I'm kind of surprised nobody has come up with a malformed mp3 that does something like encode pirated software or other messages directly into the music; then get patriotic singers from whatever country to participate in spreading information by selling tracks on spotify.

I'm not so sure. It seems to me that by requiring the Gen AI to produce a bibliography of its answer, another AI scanning the bibliography could come up with a truth vs fiction score.

But first we have to label all the training data with source URL and "Fact/Fiction" bits.

Token processing / clock cycles needed.

Right now, LLM processing is so expensive that I have my doubts about ROI on using it. Worse than that, the stubborn hallucination problem means even if you can afford the compute time, you only have about a 60% chance of the answer being correct.

This isn't your grandpa's database.

It's going to take at least 5 to 10 years to sort out those issues. Until then, VCs will be losing money in this sector.

This quote, and the top level article it is attached to, describes perfectly why at 54 I'm stuck at $60-$65/hr contracting.

We've been saying for years that climate scientists on jet planes are a source of global warming, here's the proof.

You can have my gas only non-plug-in 2006 prius the day all planes are grounded.

Does this mean 2024 will be the first year that we have fewer deaths due to freezing exposure than heat exhaustion?

As for the land down under- well there's a huge continent to the south to colonize if you can get global warming to melt all that ice.

I've been saying this for two years now. AI is GIGO- Garbage in, Garbage out. There's been nearly ZERO effort put into accurate model creation.

I remember stories on slashdot in 2004 on how we had already passed the tipping point and global warming (then, this was before "global climate change") was unavoidable.

20 years later, that we are in a cycle where the natural carbon emissions from events associated with climate change exceed the total carbon output of mankind, is not surprising.

This is why adaptation is necessary.

A 512 MB module cost $100-$200 in 2006. Sold in an $1000 machine. 10% of the cost.

And now a macbook air costs order of magnitude the same, but the RAM they're putting in it.... $10-20 (1-2% of the cost).

I wonder if that difference in cost is going to some other part of the machine or into margins?

(I know Apple don't pay retail prices for their RAM, which is what I quoted here, the actual percentage of cost will be lower)

You want me to do busywork so Apple doesn't have to pay an extra $10 for memory on a thousand dollar machine?

I've had to give up on multiple states and go to credit unions, but at least Chase hasn't been caught inventing customers to pretend to have larger portfolios.

It's a TikTok trend. Like everything on TikTok, it's either Chinese Cyberwarfare agents or lying Activists. The fact that this was spread mainly in the African American Community, tells me a little of both.

Wells Fargo, well, that was your first mistake.

No need to borrow money to be a victim of usury these days. Even your checking and savings accounts have all sorts of fees attached.

Which is why I'm wondering why a lawsuit is necessary. Could just add a $1000 bounced check fee and end the problem entirely.