lol of the day - noticed I’m quoted in this article, but I never spoke to the publication and the quotes are made up. They use GenAI during article creation and just made up what I thought đŸ€Ł https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/hacker-siphons-700k-from-u-k-energy-firm-in-payment-redirect

@GossiTheDog Now we can add that to Wikipedia where the fact that it's in a third party source outweighs you claiming you never said it!

It's a glorious world.

@troed I strongly doubt Wikipedia editors would trust an AI generated source. If anything we now get that page added to the list of untrusted sources...
@max Most if not all Swedish newspapers now use LLMs when writing articles. This cat is not even close to a bag :/
@troed That sucks. I hope the Swedish people start electing people that vow to fix that and return quality journalism instead of lie machines.
@max Having governments control newspapers sounds like a bad idea though :) We'll see if the consumers notice quality issues that will lead them to vote with their wallets.

@troed I'm not sure how that has anything to do with government control of newspaper if tools are regulated.

Of course the government shouldn't care if journalists decide to do shoddy work, but using tools that actively hurt society and the planet should not be allowed for anyone.

@max The only way to ban LLMs would be through a global oppressive authoritarian regime.
@troed @max Or just tell the companies that program them that it's illegal

@elduvelle

Yes, that needs a global authoritarian government, as I said.

@max

@troed @max
Hmm.. governments can pass laws about companies without being authoritarian.. they do it all the time đŸ€”

@elduvelle

So you think it's viable that the EU bans generative AI while China doesn't?

That would be absoutely devastating. For us.

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

@max

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.

@troed @max

Why would it be devastating for us? Instead of wasting money and energy into "AI" we could use all these resources for much more useful things, like actual research, more efficient programming practices, curing cancer etc. We could better communicate to the population that genAI is wasteful, useless and unethical and that people need to keep their skill levels up and their brains engaged. Other countries that don't want to ban it would fall behind and have massive unemployment, so they'd probably eventually follow us.

@elduvelle

Try reading the link I posted.

@max

@troed @max
I can see that's from a genAI company (Anthropic), so whatever is written there is probably inaccurate - why would I waste my time reading it?

genAI should only be used for "entertainment", as Microsoft admitted about their Copilot. You shouldn't trust anything written via a genAI program - go to the source instead!

@elduvelle

I don't understand why you participate in discussions if you readily admit to not knowing anything about the topic.

What good does that do anyone?

@max

@troed oh, the ad-hominem attacks already 👀

@elduvelle It's not an ad-hominem to point out that if you don't follow sourced arguments you're not participating in the discussion at all.

There's a reason I posted that specific link.