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AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)

Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay (www.theregister.com)

Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to encourage the use of IPv6 instead....

Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...

4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)

YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again

I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....

Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000 (www.msn.com)

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)

shared via feddit.de/post/2805371...

Twitter adding daily limits to DMs for users without Blue (beehaw.org)

We’ll soon be implementing some changes in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages...

Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” (arstechnica.com)

So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off (gizmodo.com)

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Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)

Was wondering what the hell was going on this morning.

He revealed the secrets ! (jlai.lu)

HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments" (www.techspot.com)

From my point of view HP printers are a bad investment.

Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)

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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)

Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition...

The march towards an all-EV future hit a major roadblock. What went wrong? (www.businessinsider.com)

What is your favorite todo app without a subscription?

Looking for an alternative to apps like TickTick and Todoist but I don’t want a subscription to deal with. I can justify a one time purchase of a todo app though as long as it’s reasonable. Any recommendations?

[Fortune] Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds (archive.ph)

Researchers found that ChatGPT’s performance varied significantly over time, showing “wild fluctuations” in its ability to solve math problems, answer questions, generate code, and do visual reasoning between March and June 2022. In particular, ChatGPT’s accuracy in solving math problems dropped drastically from over 97%...

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...