Message-ID: <3B0DF2E6-ADE0-469A-9092-A78142888C01@roscom.com> Date: 4 Jan 2023 19:03:02 -0500 From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com> Subject: New York City Schools Ban ChatGPT to Head Off a Cheating Epidemic The chatbot can write entire essays in a matter of seconds, but the NYC Education Department has "concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content." By Lucas Ropek The ChatGPT backlash has officially begun. On Wednesday, New York City public schools barred teachers and students from using the chatbot, apparently fearing that the powerful AI would lead to a tsunami of cheating. The ban was originally reported by Chalkbeat New York, which wrote that the city had blocked the program on school internet and devices. https://gizmodo.com/new-york-city-schools-chatgpt-ban-cheating-essay-openai-1849949384

Message-ID: <788cc969417a96c47842bd9c3d28fdf0.squirrel@hallikainen.org> Date: 2023年1月11日 20:52:14 -0700 From: "Harold Hallikainen" <harold@hallikainen.org> Subject: Re: The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed I think competitive bidding on supplying prison telephone systems with kickbacks being prohibited would help. Harold https://w6iwi.org

Message-ID: <20230112141944.GA1258101@telecomdigest.us> Date: 2023年1月12日 14:19:44 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> Subject: Re: The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:52:14PM -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I think competitive bidding on supplying prison telephone systems with > kickbacks being prohibited would help. I think it would not help, and would probably hurt. "Competitive Bidding" isn’t an enforceable method. The "Competition" almost always turns out to be between three or four straw men who are, in fact, actually all the same company, or between two or three or four executives having drinks around a table where they divide up the available bids and highest-profit contracts so that they’re only "competing" with startups and offshore rivals that aren’t in the game anyway. As for "kickbacks," there aren’t any. Prison administrators and their political bosses muscled into the game very early on, and they’ve never been stupid enough to ask for bribes. They get their cut via checks in the mail, with the amounts and the timing already public information. The money goes for "essential" supports like extra jobs for the Warden’s wife’s friends, for the politician’s idiot in-laws, for the friends of the legislature that arranged the deals in advance, and, very occasionally, for equipment repairmen who are trying to make a living the old-fashioned way. Of course, it’s a three-way street: the providers receive benefits from the taxpayers and pass some of that largesse on to their friends in the prison bureaucracy: free high-speed Internet links to carry the calls via VoIP trunks, free space, free electricity, free background checks on prospective employees, and (of course) free security for their equipment, and thus negligible insurance costs. >From the lofty heights of government power, those who care about the high prices and the ways inmates squeeze their lovers, wives, and relatives to pay them are seen as a small minority of do-gooders whom are not in touch with the fact that none of the decision makers care about the powerless or the poor. Bill Horne