MediumSizedSnack

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Joined 10 months ago
Cake day: July 28th, 2025
  • MediumSizedSnack@piefed.socialtoTechnology@piefed.social•Ars Technica - Our newsroom AI policyEnglish
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    19 days ago

    As far as policy guidelines go, I think they’re quite reasonable. I read the entire policy and the staff comments on the page. They lay out expectations: Humans must write the articles and verify everything that an AI output claims comes from a source such as through transcribing interviews or summarizing documents. They lay out that not following the policy is a violation which leads to the authors or editors being on the hook for those failures, likely tied to Ars or Condé Nast’s disciplinary procedures. These would be the reactive controls through accountability for failures, which there may yet be.
    Per the document and the subsequent comments, they confirm that editors and reporters both have to verify that reporting is accurate. That is a reasonable amount of proactive controls. If there becomes a pattern of failures either in the amount of them or a lack of accountability, then it would be fair to assume their output is AI slop, but I think that’s currently too early to claim. You’re under no obligation to assume they’ll be successful or that they are sincere, but it’s a clearly written reader-facing policy.

  • MediumSizedSnack@piefed.socialtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•De googling in a complex familyEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Some mail services do an email import. Proton worked for me.

    Here’s what I did and it took time. I started forwarding my email to my new account first. I did a Google takeout of my email in case I really screwed something up. Then I went through and deleted about 2 decades worth of emails I didn’t need or want Google’s AI to access: old newsletters, shipping and old purchase confirmations, emails with contacts that were purely logistical or ephemeral, etc. Going to all mail and searching mail from Amazon or other retailers and selecting all to delete. After that I used proton’s import tool. I went through and updated my email on all my services to my new email account or an alias. I use iCloud and proton pass - while I pay, a limited number aliases are available in the free tier of PP). As my final step I created an Vacation Response for my contacts (of which I edited already) with my new emwil address and told close contacts about the change.

    My family already uses iPhones so calendar so it was easy to move to iCloud from Google. Yeah, that’s moving from a lion’s den to shark infested waters, but I do enjoy swimming. /lh There may be other services, but I haven’t looked into them yet. Generally though, you can send event invites to any calendar and even with Proton you can share a calendar, though it’s more rudimentary.