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How not to write about space exploration

How not to write about space exploration

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Can You Trust Mark Meador?

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AI Firms Should Answer For What Their Models Say—On The Same Terms As Everyone Else

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By Corbin Barthold
| Techdirt Verified
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for free expression. And it keeps improving. As the saying goes, it’s the worst it will ever be. People use it to receive ever-smarter speech and to create ever-better speech of their own. AI is now an important part of the marketplace of ideas—a market that, in America, is not for the state to control. The more useful AI becomes, the more worried you should be about letting the government dictate what AI can and cannot say.
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AI and the First Amendment

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By Corbin Barthold
| liberalism.org
“Defendants fail to articulate why words strung together by an LLM are speech.” With that curious line, one of the first judges to confront the question suggested, in the teeth of law and logic, that AI outputs might not be protected by the First Amendment. Consider what that would mean. If the outputs of large language models were not treated as protected expression, the government would have sweeping power to dictate what they can and cannot say—even what they must say.
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How Not To Write About Space Exploration

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By Corbin Barthold
| Inkl
Two years ago, a Houston-based company you probably haven't heard of achieved what the United States government had not managed in over half a century: It placed a craft on the moon. The company is called Intuitive Machines, and its landing was a close thing. A sensor failure forced last-minute software overhauls and a white-knuckle descent; upon touching down, the vessel tipped over. But it worked.
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