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czl t1_j9o4tlc wrote

Quandary for dictatorships: How to apply censorship to the vast datasets required to train large language models? No doubt they are already working on AIs to apply censorship but even those require large training sets of forbidden content. Is this quandary like Soviets being unable to develop their own computers? Seems some technologies are like a test for a society. Michael Crichton uses this idea in his Sphere novel.

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marketrent OP t1_j9o2zjj wrote

Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Cissy Zhou:

>HONG KONG -- Regulators have told major Chinese tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services to the public amid growing alarm in Beijing over the AI-powered chatbot's uncensored replies to user queries.

>Tencent Holdings and Ant Group, the fintech affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding, have been instructed not to offer access to ChatGPT services on their platforms, either directly or via third parties, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia.

>Tech companies will also need to report to regulators before they launch their own ChatGPT-like services, the sources added.

>The latest move by regulators comes amid an official backlash against ChatGPT.

>On Monday, state-owned media outlet China Daily said in a post on Weibo, China's heavily censored equivalent of Twitter, that the chatbot "could provide a helping hand to the U.S. government in its spread of disinformation and its manipulation of global narratives for its own geopolitical interests."

>An executive from [one] leading Chinese tech player said that even without a direct warning his company would not make use of ChatGPT.

>"There will inevitably be some users who ask the chatbot politically sensitive questions, but the platform would be held accountable for the results."

>OpenAI, Alibaba, Tencent and Ant Group did not immediately respond to Nikkei Asia's request for comment.

^1 Cissy Zhou for Nikkei Asia, last updated 22 Feb. 2023 20:34 JST, https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/China-tech/China-tells-big-tech-companies-not-to-offer-ChatGPT-services

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OverthinkingMadMan t1_j9o2ruj wrote

Your solution is the same as just removing the air tag and placing it somewhere. That is already an option. So?

For this to be a problem, you first would have to accept a family invite for a tag, then that tag has to be put on you somewhere, without you knowing it and you would have to be unable to see the location yourself.
If that is the intent, then there are better ways to do that without the other person noticing. Just get a dog tracker that used 4G. That doesn't give notifications, doesn't require the partner to accept anything and the partner would be uanble to see the location.

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DneSokas t1_j9o2m5y wrote

So while others have already mentioned that the title is misleading, it should be noted that it IS possible to pull energy from nothing at least on paper. In real life there are probably practical limitations that prevent the otherwise perfectly allowable maths to become reality but its a good thing to keep in mind anyway to remind ourselves that the laws of thermodynamics are descriptions of the universe and not ironclad parts of it.

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stealthmodeactive t1_j9o2is3 wrote

Whoa settle down.

I said probably nobody will read it but you can. Not sure what's ignorant about that. There's so much junk on any app store you make it sound like people are just reading all the source code of everything all day. A perfect example is OpenSSL. And heart bleed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

My second paragraph shows you don't know what you're talking about. Most people are going to jam that "allow while using app" permission. So sketch web browser app could just be listening 24/7, or only when it needs. Maybe microphone isn't the best example since most phones have an indicator these days. But it will apply across other types of permissions. Once you allow Snapchat to read your contacts so you can "find who else is using snapchat", you think it stops there? Or are they always scanning your contacts without you knowing, just silently monitoring for updates?

You're lashing out at both a user and an advocate for FOSS. But to not admit its potential weaknesses is ignorant.

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Gh0sss t1_j9o2cok wrote

doesn't really work when both companies are heavily incentivized to nickel-and-dime people for life saving medications, i think the main problem is that people are heavily profiting from these drugs, and that there is an incentive and movement among pharma companies to ask for way more money than what it took to actually create the drug

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FrankWestingWester t1_j9o0d6j wrote

Sci fi magazines are maybe the first people I'd expect to reject this. The upcoming misuses of ai is exactly what writers have been warning about for decades. Also, their inboxes are literally being overwhelmed to the point of uselessness with this low quality spam. That's not useful to anyone!

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landwomble t1_j9o042e wrote

Sure, defrost/defog buttons get used, but summer or winter, with climate control you set a temp you want and the car sorts it out and maintains that temp. I guess with older style aircon with no temp sensing you might need to manually fiddle with it but on modern cars - I don't see the point. I don't want to be cold in summer, I want to be comfortable all year round...

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