This unit got sent in with a warrant, after the person of interest didn't show up for parole check.

After the accident, it was determined that the person of interest wasn't there, but still he turned himself in anyway.

The bone of contention is the original album artwork one of the remaining band members insists is their intellectual property, and was used -- without their express permission -- in creating a vinyl reissue.

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is looking into reports about a Norwegian businessman who walked out of a public consultation after residents expressed opposition to a planned P20.3-billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center, and cursing members of the local media in Oton, Iloilo.

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Residents opposed the project after Robertsen allegedly gave unclear answers, prompting the latter to walk out.

When approached for an interview, Robertsen was caught saying: “If you don’t have a brain, just f**k, go away.”

About 12 years later MTV is killed off.

There's an epidemic of AI music flooding social media, like "Michael Bennett" and "Jada Monroe", and boomers can't seem to get enough of it, but who's behind it and what are the implications for real musicians? And what does the Philippines have to do with all of this?

Oh, fuck. We're seeing fake OPM artists, I'm seeing slop almost everywhere -- including San Miguel Corporation now using LLM-generated ads -- and now this, an imaginary Aretha Franklin lookalike allegedly created by a virtual assistant... in this country.

Only someone with considerable depth of knowledge in American culture and pop music is capable of conceiving this type of content far beyond the understanding of most Filipinos. It has to be an expatriate.

And the huge size of the operation indicates this cannot be done by a single person but a syndicate, and they're raking in millions through Adsense and Spotify payouts, not only heavy engagement on social media.

I would love to see further investigation.

In other words, fucking Starscream is engaged indirectly in land speculation.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2267401/youtubes-ai-slop-detector-incorrectly-targets-kurzgesagt-as-other-creators-fear-same-fa

YouTube’s system for suppressing low-quality AI content mistakenly targeted Kurzgesagt, leaving the channel with its worst-performing upload since 2013.

The survey also showed that net trust for Australia stayed moderate with +29 percent (48% much trust, 20% little trust), “neutral” for Israel, with -5 (30% much trust, 34% little trust), and Russia, with -8 (28% much trust, 36% little trust).

Meanwhile, net trust for China stayed “poor” at -16, receiving only 25 percent of trust and 41 percent of “little trust” from Filipinos. Palestine remained at -19 (18% much trust, 37% little trust), while Iran at -23 (19% much trust, 43% little trust).