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3/ Also: Die überwiegende Mehrheit meiner Student*innen ist in Ordnung oder zumindest schlau genug, so zu betrügen, dass ich es nicht merke. Aber das andere Zeug, was ich bekomme, macht mich richtig wütend! Es ist eine Beleidigung meines Intellekts. Mann, ich kenne mein Fach. Ich weiß, wer was wann und warum geschrieben hat und was da drin steht. Um mich zu betrügen müsst Ihr erst mal so fit sein, dass Ihr merken würdet, was für einen Stuss Ihr da abliefert. Das bedeutet aber, dass Ihr Euch mit dem Zeug auseinandersetzen müsst. Dann macht es doch gleich!

Die Krönung ist ein Fake-Zitat mit Seitenzahl aus einem Artikel, den ich selbst herausgegeben habe. Ich habe den vier (!!!!111!!!) Mal gelesen und dann auch noch den Feinsatz gemacht. Ich kann den singen. Das ist einfach zu blöd!

#Trump and #Musk and AI, oh my?

From my favorite historian pundit, Z:

… no serious economist is going to endorse [Trump's] approach to tariffs. No unserious one, either, probably. So, where did the White House come up with this formula? Well, if you put the phrase "balance bilateral trade deficits" into AI engines, the administration's approach (or some close approximation) is what you get. That is the case with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude. If you put the phrase into Grok, you get the EXACT formula the White House used. In other news, Grok is the AI platform owned by... Elon Musk.

Guess you don't need the terminator to destroy the world. Simple AI is enough.

Scroll down to "Fuzzy Math" at this link, but the whole 4,000 word article will clear up the whole muddy mess.

electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Ite

www.electoral-vote.comThe Trade War: Trump's Tariff Plan Is Top Secret!Click on the map for the article
#uspol#tarrif#tarrifs

Guy runs an experiment to see Just how easy is it to wrangle from GPT that which is very clearly someone else’s IP… Results are interesting, it’s not hard turns out. Some guardrails do exist for very recognizable characters, but that has not prevented LLMs from returning copyrighted IP on image prompts. Or from stealing studio-specific styles, characters and designs for memes - which has led to ‘Ghiblifying’ everything. #StudioGhibli #LLM #LLMs #Image #copyright #IP #AI #ChatGPT #ImagePrompts #AIImage #AIImages #legal

theaiunderwriter.substack.com/

The AI Underwriter · An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhipBy Otakar G. Hubschmann

LOL ChatGPT image creation is savage.

I asked it to make a photo of me "look like a Disney Pixar character" and it spit out a picture of a fatso dad with wrinkles and bags under my eyes

I had to type in "No, make me look slimmer and healthier"

😭 😭 😭

Forget taking my job, Ai is taking my soul 💀 ⚰️ ☠️

US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more

theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actionsBy Ella Creamer

Futurism, and I will swear to you on the religious volume of your choice that I did not put these two stories together intentionally: Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI. “President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on most goods imported into the US yesterday, affecting over 100 countries — including uninhabited territories in the middle of the ocean. It’s a baffling […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/futurism-trump-tariffs-show-signs-of-being-written-by-ai/

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VentureBeat: OpenAI just made ChatGPT Plus free for millions of college students — and it’s a brilliant competitive move against Anthropic. “OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May, a move announced Thursday that intensifies the competition with rival Anthropic for dominance in higher […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/venturebeat-openai-just-made-chatgpt-plus-free-for-millions-of-college-students-and-its-a-brilliant-competitive-move-against-anthropic/

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