the organization said that trace amounts of abortion pills and fetal remains in wastewater could arguably injure people, animals, and the environment.
even with the time line suggesting that the motive is flawed, they claim to care for the people and animals that it could harm
This kind of wastewater surveillance technology has been used to assess how much fentanyl is circulating in a community.
this type of water testing has been used in the past
a major anti-abortion group
the group defends itself by saying they wont trace women but they just care more for the expose enviornmental harm
“accidentally built the Death Star.”
This technology will have a tremendous snowball effect. If you can "punish" people that have taken a abortion pill what else can you do with it, how far can this possibly go.
Legal experts who specialize in abortion noted that wastewater testing technology could
using the waste water to potentially track down someone that took these abortion medication brings up the question of legality.
women recieving the pills may not hold up in court since theres no specific instances of the women receiving the pills.
legally fraught and extremely costly.
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which women usually take at home in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy — has inspired many anti-abortion activists to push for new approaches to curtail their use.
the purpose is to reduce the amount of women taking these pills
E.P.A. administrator, asking the agency to investigate how the abortion drug mifepristone might be contaminating the water supply.
overall claim of the article
medication.
legal or illegal?
Environmental Protection Agency
This is a department within the US Federal Bureacracy. Known as EPA.
The purpose of the EPA is to protect human health and enviornment by enforcing enviornmental laws. They conduct scientific research, provide grants and technical assistance, and work with both the state and local governments.
wouldn’t have to pay
premise 6: economic incentive
claim: ai will cut cost tremendously (wont have to pay the actor, be able to produce faster, no breaks would be needed, ect.)
This premise supports the conclusion that ai will replace humans because its cheaper, not because the quality of the art is better.
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premise 5- people already want short shallow content
the author suggest that audiences already now prefer shorter content and quick entertainment (ex. tiktok, youtube shorts, reels)
logical point: human driven art may lose its value to ai because the audience now values speed and simplicity over depth.
Marvel, sequels, adaptations and streaming shows that feel a
Premise 4: Ai will thrive in a "degraded hollywood"
Claim: the industry is all a formula and algorithm driven Connection: If creativity is already automated, ai will fit perfectly- worsening the decline
That, readers, would be less than ideal.
The overall conclusion is ai's growing role in entertainment and media threatens authenticity, creativity, and societies grasp on whats real and whats fake.
Uncanny Valley
human connection is already depleting due to technology. This highlighted portion supports the claim that A.I. deepens an existing problem
the head of OpenAI, debuted his Sora app, which creates alarmingly realistic videos of fake scenes.
This leads to political division, mistrust, confusion, and harm to the individuals who have fake content being made about them.
malleable actors
supporting my premise: - AI actors are replacing humans and theyre more appealing to the studios.
This shows economic and creative incentives for replacing humans.
In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, “Good Lord, we’re screwed.”
The main implied argument throughout this article is the rise of Ai in entertainment threatens genuine human connection.
“She’s not going to talk back,”
Diagraming this argument that is IN favor of using AI actress would look like: "shes not going to talk back" + "...wants her to be the next Scarlett Johansson" = this is better (im not sure if im supposed to find a specific quote that supports it).
Told that Tilly’s creator, Eline Van der Velden, a Dutch former actress with a master’s in physics, wants her to be the next Scarlett Johansson,
I would say this is the main argument being made throughout the article.