It’s known that AI companies will harvest content without care for its veracity and train LLMs on it. These LLMs will then regurgitate that content as fact.

This isn’t a particularly novel finding but the experiment illustrates it rather well.

The researchers you consider to have acted so immorally did add useless information to the knowledge pool – but it was unadvertised, immediately recognizable useless information that any sane reviewer would’ve flagged. They included subtle clues like thanking someone at Starfleet Academy for letting them use a lab aboard the USS Enterprise. They claimed to have gotten funding from the Sideshow Bob Foundation. Subtle.

By providing this easily traceable nonsense, they were able to turn the generally-but-informally known understanding that LLMs will repeat bullshit into a hard scientific data point that others can build on. Nothing world-changing but still valuable. They basically did what Alan Sokal did.

Instead of worrying about this experiment you should worry about all the misinformation in LLMs that wasn’t provided (and diligently documented) by well-meaning researchers.

Man, Crank 3 is a lot worse than the first two.

Doesn’t the EU already have a military defense pact built in? Under the Mutual Defense Clause (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union), all EU members are required to defend each other is directly attacked. The Common Security and Defence Policy guides military cooperation. There are transnational brigades and everything.

We need to do better in that regard but we already have a lot of what you’re proposing. Chuck in an alliance with Canada and we’d have most of NATO’s functionality covered.

Dev: Why was my app rejected?

Apple: Your app was rejected because it uses a payment processor that is not allowed on the App Store. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Dev: My app doesn’t contain any payment functionality at all!

Apple: I’m sorry, I made a like mistake there. Please contact the App Store support team to help you with this kind of issue.

Dev: You are the App Store support team!

Apple: That is entirely correct! Please allow me to refer you to section 14 of the Apple Developer Agreement to show why your payment processor is not supported:

[Link: to the Apple Developer Agreement, section 14: Disclaimer of Liability]

People complain about yellow paint but not a HUD because the HUD is not part of the game world. It’s an abstract representation of state to the player but explicitly not something any character in the game sees.

It’s like the score in a movie. The music is (usually) not playing where the characters are but its presence is understood as a representation of how the characters feel. It’s an out-of-band message.

Yellow paint is part of the game’s world; it’s an in-band message. Someone put that paint on things and somehow only on things that are breakable or climbable. That strains some people’s suspension of disbelief – it’s more plausible that someone created a zombie virus than that someone went through town and color-coded everything by degree of interactivity.

In-band messaging in games can be done subtly but that requires a very competent designer.

It’s easier with less realistic visuals and more limited means of interaction; since everything is abstracted anyway, indicating interactivity becomes easier – e.g. breakable walls have large cracks and one early on had to be broken to progress. Now the player knows how to spot and break such walls.

But when you have many dissimilar objects with many dissimilar forms of interaction in a realistic environment and you don’t want to show abstract prompts for the sake of greater immersion, you need to indicate interactivity in some other way.

So you break out the yellow paint and break immersion for some players.

Right. Safe Search doesn’t matter because Google Search has been outclassed for a while now. There’s no drawbacks… other than the fact that apparently OP gets told about this every single day.

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The solar industry didn’t just lose subsidies, the government actively tried to prevent the installation of new solar panels.

The nuclear exit actually made a bit of sense; our existing NPPs were mostly old and extending their like was getting increasingly uneconomic. At the same time we had very few locations where new ones could be built. They actually had a solid economic case for the nuclear exit.

They even had a good plan for the exit itself, letting existing contacts run out and simply not renewing them. Then they decided to exit the nuclear exit, renewing all of the contracts. Then, after the Fukushima disaster, they decided to exit the exit from the nuclear exit and immediately terminated all contracts, having to pay large penalties for the early termination.

For twenty years they followed the “Black Zero” plan, which amounted to trying to incur no new debt on the federal level whatsoever, no matter what. As a result, they spent basically nothing on infrastructural upkeep and the army and then suddenly found themselves having to take on 100 billion euros in emergency debt because bridges were collapsing, trains had no usable tracks and the Bundeswehr is unable to actually fight.

The CDU/CSU are mind-bogglingly inept at handing the economy.

And some of us might not even be in Italy.

Maybe they’ll try to start a second solar industry so they can kill it off again.

Even though this meme shows MMBN 4, arguably the weakest game of the series. Still damn good games overall.

The AfD reflexively gave a statement that any suspicions against their MPs are completely unwarranted.

Or, even worse, the video shows them one word at a time.

There are also some subtle variations in agnosticism.

There’s the soft variety that says “there is no proof that convinces me either way but I won’t rule out that someone could come up with one”.

There’s the hard variety that says “I don’t think it’s possible to prove either way”.

There’s even a variety that says “it doesn’t matter whether (a) god exists or not, hence there’s no need for a proof”.

But yeah, the core of agnosticism is that you don’t believe the existence of (a) god has been conclusively proven or disproven and are unwilling to commit either way without that proof.

You never got hammerstung by a river elf? You must’ve lived a sheltered life.

I am kinda giving them shit for when someone pointed out that they’re essentially storing PII completely unsecured and their response was “you should use app isolation anyway”. That is not a good security model.

In addition to what has been mentioned already, Garuda is an Arch derivative where convenience is the whole point. No install scripts, just your usual live ISO with a Calamares installer plus a bunch of convenience utilities once you’re set up.

It’s not exactly lightweight by default but it does make for a very comfortable Arch experience.

Of course LISP machines didn’t crash the hardware market and make up 50 % of the entire economy. Other than that it’s, as Shirley Bassey put it, all just a little bit of history repeating.

You know I know that you’re not telling the truth.

I’m just waiting for their reaction when everyone is supposed to use cloud desktops and the average application assumes the user has 128 GB of RAM.

Also, according to certain “news” publications and an army of totally legitimate people on the internet, he’s as incompetent as he’s evil and he’s singlehandedly responsible for every single problem anyone in Germany has had for the last 20 years.