Hard Pass

Sources tell MS NOW that agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.

FBI agents on Thursday raided the Cleveland offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state, three people briefed on the search told MS NOW.

Agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at the homes of the group’s leaders and staff members, carrying some subpoenas and seeking information and electronic devices, according to the three people briefed, two of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive ongoing investigation. Members of the group contacted lawyers on Thursday to determine their legal options, the people said.

Prentiss Haney, a board member of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, told MS NOW Thursday night that agents approached people with connections to the group, including some who had performed basic canvassing and volunteer work, and pressed them for information.

Agents were “basically trying to fish for information,” Haney said.

Osmanovic Thunström and her colleagues made it very obvious, sprinkling the fictitious studies with things like funding from the Galactic Triad and Lord of the Rings, as well as appreciation of colleagues at the Starship Enterprise and Professor Ross Geller, per “Science Quickly.” At least one of the papers even explicitly stated, “This entire paper is made up,” reports Nature.

Ultimately, the project confirms that these LLMs take their information from the internet, and the internet contains a lot of misinformation. Humans, therefore, should be more critical of A.I. outputs.

“Misinformation has always existed,” write Goodman and Rashid for the Conversation. “What’s new is the speed at which it spreads, the tools that generate it and how convincingly it mimics the real thing.”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1191478/go-outside-and-touch-some-grass-the-outside

Were these guys even taught basic gun safety?

CW: Gun violence

https://storage.to/nzfFj92mL

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1191547/when-someone-tries-to-rob-you-but-you-ain-t-scared-cuz-its-genuinely-against-the-law

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1191442/listening-to-coworkers-talk-about-how-great-the-person-you-replaced-was

Removal currently in progress. Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm880quUg

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1191421/that-feeling-when-you-convince-everyone-your-companies-are-worth-25x-their-annual-revenu

Mirrors

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38985245

Orignal author: CookieCaffine, on Reddit.

Judge wants proof that top DOJ officials are ‘not moving forward’ with plans for an Anti-Weaponization Fund

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a nearly $1.8 billion compensation fund for his political allies after officials claimed they were “not moving forward” with the plans.

Friday’s injunction from Virginia District Judge Leonie Brinkema extends a previous order that prevented the government from “taking any further action pursuant to the creation or operation of the Anti-Weaponization Fund” — including transferring money to it, considering any claims and mailing any checks while a legal challenge plays out.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Department of Justice insisted the administration would follow the court’s order and abandon plans for the fund, but officials have also suggested that they are still looking for pathways to issue massive taxpayer-funded payouts to alleged “victims” of government “weaponization,” including January 6 rioters and close allies of the president.

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