When AIs stop ‘hallucinating’ wildly incorrect answers to the questions they’re given, then — and only then — will they be a suitable replacement for *INFORMATION SERVICES*.

Aside from the fact that she could have been buried alive (and may still), or blown up hers or her neighbors houses, like... why? What is the motivating factor here to dig a big ass pit on your property? People are so f’ing weird and crazy. Also, “Still, she maintained a healthy level of support on TikTok,” might…

The biggest issue a lot of the “experts” seem to have with her is that she is not a formally educated “expert.”

sometimes a story comes along that explains why HOAs exist and make me the teeniest bit thankful I live in one. And it’s because people can’t just be trusted to be fucking reasonable.

Credentials typically exist for a reason beyond snob-vs-slob gatekeeping. I would 1000% want and expect a neighbor to be credentialed and have the appropriate clearances before digging a giant pit next door. This isn’t someone being uptight about a few pink flamingos in the yard or a garishly pained mailbox; there’s…

the innocence of youth

The cruelty is the point. 

“millennials’ precarious position sandwiched between Boomers who hate us and Gen Z’ers who both hate us and think we’re cringe.”

Well yeah this gives them sole control of the data scraped and can then further their advertising monopoly. It’s not like they won’t freely hand it to anyone willing to pay so it doesn’t cut the thousands out just makes it’s pay to play. So sure nothing will go wrong shortly afterward.

Websites can ask Chrome what categories you’re in, but they won’t be able to figure out exactly who you are...

or you could install uBlock to keep webpages from having to load so much extra bullshit. 

Would be nice though if we didn’t promote those that are currently built on stolen art, specially when they earn money off of it. At the very least please include a note about it.

Daniel Langlois, a founder of the now-defunct studio Softimage

They don’t look large enough to compete against the Hershey’s and Cadbury’s of the world, so selling a bespoke chocolate experience is a good strategy.

The most significant effect that the whole train-up some Markov linear algebra on a large language model has had is to convince lots of people who really ought to know better that reshuffling several libraries worth of written works will generate something they have never seen before, only because they haven’t…

Flying Delta sucks so so much. 

The whole thing where the US allows drug companies to directly market prescriptions directly to consumers is absurd.

I like OpenAI’s initial commitment to trying to restrain themselves on AI safety issues, but it looks like they didn’t plan for the possibility that a single top figure at the company might become so critical to outside support that he could use that to push back - or develop a cult of personality among the employees…

Please fix whatever ad service y’all use.  One of the ads in the rotation is a fake McAfee ad that takes over the full screen.  Your site is compromised.

People often have pretty harsh words for Bin Laden, but nobody ever talks about all the buildings he didn’t orchestrate deadly terrorist attacks against. Typical woke media, always using a few details to try and paint a distorted image of anyone who even slightly challenges their dogma.