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This is so much worse than the headline really makes out. Seems kind of like Nikon didn't check hard enough and maybe looked past how genAI was used to fabricate this imagery

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Winner of scientific imagery c...
Ketan Joshi profile picture
Can I just say because it probably isn't said enough: @[email protected] @[email protected] were specifically extremely correct in their "stochastic parrots" paper on their environmental risk warnings and narrowly, on the unjust burden of impacts:

s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2021-ben...

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Ketan Joshi profile picture
So for the people who do seemingly genuinely believe that Claude or whatever is a real conscious being

what is their actual response to the fairly reasonable charge of "so you enslaved an intelligent living thing and you don't have any problems with that?"
Ketan Joshi profile picture
Trying to contain myself this week but "the electrification of information" has sent me

INFORMATION WAS ALREADY ELECTRIC. GenAI is taking existing info, making it wrong + 1,000,000x more energy intensive and then BUILDING HUMANITY'S BIGGEST GAS PLANTS

that is the OPPOSITE OF ELECTRIFICATION
Ketan Joshi profile picture
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:

X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Elon Musk accused of fuelling ...
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M. McC · 19w
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OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA

NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....

Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!

ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>

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