This Week In News That Makes You Doubt Your Committment To Humanity

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Delhi murder: Indian man held after brutally murdering girl in public

Footage of the assault shows the man repeatedly stabbing the girl in a public place as people watch.
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"Footage of the assault shows the man repeatedly stabbing the girl and crushing her head with a huge stone. The video, which has gone viral and led to outrage in India, shows many people watching the assault or walking by.

Police have romantically linked the couple and say they had quarrelled hours before the murder on Sunday."
 
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New technology creates AI romantic partners for users

There's two. There's the woman who says she enjoys her AI boyfriend who is in some weird whispering raspy voice... And then the reporter trying some AI embodiment of some social media influencer.

....I have enough challenges not being able to spend time with real human beings in my life.

I'm not sure where I would find the time to embrace a computer program. Now if you can get the social media girl into an augmented reality/virtual reality headset then that woman can live off her laurels forever like Blade Runner 2049.
 
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Does that mean if we're facing an asteroid that Aerosmith's I don't want to miss a thing will be on the top streamed Spotify list?

I hope for Ms. Dion's sake that her agents got her a good deal on her library given her health and inability to make a living off singing these days.
 
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Harassment against scientists is out of control

Last week Peter Hotez experienced pile-ons, stalking, and bullying after events unfolded on Twitter. So much so that law enforcement got involved. A complete nightmare. He’s not alone. These nightmares are now a common occurrence for scientists and physicians in public health. Both online and...
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Illegal trade in AI child sex abuse images exposed

Paedophiles are using the technology to create and sell life-like abuse material, the BBC finds.
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"The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead on child safeguarding, Ian Critchley, said it would be wrong to argue that because no real children were depicted in such 'synthetic' images - that no-one was harmed.

He warned that a paedophile could, 'move along that scale of offending from thought, to synthetic, to actually the abuse of a live child'"

Just think of what happens when this AI program is trained enough it gains sentience.
 
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'You're kind of raised to hate tourists': Maui fires fan tensions on Hawaiian island

Tourist activity has continued despite devastating wildfires, bringing tensions with residents to a head.
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"Another Maui local told the BBC that tourists were swimming in the 'same waters that our people died in three days ago' - an apparent reference to a snorkelling excursion on Friday just 11 miles from Lahaina."

"In the immediate aftermath of the fires, some 46,000 people left the island. The grass field separating the airport from the surrounding highway is now lined with rows upon rows of suddenly surplus rental cars.

But thousands did not. Some ignored requests to leave Maui immediately, while others flew in after the fire - decisions that have angered some."

"Staff told the BBC that many of the guests were sympathetic to the crisis on the west of the island. Others had complained about scheduled activities in Lahaina - horseriding, ziplining - being cancelled, said Brittany Pounder, 34, an employee at the Four Seasons.

The day after the fires, one guest visiting from California, asked if he could still get to his dinner reservation at the Lahaina Grill - a restaurant in one of the hardest-hit areas of the town."


I think it was pretty much the same in Greece.
 
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Libya floods: Collapsed bridges and wrecked homes seen in before and after satellite photos

Storm Daniel pounded parts of the North African coast on Sunday night, causing huge rainfall that proved too much for the politically-divided country's crumbling infrastructure.
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Morocco earthquake death toll, map and more key details following 6.8 magnitude disaster

The Morocco earthquake killed several thousand people and devastated parts of Marrakech and communities south of the major city.
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...soo about 15K North Africans died in a little over a week.
 
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