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Nuestro himno nacional youtu.be/0k1HSK19yIE

Penguin Random House sued OpenAI today for alleged copyright infringement. They say ChatGPT generated text and images “virtually indistinguishable from” one of their children’s books. The side by side comparison is quite something theguardian.com/technology/202…

Good news! NYC just ditched Palantir. Last week the NY public hospital system announced it won't be renewing its contract after October 2026 after public backlash over giving a surveillance company access to patient data. The outrage worked. Privacy wins... for now.

Shocking pictures of Kristi Noem’s cross-dressing husband flaunting giant fake breasts revealed — sparking grave security questions. Read today's cover here: trib.al/U5JMrqm

This 1902 photo shows 18-year-old Alice Roosevelt with her long-haired Chihuahua, Leo. She also owned a pet snake named Emily Spinach, which she would drape over her arm and bring along to parties.

Silent film star and leading man Rudolph Valentino at his home in Los Angeles.

Puerto Rico no tiene líderes que obren por la isla y por el pueblo. Solo tiene a personajes que salen en programas de televisión o se toman selfies para las redes sociales. Ninguno presenta opciones reales. Solo hablan y hablan, significando muy poco.

Maya Fidawi, The Sultana , 2024.

Useful Victorian phrases for saying no to things. #TuesdayMotivation

“Historically, the most terrible things—war, genocide, and slavery—have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn

Happy 83rd birthday to the brilliant Christopher Walken. You may or may not know that he is a trained dancer. And also...checks notes...a Lion Tamer.

“The world does not give us very much now; it often seems to consist of nothing but noise and fear, and yet grass and trees still grow.” — Hermann Hesse

This photo is of a lighter from the American soldiers of the Vietnam War. The inscription reads, "We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful." Perhaps these words capture well the essence of that war through the eyes of a soldier. The essence of many wars, maybe including the current one! #war

The Library of Congress, to their eternal glory, has provided nearly 2,000 recordings of poets and writers dating back to 1943. We're talking T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Sandburg, Robert Frost, and more. Check it out here! loc.gov/programs/poetr…

"A home library is an act of hope." Toni Morrison

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

"Love means never having to say you're sorry." Happy 87th Birthday, Ali McGraw!

Hoy y mañana RT en Español vuelve a emitir el programa especial que grabamos sobre los efectos de la militarización estadounidense en la isla de Vieques, premiado por el Club de Periodistas de México. Pueden seguir la emisión en directo en este enlace: esrt.online/en_vivo

Oracle axes 30K jobs in massive layoff - notifying fired employees with 6 a.m. email trib.al/eTTc93b