Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

it's completely wild that people in the TRUTH AND ACCURATE INFORMATION business are oblivious to both their role in amplifying a bigoted right wing moral panic, AND honestly believe that journalism is best served by silencing their own employees

scary: i'm told that folks who believed they largely purged their twitter account of tweets are noticing random tweets showing back up in their profile timeline. same for purged DMs. i observed as much on my own account.

check your own to corroborate?

Sounds like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature got fed the Elon Musk Management Style AI. https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-recalls-362758-cars-over-potentially-dangerous-full-self-driving

"In life, treating minor problems as catastrophes is a straight path to misery—but online, the most catastrophic headlines get the most attention. In life, nurturing anger produces conflict with friends and family; online, it’s an excellent way to build an audience."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/the-tragic-mystery-of-teenage-anxiety/673076/

Google's VP for search asks staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses as it "learns best by example", and keep the responses "neutral" and not "imply emotion" (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/google-asks-employees-to-rewrite-bards-incorrect-responses-to-queries.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p30#a230216p30

Things that make you go Hmmm… #FAITHHEALING #criticalthinking #exchristian #secular #nullifidian #atheist

Lots of people talking about @kevinroose's chat with Bing AI, and noting how unsettling it is (leads to the chat becoming a stalkerish entity claiming to love Kevin and telling him his wife doesn't love him), but it also struck me how it got there after Kevin seemed to keep trying to manipulate it to break its rules as well. I'm not sure what this means for AI... or humanity. But I find both sides fascinating. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html

Google Calendar now allows you to block spam. What a world. 📆

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135?hl=en&visit_id=638121712306309527-3531848076&p=manage_invitations&rd=1#manage_invitations&zippy=%2Cmanage-your-incoming-invitations-and-notifications

#NewGoogleCalendar

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

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I just spent 10 minutes debugging the Linux sound issue—checked the log. I checked the setting at the CLI and GUI. But no sound at all. Tired of this I was about to reboot my machine, and then I realised I had turned off the power to the speakers. I guess it is time to sleep. Silly me.

just another software update "recall"

apparently it just disables the rolling-stop feature

now they just need to disable the "hits curbs in the snow", "hits stationary objects at highway speeds", and "runs over children" features

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/tesla-recalls-362758-vehicles-says-full-self-driving-beta-software-may-cause-crashes.html

Legal scholars explained that TFG cld not use the Insurrection Act to resolve an election dispute, so Roger Stone, M. Flynn, S. Powell, etc. hoped to use a 2018 executive order Re: foreign election interference instead. They had no helpful facts, so they made them up. It wld be funny but it’s not.

Trump grand jury recommends perjury indictments, finds no fraud in Georgia 2020 election

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/trump-grand-jury-recommends-perjury-indictments-finds-no-fraud-in-georgia-2020-election.html

#trump

Bing Is Not Sentient, Does Not Have Feelings, Is Not Alive, and Does Not Want to Be Alive

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7bmmx/bing-ai-chatbot-meltdown-sentience

#microsoft #OpenAI #Tech #Bing #LLM

Two headlines, same day

Bing AI is just a glitchy chatbot, and we can never forget that.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7bmmx/bing-ai-chatbot-meltdown-sentience
#Tech #Bing #microsoft #OpenAI #LLM

There’s a lot of recent “chatter” about the bizarre behaviour of #Microsoft’s #Bing #Chat when it is PROMPTED to behave bizarrely. A reminder that these systems don’t ”know” anything but are just very sophisticated writers of text based on everything they’ve ever read, plus what you prompt them to say.

The core language model behind Bing Chat and #ChatGPT is provided by #OPENAI. I‘m pretty sure it is the text-davinci-003 model, now sometimes called GPT-3.5, and accessible via an API. .. cont..