Re Australia’s social media age bans, Senate staff have just posted a bunch of representative samples of mass submissions they received, including one theme they got more than 9,200 times. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge/Additional_Documents
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Does that mean that the public servants fed all the submissions into AI and then asked for a summary?
Is it suggested that the 9200 responses were part of a deliberate campaign from a social media company?
I don’t know whether LLMs were used to process the submissions — the Senate staff are usually somewhat conservative. I might ask.
For example, she may make rules excluding gaming and a new Coalition Minister will reverse this.
Will the Rules be disallowable by the Senate?
(But they are not passed by both Houses like Bills, so there's not same level of scrutiny.)
See: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Practice_and_Procedure/Guides_to_Senate_Procedure/No_19
submission? Not at all. We now are all very aware of the tactics used by the duopoly to get through
legislation that purely is an agenda of the majority of politicians in Parliament today."
I still use commas because everyone is expecting them.
https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conventions/numbers-and-measurements/choosing-numerals-or-words#use_commas_in_numbers_with_4_or_more_digits
Metre - international standard
Spaces as numerical separators- international standard.
Diktats from Canberra bureaucrats to used commas? It's just - to coin a phrase - Numerical Correctness gone mad.
Five stars for “typefaces” rather then “fonts’.