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The most dangerous thing about ChatGPT is how utterly certain it is.
It's all about how you word it, I guess.
Just came across my first AI Overview search result. AI-plus work here, good job everybody, no notes, you’re doing great sweeties.
CS Researchers: Here're some programming languages mathematically proven to make the computer do exactly what you say.
Programmers: «create vast complexity that no one person could comprehend in order to render a web page»
Also Programmers: What if we made the programming language English, required that the compiler run on a monstrously huge array of GPUs, and set it up so it only did what we ask sometimes, and other times just do nonsense, but we don't know which is which?
Hacker News: Neat!
How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?
Out of curiosity, I searched for the #PyConUS hashtag on Mastodon and Twitter and scrolled back 16 hours and started counting posts. 🤔
I counted:
87 posts on Twitter on the PyCon hashtag 🐦
134 posts on Mastodon on the PyCon hashtag 🐘
The PyCon conversations have finally moved (mostly) to Mastodon! 🙌
Not a HUGE difference, but enough that I felt like there was more activity and decided to confirm my suspicion. 💗
Enormous news! the Python Software Foundation now has a 5 year commitment with Fastly to deliver @pypi, us.pycon.org, and much more. We appreciate you and your continued investment in the #python community, Fastly! #PyConUS
Absolutely unbelievable but here we are. #Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training #LLM models, enabled by default and opting out requires a manual email from the workspace owner.
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
What a time to be alive in IT. 🤦♂️
I think everyone has to remember that that tech-press was a big contributor to the mess that became social media. Their priorites are not the same as ours, and their observations and conclusions can take years to be exposed as completely billionaire fluffing horseshit. I respect a lot of tech writers, but others should be trusted about as much as ChatGPT. Which is to say, not much.