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"The party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month." Oh no! Fifteen thousand dollars?! I'm sure Facebook is shaking and crying and will reverse their decision imme…

I think you commented on the wrong link

Here's what Amazon.com looked like in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20060522143937/http://www.amazon...

Honestly it probably has more to do with the decision to basically shut down API access without exorbitant fees than it has to do with AI startups or whatever. Surely there are som…

Will results from Finland, which sits at a rather extreme latitude, generalize to the rest of the world?

I think that might evoke something... undesirable

This has been a problem for years. It's completely overrun a lot of terms' search results. Honestly, given that ChatGPT produces higher quality output, the next generation of spam …

"corporate and conservative propaganda" Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.

Also true about every single consulting firm

Not just the spray stuff https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-...

Interestingly, if you prompt it a little, it will recite it in fits and starts: ``` User I must not fear. Fear is the ChatGPT "mind-killer." This is a quote from the Litany Against…

Pretty illuminating that the origin story of the technique is it eliciting what was later revealed as a false confession that sentenced an innocent man to life in prison.

>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? The company is bleeding cash. There's a good case to be made that this is the only way to make it stop bleedi…

A single glance at your first link and it becomes blindingly obvious that this will never, ever gain mass adoption in its current form. This type of design, jargon, style, is just …

so did Wilhelm II

`Although, I fear the vendor lock-in intensifies here, also given how restrictive and specific the Chat API.` Eh, would be pretty easy to write a wrapper that takes a functions-lik…

Serotonin is related to social interaction in vertebrates. Guess what we're doing a lot less of in person in the age of streaming TV and the internet?

"before it's too late"? Is GDPR being repealed or something? Kind of a FUD title.

A little misleading, perhaps, that at the top of the article is an illustration of a kid working at McDonald's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean Also, this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-strangelove... "Sepúlveda's team was able to tell that the carbon in these…

ME: "Release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from warming ocean sediments and decaying organic matter, a potential extinction event." Is this a realistic possibility? GPT-4: The phenomen…

Wrong. Fair Use applies to instances that would otherwise be copyright violations, i.e. unauthorized distribution. When you sign up for a social media site you EXPLICITLY grant the…

The difference is that the copy is authorized, unless the work is being pirated. When an artist displays their work on DeviantArt or Artstation or whatever, they are allowing the g…

``` All attorneys appearing before the Court must file on the docket a certificate attesting either that no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence …

The key determinant, imo, is precisely and comprehensively descriptive names Even if this leads to humourously Java-esque code, it's worth it An abstraction that has one purpose an…