Links. Tweets. Photos. AI Art (week 2022.36)
After a Summer hiatus, I’m back
Links of the Week
The opening story in this article is amazing: The Humiliating History of the TSA (the rest of the article is okay, but nothing new: airport security is mostly theatre; I have also noticed that European airports are slowly relaxing from 9/11 paranoia, while American airports still make you take off your shoes). /ht @andyjayhawk
An interesting form of fraud: A publishes potentially-fraudulent finding X. Later, A contributes a replication of X to a paper by B, but is not listed as an author in B’s paper. To the outside world, it seems that B has replicated X, which benefits A. However, the oversight office “indicated it does not consider an investigator publishing another group’s data without attribution to be a problem if the group that provided the data does not object.” This makes perfect sense if we conceptualize that the issue is stolen credit (in which case, A is the victim), but, in this particular case, A is one of perpetrators and its funders and the public who are victims.
AI generated art is the big topic of discussion now. As a lark, I put some up on an online shop, where you can buy it.