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  • Republicans on the committee were also concerned by the impact of large language models that make it easier and quicker for these fraudulent businesses to mass-produce fake scientific content, flooding the literature with ‘AI slop’. “When bad science gets published, it wastes taxpayer dollars, misleads policymakers, and can even put public health at risk,” said representative Brian Babin, a Republican from Texas who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

    Republicans at large, and this administration in particular don’t give a damn about facts or science, relying on emotion and indignant moral outrage to guide their desicions.














  • I have split opinions on it. The massive data centers that use so much power, hardware, space, etc are problematic. They get used as a replacement for human ingenuity, scarf down every bit of data the can, aggregate it together in a way that even the owners don’t fully understand. They get manipulated to give answers that suit the owner’s wishes and fuel divisions in public discourse.

    I take significantly less issue with locally run small model systems that you can put on your own machine. They’re not continually running/training and are generally treated more as a hobby toy, not some replacement for human understanding.