After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14
We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal System Prompts Mary P...
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, given OpenAI's found...
Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), a foundational technology of the internet age, died at age 78 on October 11
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Threads: @blinkenjim . Mastodon: @CyberpunkLibrarian … and @m501@mast...
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register
https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive. Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends — including the Jimmy...
How Meta and YouTube, battered by content moderation wars, are following X in retreating from policing political misinformation, raising US 2024 election fears
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential ele...
Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI
warning the company doesn't have one in A.I. John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog : Google and Commoditization: Anyone Need a BackRub? Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : Leaked Google Documen...
A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do
Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft's Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta's Galactica spewed racist rants … Mastodon: @ben@werd.social , @emilymbender@dair … , ...
Crypto tokens allow venture capitalists to dump their investments on an enthusiastic public without regulation, in the midst of a speculative mania
These days I read a lot of cross-disciplinary commentary on the crypto asset bubble, and what strikes me as particularly strange is the sheer level … Tweets: @smdiehl , @carnage4life , @techwontsaveus...
Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might
On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler. Tweets: @davetroy , @jimstinnett , @tompalmspr...
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...