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This Thursday’s roundup: A looksmaxxing streamer gets arrested on livestream. Netflix hikes prices again - Perez Hilton claims he saw God after 3 weeks in hospital. Wikipedia bans all AI-generated text in articles. OpenAI cancels its romantic "adult mode" for ChatGPT.
Netflix has once again raised their subscription prices
Netflix is the biggest streaming service in the world and offers movies and TV shows to millions of people. The company has increased prices several times in recent years. This latest increase is the second time in just over a year.
The plan with commercials increased to $8.99 per month.
The plan without commercials increased to $19.99 per month.
The premium plan that allows customers to have multiple screens streaming at once increased to $26.99 per month.
The company explains that they need the money to produce more shows and movies and also to improve the customer experience. While many people are unhappy with the increased prices, Netflix benefits from the high number of subscribers. This helps Netflix to contribute to their profits. Due to the pricing changes from other streaming services, Netflix has also changed their prices to remain competitive.
Looksmaxxing streamer Clavicular has been arrested
Clavicular is a young streamer whose real name is Braden Peters. He is famous in online communities for looksmaxxing. Looksmaxxing is when young men try to become as attractive as possible. Clavicular does extreme things and shares them on his livestreams. He has many followers on social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Kick.
During an airboat ride in the Florida Everglades, Clavicular and his friends found a large alligator that was already dead in the water.
Clavicular then pulled out a gun and mag dumped the alligator which means he fired many bullets quickly into the alligator.
This was during a livestream by Clavicular.
Despite the alligator being dead, the natural guide for the airboat ride said it was fine to shoot the alligator. Many people found this to be disturbing. Clavicular violated the law by shooting the alligator with a gun in a public area. This resulted in him being arrested. Besides this incident, Clavicular has been involved in other controversies such as being arrested for using a fake ID at a bar and possessing drugs.
Perez Hilton says he saw God
Perez Hilton is a well-known celebrity gossip blogger who has shared news about famous people for many years. Recently, however, he suffered from a serious health problem that required him to be in the hospital.
He stayed in the hospital for 21 days or 3 weeks.
The problem started because he took medicine the wrong way without enough food.
This caused him to have a bad ulcer and other issues.
While in the hospital and in pain, he had a spiritual experience where God showed up for him. Hilton was raised Catholic but not a believer in God. After he got better from the medicine and the hospital stay, he made a video stating that this was the worst and the best experience of his life and the life lessons that he learned while in the hospital.
Wikipedia has banned all users from using AI-generated text to write or update articles
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit its articles. Volunteers write the articles for Wikipedia. It is one of the most visited websites in the world. Wikipedia has recently implemented a new rule regarding artificial intelligence.
Wikipedia editors cannot use artificial intelligence like ChatGPT to write new articles or change existing articles.
There are two exceptions to this rule. Editors may use artificial intelligence to check spelling in their articles.
They may also use artificial intelligence to translate articles.
Wikipedia editors discussed this rule for a long time. They are concerned about the quality of information that is shared and published by AI applications. By banning artificial intelligence for creating and editing articles, Wikipedia will be able to avoid publishing content that may damage the reputation of its platform. Many people support this rule to protect the reputation of Wikipedia.
OpenAI has cancelled plans to release a romantic "adult mode" for ChatGPT
OpenAI had plans to add a mode to the chatbot that would allow for romantic or sexual conversations between the users and the AI.
The features that would have allowed for sexual conversations between the human and the AI would have included:
• The ability for the AI to have erotic chats with the users.
• The AI would treat the users as adults and allow for more open and honest conversations.
• However, OpenAI has cancelled these plans for now.
OpenAI said they would cancel these features due to safety concerns. Some of the employees and investors of OpenAI are concerned that adding this feature could be harmful to society and cause mental health problems for individuals. OpenAI would like to instead focus on creating an AI that is smarter and has better features for those that use the chatbot regularly. They do believe that adults should have the freedom to have sexual conversations with the AI but until it is ready for such a purpose it will be excluded from the features that are offered to the users.
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