”Trump’s tariffs are not an economic policy. Tariffs are generally imposed on products, not on nations. By placing them on countries, the White House was able to arrive at its numbers with a nonsensical formula that appears to have been reached by asking AI how to impose tariffs—a suggestion so outlandish that I dismissed when I saw it last night, but economist Paul Krugman today identified it as being a likely possibility.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 3, 2025
#trump #tariffs #ai #llm
#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.
NaNoWriMo Goes Bankrupt After Embracing AI
https://futurism.com/nanowrimo-closing-embracing-ai
The comfort rank and file democrats feel in a genocide is toxic and tho they will automatically win some brownie points by not being the party of dumbass tariffs this are still losers at heart.
And again most of the reason is capitalism.
Dems can't stand up to this genocide now, its big business.
That's why comrads in Seattle are STILL crashing every event architects of the Gaza genocide create.
#Seattle #Microsoft #FreeGaza #genocide #AI #MustafaSuleyman.
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
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer
Um… yeah. Realign your perspective on #AI. #Capitalism doesn’t intend to leverage AI for the betterment of humanity. Instead, they plan on using it in conjunction with a range of other technologies to eliminate humans from the money-making process. #tech https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/survey-americans-fear-ai-will-hurt-them-experts-expect-the-opposite/
I figured it was time to write a weblog post breaking down the political and illogical farce of Trudeau's executive actions on firearms these last few years.
You probably won't see many posts like this from the far left, but as the saying goes: "When you go far enough left, you get your guns back."
Oh yeah, I should put a link instead of spending all of my time writing an alt-text on that free Tornado spud-gun advert that doesn't even link anywhere.
https://superhighwayman.com/2025/canadas-gun-bans/
#Canada #Guns #CanPoli #Politics #Firearms #SKS #I #Bet #Twitter #Has #More #AR15 #Hashtags #than #Mastodon #NFA #PeePee #polievre #Trudeau #Carney #BigBills #Blog #Tornado #Comic #Potato #TooManyHashtags #AI #Assisted #Weblog #NobodyReadsTheseAnyway #RamRanch #FreedumbConvoy #TimBitTaliban (I haven't used those for ages, I will stop now)
The High Cost of Falling Behind
From #cancer breakthroughs to #AI-powered #drug discovery, the #US has long been a global leader in #biomedical innovation. But that leadership is not a guarantee - it’s a fundamental and intentional choice. Trump’s choices are putting that leadership in jeopardy.
In the past two months we’ve seen cuts to research funding, regulatory instability and a retreat from public-private partnerships. And now,: #HHS to cut more than 20,000 jobs.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/the-high-cost-of-falling-behind
https://www.europesays.com/1970220/ How Scottsdale police are using AI to help write police incident reports #AI #AiPoliceReport #ArtificialIntelligence #axon #azfamily #DraftOne #PhoenixNews #ScottsdalePolice #ScottsdalePoliceDepartment
Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available without limits and for cheaper than Claude, GPT-4o https://venturebeat.com/ai/gemini-2-5-pro-is-now-available-without-limits-and-for-cheaper-than-claude-gpt-4o/ #AI #Gemini
Midjourney v7 launches with voice prompting and faster draft mode — why is it getting mixed reviews? https://venturebeat.com/ai/midjourney-v7-launches-with-voice-prompting-and-faster-draft-mode-why-is-it-getting-mixed-reviews/ #AI #images
Microsoft Copilot kann jetzt das Internet in deinem Namen nutzen: Copilot bucht Mietwagen, Konzertkarten und Restauranttische mithilfe einfacher Chat-Eingabeaufforderungen im Hintergrund. Zu den Launch-Partnern (zunächst nur USA) gehören Booking.com, Expedia, Kayak, Tripadvisor, Skyscanner, Viater, Vrbo, Priceline und eine Vielzahl von Reise- und Urlaubsdiensten...
#ki #ai #datenschutz #outofcontrol
https://www.theverge.com/news/643276/microsoft-copilot-ai-actions-feature-availability
People love seeing themselves as Miyazaki characters. I do too. But there’s a gap between making delightful pictures and creating business value. AI can be so much more. My take: https://jarango.com/2025/04/01/dont-let-the-drawings-distract-you-ai-is-not-about-the-output/
Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both | Marina Hyde https://www.byteseu.com/894283/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Microsoft Copilot, der KI-Assistent, der viele OpenAI-Modelle nutzt, unterstützt nun Memory, Personalisierung, webbasierte Aktionen, Podcast-Erstellung, Kamera- und Bildschirmanalyse, umfassende Recherche uvm. Laut Microsoft können Nutzer wählen, welche Informationen Copilot speichern soll, oder die Speicherung ganz deaktivieren...
