I honestly worry what the consequences of this, and other "AI overviews" on places like Facebook and Quora, will be, for impressionable young people, if these "tech companies" continue to be able to make them virtually impossible to opt out of...
It's like (going off on a tangent here) the "reviewers" who are busily claiming that Cynthia Erivo is "perfect" for Wicked despite being probably the ugliest woman ever in a musical lead role, and the fact that she has continuously insulted everyone from White British men, to entire British cities, to even their precious protected group of autistic black women (despite being Black herself)...
It's amusing to watch the whole thing implode. They literally couldn't have found a more ugly person, inside and out, and yet almost every review is glowing, lol...
Though that's not AI. That's just what passes for "journalism", these days...
The movie does also feature a disabled black woman (not sure if she's gay), in a role that has previously universally been played by an able-bodied white girl, so no wonder they love it so much, lol...
Yeah, I've had similar experiences with younger classmates at Uni, and this was before AI overview was a thing...
It's been a year and a bit. From what I gathered talking to a Scottish student earlier this year (also female, so there's a pattern, arguably) it's only gotten worse since that time...
On that note, my Uni no longer discourages either generative AI or Wikipedia as a source, when it comes to essay-writing...
Which is... Deeply concerning, IMO.
I hate to think what it is like in corporate-land, these days...
I think Scotland is somewhat tricky for them, because while yes, there was the whole Wallace/Bruce/Rob Roy period, there was also the fact that the Scottish later directly participated in, and benefitted from, colonialism, were some of the "worst" "colonial masters" to be subjected to (on an individual level), and also contributed massively to fucking over the Irish...
Similar for the Welsh, albeit they had less power in all that.
And then there's the fact that the Lowland Scots treated their Highland brethren worse than pretty much any Englishman of the period, which, again, complicates things. Which I'm pretty sure even the Simpsons joked about, lol.
So... Scotland is a tricky one for the wokies. Like Canada and NZ, lol.
But you're also not wrong about Braveheart itself, and the awkwardness of Gibson, to these types, ha.
Edit: As an aside, Scotland's "rebranding" as anti-imperial, "we were colonized first!", etc., etc., is exactly what Austria did after WW2, to distance themselves from the Nazis. Which is why, in large part, Austria has such a distinct "national identity", now, to differentiate from its "German-ness". Vis a vis for example Bavaria, which is also Catholic and non-Prussian, but which was part of the German Confederation, rather than being "Anschluss-ed". I was not aware of this until recently...
History is written by the censors, and all that...
O you take the high road, and I'll take the low road. And I'll be in Scotland afore ye. But me and my true love will never meet again. On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
Singing about how the English will carry your corpse as a man through the hills and cities of Northern England and Scotland as a reminder why you should never rebel, while your widow takes the low roads through the valleys and woods back home to avoid capture and rape. Yes, there is some inequality there.
I found one source for that but it doesn't make much sense, as then the song is sung by the woman. Doesn't seem likely given the time period.
Wikipedia (ugh) and others I found say the low road is death, which is how I've always heard it. Graves being underground and all. Also "low" isn't an old english word and comes originally from words meaning flat or to lie down - like when you're dead.
Clearly an unbiased AI.
I honestly worry what the consequences of this, and other "AI overviews" on places like Facebook and Quora, will be, for impressionable young people, if these "tech companies" continue to be able to make them virtually impossible to opt out of...
Genuinely crazy how fast this has all happened...
It's like (going off on a tangent here) the "reviewers" who are busily claiming that Cynthia Erivo is "perfect" for Wicked despite being probably the ugliest woman ever in a musical lead role, and the fact that she has continuously insulted everyone from White British men, to entire British cities, to even their precious protected group of autistic black women (despite being Black herself)...
It's amusing to watch the whole thing implode. They literally couldn't have found a more ugly person, inside and out, and yet almost every review is glowing, lol...
Though that's not AI. That's just what passes for "journalism", these days...
The movie does also feature a disabled black woman (not sure if she's gay), in a role that has previously universally been played by an able-bodied white girl, so no wonder they love it so much, lol...
AI passes for journalism these days. Practically everyone writes using AI, more or less.
I do some work with a kid in our respective home country and see him use google quite a bit.
He searches for something and copy pastes what gemini provides and doesn't really seem aware that there are actual websites below that.
Yeah, I've had similar experiences with younger classmates at Uni, and this was before AI overview was a thing...
It's been a year and a bit. From what I gathered talking to a Scottish student earlier this year (also female, so there's a pattern, arguably) it's only gotten worse since that time...
On that note, my Uni no longer discourages either generative AI or Wikipedia as a source, when it comes to essay-writing...
Which is... Deeply concerning, IMO.
I hate to think what it is like in corporate-land, these days...
People who can't produce art are always eager to claim it as a symbol of their movement.
I mean they could've at least bring up some "colonization = bad" thing. The brave resistance fighters fighting English occupation.
But then we are suddenly at Braveheart & Mel Gibson... so no wonder why they ignore that route.
I think Scotland is somewhat tricky for them, because while yes, there was the whole Wallace/Bruce/Rob Roy period, there was also the fact that the Scottish later directly participated in, and benefitted from, colonialism, were some of the "worst" "colonial masters" to be subjected to (on an individual level), and also contributed massively to fucking over the Irish...
Similar for the Welsh, albeit they had less power in all that.
And then there's the fact that the Lowland Scots treated their Highland brethren worse than pretty much any Englishman of the period, which, again, complicates things. Which I'm pretty sure even the Simpsons joked about, lol.
So... Scotland is a tricky one for the wokies. Like Canada and NZ, lol.
But you're also not wrong about Braveheart itself, and the awkwardness of Gibson, to these types, ha.
Edit: As an aside, Scotland's "rebranding" as anti-imperial, "we were colonized first!", etc., etc., is exactly what Austria did after WW2, to distance themselves from the Nazis. Which is why, in large part, Austria has such a distinct "national identity", now, to differentiate from its "German-ness". Vis a vis for example Bavaria, which is also Catholic and non-Prussian, but which was part of the German Confederation, rather than being "Anschluss-ed". I was not aware of this until recently...
History is written by the censors, and all that...
I posted before a chart showing how the raw data produces unbiased AI.
But the RLHF introduces massive woke biases.
(they have to brainwash the AI to produce this bullshit)
Google AI is complete dogshit, even when it's not something controversial or political.
Go watch the horror movie "Smile 2" then ask google how many times they show Voss water on screen.
Gender inequality:
Singing about how the English will carry your corpse as a man through the hills and cities of Northern England and Scotland as a reminder why you should never rebel, while your widow takes the low roads through the valleys and woods back home to avoid capture and rape. Yes, there is some inequality there.
I found one source for that but it doesn't make much sense, as then the song is sung by the woman. Doesn't seem likely given the time period.
Wikipedia (ugh) and others I found say the low road is death, which is how I've always heard it. Graves being underground and all. Also "low" isn't an old english word and comes originally from words meaning flat or to lie down - like when you're dead.
Source A (written by a man) - ok, this is "personal opinion", but at least it's fairly apolitical: https://archive.is/F4gTu
And then Source B (author unknown), where most of the crap in the second sentence was pulled directly from: https://archive.is/TCR2v
Also, I meant *Caledonophile, apparently. The other one is (obviously) used in reference to Ireland.