A Boring Dystopia

“Since the public can’t see or hear what’s happening in federal court firsthand, we’re using cutting-edge AI tools to bring these important proceedings to life, based entirely on official transcripts,” said Law&Crime President Rachel Stockman. “This is a pivotal moment in both popular culture and justice, and our goal is to provide accurate, transparent access to what’s actually being said in that courtroom.”

Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Hassan Eslaih has been killed in an Israeli air raid on the burns department at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

A fully automated, on demand, personalized con man, ready to lie to you about any topic you want doesn’t really seem like an ideal product. I don’t think that’s what the developers of these LLMs set out to make when they created them either. However, I’ve seen this behavior to a certain extent in every LLM I’ve interacted with. One of my favorite examples was a particularly small-parameter version of Llama (I believe it was Llama-3.1-8B) confidently insisting to me that Walt Disney invented the Matterhorn (like, the actual mountain) for Disneyland. Now, this is something along the lines of what people have been calling “hallucinations” in LLMs, but the fact that it would not admit that it was wrong when confronted and used confident language to try to convince me that it was right, is what pushes that particular case across the boundary to what I would call “con-behavior”. Assertiveness is not always a property of this behavior, though. Lately, OpenAI (and I’m sure other developers) have been training their LLMs to be more “agreeable” and to acquiesce to the user more often. This doesn’t eliminate this con-behavior, though. I’d like to show you another example of this con-behavior that is much more problematic.

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https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5613

I feel like this is relevant to the sub. If not, feel free to remove.

I hadn't realized this episode had been sitting on my playlist since February.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4713217

Automakers and tech developers testing and deploying self-driving and advanced driver assistance features will no longer have to report as much detailed, public crash information to the federal government, according to a new framework released today by the US Department of Transportation.

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If your dad is Bill Gates, you're probably not getting a Starbucks gift card for graduating college.

Making Salmonella Great Again

"The Texas Senate voted 22-9 to pass Senate Bill 819. The bill places restrictions on solar and wind power projects, requiring new permits, assessing fees, adding new regulatory requirements and placing new taxes on the projects.

https://xcancel.com/WhiteHouse/status/1913241658579440126#m

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Rubio is on a tear right now. Fuck this fascist piece of shit.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/34456652

Russia declined responsibility for civilian deaths that happened due to the strikes on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday that killed 34 people and wounded dozens more.

In the public imagination, homelessness looks like the man in soiled clothes sleeping on top of a subway grate or the woman peering out of a tent from under a highway overpass. But in cities and towns that have the highest concentrations of homelessness, many — and sometimes a majority — of those who do not live in shelters are in cars, not on the streets, according to the annual census known as the “point in time count.”

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The letter seems to be fitting into a pattern of pro-Israel organizations, such as Canary Mission and Betar, targeting critics of Israel’s military actions, as well as supporters of Palestinian self-determination. Betar says it has provided lists of noncitizen protesters to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security, and other government agencies, recommending deportation.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27976342

Yeap, the clown car gets another clown.

I barely use it, even at work and just got this group invitation. Have I been lucky till now or is this new?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27917719

The pro-Palestine Youth Demand movement says it has been targeted with over 150 arrests since it began

The children yearn for the fields

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27481481

Because the existing workforce keeps getting deported.