In classic fashion they’re doing it in a way where you can choose to not have them by not using particular display options, so that they can say with a straight face that they’re not forcing ads on you. Then once this bullshit is normalized and into everyone’s homes, making it non-optional on all screens is a much smaller leap in comparison.

I once worked in a European office of a big US company a while back where I negotiated a fair salary, they agreed, and then on the first day the contract arrived and fully 25% of it was a “bonus target” that I was assured everyone always got every time so I shouldn’t worry about it.

Inevitably, it was the first thing to go as soon as a new CEO came in with the task of improving Earnings Per Share, giving me an instant 25% pay cut. What’s shittier is they announced it after the period it applied to, so it was a retroactive 25% pay cut as well. Luckily I wanted to leave anyway for other reasons, so I took them to a tribunal and got paid, cause you can’t pull that sort of shit in Europe. My US colleagues didn’t fare so well.

Who measures uranium in pounds? I feel like if you’re not using metric you probably shouldn’t be handling uranium.

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I think they’re just doing a bit. Nobody is actually that dumb.

Yup. I had exactly the same trepidation, and then it was all like “As an AI model, I don’t have access to the data you requested, however here are some examples of…”

I have more contempt for the peer reviewers who let those slide into major journals, than for the authors. It’s like the Brown M&M test; if you didn’t spot that blatant howler then no fucking way did you properly check the rest of the paper before waving it through. The biggest scandal in all this isn’t that it happened, it’s that the journals involved seem to be almost never retracting them upon being reported.

That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it. Big difference between “creating 90% of code” vs “replacing 90% of code” when there’s an absolute deluge of garbage being created.

Someone want to estimate what are the chances that Peter Thiel isn’t illegally handing all that data over to MAGA strategists under the table, in the full knowledge that the worst he could ever get is a trivial fine?

I don’t think this gets nearly enough visibility: https://www.academ-ai.info/

Papers in peer-reviewed journals with (extremely strong) evidence of AI shenanigans.

Wait until it’s world leaders.

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LOL, it seems like every time I get into a discussion with an AI evangelical, they invariably end up asking me to accept some really poor analogy that, much like an LLM’s output, looks superficially clever at first glance but doesn’t stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

“I asked it to burn an extra 2KWh of energy breaking the task up into small parts to think about it in more detail, and it still got the answer wrong”

Not bizarre at all.

The point isn’t “they can’t do word games therefore they’re useless”, it’s “if this thing is so easily tripped up on the most trivial shit that a 6-year-old can figure out, don’t be going round claiming it has PhD level expertise”, or even “don’t be feeding its unreliable bullshit to me at the top of every search result”.

Yeah, those dumbasses. It’s obviously a monkey.

I feel like I’m in some bizarro-world situation when people keep saying about how the new model blows everything else out the water. I’ve been hearing it on a near monthly basis for the last 3 years and they’re still shit.

It shows how low the bar is, that just bare bones complying with GDPR notification requirements so as not to risk a €20M fine, is enough to make people talk about how good a job you did.

I know right? They completely fucked up the head on that. A badly poured Gonster is almost as bad as no Gonster at all. 4/10.

“Don’t worry, it’ll only affect the 70% of your users that choose that one” isn’t the safeguard you seem to think it is.

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And that’s always worked out in the past, hasn’t it?

Imagine putting your entire business in a position where one of Google’s half-assed AIs could decide tomorrow at zero notice to cut you off from your entire user base.