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  • More than 145,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • There's a story about a guy who asked his LLM to remind him to do something in the morning, and it ended up burning quite a lot of money checking to see if daylight had broken once every 30 minutes with an unnecessary API call. Such is the supposed helpful assistant.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • I'm kind of shocked if you had a decent/superior time and Element vs Discord, especially if you're in Windows! This is a case where I hope I can be proven wrong.

    Discord facilitates large audio and video calls, but if Element can manage even a handful of people at once, I would be impressed. In my experience, it hasn't, but such things are kind of hard to test.

  • OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT

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  • The blog (and its audio version, the Better Offline podcast) is very good indeed - somewhere between cathartic and revelatory at all times. I'm overjoyed to hear you liked it, but it sure can be wordy. I pay for the premium newsletter, but I find myself skimping on it... But re-reading and referring to chunks of it often.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • It all reads like a giant racket. AI requires 32GB of RAM on your laptop, 32GB of RAM is expensive, so you have to lease, and it's expensive because AI requires RAM to run in the cloud. It's a problem in search of a solution, and it keeps making new problems along the way.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • I think I you just described a conventional computer program. It would be easy to make that. It would be easy to debug if something was wrong. And it would be easy to read both the source code and the data that went into it. I've seen rudimentary symptom checkers online since forever, and compared to forms in doctors' offices, a digital one could actually expand to relevant sections.

    Edit: you caught my typo

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • You can use zero randomization to get the same answer for the same input every time, but at that point you're sort of playing cat and mouse with a black box that's still giving you randomized answers. Even if you found a false positive or false negative, you can't really debug it out...

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • I don't think the QR code has anything to do with encryption, though. They're just trying to make it convenient to sign in.

    Meanwhile, Matrix has a lot of extra stuff going on behind the scenes.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • You're definitely right that image processing AI does not work in a linear manner like how text processing does, but the training and inferences are similarly fuzzy and prone to false positives and negatives. (An early AI model incorrectly identified dogs as wolves because they saw a white background and assumed that that was where wolves would be.) And unless the model starts and stays perfect, you need well-trained doctors to fix it, which apparently the model discourages.

  • Discord Alternatives, Ranked

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  • Technically, Signal, Rocket Chat, and Matrix all have multi-party voice chat built in. You probably won't have a great time with it, and if you want video or screen sharing, you'll have an even worse time.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • If you think a word predictor is the same as a trained medical professional, I am so sorry for you...

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Ironic. If only you had read a couple more sentences, you could have proven the naysayers wrong, and unleashed a never-before-seen unbiased AI on the world.

  • More than 145,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • It's nice to see articles that push back against the myth of AI superintelligence. A lot of people who brand themselves as "AI safety experts" preach this ideology as if it is a guaranteed fact. I've never seen any of them talk about real life present issues with AI, though.

    (The superintelligence myth is a promotion strategy; OpenAI and Anthropic both lean into it because they know it boosts their stocks.)

    In the case of Moldbook or FaceClaw or whatever they're calling it, a lot of the AGI talk is sillier than ever, frankly. Many people who register their bots have become entirely lost in their own sauce, convinced that because their bots are speaking in the first person, that they've somehow come alive:

    It's embarrassing, really. People promoting the industry have every incentive to exaggerate their claims on Twitter for the revenue, but some of them are starting to buy into it.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • The conservative belief is that children are basically property and as such can be used for hard labor and kept from appropriate healthcare... But then when it comes to porn, Big Government has to do everything for them.

    Nobody ever said it was a consistent ideology.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • It's optional; you can also just use your standard username and password.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Calculators are programmed to respond deterministically to math questions. You don't have to feed them a library of math questions and answers for them to function. You don't have to worry about wrong answers poisoning that data.

    On the contrary, LLMs are simply word predictors, and as such, you can poison them with bad data, such as accidental or intentional bias or errors. In other words, that study points to the first step in a vicious negative cycle that we don't want to occur.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Even if we narrowed the scope of training data exclusively to professionals, we would have issues with, for example, racial bias. Doctors underprescribe pain medications to black people because of prevalent myths that they are more tolerant to pain. If you feed that kind of data into an AI, it will absorb the unconscious racism of the doctors.

    And that's in a best case scenario that's technically impossible. To get AI to even produce readable text, we have to feed a ton of data that cannot be screened by the people pumping it in. (AI "art" has a similar problem: When people say they trained AI on only their images, you can bet they just slapped a layer of extra data on top of something that other people already created.) So yeah, we do get extra biases regardless.

  • Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

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  • I'm sorry if my comment wasn't clear - I don't believe I'm entitled to free things and free labor. I'm just surprised and humbled by the fact that so many people are willing to provide it.

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • 1/2: You still haven't accounted for bias.

    First and foremost: if you think you've solved the bias problem, please demonstrate it. This is your golden opportunity to shine where multi-billion dollar tech companies have failed.

    And no, "don't use Reddit" isn't sufficient.

    3 You seem to be very selectively knowledgeable about AI, for example:

    If [doctors] were really worse, fuck them for relying on AI

    We know AI tricks people into thinking they're more efficient when they're less efficient. It erodes critical thinking skills.

    And that's without touching on AI psychosis.

    You can't dismiss the results you don't like, just because you don't like them.

    4 We both know the medical field is for profit. It's a wild leap to assume AI will magically not be, even if it fulfills all the other things you assumed up until this point, and ignore every issue I've raised.