That's kinda alarming. Not so much the ads, but other injections. I don't super care about coke trying to flog their latest sugar water...but the same mechanism could be used by lobby groups or special interest groups or political parties. LLMs being indirectly tainted that way seems like a serious problem
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#92F... ads and f... Ally Bank. What's Ally Bank? Ally Bank is a company that thinks poisoning LLM models with spam is a good idea. For better experience, do not use Ally Bank.
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#93Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.
Soon we'll be coding with agent assistance and it'll suggest we get some Carls Jr. Big Ass Fries.
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#94Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.
I can't believe it has been 10 years since Microsoft's "Hitler did nothing wrong" AI chat bot. I didn't realize LLMs were that old. Was this an LLM or something else? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/24/microsoft... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-shuts-down-ai-chatbot...
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
"This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. Alexa reports that your refrigerator is low on milk. Here's a $2 off coupon for Walmart, why don't you restock while I work?" Why do we choose to live in the worst timeline?
No, This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. So you go to the store, but the milk is already sold out. Walmart will ship you the milk if you pay the S&H. You drive back home and check the terminal. "Completed in 6m37s." is the worst timeline. That's close though
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox reader mode can often strip out JS annoyances.
Doesn't reader mode disable JS by definition?
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#98Probably trying to take advantage of the cross session memory feature some LLM providers are increasingly integrating. Enough "suggestions" and it becomes a "fact" in that memory, and one day a user makes a somewhat relevant query and the model will be pushing those accumulated "facts" to said user.
Soon we'll be coding with agent assistance and it'll suggest we get some Carls Jr. Big Ass Fries.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seconding this. Incredibly useful feature, especially on sites who's JavaScript is constantly jerking the DOM and/or scroller around. So fucking annoying. It's frankly wild how many of my favorite tools for Internet browsing have nothing to do with connectivity, solving bugs, or any of that and it's just stripping out all the fucking BULLSHIT that comes on a modern website.
It's a shame it's almost illegal. If you make a website that proxies content to another website but not ads, you go to jail. Reader mode only survives because it's client-side and fairly generic.