“Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft”
This is an amazing story about massive, criminal developer incompetence.
So, earlier today I published “The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con”
It explains my theory of the statistical illusion that makes LLMs feel intelligent to some
“Google Says It’ll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI”
😬
“Gulls choose what to eat by watching humans, study suggests | Science | The Guardian”
This is deeply disappointing.
“On Hate Scaling Laws For Data-Swamps”
Highly recommended. This paper looks at the effects of scale on model bias and it looks like bias gets worse with scale. Which is unsurprising, TBH.
“That old WIRED ideology - by Dave Karpf”
If you’re too young to remember just how awful Wired used to be.
Always post the link when somebody points out just how awful Wired has historically been.
“Out and Proud for the Miners”
Great interview.
“Authors Sue OpenAI Claiming Mass Copyright Infringement of Novels – The Hollywood Reporter”
Completely unsurprising.
“ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces class action lawsuit over data to train AI - The Washington Post”
Always bear in mind that most tech companies have lost between 10-20% of their staff.
Moderation failures? Major outages? Poorly planned product launches? Obvious PR own goals?
Every major tech co is now showing the symptoms of having lost strategically important workers
Surprise! Who could have predicted this?
“The Perils of ‘Innovator’ Mindset”
Confident idiots who think regulation is for cowards can end up getting themselves killed, and taking innocent people with them.
“2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts”
Amazing story.
“Why I moved on from Figma – No Handoff”
What I do instead is work directly on functional prototypes.
I see that a bunch of ostensibly business-minded people either have immediately forgotten about all the media co tax write-downs or, y’know, don’t understand how it works.
Shock horror. Profits are projected to drop at companies that have been writing down everything in sight.
Just got a weird phone call from somebody pretending to be from the FTC and trying to keep me on the phone. Don’t know what game scammers are playing these days
Kind of concerning how they got my name and number, though. 😬
“AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born - The Verge”
I have mixed feelings about this piece. Yeah, AI spam is going to be very bad for our information ecosystem. But, OTOH most of these platforms were in a very bad way before AI entirely due to their own mismanagement.