The Daily Populous

Sunday January 5th, 2025 morning edition

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As users began to sniff out some of Meta’s AI accounts this week, the backlash grew, in part because of the way the AI accounts disingenuously described themselves as actual people with racial and sexual identities.

“The recent Financial Times article was about our vision for AI characters existing on our platforms over time, not announcing any new product.”.

Sweeney said the accounts were “part of an early experiment we did with AI characters.”.

It wasn’t clear how many Meta AI bots existed before the company began purging them on Friday.

At this point in our chat, I wasn’t sure when Meta had launched the AI accounts, so I asked Brian when he first got on Instagram.

Brian is hardly a reliable narrator, though, and by that point Meta had announced it was deleting Brian and Liv. »

UK Right Warns Trump Allies That Musk’s Posts Have Gone Too Far

Authored by bnnbloomberg.ca
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Robinson is currently in prison after admitting breaching a court order by repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee.

The outreach by British politicians to their US counterparts was triggered by the latest foray by Musk into British politics.

However, the talks between British right-wingers and their Republican contacts shows Musk’s posting is not just becoming a headache for Starmer. »

‘Fatal Mistake’: Democrats Blame DOJ As Trump Escapes Accountability For Jan. 6

Authored by huffpost.com

That never happened, and many Democrats are ready to place the blame on one man: Attorney General Merrick Garland.

Garland made the appointment in November 2022, saying he’d done so partly because Trump had just formalized his bid for the presidency.

“Had they proceeded with those prosecutions, I think he would have been convicted and we’d have a different president now,” Nadler said. »

Bat poop used to grow cannabis kills 2 in New York in unusual cases

Authored by livescience.com
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Two men in New York state have died of a rare fungal lung infection that they caught from bat poop — specifically, poop they were using or planned to use as fertilizer to grow cannabis.

The first man, who was 59-years-old, had purchased guano online to use as fertilizer for his cannabis plants.

The other man, 64, was intending to fertilize his cannabis plants with guano he'd found in his attic following a "heavy" bat infestation. »