(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Sunday Good Reads for June 23rd 2024 [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-23 Been a bit buys this week, so insert something clever here. How to Escape the Box You've Become Trapped in as an Artist (substack.com): Another excellent series of interviews by Haddon. If you are interested in creating for TV, film, or books you should subscribe. An AI video tool just launched, and it’s already copying Disney’s IP - The Verge: Plagiarism and hallucinations are essentially inherent to imitative AI. Economic Punditry and the ‘Hot Dog Guy’ Problem - The American Prospect: A polite rant about the poor quality of our mainstream press. Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine | WIRED: Wired caught imitative AI search engine Perplexity taking its data for training and summarization without proper attribution or permission — things Perplexity swore it would not do. US Energy Storage Market Soars 84% In Q1 - CleanTechnica: Energy storage is rapidly solving the “what do you do when it the sun isn’t shining” renewable problem. Fast Crimes at Lambda School (sandofsky.com): Excellent long read about how a VC approved boot camp was a rip off engine. I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity (mataroa.blog): I think this sums up the state of play in imitative AI pretty well. Have we been overthinking EV sounds? - The Verge: People want cars to sound like cars. Police department staffing is down. Crime is also down. Was the “defund the police” movement right? (slate.com): Police don’t stop crime (seriously, the clearance rate in most place in the US is a sad joke). Once you have the minimum required to keep order, police don’t help prevent crime. How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI (platformer.news): I don’t buy the conclusions — they are too sympathetic to imitative AI and its potential longevity — but it’s an excellent overview of how imitative AI is destroying the usefulness of the web and killing journalism. MLB offense is nearing all-time lows — hitters have theories: ‘Pitching is out of control’ - The Athletic (nytimes.com): They are going to end up limiting the number of pitchers you can use in a game. An excellent overview of the problem. We now have even more evidence against the “ecocide” theory of Easter Island | Ars Technica: Great overview of what we know and don’t know about what happened on Rapa Nui A Story About Students Who Shared What Was Meaningful to Them (substack.com): We don’t pay teachers enough. Have a great week, everyone. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/23/2248175/-Sunday-Good-Reads-for-June-23rd-2024?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/