web4 is a web written by AIs for other AIs. unfortunately there are still humans in the loop reading the content and expecting it to not be total gibberish.
A high-profile First Amendment ruling that restricted the Biden admin's contacts w/ tech firms & researchers relied on "invented quotations," Stanford says in a legal brief—and violates disinfo researchers' own speech rights.
Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW law prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a 2018 Washington Post story.
ChatGPT generated the fake scandal involving law prof Jonathan Turley in response to prompts from Eugene Volokh last week. Turley wrote about it in a USA Today op-ed on Monday.
OpenAI appears to have since addressed the issue: ChatGPT no longer names Turley when given the same prompt.
But today we tested the same prompt on Microsoft's Bing AI. And guess what...
For years, tech giants like Google and Facebook have been developing the underlying tech behind tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion--but had been cautious about releasing them due to concerns over safety, bias, and misinfo.
For years, tech giants like Google and Facebook have been developing the underlying tech behind tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion--but had been cautious about releasing them due to concerns over safety, bias, and misinfo.
Now, with tech stocks tumbling and ChatGPT hype soaring, insiders say there's growing pressure to stop listening to the ethicists and cassandras and charge ahead despite the risks. New from @nitashatiku, Gerrit De Vynck and me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/...
Folks in tech who say it's easy to criticize but hard to build... Sorry, no. It's easy to build if you don't care about the flaws or societal consequences or ripping off others' work. Any midwit sociopath can do that. The hard thing is to build something that *isn't* evil.
@willoremus Also, speaking as a builder and a critic... have these people *tried* writing useful criticism? There's a reason I put out ~1 major software project a year and ~1 major critical essay a year. They're about equally hard to do well!!