Racing Turtles

And this is why you switch to DuckDuckGo. :/

Don't let them lie to you about this. They're acting like the llms are some inherently uncontrollable natural process.

My mom used to write code for the US Navy, and one of the first things she drilled into me when school was teaching us LogoWriter was "A computer is only as smart as the person who programmed it." The creators of these systems have full control over how they operate and what kind of input they're "trained" on. They were just lazy about it, and now the consequences are too big and costly to be worth fixing.

Don't let them lie to you about how this works. They just don't want to take it offline (costs money) and spend the time and money actually doing a good job. They just don't want to admit that it wasn't ready to be released.

"We are sorry but our generate-words-without-context tool is now generating answers without context when people ask it questions"

"Okay so why do you have it answering questions?"

". . ."

I’ve said it before; AI is not being implemented to be good. It’s there to be an ‘act of God’ machine that can be blamed for corporate negligences.

They could train AI to give better answers. But that would require identifying good, useful information. And that would take a lot of work by people they’d have to pay. I know we’re on the “please let me infodump” site, but off tumblr subject matter experts expect to be paid—some quite highly. And the source of a lot of this information is someone’s intellectual property, which AI companies have been extremely reluctant to pay for. In short, AI was built by techbros who figured they could do it quick and cheap, and get out with their billions before AI all crumbled under its own insufficiencies.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) rules that “Israel must immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah”.

The funny thing that Israel bombing Rafah now non stop bombs

Update: Israel saying they will invade all Rafah city after ICJ decision

Now's a good time to donate to OP's pinned fundraisers for his family members, and to look through the lists on my pinned post and donate to them. Time is running out.

JACKSON, WY—In an effort to inform the rich offender that he could do whatever he wanted, Jackson police officer David Pratt read a wealthy suspect a special Miranda warning Monday outlining his right to impunity. “You have the right to remain immune from all consequences of your actions,” read Pratt, explaining to Kenneth Fuller, a multimillionaire under arrest for drunk driving, that anything he said can and will be obeyed by the police without question.

Full story.

Ah!

Twitter's faced this law before, and they had strong filters to block Nazi content in Germany. (It was part of how we knew damn well they had the tools to block or remove hate speech... because they did it in countries where it was illegal.)

See this, from 2012:

It looks like Elon's changes have included removing the anti-Nazi filters from Germany or their moderation team can no longer keep up with reports.

Or both. Both is also likely.

Anyway. The lawsuit is over activity for the last four months, so this isn't "some bits & pieces kept slipping through for the last many years, and we're finally annoyed enough to do something about it."

24 hours is... not a lot of time, since that includes weekends and the reports may be coming in well outside of US business hours.

But. In the past, Twitter managed them. Of course, operating on a skeleton-crew staff, they may not have 24/7 moderation coverage anymore. And Elon doesn't want content removed because someone thinks it's offensive.

My guess: Germany gets its ruling and Twitter refuses to pay up. They've been skipping a lot of payments recently.

And then he starts screaming when every advertiser with an office in Germany pulls their ads under threats from the German government. Oh, and German ISPs will then block Twitter entirely. (Which was the threat that got them to create the anti-Nazi filter in the first place - Twitter wasn't concerned about fines, but they didn't want to be blocked in a substantial portion of the EU.)