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“As Sophia Smith Galer’s Nonna lay dying, she realised it wasn’t just a beloved grandmother she was losing – it was the language she spoke, too. From Northern Italy, she spoke a dialët that Sophia, like so many children and grandchildren of migrants, can understand but can’t speak. With the death of the language, Sophia would lose a culture, a history, an inheritance – a whole world.”
How To Kill A Language, a book about linguicide
…Related:
Sophia vs AI Slop
“Sophia Smith Galer examines the impact of AI slop on the information landscape after finding an AI-generated biography of herself on sale on Amazon.”
…Sophia’s half-hour documentary above begins with her receiving an LLM-generated biography of herself, ‘authored’ by Taylor Price and published on Amazon. (For which there is effectively no recourse under the law.)
Sophia moves onto the ‘prolific’ Margaux Blanchard – more at https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115131151689185671 from @davidgerard
And then onto fake academic papers.
A lamentable litany of Large Larceny Models exploiting lootable goods https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115276495425488681
…A neverending recursive story of phakery.
“A French academic is under investigation for inventing a Nobel-style prize for philology – the study of language through texts – in order that he could then go on to win it.”
…Re https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116548876057946990 above, here’s the 85 pages of AI-generated, terribly written, 99% bullshit about Sophia Smith Galer still on sale on Amazon but “currently unavailable”, with its picture of someone who is very much not Sophia.
And alongside, a picture
of Sophia
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