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   Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

   "Even when using such prompts, our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates, which suggests they either instructed the model to regurgitate or cherry-picked their examples from many attempts" - I don't *typically* engage in large scale plagiarism, so accusing me of these specific instances of large scale plagiarism is cherry-picking! https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030283/openai-nyt-lawsuit-fair-use-ai-copyright

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     "OpenAI claims it’s attempted to reduce regurgitation from its large language models and that the Times refused to share examples of this reproduction before filing the lawsuit." - Per usual (https://mastodon.social/@reedmideke/111585837264775808) OpenAI would love to apply bandaids to specific instances identified by well-resourced organizations, because they know the underlying cause can't be fixed without destroying their business model

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     Thing that gets me about this "amazon listings with #ChatGPT error messages" story is, how do you get to the point where this is significant cost savings? Are they just using it for translation? Or are the listing just pure scams and there's no real product? https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     "CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024"

     Will this include said CEOs when their hamfisted attempts to use spicy autocomplete for "banking, insurance, and logistics" predictably go off the rails, or nah? 🤔

     https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/ceos-say-generative-ai-will-result-in-job-cuts-in-2024/

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     "BMW had a compelling solution to the [#LLM #AI bullshitting] problem: Take the power of a large language model, like Amazon's Alexa LLM, but only allow it to cite information from internal BMW documentation about the car" 🤨

     Surely this means it'll bullshit subtly about stuff in the manual, not that it won't bullshit?

     https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/01/bmws-ai-powered-voice-assistant-at-ces-2024-sticks-to-the-facts/

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     "Now, one crucial disclosure to all this: I wasn't allowed to interact with the voice assistant myself. BMW's handlers did all the talking" yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and reserve judgement on the "solution" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     The best* part of this piece is the content farmer who responded to a request for comment by bitching about how poorly his AI garbage content farm performs

     * for suitably broad values etc.

     https://www.404media.co/email/5dfba771-7226-48d5-8682-5185746868c4/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     I for one am *shocked* that "have an extremely confident bullshitter summarize my search results" was not the killer app Microsoft expected

     https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/report-microsofts-ai-infusion-hasnt-helped-bing-take-share-from-google/

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     Reed Mideke (reedmideke@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 20:51:51 JST Reed Mideke

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     "Dean.Bot was the brainchild of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Matt Krisiloff and Jed Somers, who had started a super PAC supporting Phillips" - Were these techbros so high on their own supply they thought a chatbot imitating their candidate was a good idea, or was it just a convenient way to funnel campaign funds into their pals pockets? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     https://wapo.st/3ObSl0i

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