2023-08-08
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Jane Friedman
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint
Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
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TechCrunch
Prosecraft, a site that compiled 27K+ books to compare and rank the “vividness” of their language, shuts down after writers' backlash over its possible AI uses
Today, I'm taking down the prosecraft.io website … Sam Barsanti / The A.V. Club : Explaining the Prosecraft drama: This is why every author is mad at a website that counted words R...
2021-01-22
Hey @Instacart: you fire union workers, you lose customers. Because, evil. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles, as it shifts to new models, like selling its tech to retailers to have their staff prepare orders
Instacart Inc. plans to terminate about 1,900 employees' jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.
2021-01-07
Cool. Shut down @realDonaldTrump's account. https://twitter.com/...
Engadget
After labeling some Trump tweets due to “risk of violence”, Twitter removed three Trump tweets, including a video to his supporters
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Cool. Shut down @realDonaldTrump's account. https://twitter.com/...
@twittersafety
[Thread] Twitter says Trump's account will be locked for 12 hours following removal of recent tweets, and further violations will result in permanent suspension
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for...