A study finds that generative AI exhibits gender bias in the images of professions it creates. Dismayed at the findings and that the findings are not at all shocking. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4J2HHZHTVWZQIAPZC8UX/full?target=10.1080%2F14680777.2023.2263659 

 I'm on Day 5 of Livin' La Covida Loca and tomorrow will emerge from isolation, greeted by trumpets and rainbows (in my head)...assuming I test negative. Get well soon, all you who have It now. #covid 

 This a prediction from the 1950s is amazing. But I think it also shows some of the limitations of our predictive powers, especially ever since technology went from a steady walk to falling into wormholes. Still, props to Mr. Sullivan! 

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 Excellent discussion on a private list (sorry about that) about the #FCC's  refusal to use captchas or any other way of judging whether submitted comments come from AI or a human. This is to protect every American's First Amendment right. Yay, but it's likely to result in tens of thousand (or more) comments on the new #NetNeutrality policy, drowning out the comments of flesh-based citizens. Letting the 1A silence our voices? 

 I prompted chatGPT  to write an opening monologue for a late night talk show that treats the plot of Hamlet as if it were breaking news. It produced a couple of minutes of plausible monologue material. Sample: Here's the end:

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