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What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI

What Trump’s Bizarre Posts Are Teaching Us About AI

Published by Daniella Wilson

Here is a selective list of the dozens of images the president has recently disseminated on Truth Social: Donald Trump on a horse next to George Washington on a horse, in the body of Hulk Hogan, beating Hogan in arm wrestling, standing between General George Patton and General Douglas MacArthur in a World War II uniform, hovering menacingly with a hockey stick over the Canadian prime minister, commanding the deck of an aircraft carrier, nuking parts of Earth from space, gleefully dancing to “YMCA” as he replaces a sign for Lake Ontario with one for Lake America. Maybe most surreal (though, admittedly, kind of funny), he posted a video of a squad of “Donald Ducks” with his signature hair, armed with machine guns, waddling in formation to protect said lake. Trump has never been shy about his proclivity for self-aggrandizement (daydreaming about having his face chiseled onto Mount Rushmore or printed on a $250 bill). But his recent spate of social-media posts—almost all products of AI—has him living in an expanded fantasyland. His supporters are …

Stanya Kahn On Her Video of Luigi Mangione Posts

Stanya Kahn On Her Video of Luigi Mangione Posts

Published by Jenni Sidey

It was one of the wildest assassination stories of recent times, when, on December 4, 2024, surveillance cameras captured a masked man as he gunned down United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson outside the company’s annual investor conference in New York. The alleged shooter then fled on a Citi Bike, leaving behind in Central Park a backpack full of Monopoly money. He managed to escape to Pennsylvania, only to be turned in by a McDonald’s employee (who earned the internet’s wrath in the form of one-star reviews of the restaurant). Meanwhile, an outpouring of rage and scalding wit arose online as the American public’s disgust with the healthcare industry combined with black humor. The alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, with his distinctive bone structure and resentment at the company after years of severe pain from a broken back, became an unlikely folk hero. Source link

LinkedIn’s new ‘Seems like AI slop’ button lets you report all those cringey posts

LinkedIn’s new ‘Seems like AI slop’ button lets you report all those cringey posts

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways LinkedIn announced a “Seems like AI slop” button. Users can report low-quality AI-written posts. AI slop posts are ubiquitous on the internet. As LinkedIn has solidified itself as a corporate influencer site-slash-job-hunting search engine, there’s something that irritates users more than the cog-in-the-corporate-machine posters themselves: AI slop.  Someone mentioning that the most important executive-level lessons aren’t discovered in a boardroom — but in some other innocuous and unrelated setting. A callout to today’s “fast-paced world.” Several short, jab-like sentences. Dramatic line breaks. Wrapping up the post by encouraging the reader to “let that sink in.” And honestly? The entire post ends up being a big, fat nothingburger.  Also: OpenAI’s rogue agent didn’t stop at Hugging Face – here’s what we know  Do you recognize this prose? AI-written text posts are all over the internet, and LinkedIn is a breeding ground for them. An Originality.ai study found that 81% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated. Users are growing frustrated, and LinkedIn is vowing …

Nissan posts narrow profit for fiscal year, beats analysts’ estimates

Nissan posts narrow profit for fiscal year, beats analysts’ estimates

Published by Sam Flores

YOKOHAMA: Nissan on Wednesday (May 13) reported an operating profit of ¥58.0 billion (US$367.60 million) for the year that ended in March, as an improved cost performance and a one-off boost tied to US emissions regulations offset a hit from Washington’s tariffs. Analysts, according to an LSEG survey, expected the automaker to report a fiscal year loss of ¥60 billion. In the year-earlier period, it posted a profit of ¥69.8 billion. Nissan, like other carmakers, faces pressure from US tariffs, intense competition from Chinese electric vehicle makers in Europe and elsewhere, as well as higher material costs and supply risks from the US-Israeli war on Iran. CEO Ivan Espinosa is trying to return the automaker to growth after years of turmoil and is cutting jobs, manufacturing sites and the number of cars in its global line-up. The results were slightly better than the company’s forecast for a ¥50 billion profit that was released about two weeks ago. The company said US tariffs pushed down the full-year profit by ¥286 billion. For the current fiscal year, …

Japan’s JERA posts 5.2% rise in annual profit

Japan’s JERA posts 5.2% rise in annual profit

Published by Sam Flores

TOKYO, April 27 : JERA, Japan’s biggest power generation utility, on Monday said its profit for the fiscal year that ended in March rose 5.2 per cent from a year earlier to 193.5 billion yen ($1.21 billion). The increase was supported by a boost in JERA’s overseas power generation and renewable energy business, among other factors, the company said. JERA, also Japan’s biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, did not disclose its performance forecast for the current fiscal year, citing market uncertainty due to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and resulting closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20 per cent of the world’s oil and LNG passes. ($1 = 159.3200 yen) Source link

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Surveillance and analytics company Palantir recently posted what it called a “brief” 22-point summary of CEO Alexander Karp’s book “The Technological Republic.” Written by Karp and Palantir’s head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska, “The Technological Republic” was published last year and described by its authors as “the beginnings of the articulation of the theory” behind Palantir’s work. (One critic said it was “not a book at all, but a piece of corporate sales material.”) The company’s ideological bent has come under more scrutiny since then, as tech industry figures have debated Palantir’s work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and as the company has positioned itself as an organization working for the defense of “the West.” In fact, congressional Democrats recently sent a letter to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security demanding more information about how tools built by Palantir and “a range of surveillance companies” are being used in the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation strategy. Palantir’s post doesn’t reference much of that context directly, simply saying that it’s providing the summary “because we …

Trust posts £3.4m deficit after raiding reserves

Trust posts £3.4m deficit after raiding reserves

Published by Miika Tikkanen

The bosses of a cash-strapped academy trust have blamed its £3.4 million deficit on a strategy that considered hoarding reserves “inappropriate” and saw them plough resources into securing ‘good’ Ofsteds. The ailing Brooke Weston Trust in the east Midlands has slashed “non-educational” budgets and green-lit dozens of voluntary redundancies in a bid to balance the books. Stephen Morales, the chief executive of the Institute of School Business, warns that the case shows that “anything” can tip trusts “over the edge” if they’re already close to their “fiscal limit”. Source link

The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn

The Government’s Posts Just Took a Sharp Far-Right Turn

Published by Daniella Wilson

The U.S. Labor Department is embracing Nazi slogans and tropes, the Pentagon’s research office is deploying neo-Nazi graphic elements in its social-media feeds, and the Department of Homeland Security recently posted lyrics mimicking a popular song by a band with ties to an ethno-nationalist social club. The official social-media channels of the Trump administration have become unrelenting streams of xenophobic and Nazi-coded messages and imagery. The leaders of these departments so far refuse to answer questions about their social-media strategies, but the trend is impossible to miss: Across the federal government, officials are advocating for a radical new understanding of the American idea, one rooted not in the vision of the Founders, but in the ideologies of European fascists. On January 10, the Department of Labor posted a video with the caption “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage,” which sounds eerily similar to the Nazi slogan “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” (“One people, one realm, one leader”). The post has 22.6 million views. One week ago, the Pentagon’s research office posted silhouettes of Revolutionary-era …