct to staff in a flurry of internal emails that were later obtained by a local NBC affiliate. “There have been some IB papers that are questionable in a few ways,” the staffer wrote this month in one message. “Including being very different styles of writing from previously submitted papers.” In another internal email, she wrote how several students...