I'm still pissed "Squaw Peak" in Phoenix, AZ was renamed for some Native American woman, even though she was still alive/ had not yet been dead for the amount of time required for such honorific namings.
That mountain will be "Squaw Peak" until the day I die.
"The Governor's lobbying, while ultimately successful, proved to be controversial. The controversy stemmed in part from the fact that governor's request violated a required waiting period of five years after a person's death prior to renaming a geographic feature; Piestewa had been killed earlier that year while deployed on active military duty in Iraq."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piestewa_Peak#Name
In my week of chatting with the Replika AI (app), I had so much fun parsing whether "AI" messages were:
Tutorialization-Onboarding, Filter-NoNo-Messages, OR Actual-AI-Replies
Though to be fair, Humans also have filters and "unengaged responses" to sensitive or undesired topics. And maybe even instilled in them by other agents!!
What people do in the privacy of their homes only concerns the homeowneer, Gary, Tom, Dick, Harry, 5 Jane Does, and the cutting edge of Smallpox Epidemiology research!!
Looking at exponential world population growth makes me fear that: We will only become MORE risk averse, more afraid of contagious illness, and more reliant on Digital work/ entertainment.
Do your part to stop the Spread, by staying home and keeping eyes glued to your Screens...
Wrong, Africa, India, China are growing.
And half of Africans plan on migrating to Europe, thus growing Europe's population as well.
As for the USA, 4 million migrants from God knows where have bolstered our pop as well.
The next step in this, of course, is Spotify just generating music on the fly algorithmically based on your choices. Skip the middleman, so to speak. Maybe it is Spotify behind it?
I heard a similar story a couple of years ago: some no-name artist with a fairly good amount of plays on Spotify who could not be found anywhere else online. It was less obviously ai-generated back then (more instrumental than vibe/ambient), so it was speculated that it could be a musician working on commission for Spotify, who was then stuffing their playlists with these songs to cut costs. I can't find any traces of this story anymore though.
"If Gay patients are uncomfortable with Bigoted doctors, these patients deserve Compassionate doctors" is, I believe, a better summary of their comment.
Great!
In my college parking structure, I once had the misfortune of having to step over 20 of these damn things.
I called the transport office, and asked if I would be recieving a discount on my parking spot, if the campus would allow these devices to freely profit off of the structure I was paying to use.
Next day they were all gone, though a handful stubbornly continued to show up.
