Erik Vorhes

@erikvorhes
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I love accessibility, bread, CSS, dead languages, inclusive design, literature, & type.
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Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter. "The Carter administration prioritized human rights to an extent that no previous president had done, and this was an extraordinarily important thing." https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/11/07/the-surprising-greatness-of-jimmy-carter/
The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

Washington Monthly
“If one 84-year-old cis white shitposting novelist can become less transphobic on Twitter, then we are all endowed with the capacity for growth and change.”
https://judedoyle.medium.com/joyce-carol-goats-d04603d465da
Joyce Carol GOATs - Jude Ellison S. Doyle - Medium

It’s easy to succumb to hopelessness, in this business of posting. You spend all day sticking your face in the soup of bad news and worse takes, watching progress erode and situations deteriorate…

Medium

The FTC has started a new Office of Technology! Now they're hiring technologists to power their investigations: https://ftc.gov/technologists

* Remote work possible.
* Pay is amazing by non-tech-sector standards (up to $176K).
* Blessedly simple application process.

Get in there!

Office of Technology Hiring

Federal Trade Commission

It's 1am and it's a bit hard to get to sleep around here.

#Tromso #NorthernLights #Nordlys #AuroraBorealias #PhotographyWorkshop #Lumix

"I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?"

"Oh no," said Bingle-Dum.

"We both lie," added Googl-E.

"But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?"

"That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum.

"We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence.

There has absolutely not been a better opportunity in this century to build a successful new search engine for the internet. The dominant players are running full speed to make their offerings worse, and that’s after *years* of complaints that Google’s results are decaying.

Bing’s new ChatGPT-infused chatbot is producing some remarkably wrong results: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-chatgpt-bing-becoming-ai-nightmare/

“The chatbot dreamed up fake financial numbers when asked about GAP’s financial performance, created a fictitious 2023 Super Bowl in which the Eagles defeated the Chiefs before the game was even played, and even gave descriptions of deadly mushrooms when asked about what an edible mushroom would look like.”

ChatGPT Bing is becoming an unhinged AI nightmare

Microsoft just starting rolling out ChatGPT Bing to the public, and it's already turning into an AI-generated nightmare.

Digital Trends
NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 is now available for testing! There's a new paragraph style option, a link destination shortcut, better annotated web content, improved ARM64 & AMD64 support, new braille displays & tables, Win11 fixes & more! full info & download: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1beta1/
NVDA 2023.1beta1 available for testing

Beta1 of NVDA 2023.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…

NV Access
#Microsoft switches #Bing search engine to #AI. Much hilarity ensues. (I just queried it for the population of the Planet Mars.)