I wuz robbed.

More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And *then* he tried to do it again, a week later!

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/#swiss-cheese-security

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A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work

Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social