Students are back on college campuses across the country, and according to a bunch of pissed off professors these little pieces of shit started cheating the moment they arrived. “Second week of the semester and I’ve already had students use (and own up to using) ChatGPT to write their first assignments,” one professor shared. “They are also using it to word the *questions they ask in class.*” Another professor offered a solution: “The correct answer here is to ban all electronic devices from the classroom… handwrite your notes.” But, clearly, we have a bigger problem on our hands than cheating. Apparently, students have been graduating for decades with writing chops poor enough to clone with a primitive AI. These people should never have had a diploma in the first place, and if a professor can’t tell the difference between great writing and a robot? They shouldn’t have their job.

Last week, the CA legislature passed SB 1047, an AI bill written by Effective Altruists (histrionic doomsday cultists convinced the logical endpoint of AI is the Terminator) that — among other bad things — makes AI developers liable if they break its ambiguous, confusing, and impractical rules. Much worse, the bill is a big step forward in the ongoing Brussels-ification of California with respect to the rest of the country: given SB 1047 applies to any company that “does business” in the state, the law is essentially an extrajudicial standard that will govern all AI (again, I need to stress that the bill was written by a literal doomsday cult). Now, all that’s left is for it to be signed into law by the governor or vetoed. Looks like the bugmen are one step closer to capturing significant territory here, and Gavin Newsom is the only man who can prevent it. God help us.

The city of San Francisco is set to begin an “equity audit” of its nearly 100 statues and monuments in order to determine which of them no longer represent “the values” of the city — and therefore must be removed, relocated, or “reinterpreted with explanatory plaques.” Apparently, this audit alone is set to cost $3 million (?), and will be conducted by an outside firm, who tells us that their expert statue racism analysis will be completed sometime in January. But, the big loser here (aside from the centuries of Western civilization being erased)? Purple-haired SF Marxists who toppled statues throughout the city during the “mostly peaceful” summer of 2020. You idiots gave your vandalism labor up for free with a $3 million grifter consulting gig on the table? Lmao call me crazy but I’m starting to think that “late-stage capitalism” is not the reason you’re poor.

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