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View More NewsThe San Francisco Department of Police Accountability found that two officers used unnecessary force and violated department policies while arresting Matthew Ludwig in 2024 after an officer entered the wrong license plate number into a police database, leading them to mistakenly believe Ludwig was driving a stolen car. Body camera video showed the officers breaking Ludwig’s car window, pulling him from the vehicle, and throwing him to the ground. They then pepper-sprayed him from inches away, even though the required minimum distance for pepper spray is more than four feet. The officers eventually discovered their mistake but still recommended that Ludwig…
In brief OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it assessed as very likely originating in Russia. The accounts promoted an ostensible Israeli institute that published copied research under academics’ names. Most posts received few views, though associated Telegram channels had up to 20,000 followers each. A network originating in Russia used ChatGPT to promote an organization that presented itself as an academic institute, according to an OpenAI report published Wednesday.OpenAI said it banned a group of accounts whose operators used Russian-language prompts to generate social media posts and comments, mostly in English. They also instructed ChatGPT to conceal signs that the content…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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