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Comment Re:Oh you sweet innocent child (Score 1, Interesting) 54

That's not what's happening. That's never what happens. Any time someone uses an ai chat bot as part of their work, they immediately turn into drooling idiots.

Yeah, who needs a chatbot when you can make unqualified claims as statements of fact. You don't even need citations, such as the ones you're claiming (without citation) they make up. (Which just to be clear, they do, a certain amount, although a casual interpretation of your words suggests you're implying "always".)

Look, there are lots of problems with LLMs, but I find it amusing to watch people launch into "what I say is true, because I said it, and it sounds true to me" when talking about LLMs being sources of inaccurate information.

Comment Re:China may or may not has overtaken (Score 4, Informative) 167

"This is Chinese propaganda"

Do a quick self-learn. The amount of solar panels China was selling to the US before exports was only around 20% of their total solar module exports. Their total solar exports are only about 7% of their total intl trade surplus. They sell as much capacity to Europe in a year as the US has installed *total, nationally*.

I'm not arguing they don't care about loss of business to the US, obviously it impacts them.

But watching the US self-elect to fall farther behind, checking of boxes down a veritable "how to" list of losing US hegemony is far more valuable to them.

In that sense - maybe it is propaganda, but reverse psychology style, because you're doing the lord's work for them.

Comment Re:Great idea, in theory (Score 2, Insightful) 144

you'll spend more money trying to define those questions than you'll save from rooting out "scammers"

it's the tragedy of modern American politics, where more money is spent on fixing waste (or programs unenacted) just because there's some inherent waste

A large portion of the American electorate would rather set their own lawn on fire than see somebody who doesn't deserve money get some, it's pretty funny

Comment Re: 20t dump truck filled with gravel. (Score 2) 61

Ah yes, it's the "I gave it thought for 2 seconds, and now I have a better solution than the people who've been thinking about it for decades even though it's not my job, area of expertise, I don't understand the problem anyway, and I am free of a litany of other considerations that apply" guy. Good work.

Comment oldie but goodie (Score 2) 29

TechCrunch found that the app's backend services didn't properly restrict access, allowing any logged-in user to request and receive data belong to other users.

I *loooove* how common this flaw is. I remember decades back getting hired by a guy to keep working on some event marketing website he'd had another programmer build. Took me like 10 minutes at that job to figure out you could do the exact same thing.

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