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Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place.

I am so confused.

Ah that explains it. Thanks!

I thought they had already done it. I got the notification months ago.

I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

That tracks.

Pretty sure Elon Musk railed against bots on twitter despite having been proven to have used bots on twitter to manipulate opinion himself.

Apart from my illness support group, I’m only on fediverse social media now, and only via web browser. It’s a breath of fresh air.

I’m realising there are subtle ways that enshittification constrains and shapes actual conversations between us.

Yes I had a family member in a right wing conspiracy area. It was infuriating because his friends would tell him their nonsense and he would be skeptical and google it, only for google to seemingly support what they were saying.

I couldn’t replicate his results at all and it would take a lot of searching to even find what he was talking about so I could debunk it for him.

When will people realise that google has tailored algorithms and we are not all experiencing the same search results?

The first thing you’ll see if you search Google for “tank man” right now will not be the iconic picture of the unidentified Chinese man who stood in protest in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square, but an entirely fake, AI-generated selfie of that historical event.

No, this is the first thing the author saw. Probably because they are a journalist writing about AI.

When I google tank man I don’t even get the AI image on the first page. The top result is from history.com. If I go to google image search it is the 7th result on the page. The top result is from wikipedia.

Nooo

Ha ha sorry I see now my comment is meaningless without that. I’m just at the very end of Gen X, so called Xennial/Settlers of Catan generation.

So basically I’m saying some of the Gen X people and Boomers in senior roles now seem not to understand the limitations of LLMs and are trying to incorporate them anyway.

True. Powerpoint is de rigeur in some contexts.

I think the people who really need a crash course in AI literacy are the people my age and older.

I’ve already heard at least one horror story about someone’s boss trying to include a ChatGPT-sourced, error riddled submission paper in a sensitive bid.

Libre Office is cool.

If you work with other people’s really complex word documents where formatting is important, you kind of do have to use MS word because Libre Office still does not have 100% compatibility (probably Microsoft’s fault).

I’m still a 360 holdout though. I hate the subscription model at the best of times and with Microsoft it just seems egregious.

Minesweeper. Because I found it ugly and boring and it still managed to put me on edge.

Until I started to see stories like that I thought about fungi in terms of death/not death, and didn’t realize the life-changing injury part in between.

Your poor friend. To be fair I can’t travel anyway for health reasons, but multiple organ failure still seems worse.

Thanks, interesting. I’m glad America gives everyone dialysis too. I live in a country with universal healthcare, so I sort of skimmed over the cost aspect because that wouldn’t be an issue here.

It is more the physical, quality-of-life-ruining aspects that give me the horror. I read an article once where a family of 4 all had severe permanent kidney damage from eating the wrong mushrooms.

I don’t think it was meant to be reassuring. @[email protected] is right, don’t mess around with fungi. You can get irreversible kidney damage.

Then there’s the permanent kidney failure…

Yeah ego, dogmatism, and the cult of personality are problems in many fields, I think.

Big publishers, sure.

But my publisher is an ordinary human being. I have been to their house and met their family. They are not rich, in fact they are struggling.

I have also released some work under Creative Commons, so for that stuff, I am my publisher.

But, there are AIs out there that I don’t want to be trained on my work. The abomination that Palintir are building to wage war on people springs to mind. I don’t want anything to do with that.

In many jurisdictions we are allowed to assert moral rights over our work. This is the right for it to not be mutilated or perverted or attributed to someone else. In my view, moral rights should extend to assimilation by AI models.

I can’t stop individual people who I think are bad people from reading it, sure, but surely I should get a say in whether massive corporations who I think are evil can use it for their own enrichment.