“A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism”
“The Fallacy of AI Functionality”
Sounds like policy people have been paying attention to papers like this one.
“Keep your AI claims in check - Federal Trade Commission”
People are starting to notice that AI boosters are largely full of shit.
“WAI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search”
I have no use for an AI that can write for me.
Yeah, tech is vastly overestimating the productivity benefits (and consequently, the financial value) of sophisticated text synthesis
“It’s Scary Easy to Use ChatGPT to Write Phishing Emails - CNET”
“The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One)”
This society made of of fleshy squishy human people made it clear long ago that the exact millisecond it could replace each and every one of us with a janky Python script and a post-it note with a smiley-face on it, that was absolutely 100% going to happen and you’re a Luddite who hates freedom if you so much as squeak about it.
Go read this.
“Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm?”
Publishing outlets are going to be drowned in garbage (LLM-generated text really is mediocre garbage) and the publishing industry is completely unprepared for it
“You can just put a folder of files on the internet if you want to. - Chris Coyier”
This.
“The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era - The Spicy Web”
Yeah.
“Linguist Emily M. Bender on How an AI Chatbot Is Not a Human”
Read this.
Generally good points.
“Indirect Prompt Injection on Bing Chat”
It genuinely feels like Bing Chat is the result of a series of incredibly poor decisions.
“Draft2Digital killed my account – angelahighland.info”
Eek.
As I’ve been saying, app stores are unsuitable for serious software businesses. Way too risky.
“New AI-generated RadioGPT can broadcast voice, DJ music and find local news stories”
The issue, as in education and news, is that years of cost-cutting have driven quality down to a level where you can pull this off
A little bit 😳 at the cost. I keep forgetting just how expensive this supposed cost saver is.
“Apple’s machines are learning more intelligently than Bard and Bing - Macworld”
Apple’s approach to machine learning is looking better and better every day.
“End Users Over All Else, Even In Our Tools - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
“Agile Leadership. How I’ve Wasted 3 Years of My PM Career 😟”
“How much of AI’s recent success is due to the Forer Effect? – Terence Eden’s Blog”
I hadn’t made this connection but it seems obvious in hindsight.
“Place your bets - Charlie’s Diary”
This is what I’ve been saying all along 🙂
I don’t want to say that these qualities can’t or won’t be achieved, I’m trying to argue that investors are already pricing in these non-existent features.