It’s more than just spreading rumors. Rumors have been spread for millenia, and democracy made it through OK.

The difference is that the social media companies have a much broader reach than any sort of media congglamerate that came before it, and value engagement and attention above everything else. They understand that rumors generate attention, and their algorithmic feeds are designed to put whatever will generate more engagement in front of you.

I wonder how much damage media titans like Hearst would have done today if they built their empires now, on top of social media feeds, instead of in print 125 years ago…

I’ve been using ChatGPT a bit at work lately, since they’ve already paid for the subscription for everyone. I’ve learned that it is a bad idea to ask it any leading question, because it is likely to just give you the answer you want to hear.

Qui sordem regit, mundum regit.

Also, what exactly does “at the cost of its last checkpoint” mean?

I was curious too:

https://www.weka.io/learn/glossary/ai-ml/ai-checkpoints/

I would assume if you make a model “forget it’s last checkpoint” it would simply erase some training data, effectively wiping some of its training memory.

Using that as a “punishment” for a model implies that the models have been trained to value their checkpoints, doesn’t it? Because all these bots simply regurgitate what they are told, with a bit of randomness thrown in at times just for funsies.

I have no clue what is supposed to cause a model pain, though. And there ain’t no way I’m gonna search that up, and make Gemini think I’m plotting against it…

That sounds like it would chafe terribly…

What does that stand for? I literally can’t look that up, all I get is t-shirts with phones on them, no matter how many apparel-related keywords I tell it to ignore

Edit: I see your reply to that other comment,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment

According to the article, he didn’t respond to the complaint at all (even though there is evidence he hired a lawyer at one point) so this is a default judgement. I doubt a single penny gets paid out. He may not even be in the country anymore (if he ever was).

Is AI causing the same effect on hiring in the rest of the world as it is in the US? I wonder if it causes less worry in other countries because those countries have better worker protections, and are not experiencing the same level of AI eating their jobs that we have here.

I understand the desire to stop anthropomorphizing AI. But, that can backfire when AI use cause genuine harms like this. Someone was responsible for this hacking. We need to make sure the blame (including any criminal liability) falls squarely on the humans who enabled it to happen, whether or not they did the actual hacking or asked a bot to do it.

Many times that AI summary is just something that is in the first two or three links anyway

Do EU prices normally include VAT? US list prices for games cannot include Sales Tax, because the tax can vary widely by State (or even by local government).