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Age verification is human verification at the time when the internet is getting very smart and dangerous bots. At least that's my optimistic view of this kind of paradigm shift!

The talk page has an interesting section about this, subtitled "Article of Theseus" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ship_of_Theseus#h-Article...

> what in the training process causes Read some early pre-mass-adoption LLM papers by the key scientists and researchers. The style is very similar...

A surprising number of sites that have consents do not actually do anything apart from set a flag. They are not actually connected to disabling analytics, just connected to the ban…

It can be anything no matter how unsubtle or bizarre. Students are not going to scan the output to check if its correct because they 1) cannot evaluate correctness and 2) are lazy …

"The Odyssey is The Hero's Journey without a hero" - a quote about this adaptation referencing Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. I'm wondering if today films (the main for…

Indeed we see legislation (from all sides of politics and nations) saying there is no distinction, that all services and websites are now publishers. It was ever thus except when w…

A side effect of platform vs publisher. They are voluntarily choosing to be a publisher. Publishers are responsible for the actions that the users do on their platform. States are …

There was no mention of this on hacker news (at least I cant find anything via the search at the bottom) but the story of Thomas Kurian's office break in / sit in was in 2024 so no…

Nothing remains here - only walls. Most of these tombs have already, since ancient times, been looted and desecrated and most things inside including any human remains have long si…

"Synthetic Slop" is a new term for me, I quite like it, more accurate than "AI Slop" Allegedly these techniques are being used by Google on YouTube to delete slop videos.