man good for them. meanwhile down south we keep throwing good money after bad while also doing layoffs.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/101070-study-finds-63-of-religion-books-on-amazon-likely-ai-written.html h/t naked capitalism
Over the first six months of 2026, the company scanned the three elements of books available on Amazon: summaries, author bios, and in-book samples, with the samples serving as the study’s primary metric. Any text with a score of 50 or above was classified “Likely AI.” (The study’s authors note that detection indicates a book was likely written with AI, but doesn’t prove authorship.)
Originality.ai found that AI is most prolific among the subgenres of witchcraft (in which 78% were “Likely AI”), Hinduism (76%) and Taoism (74%), and least used in the subgenres of Satanism (22%), atheism (40%) and Mormonism (42%). The authors note that the sample sizes for the last three categories are smaller than the first three; they also offered up a theory about why Eastern religion books are likely AI-generated: “Our hypothesis is that non-native English speakers are likely using AI to enter the English-speaking market.”
"Satanists least tainted by AI, says AI detection AI". it WOULD say that. /s
on an unrelated note on the same topic, I read the ebook by Jesus Freak Computer Geek blogger that argues that LLMs are actually channeling nephilim / demons (hence the six fingers in dalle) and that they have used the Mandela effect to corrupt the KJV and also herald the antichrist. Him and Thiel should, like, call in to coast to coast am where these things can be properly debated.
over on the corporate hell site, Timnit has found a link
Well guys, I KNEW that we were going to connect the network hounding Arday to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. I could smell it.
This is a "paper" by the professor of "ethics" who hired the vile Cofnas at Ghent University. This is the kind of "research" they do.
✴️ Reminder the L in TESCREAL stands for "longtermism". Read more at https://lnkd.in/ge2VFMe4. These are the eugenicists who pushed generative AI down your throats, including Ben Goertzel who told Epstein that when he creates a super brain, there won't be the kind of women who accused Epstein of rape.
✴️ "Dysgenic pressures" is the opposite "eugenic pressures." In this so-called paper, they're talking about undesirables like Black people reproducing too much.
Yeah I agree it isn't about the legal risk, but going to a dispensary is different than ordering it from silk road, might talk to actual people that know a little bit about safer consumption or appropriate doses. hopefully.
BTW psilocybin was decriminalized there in the middle of all this, not sure if that has made a difference or not.
https://bitcoinworld.co.in/netflix-ftx-drama-the-altruists-release-date/
Looks real: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36786185/
Hopefully it's more like a true crime netflix series, which are fine, and not like their scripted fare.
Also,
Q2: Who are the executive producers of ‘The Altruists’? Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are serving as executive producers through their company Higher Ground.
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how did you even find this?
Her grift is the exact same one as the Honey extension from the megalag video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk - like her dad she just rips off better programs, but she didn't even have the taste to copy an actual good product.
EDIT:
Oh yeah, she popped up in that How To Rule The World book about Stanford:
“Everyone was very sharp. Very sharp,” one student, who didn’t otherwise love the class, stressed. The cohort my year included freshmen and sophomores funded by Sam Altman or Peter Thiel. Some wanted to “solve aging.” were in defense tech, working on secret projects with contracts from the government or major companies. Some worked on climate change. One had already started a string of robotics companies and earned a display in a museum. Others worked on commodities trading. Another was Phoebe Gates—daughter of Bill and Melinda—who made her name as a prominent sustainability advocate and cofounded a company with her Stanford roommate.[*2] Together, as undergraduates, they’d already collectively raised millions of dollars for startups—and, of course, had done internships at every possible top company, from classic FAANG behemoths (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google), to Jane Street, the quantitative trading firm that pays interns hundreds of thousands of dollars, to top-flight VCs.
Footnote:
*2 When I reached her, Phoebe Gates wrote that she “would rather not speak on the class.”
Thank you for the technical explanation, that was absent from some mainstream coverage I'd seen.
Given that it works by controlling the PRNG, does that mean they could salt it by user id and track particular outputs back to specific accounts?
We Need To Talk About Leopold | Patrick Boyle yt
My suspicion is that 'Situational Awareness' is the most referenced and least finished document in Silicon Valley since the Terms and Conditions.
The essay went viral among tech executives when it was released and Tim Ferrris crowned Leopold the Nostradamus of AI, which is more fitting than Ferris probably intended
New week new guy
Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI | 404
lol of course it is. Sooner or later, we'll have to come up with some way to label actual natural language in the marketplace, like certified organic like fruit or something.
that already kinda happened (for a certain groups of users) with the public share links thing, but my money is on a corporate self-own a la the old AOL search data set.