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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 7h

22 points at the half! #OHMAMAWEMBANYAMA

MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 7h

Victor Wembanyama with the spin move And-1 on Jusuf Nurkić (with a replay)

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 9h

Ah, the worst weekend of the year!

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 13h

Granola has a "Make me sound smart" button now? 🙄

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 1d

All-timer!

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 1d

11 years ago, ‘WHIPLASH’ released in theaters.

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I'll be tuning in www.thewrap.com/the-chair-co...

'The Chair Company' Review: Tim Robinson's HBO Conspiracy Comedy Is His Best, Most Bonkers Show Yet

“The Chair Company,” premiering Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, is Tim Robinson's most bonkers, brilliant work yet

www.thewrap.com

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 1d

Slick AF motion design from @galshir.bsky.social

#designsky

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svenning🌲 @svenning.io · 1d

Another horrible date picker submitted to the Bad UX World Cup! 😁

Join the fun, submit your worst date picker here: badux.lol

The best/worst date pickers will to through to the final in late October!

#baduxworldcup

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 2d

Lovely read! Keri Russell continues to crush it.

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 2d

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh, I got what I needed from this wretched place

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 3d

Just got to Mount Fay and what the absolute f... #Silksong

I'm too old for this shit.

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 2d

If you want to see Regina Hall at her absolute best, watch HONK FOR JESUS, SAVE HER SOUL. Her range is immense in it as the wife of a disgraced mega church preacher.

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 2d

Yiiiiiiikes another age verification disaster

Jay Peters @jaypeters.net · 2d

NEW: Discord tells me that "we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed" in the data breach announced last week.

www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 2d

Infuriating take

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Sam Altman: "There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”
bit.ly/4h1KWhl

It’s a controversial take, especially for an AI CEO. For as long as AI has been around, it’s been used in ways that disproportionately affect minorities and vulnerable populations — ranging from wrongful arrests to AI-generated revenge porn. OpenAI has some guardrails for Sora in place, but if history — and the last week — is any guide, people will find ways to get around them.

Watermark removers are already proliferating online, with some people using “magic eraser”-type tools and others coding their own ways to remove the watermark convincingly. For now, text prompts don’t allow for generating a specific face without permission, but people have allegedly already gotten around that rule to generate close-enough approximations of someone to instill fear or make threats, and to make suggestive videos, including videos of women holding dildo-like objects.

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Ed Wang @edataoldotcom.bsky.social · 3d

The last thing I expected to see tonight: legendary Iranian director Jafar Panahi shooting the Beyond Fest @beyondfest.bsky.social tee-shirt cannon into the Aero Theatre audience. @amcinematheque.bsky.social

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 3d

Just got to Mount Fay and what the absolute f... #Silksong

I'm too old for this shit.

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 3d

Catching up on the Strava x Garmin situation via this rough reddit post. The people are not happy o_o www.reddit.com/r/Strava/com...

From the Strava community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Strava community

www.reddit.com

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 3d

This, but more like leaving 2 minutes

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 3d

"I want to make sure we leave a lot of time for questions" — someone who is about to leave exactly 10 minutes for questions

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 4d

Missed this y'day: rare we get a Steph Shaqtin' #NBAsky

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MrBuckBuck @mrbuckbucknba.bsky.social · 4d

Cooper Flagg with the beautiful finish on Jaylin Williams, and then the 3-pointer for his first preseason buckets

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 4d

@spottedinprod.bsky.social did y'all get hacked? I have a Ramp card I just use for SIP and it had an insane Adobe charge on it

c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 5d

Give us a humble crosspost every now and then

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 5d

Did the ai they were using to make it suck?

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 5d

Apple Watch has all these health features that maybe sort of work but are fairly imprecise by design. So Apple says “Talk to your doctor” and then if you talk to your doctor they're like “Huh, yeah, I dunno keep an eye on it” as they type frantically into Epic MyChart during your 8-minute visit.

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Galadriels Wife💍 @galadrielswife.bsky.social · 5d

Taylor Swift using ai...

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c0up @c0up.bsky.social · 5d

A big 4 firm? Shocked I tell you 🙄

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 5d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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