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I swear this is the real reason AI companies are concerned about watermarking - not for the public good, but so they can keep their model training inputs clean.

I honestly think this is one of the biggest challenges that needs to be solved. The constant jargon, poor naming choices and assumed prior knowledge of pages of text is extremely fatiguing. It only gets worse as the volume of LLM-generated content in your project increases.

We created an AI usage code of conduct at our workplace. One of the golden rules is “Don’t make other people’s jobs harder.”

As an example, we tried getting AI to generate weekly bug reports from analysing the most common crashes and asserts for the week, assigned to the right person with relevant context. It was a great idea, but too often the bug description and even the title required way too much jargon and comprehension to get through, and often the findings weren’t quite right anyway, so it was only useful as a marker of “look at this crash please”.

These walls of text people share with each other are another great example. If you’re going to do that, you really have to ask it to talk as simply and as briefly as possible with no context assumed. And then read it/correct it yourself!

Reminds me of Sam Altman saying he uses AI to make a podcast about his kids sports game so they can listen to it on the way to school. As if talking to your children wasn’t an option.

All these tech bros creating solutions in search of a problem.

I remember reading an article a while back about high powered lasers that could essentially take down drones via direct line of sight, but haven’t heard much more since then. I guess they’re difficult to target from the ground if they’re flying at very low altitude.

Stack Overflow: You’re absolutely wrong
ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right

How was the experience? And worth the pain?

For real? That is some dystopian Minority Report level advertising right there.

I would have understood them making this call for PS6 onwards - digital edition only. But while they’re still selling disc PS5s at eye-watering prices? What the fuck are they thinking? Way to burn good will with your ever-shrinking fanbase.

Looking at Ukraine/Russia and now this, it feels like drone warfare has largely made military ships sitting ducks.

I watched someone in a YouTube video ask ChatGPT to add up some numbers for them, despite having a calculator on their phone. The sheer laziness at the expense of someone else’s energy was impressive. And don’t even get me started on the accuracy.

Team America: World Police

Find a company that values engineers. The one you’re at doesn’t, whether they understand that or not.

Sounds a lot like IBM.

Mar-a-lago sure feels like a sitting duck next to the open ocean.

Thank you! After reading that I’m surprised Microsoft didn’t issue a statement to clarify, but I guess of all the rumours to run wild, it was fairly innocuous.

At least we’ve got AI to help with journalism now. /s

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32658340

It came from the mouth of a Microsoft executive, and Microsoft followed up with a statement saying they were moving Windows 10 to a service model.

This reminds me of Michael Peterson (The Staircase) failing to mention to his lawyer while under investigation for the murder of his wife (who was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell) that a previous wife also died by falling down stairs.

I had to check after this comment.

840,000 pedophiles / 55,653,768 UK adults = 1.5% of all adults or 1 in 66 adults. That is much higher than I thought, and I assume it’s a similar ratio globally.

Exactly - comments are what you make of them. In high traffic communities they do indeed degrade into echo chambers as the poster above you suggested, but IMHO that attitude is throwing the baby out with the bath water. I find comments useful to gauge public opinion on current events, or have more nuanced discussion about special interests.

It’s more an issue of communities than it is comments.