HeyJaredLiz Carolan
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There is little indication we have a plan for what to do if the AI bubble bursts (opens the original)
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I have spent several days and a couple of niche news subscriptions trying to get my head around what is happening with AI financing. Iâve waded through articles bathed in econospeak about newly invented financial instruments, illustrated with complex graphs, many of them suspiciously triangular or convolutedly circular, with arrows showing money flowing around and through various companies, somehow generating value at each point along the way. All this financial creativity feels very 2008. I f
M9 crash exposes limits of rules on social media giants when it comes to online harms (opens the original)
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A consensus is building, from gardaà to child psychologists, that the horrific collision on the M9, near Moone, Co Kildare, last Sunday was made possible by the influence of social media. Criminologist Trina OâConnor called the actions of the five teenagers who drove a BMW the wrong way down the motorway, killing themselves and seriously injuring four people in another car, âperformative crimesâ, committed, in the words of our Taoiseach, âfor likes on social mediaâ. The incident is ge
Liz Carolan: Why are AI firms bulk buying and pulping books? Because itâs cheaper than paying writers (opens the original)
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Irish bookshop and online retailer Kennyâs told The Irish Times this week that they have been getting some unusual book orders, received via email in the middle of the night and requesting upwards of 5,000 often obscure titles. The pattern seen in Galway fits with a global story of AI firms buying paper books and feeding them into the models that underpin chatbots. This process, which the industry calls âdestructive scanningâ, sees the spines sliced off thousands of physical books at a tim
Liz Carolan: An 18 crater on the Moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems (opens the original)
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A piece of a SpaceX rocket the size of a five-storey building and travelling at 8,700km per hour plummeted into the Moon on Wednesday, leaving a crater that could remain there for millions of years. Nasa scientists rushed to reassure us that we on Earth were not in danger. âFor comparison, a meteoroid with the same energy as the upper stage hits the Moon about every six days, so the lunar surface is constantly absorbing impacts with the same force,â they shrugged. But the incident felt like
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