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IAlreadyFappedToIt t1_ja8506w wrote

It's only a matter of time before AI chat replies start including individually targeted "sponsored content."

>Human user: "I need to debug this code. Can you help me?"

>Chatbot reply: "Of course. First thing you should always do when solving a difficult problem is to slow down, relax, grab a 20oz iced caramel mocha latte from the Starbucks drive-thru on 3rd St. by the Krispy Kreme, and take several deep breaths. It looks like you used a comma instead of a semi-colon in line 121. I've fixed it for you here:"

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LoafyLemon t1_ja812rl wrote

  1. Proprietary codecs suck, there's nothing they can do because it would be illegal to ship those with a system without paying them a ransom for every installation. The solution is to stop using them and move on to open formats like AV1.

  2. I've never had that bug, but you might be happy to hear Pop OS will be moving away from gnome, they're working on COSMIC, it should give them more finer control over the distribution.

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TheTelegraph OP t1_ja7yaqi wrote

The Telegraph's Technology Editor, James Titcomb reports:

Microsoft staff are reading users’ conversations with its Bing chatbot, the company has disclosed, amid growing data protection concerns about using the systems.

The company said human reviewers monitor what users submit to the chatbot in order to respond to “inappropriate behaviour”.

Employers including JP Morgan and Amazon have banned or restricted staff use of ChatGPT, which uses similar technology, amid concerns that sensitive information could be fed into the bot.

Bing chat became an overnight sensation after Microsoft released it to the world earlier this month, promising to disrupt Google's grip on search with its artificial intelligence bot.

However, it has restricted the service in recent days after testers reported bizarre interactions such as the bot declaring its love for humans and confessing to violent fantasies.

Read this story in full: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/27/microsoft-staff-read-users-chatgpt-posts-prompting-security/

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TheGreat_War_Machine t1_ja7y2oe wrote

Well, let's look at it this way:

There are several types of amino acids that join together into long chains to form proteins. These amino acids are either hydrophilic or hydrophobic. This hydrophilicity is what gives proteins their shape. Because the body is mostly made of water, the chains will arrange themselves in such a way that the hydrophilic aminos will be as close to the water molecules as possible while the hydrophobic aminos will do the opposite. Additionally, during tertiary folding, separate chains of proteins come together via hydrogen bonds (ref. high school chemistry).

For prions to be able to misfold other proteins, it would need to overcome these chemical properties to replace one or several of these amino acids to cause a change in how the other protein folds.

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