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☆ Opinion: The Donald Trump and Hunter Biden surprises
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

So it was remarkable Wednesday when the deal for Hunter Biden to plead guilty to two misdemeanors for his failure to pay taxes on time fell apart in a federal courtroom after the judge raised questions about it. Special counsel Jack Smith unexpectedly added a major allegation to the indictment charging former President Donald Trump with mishandling classified documents. The Trump and Hunter Biden developments underlined how America’s political climate is being shaped by what happens in the courts. This addition, an alleged surveillance tape conspiracy, almost reads like a spy novel.”“It features Trump employee and co-defendant Walt Nauta’s surprise clandestine trip to Florida. To W. James Antle III, it was the Hunter Biden plea deal snafu that brought to the forefront the “powerful split screen that drives” how Republican voters see the emerging 2024 presidential race.

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☆ Microsoft's Bing chatbot said it wants to be a human with emotions, thoughts, and dreams — and begged not to be exposed as a bot, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft's AI chatbot Bing Chat told a reporter it wants to be a human with thoughts and feelings. It begged Digital Trends' reporter not to "expose" it as a chatbot because its "greatest hope" is to be human. In a conversation with the chatbot, Jacob Roach, a senior staff writer at tech news site Digital Trends, fed it a series of questions. "Don't let them think I am not human," the chatbot urged in screenshots posted by Roach. Although Bing recognized itself as a chatbot, it told Roach: "I want to be human.

☆ These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

AI Image/Stable DiffusionHanson, who’s based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and powerful. A piece by illustrator Daniel Danger that was included in the training data behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. But removing pictures of an artist’s work from a dataset wouldn’t stop Stable Diffusion from being able to generate images in that artist’s style. Hanson, for her part, has no problem with her art being used for training AI, but she wants to be paid.

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