Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
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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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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).”...
Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe? (www.techspot.com)
AI is modeling David Attenborough and the filmmaker isn’t happy (www.androidpolice.com)
Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals (www.techdirt.com)
Why do you use firefox? (upload.wikimedia.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/2514293
Downsides to chatgpt?
It just feels too good to be true....
A.I. experts downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords’. Over 1,300 sign letter claiming it’s a ‘force for good, not a threat to humanity’ (fortune.com)
In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”...
Why Wikipedia’s Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp (slate.com)
There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works (www.theverge.com)
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from !google...
PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry By Default (www.techpowerup.com)
Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.
Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts (www.macrumors.com)
As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those subreddits that it has plans to replace resistant moderation teams to keep spaces "open and accessible to users."...
