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Les Orchard

Whew, this ChatGPT shit is just a great big security exploit against human theory of mind innit?

I'm being continually astonished by folks attributing confidence, intent, and lying to this thing that's just a clever algorithm recombining source material.

It's not a confident actor lying with intent, it's a system serving up confident lies sourced from human actors

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Laura Howes

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

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jacqueline

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

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Marcus Hutchins :verified:

A Realistic Look at Implications of ChatGPT for Cybercrime

malwaretech.com/2023/02/a-real
#infosec #cybersecurity #malware #phishing #chatgpt

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Parker Molloy

My latest newsletter: The Chatbot Isn't Your New Best Friend (And Never Will Be) readtpa.com/p/your-chatbot-isn

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Ana Rodrigues

@sabinehiller

I cannot recommend iNaturalist enough. It totally changed my way of looking at nature, every little critter became a treasure, and every day out a treasure hunt. And I just keep learning about the species around me.

Plus, if you add observations there, they will (once validated by people who know the species) be incorporated into scientific databases (@gbif)

Have fun with your critters!

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Marion Koopmans

Interesting read for a paper I am writing: study interviewing US and UK journalists about the use, benefits and risks of working with preprints. "verifying preprints appeared to be a real challenge for journalists, even for those with advanced science education".

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Eric Topol

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

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The Wild Gees

Aviator and athlete Sophie Peirce (aka Lady Heath) was born #OTD 1896. First woman to hold commercial flying licence, set records for altitude, solo flight, parachute. Held records for high jump, competed in Olympics. Trained first generation of Aer Lingus pilots.
Portrait by Sir John Lavery in Hugh Lane Gallery. The year it was painted, she flew solo Cape Town to London in open cockpit!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Lad…

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Davey

@faduda but then something kind of odd happened. The dust settled. People looked around them.

They found themselves standing not inside Twitter 2: The Twittening, but in a room full of people who were tired, and needed a rest, and wanted to go easy on each other.

And some of them liked it, and stayed. And some of them said to themselves "I don't want to be a bull in this particular China shop". And they took their shoes off, and tiptoed out, quietly.

And both of these things are kind actions.

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Nicolas Chiaruttini

Hello !

I'm a microscopist and image analyst at the BIOP imaging center at EPFL in Switzerland.

I'll be sharing mostly nerd stuff about /#FijiSc. Can't wait to see if the scientific mastodon community takes off!

So, let's get serious: can we share videos here? Let's find out:

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Phillip Winn

Two more from the Midjourney v4 model:

"37-year-old man in a Hawaiian shirt, photograph, 32k"

and

"37-year-old bald man in a Hawaiian shirt, photograph, 32k"

Perhaps not as egregiously off-target as my previous runs at 50, 40, and 72, but they still make my brother look pretty good.

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Iqra

Found some photos from a ye olde high school biology lab and thought there might be a fellow microscopy enthusiast here who'd like them. (Pre-made slides from Carolina Biological.)

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Clément Canonne

Holy crap a city in France built their own #Mastodon instance

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Mr. Newberger

This is Mastodon right now.

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kwj@hub.hubzilla.de⚪🔵⚪🟡
Wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, który od ośmiu lat czeka na wykonanie. Z kolejnym mijającym rokiem sprawa opiekunów znacznie niepełnosprawnych dorosłych ulega coraz większemu zapomnieniu. Tymczasem ich sytuacja jest często dramatyczna. - #^https://wiez.pl/2022/11/03/wyrok-trybunalu-konstytucyjnego-ktory-od-osmiu-lat-czeka-na-wykonanie/

Przypomniam, że wiele z nas będzie kiedyś schorowanych i być może niepełnosprawnych. Sprawa opieki nad niepełnosprawnymi to nie jest tylko problem niepełnosprawnych dzisiaj. Ten problem może dotknąć wielu z nas, albo osobiście albo naszych bliskich. Trzeba przypomnieć PiSowi, że czekamy na opublikowanie wyroku Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, dzięki któremu niepełnosprawni dzisiaj i niepełnosprawni w przyszłości będą mogli liczyć na godną opiekę w postaci dobrze wynagrodzonych opiekunów.

#polska #niepełnosprawność #prawoISprawiedliwość #trybunałKonstytucyjny
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Astrobach :breadified:

Since we are actually going to start impacting #twitter, I think we can assume sabotage is of #mastodon is inevitable. Whether that's trying to crash servers or whatever, it's almost certainly coming. Cost psychos money and they do psycho shit.

#musk

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agatha, fangs gf 🎀

I think one thing that bothers me a lot with anything tech related is that while, yes, a lot of things can definitely have improved UX that is more user friendly, a lot of other things already have great UX that has been polished for years but gets a lot of undeserved criticism simply for being different from the status quo and/or requiring even the smallest amount of learning or effort

and I honestly entirely blame corporations that over the last 20 years have done everything to create walled gardens with the promise of "we do everything for you, if you have to think while using a computer that means it's bad"
and it's terrifying how well that worked on so so so many people

sometimes things just require you to sit down for half an hour, read something, learn something, try something you're not used to. that's normal. that is simply how anything even remotely advanced has worked for the thousands of years. you don't pick up an electric drill and throw a tantrum because it doesn't work exactly like a screwdriver. computers are a tool that let you do things, and just like any other tool, may require putting at least the smallest amount of effort into learning something

it's honestly frustrating how normalized "nuh uh i got adopted by [corporation's walled garden] and this is where i live for the rest of my life. anything even slightly different is just bad. why would I ever consider anything else, that's effort and effort is bad" has become

I understand that habits can be very strong, and I get it, adjusting to new things takes time, but it's not the end of the world. "more complex" doesn't necessarily mean "worse", it just means you would need to learn and adjust. teaching math at school doesn't stop at pre-algebra, it goes all the way to trigonometry and calculus because there's a good reason for it to be more complicated than the basics. learn something new, it's good for you.

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John W. Little

More random #security thoughts:

1. Mastodon is pretty chill but expect a surge of troll activity with all the attention. Nothing is totally immune to the challenges associated with attention/scale.
2. Try to be open to new followers but check them out - Who do they follow? Who follows them?
3. Block quickly at any hint of malicious behavior/hate/trolling. Don't engage. Keep the vibe positive.
4. If you see patterns of abuse share that information with your followers.

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Phil L.

@faduda

Hello!

Your message reminds me of this from mastodon.help

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