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Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
futurism.com Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
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  • The IARC ruling [...] is intended to assess whether something is a potential hazard or not [... and] does not take into account how much of a product a person can safely consume.

    From the article. ^^^

    This is something people frequently overlook. A substance may be a "possible carcinogen" and also completely benign at levels any sane person would consume.

    Bananas also contain carcinogenic material, but eating bananas is still very much a healthy thing to do. There's a reason banana equivalent dose is a concept, and "the dose makes the poison" is a common refrain in toxicology.

  • What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
  • So instead of 'up' and 'down', you have a clickable emoji-menu like list of tags like 'interesting', 'boring', 'funny', 'WTF!?', 'Quality', 'Trash', 'Educational', 'CAT', etc...

    I'm not sure about this. How do you decide which qualities users can rate? How do you ensure those qualities work across instances with different languages / cultures? You're also taking something which is extremely low effort and making it take significantly more time and effort. I think the simplicity, universality, and low effort of upvote / downvote are all strengths.

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  • The only parts of this video that are relevant to piracy are: 1) does it prevent your ISP from seeing your traffic (it does), and 2) can you trust a VPN when they say they have a "no logging" policy (depends on the VPN but IMO there are several that can be trusted). The rest is just debunking false marketing claims about how VPNs improve your security or whatever.

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    I want to read some Cory Doctorow. Where should I start?

    I recently read his article about enshittification and watched an interview where he talks about "chokepoint capitalism".

    I also really like scifi and from what I've heard he writes scifi. What scifi book(s) of his should I start with if I like these political / economic views of his?

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    TIL A bad bout of flu triggers 'taste bud cells' to grow in the lungs
    www.sciencedaily.com A bad bout of flu triggers 'taste bud cells' to grow in the lungs

    When researchers examined mice that had recovered from severe influenza, they came upon a surprising discovery: Taste bud cells had grown in the animals' lungs. The team believes the cells may play a role in immunity.

    A bad bout of flu triggers 'taste bud cells' to grow in the lungs

    When researchers examined mice that had recovered from severe influenza, they came upon a surprising discovery: Taste bud cells had grown in the animals' lungs.

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    /kbin meta @kbin.social postscarce @kbin.social
    What does "reduce" mean for an article, and how do I use it?

    On an article I see: boosts (x) | reduces (x) | favourites (x)

    What does "reduces" mean, what effect does it have, and how does a user reduce a post?

    I see the link to boost a post, and I see "more" but this doesn't contain a "reduce" link.

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    If you're like me, you have a habit of typing reddit.com whenever you have some time to kill at a computer.

    Kicking habits takes time, so as you develop a new habit of typing kbin.social (or lemmy.world or whatever the case may be), consider a browser extension that blocks or redirects traffic from reddit to your desired new social media destination.

    For Firefox, I have found these to be helpful over the last week:

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