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fajmccain··on Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
Lol you think LLMs are generating bug free code?
fajmccain··on Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV
This new EV is to replace motorcycles and scooters that are ubiquitous in mexico. If it succeeds in getting 100k people off of motorcycles it will have the side benefit of reducing healthcare costs treating motorcycle accidents.
fajmccain··on How ChatGPT serves ads
Nothing in this article says that the agent talking to you is isolated from the ad tag. The problem is even if Open AI goes to lengths to prevent your chatbot from knowing about a banner ad content (and therefore recommend it!) people will ASSUME that it does.
fajmccain··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Who is out there launching new Reddit alternatives that could catch on?
fajmccain··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
Great article. Another problem with Meta’s moderation on political topics is they block content worldwide rather than in the united states only
fajmccain··on Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists
AI scaring students away from the software field and simultaneously making it hard for new developers to learn (because its too temping to click a button rather than struggle for 30 minutes) could be balancing out some job losses as well
fajmccain··on Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks
I had an issue with calibre+dedrm not working as of early 2024 (possibly due to an update the the DRM used by Amazon). Have you had luck doing this recently?
fajmccain··on AI company that made robots for children went bust and now the robots are dying
This is the premise of the short story 'The lifecycle of software objects' by Ted Chiang. In that story the employees of the company take it upon themselves to maintain their human-like pets. If the concept of future AI/robot friends like this 'dying' is of interest to you give this story a read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7886338-the-lifecycle-of...