Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

”The AI doesn’t understand or even compose text. It offers a way to probe text,…to mold and shape an infinity of prose…into structures in which further questions can be asked and, on occasion, answered.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence-writing-ethics/672386/ #ai #openai #chatgpt

Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too (New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/technology/ai-chatbots-disinformation.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230209/p1#a230209p1

Lol. Did Elon fire whoever is supposed to update their Twitter Status page (ht: @jank0 ). It's currently claiming no incidents reported today.

What a mess 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Great article by @mmasnick about how bad-faith journos recently misinformed us on Mastodon's user numbers

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/

she's so fuckin dumb she doesn't know they're also pretty goddamn happy that dude bought them out for 44 billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-bow-down-to-twitter-chief-at-hearing-god-bless-elon-musk

Translation: our half-baked idea to charge for API access broke our internal API access, and we don't know how or why. Captain Birdchan gave us a week to figure it out. Also, here's this other shiny thing that the 3 remaining marketing professionals *think* will be enough to distract the mainstream press from the total clusterfuck that happened today.

@mmasnick

guys the superbowl is this week. nobody is going home.

or perhaps people will be going home... they just won't be coming back

@ everyone who went back to twitter

NO ONE SAW THIS COMING https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/technology/twitter-glitches-features.html

this is very simple

Google's fraught history with AI ethics, backlash after Duplex launch, and a talent drain has left the company playing catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft (Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/02/08/google-openai-chatgpt-microsoft-bing-ai/
http://www.techmeme.com/230208/p50#a230208p50

Average list price for a unit of insulin:

Australia: $6.94
UK: $7.52
France: $9.08
Germany: $11
Canada: $12
Japan: $14.40

US: $98.70

Isn't it time America hold Big Pharma accountable for its extortion?

History tells us mad kings rarely reward their loyal sycophants. And Donald Trump isn't even a mad king anymore... he's just mad. Yet, as he lords over his Mar-a-Lago fiefdom and nothing else, the sycophants still curry favor. Pathetic.

https://www.salon.com/2023/02/08/on-order-from-trump-throw-a-hissy-fit-during-bidens-state-of-the-union/

#politics #uspol #uspolitics #sotu #sotu2023 #news #trump #marjorietaylorgreene #republicans #gop #gqp

New ESXiArgs ransomware attacks are now encrypting more extensive amounts of data, making it much harder, if not impossible, to recover encrypted VMware ESXi virtual machines.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-esxiargs-ransomware-version-prevents-vmware-esxi-recovery/

If you're interested in learning about the history and purpose of policing in the U.S., and the argument for abolishing policing as we know it, Verso is currently offering the ebook version of Alex Vitale's excellent book "The End of Policing" for free: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3906-the-end-of-policing

Anyway, now that a ton of journalists are flocking back to Mastodon... you should read my article about how all your articles about Mastodon "slumping" were bullshit. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/08/lazy-reporters-claiming-fediverse-is-slumping-despite-massive-increase-in-usage/

That's a bit of a Bard start, isn't it? Google's AI bot makes a $120b mistake on day one https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/alphabet_bard_mistake/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nittereu.moomoo.me/TheRegister/status/1623449404538597376

"Under the guise of smart city technology, authoritarian and democratic governments have rolled out huge networks of security cameras and used artificial intelligence to try to ensure there is no place to hide"

https://www.wired.com/story/moscow-safe-city-ntechlab/