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Shouldn't the govs and laws be immune to this?

Is temperature or even temperature variance not a problem for wood?

I guess with project of this importance, one cannot have anything else than fixed release date, even if the scope is dynamic. A bit like Olympic Games hosts are decided several years in advance (Salt Lake City 2034).

The whole point (or at least the main point) of the tax paperwork is to be able to produce them to tax investigators. If you don't want to share anything, then it's easier not to do the accounting. Which I guess is severally illegal globally.

> the team tested it on 20 million prompts given to Gemini. Half of those prompts were routed to the SynthID-Text system and got a watermarked response, while the other half got the standard Gemini response. Judging by the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” feedback from users, the watermarked responses were just as satisfactory to users as the standard ones.

Three comments here:

1. I wonder how many of the 20M prompts got a thumbs up or down. I don't think people click that a lot. Unless the UI enforces it. I haven't used Gemini, so I might be unaware.

2. Judging a single response might be not enough to tell if watermarking is acceptable or not. For instance, imagine the watermarking is adding "However," to the start of each paragraph. In a single GPT interaction you might not notice it. Once you get 3 or 4 responses it might stand out.

3. Since when Google is happy with measuring by self declared satisfaction? Aren't they the kings of A/B testing and high volume analysis of usage behavior?

> It has also open-sourced the tool and made it available to developers and businesses, allowing them to use the tool to determine whether text outputs have come from their own large language models (LLMs), the AI systems that power chatbots. However, only Google and those developers currently have access to the detector that checks for the watermark.

These two sentences next to each other don't make much sense. Or are misleading.

Yeah. I know. Only the client is open source and it calls home.

Interesting. So is this what differentiates us from all the animals?

(See^^^)

Don't give up. There are still 5 or 6 years in the decade. We are not even half way through.

Europarlament too?

Nice read.

I guess the article could be called Falsehoods Programmers Assume of Programming Language Syntaxes.

I have been to a on orthodontist office which didn't have any iMac.

I wouldn't apply this observation to judge if the product makes sense

Not sure. Hardly anyone would remember if Streisand was a singer or actor or whoever. Now her name is mostly tied to Streisand effect, not the art she had produced.

TIL. Apparently "sideshow" means blocking the whole traffic (one way) to have illegal street racing or burning tires, etc.

It's from April and he didn't get any response in either SO or the mailing list?

Germany is self-blaming only to some extent or for some definitions of this notion.

Yes, they are well aware of what happened in 1930s and that there was Hitler, etc.

And still they conveniently fail to see any connection with today times. It is some unclearly defined Nazis who took over the control of Germany and did all the killings and destroyed a few countries around. But not anyone's grandfather was involved. And supposedly the companies which built their wealth on slave work and death of thousands continue to prosper.

I think it's different order:

1. Primarily at oneself 2. Anything else on the computer 3. Speaker

Re whitespace: ... or use the w=1 hidden query parameter: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/pull/26/files?w=1

> acknowledged that he had not been able to pinpoint Columbus’s place of birth

Nit pick.

I don't know it for sure, but if he was able to meet a king and a queen eventually, I assume he came from a wealthy family.

For wealthy families at that time, it wouldn't be an issue to travel. Especially if you turn out to be the most known traveler in human's history.

Thus, I fail to see how come we can even think of establishing the place of birth based on DNA. A likely area where his family came from - sure. But POB?

Useful? Yes.

But then you need some way to provide the exact indentation/spacing in some cases. And the easiest is to provide them verbatim.

Why is the same agency tasked with investigating financial fraud and provide physical security for the president?

The guy seems to have quite a few projects with geography references for no specific reason. So I guess the answer is: it's catchy and easy to remember for most people.

You would think so. Whatever the name, whatever the legal structure, I am pretty sure KGB persists. Or several factions of it.

If in US, that'd be once in a lifetime - e.g. for your honey (half) moon.

I guess it required provisioning of the infrastructure, coal and water along the line. And it couldn't be so spontaneous.

Chances are the author is in 11th or 12th grade. And you two might be on the same page.

(Just joking).

Interesting idea. This might work for educational books, but would it work for literature?

Interesting point. But there's one difference.

Software is used by enterprises and by individuals. Books are mostly used by indivuals (yeah, I know your Friendly Corp might have an educational budget for you).

Enterprises are less likely to pay for books (as the whole cost of running the procurement process is prohibitive). But people (like individuals) don't have this limitation.

Funny. Stallman wouldn't be happy to allow software which you cannot overrule.

But at least we got all the byproducts.

It depends on the definition of "interaction". AFAIU Alice doesn't need to print anything supplied by the attacker. It's enough if she prints anything.