spit_evil_olive_tips

the sources quoted/linked in the article:

Maarten Sap told CNN.

When CNN tested three popular AI chatbots

CNN asked each chatbot

KhudaBukhsh told CNN.

Cameron Berg and Judd Rosenblatt from AE Studio wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, told CNN

it seems pretty clear that this "news" site is just summarizing articles from more reputable outlets so they can get their own ad revenue from them.

and the cherry on top:

After the controversy, Musk acknowledged the problem on his social media platform X.

with a link to...https://x.com. not to any one particular tweet. just a link to the website.

I had suspicions that this was AI-generated slop, but that proves it in my mind. no human journalist would embed a link like that.

I am basing that on both what I see on the news and what is happening to people all around me.

what news sources are you consuming?

because if you're getting the message from the news that economic collapse is imminent and all currencies are going to be worthless and we will need to fall back to a barter-based economy...that is a function of choices you've made in your news diet, much more than it has anything to do with anything actually happening in the real world.

and what specifically is happening to people around you that you're referring to? do you have a pen-pal in Weimar-era Germany who you're communicating with through a time portal? or are you talking with other people who have the same news diet as you do and forming a self-reinforcing worldview?

The family — a mom, Jackie Merlos, and her four children, 9-year-old triplets and a 7-year-old son — were detained June 28 at the U.S.-Canadian border at Peace Arch Park. Merlos was meeting her sister, a Canadian citizen, in that well-known neutral area where Americans can see their family and friends.

children under 10, held in captivity for 2 weeks. all US citizens (not that it should matter, no one should be treated this way, but it's a reminder that no one is immune)

Washington Congressman Rick Larsen said his team is working with Dexter and the local Department of Homeland Security to uncover more facts on the family's detention, stating, "I respect federal law enforcement, and they must respect the constitutional rights of the people they detain."

Rick Larsen is one of the most senior Democrats in the Congressional Spineless Caucus. instead of any sort of outrage, he's throwing out this weasel-worded "I respect federal law enforcement..." shit.

at the risk of being "guy who pretty much only plays Factorio recommends you play Factorio..."

you can easily put 50+ hours into a single savefile, especially with the Space Age expansion

direct link to the paper, rather than this Gazeon clickbait: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813

We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs. This lower bound differed across disciplines, countries, and journals, reaching 40% for some subcorpora.

99% of users on Lemmy instances are extremely fearful of AI and lack the courage to accept reality

hi. I see you registered your account here 2 days ago. welcome to Beehaw.

posting comments that boil down to "99% of you are stupid but luckily I'm here to educate you" is probably going to wear out your welcome pretty fast.

here's an article from the AP: What to know after judge keeps Kilmar Abrego Garcia in jail over deportation fears

If things went as planned, Abrego Garcia would be staying with his brother in Maryland while court proceedings continue. But he’s still locked up over fears that U.S. immigration officials will try to deport him again.

A federal judge in Tennessee agreed Monday to keep Abrego Garcia behind bars at the request of his own attorneys. They had raised concerns over what they say were “contradictory statements” by the Trump administration over plans to remove Abrego Garcia from the country.

"at the request of his own attorneys" is the key thing here. he is eligible to be released pending the trial, but he is requesting to stay in jail because of fears that the gestapo will kidnap him again if he's released.

haha Streisand Effect go brrrrr

https://www.iceblock.app/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iceblock/id6741939020

(currently no Android version, unfortunately)

there's also a weird cognitive dissonance when it comes to talking about "free" public transit compared to other kinds of transportation.

the vast, vast majority of roads are "free" in the sense that they're completely paid for with tax revenue, rather than collecting a toll from each road user. roads with tolls are an extremely small percentage of the overall amount of road-miles that exist.

so the "default" mindset of a road is that it's "free" at the time of use, and charging per-use is seen as a rare exception.

but for public transit, we somehow have the opposite mindset - the "default" is that it must collect a per-usage fee. and a transit system that does not is seen as the exception, bordering on an aberration.

With NHS mental health waitlists at record highs, are chatbots a possible solution?

taking Betteridge's Law one step further - not only is the answer "no", the fucking article itself explains why the answer is no:

People around the world have shared their private thoughts and experiences with AI chatbots, even though they are widely acknowledged as inferior to seeking professional advice.

as with so many other things, "maybe AI can fix it?" is being used as a catch-all for every systemic problem in society:

In April 2024 alone, nearly 426,000 mental health referrals were made in England - a rise of 40% in five years. An estimated one million people are also waiting to access mental health services, and private therapy can be prohibitively expensive.

fucking fund the National Health Service properly, in order to take care of the people who need it.

but instead, they want to continue cutting its budget, and use "oh there's an AI chatbot that you can use that is totally just as good as talking to a human, trust us" as a way of sweeping the real-world harm caused by those budget cuts under the rug.

Nicholas has autism, anxiety, OCD, and says he has always experienced depression. He found face-to-face support dried up once he reached adulthood: "When you turn 18, it's as if support pretty much stops, so I haven't seen an actual human therapist in years."

He tried to take his own life last autumn, and since then he says he has been on a NHS waitlist.

Make Living In A Company Town Where Your Children Die From Measles Great Again

tl;dw is that you should say "please" as basically prompt engineering, I guess?

the theory seems to be that the chatbot will try to match your tone, so if you ask it questions in a tone like it's an all-knowing benevolent information god, it'll respond in kind, and if you treat it politely its responses will tend more towards politeness?

I don't see how this solves any of the fundamental problems with asking a fancy random number generator for authoritative information, but sure, if you want to be polite to the GPUs, have at it.

like, several lawyers have been sanctioned for submitting LLM-generated legal briefs with hallucinated case citations. if you tack on "pretty please, don't make up any fake case citations or I could get disbarred" to a prompt...is that going to solve the problem?