Sorry this is behind a paywall (I think) but I felt compelled to share it anyway.
https://www.ft.com/content/c0e0bcd2-f8c9-4d45-ae2b-73a31195f74c?shareType=nongift
> If the code contains hidden security vulnerabilities, the prose is packed with fabricated facts or plagiarised phrases, or the structural engineering calculations seem fine but the building will collapse in the first storm, that is a problem. It is still a problem even if the mistakes are rare and the average quality excellent.
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Was about to pop up with this.
In case people don't know, the Web Archive extension is very convenient. You click archive.is and hey presto (usually, not always).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/
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Archive today is great and I use it a lot, but be careful. They have been shown to alter contents of archived pages and Wikipedia has flagged them as unreliable as a result.
@steve_zeke @pluralistic I don't have a subscription, but that's a fascinating quote to be reading from the news site with the "AI-powered paywall"...
Thanks. I have multiple free accounts. No wonder I can never figure out whether they’ll let me read an article or not.
“our AI-powered paywall rewrites them in real time.”
It’s infuriating.
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