Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no longer do rudimentary fact checking. At the same time, this can’t really be unwound from the fact that media ownership rushed to tightly integrate often under-cooked LLM models into an already very […]

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Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes

Techdirt: Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes. “There are several interesting layers here. The biggest being that AI isn’t an excuse to simply turn your brain off and no …

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Ars Fires Reporter For Accidentally Using Fake AI Quotes

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A Defense of Benj Edwards
Right up front, I want to emphasize that I have not suddenly decided in favor of LLMs. I don't think they're good things, I think they're mostly just the latest ploy by huge companies and the ultra-rich to gather up even more wealth and power to themselves, now to try to convince people, themselves more than anyone, that they don't need puny humans.
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A Defense of Benj Edwards

Right up front, I want to emphasize that I have not suddenly decided in favor of LLMs. I don't think they're good things, I think they're mostly just the latest

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Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI’s finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.

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Ars Live: Is the AI bubble about to pop? A live chat with Ed Zitron.

Join a live discussion on October 7 about the AI gold rush.

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"Whether through purposeful reform or the eventual collapse of digital strip mining, I believe the personal computer will eventually rise again—–along with our chance to reclaim control of our digital lives." https://kurzlinks.de/tr5q #apple #benjedwards #corydoctorow #edzitron #privacy #surveillance #technology
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