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A Harvard medical student used OpenAI's GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho's Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn't tell them apart from those by humans (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired: A Harvard medical student used OpenAI’s GPT-2 to submit comments on Idaho’s Medicaid draft proposal; volunteers couldn’t tell them apart from those by humans  —  A Harvard medical student submitted auto-generated comments to Medicaid; volunteers couldn’t distinguish them from those penned by humans. A Harvard medical student used OpenAI's GPT-2 to

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The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation (Joan Donovan/HBR.org)

Joan Donovan / HBR.org: The dominant business model of social media platforms, which emphasizes scale over everything else, makes them particularly vulnerable to disinformation  —  Summary.  —  The attack on the U.S. Capitol building was the culmination of years of disinformation and conspiracy theories that had been weaponized on social media networks. The dominant business

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A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges (Medium)

Medium: A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges  —  This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I’ve ever made in my life. A look at the

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Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises €69M Series C led by Tencent (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates for its users, raises €69M Series C led by Tencent  —  Clark, a Frankfurt, Germany-based digital insurance manager, raised €69m in Series ​C funding.  —  The round was led by Tencent with participation … Frankfurt, Germany-based CLARK, which searches for the best insurance rates

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