Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Encryption rules. 💪

Long thread short: a lawyer presented court documents created with #ChatGPT filled with nonexistent sources. But go read the whole thing, because it's amazing.

#LLMs are not search engines. They are not databases. They produce plausible text but they only get facts right by accident. We absolutely need good education in what these tools can and cannot do, but the companies themselves are to blame for training users into using them in exactly the wrong way.

https://dair-community.social/@kendraserra/110441210244994168

Twitter has abandoned the EU's code of practice on disinformation, Thierry Breton said late Friday, but Europe's internal markets commissioner insisted that "obligations remain" for the social networking giant.

"You can run but you can’t hide," Breton said, after confirming that the platform owned by Elon Musk had left the bloc’s disinformation code, which other major social media platforms have pledged to support.

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commissioner-thierry-breton-twitter-elon-musk-cant-hide-after-platform-ditches-disinformation-code/

#EU #Twitter #Disinformation #DigitalServicesAct #DSA

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The solar panels, antennas, probes and booms are now fully deployed on the ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft, about 6 weeks after launch.
Most instruments have been check out, including the JANUS camera/imager which took a sequence of 7 test images of a star field centered around eta Cyg in the Cygnus constellation.
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_deployments_complete_final_form_for_Jupiter
#ESA #ESAjuice
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A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on ChatGPT to help prepare a court filing.

It did not go well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/nyregion/avianca-airline-lawsuit-chatgpt.html

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University of Ottawa

Master and PhD in #Canada fully funded positions in #bioinformatics

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The Security Hole at the Heart of ChatGPT and Bing https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-prompt-injection-attack-security/
Indirect prompt-injection attacks can leave people vulnerable to scams and data theft when they use the AI chatbots

@zleap the difference versus a Turing test is that in the Blade Runner world, the "androids" are designed without the ability to have human feelings, and the Voight-Kamff test is designed to test emotional response. So, basically they can pass a Turing test - they can have a normal human conversation - but if you check things like pupil dilation and heart rate when asking them an emotional question you can tell they're not human.

@rysiek@mstdn.social @jeff@honeytree.social

Careful before blocking newsie(dot)social! They’re also hosting Doctors without borders.

It is absolutely essential that Doctors without borders stay available to the widest audience possible. They’re new both here and on bluesky and re-gaining their audience is already hard enough to not fediblock them on top of that.

Whatever you decide to do, please be sure to not harm their work.

Cognitive Load Theory for Teachers

https://www.educationcorner.com/cognitive-load-theory/

Both despots running for president have said they would pardon 1/6 insurrectionists; DeSatan went even further, that he would consider pardoning tRump. One is a serial criminal & the other is ruling Florida like a dictator!👎🤨😠😡🤬-ER

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

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Tom Baker is trending, hence resharing his biggest Doctor Who memory:

"I remember a man stopping me in Oxford Street once, looking at me with absolute incredulity.. 'You know, when I was a boy, I was in a home for children; nobody wanted us, you know? It was terrible. And you made Saturday night good.' And I went to say something to him and I could see him so close to tears that he couldn't speak. And he shook his head and he just did a.. thumbs up. It's incredible, isn't it? Just a gesture."