Interesting Things on the Internet: October 3rd 2022 Edition

• Want to see how much Truss and Kwarteng’s disastrous 'mini-budget' is going to cost us? It's really hard for us to understand the scale of things. This does an excellent job of it.
• AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability. "They were motivated to push AI forward and didn’t consider the possible repercussions. They could have made inclusion into the dataset opt-in, but they didn’t, probably because it would’ve been complicated and the data wouldn’t have been nearly as useful. They could have enforced the license and restricted commercial use of the dataset, but they didn’t, probably because it would have been a lot of work and probably because it would have impacted their funding." Stop. Doing. This.