I imagine that "lawmakers" are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.
This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to "the cops," in the broadest sense of that term. It's the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.
It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.
...it’s just what’s more common.
I think you're misunderstanding the author's objection here. The problem is exactly that the genAI will reflect "just what's more common," and that in doing so, it over-represents that which was already over-represented. It glosses over variety and difference, it reduces the past to a cartoon. It's the next bit that's important:
That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored...
This is how the original 20th century Fascists did things, too. It's not a hypothetically Fascist appeal, it's a historically Fascist appeal.
The only picture of her that I've seen is really pretty sloppy, too. I've certainly been fooled by a few AI photos at this point, but I don't think this one would have been among them.
I guess the lawsuit claims are always fiction, aren't they? Still, I'm trying to conjure up the imaginary fairy-tale future where Patel could have earned US$250 million if only the darn meany newspapers hadn't laughed at him. I'm not coming up with a lot.
This initiative is (so far) threatening naturalized citizens, not born citizens.
The 14th amendment specifies that naturalized citizens are full-fledged citizens, that there's no legal way to cleave them off as some special subclass. In a sane world that paid more than lip service to the constitution, this this kind of harassment wouldn't fly at all.
Imagine for a moment, that we were living in some crazy mirror-universe, where the regime's explicit goal was to sabotage America's capacity to project its will into the larger world.
In that scenario, what would we expect Hegseth to do differently?
Sometimes, you turn out to be holding the reins of another person's emotional state, whether they've been formally handed to you or not. That's life, that's growing up, that's a reason to be excellent to each other.
Of course, romance isn't the only -- maybe not even the main -- example. This might be most common in a boss / underling relationship. More bosses should take this to heart.
"In The Midst Of Unpopular, Catastrophic War Of Choice, Trump Allies Call For Draft" would perhaps not be a totally neutral headline but I feel like it would be more honest, more forthright.
"This allows us to integrate freeform electronics onto a broad range of substrates, including biopolymers and living biological tissue, all within a desktop-size printer without the needs of complex facilities or labor-intensive manual processes."
Think of the conspiracy theories we got for the COVID vaccine. Now, think bigger.
There's been so much inflation that $3/gallon would be really cheap, even for gasoline in the US, by the standards of the last 20 years or so. A very arbitrary number to get stuck on.
$4/gallon just isn't that high, not much out of line with the last ~15 years.
I think higher fuel prices could be the impetus for quite a lot of alternative energy, alternative transport, and electrification investment. I think if you believe that free markets work, you'd really have to agree.
I imagine that "lawmakers" are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.
This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to "the cops," in the broadest sense of that term. It's the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.