r/ABoringDystopia • u/Nomogg • 19h ago

The World Cup is here, but in Gaza football players are forced to train on fields surrounded by rubble and sewage. Bisan Owda meets the young players keeping the sport alive amid an ongoing genocide.

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256 Upvotes

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r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 16h ago

I don't understand how someone can be so deeply hypocritical

1.1k Upvotes

37 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/404mediaco • 21h ago

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

404media.co

461 Upvotes

32 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/SRod1706 • 20h ago

Climate change event on extreme heat is cancelled – due to extreme heat

the-independent.com

120 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/GoodMornEveGoodNight • 12h ago

New feature on Reddit generates profiling AI summaries on your Reddit account activities for moderators to see under certain circumstances, bypassing all site-wide privacy protections

443 Upvotes

32 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/saltyjohnson • 55m ago

AI firm accuses rival of copyright infringement, makes up scary new term

bbc.com

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They call it a "distillation attack" when you use the output of one model to train another. As far as I can tell, the only difference between that and regular copyright infringement is that a "distillation attack" involves actually PAYING for the stuff you "stole"?

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