(1/n) Some thoughts on the ALA Draft AI Policy Statement
(comments due tomorrow)
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David Moles
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@jessamyn@glammr.us I feel like I got all the way through library school without ALA-APA being mentioned once, but IDK if that’s a cause or just a symptom
“Programming languages have semantics. The code you write constrains the compiler to implement the behavior you specified with your program. Prompts do not have semantics.”
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@TimPhon@lingo.lol @amyfou@lingo.lol (IPA as invented by Phoenicians and used to transcribe Hittite, basically)
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@TimPhon@lingo.lol @amyfou@lingo.lol One letter for each Proto-Indo-European consonant phoneme (including all three laryngeals), letters as in Ionic Greek with the additions of digamma, san, and qoppa, but with Byzantine cursive letterforms; *PIE short vowels marked with diacritics, long vowels marked with repurposed consonant symbols (cf. Arabic and Hebrew). All spellings to reflect the underlying etymologies; sound changes since then you just have to memorize (as in modern English, French, colloquial Arabic)
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@emilymbender @yo_bj looking forward to the same person mansplaining what is or is not sealioning, where by looking forward I mean :headdesk:
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@scott @brainwane I’d not somehow even heard of Vollmann before now, and I have too long a to-read list as it is, but I’m intrigued
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@petrikas@mastodon.art they meant to add "except for all the others" but the Powerpoint template didn't give them enough space
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@ra6bit that reafing definitely makes listening to “Polly” less uncomfortable, or at least uncomfortable in a less squicky way
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@jwz@mastodon.social we had a giant spike in ELB usage the morning of 9/22 UTC (quadrupling our monthly bill) and this morning I got an email from OpenAI support “proactively reaching out”…
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@johl@mastodon.xyz @platypus@glammr.us “Add XSLT to your website and weblog today before it is too late!” um, no