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Mar 27, 2023Liked by Mic Wright

Thanks Mic. Sagacious, as ever.

One of the (many) things one senses this op-ed has, in part, been drafted in an attempt to distract us from, is the voracious requirement of these machine-learning tools to use real things written/drawn/shot/made by real people to learn from. Thus far, it appears, the UK government is (belatedly perhaps, but still refreshingly, and a bit surprisingly, from my perspective) not convinced of their arguments. Fingers crossed.

A good report into this is here:

http://www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2302robo.html

I also heartily recommend this, from the same source and (human) author:

http://www.londonfreelance.org/fl/2303ai.html

Cheers,

AB

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Cheers, AB. Yes, these are digital hairballs and cutting them up reveals all the barely digested articles and art stolen to bake them.

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"..... a brightly coloured and easily consumed Skittle versus the layered flavours of a sophisticated salad of fibrous facts." sheer bloody poetry :)

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Thanks, Kevin. I was going a little baroque there.

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Mar 28, 2023Liked by Mic Wright

and the Koresh comparison is truly apt

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Mar 28, 2023Liked by Mic Wright

Too tired to write anything coherent but I love that you somehow collated SO much of the total bullshit that has caused me both annoyance and despair and flung it over the wall.

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Thank you.

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