Thank you for seeing it! That line of the Cobra’s is an important one to me for his character, and for the metatextuality of it all. (Read along with me: I got in one line Christopher Marlowe (Elizabethan playwright and poet, Shakespeare’s sexy rival), T.S. Eliot’s Portrait of A Lady, and L.P. Hartley’s the Go-Betweeners, and Langston Hughes. Trust me, I’m telling you stories.)
Langston Hughes, jazz poet, playwright, social activist, leader of the Harlem Renaissance, was a major inspiration for Eric Mitchell, the Golden Cobra and wicked marquis formerly of New York. (And so was Lil Nas X, yes. The past isn’t dead, it’s not even past, and we do not know which songs will echo through the ages.)
‘I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome… Then it was that books began to happen to me,’ Langston Hughes said of his childhood, and I think we who love stories know what he means by ‘books began to happen to me.’
‘I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one’s own greed!
…
Yet I’m the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
…
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives,
We must take back our land again.’
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
Here are some pics of my Skylar cosplay from Anime North this year. There was an insane torrential downpour that Saturday and my wig and lashes were fighting for their life. But hey they held up… mostly.
proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.
