Not Invented
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Professional IT nerd, amateur photographer, shining wit. Once managed to get 2 answers right in Only Connect but it made my brain hurt for days. Please don't attempt to chat with me as I won't see it due to stupid age verification. Sorry.
I am a point on an algorithm that's designed to keep my attention so advertisers can profile my personality to 6 decimal places and persuade me to buy their goods. My mere presence has both a monetary value and a potential value. I am a consumer. Entertain me. Feed me. Let me purchase your wares.
Don't use free VPNs - their security is shit, say university researchers. The article itself is dry academia, but the good bit is in the last page, p17, where they list the 200+ VPNs that failed to do their job. Use Menu --> Find to see if yours is on there: www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u...
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Wimbledon tennis player suffers horrendous injury and it'll only get worse, says BBC... ...in misleading headline juxtaposition shock.
I've been blocked by several accounts who've posted pictures of 'their' animal taken in 'their home', that are obviously AI and so I called them out on it. I don't mind AI video as long as people don't claim it's taken from real life that actually happened to them and they filmed it.
Medical chatbots fail to recognise symptoms correctly. In my testing conversations were immediately terminated if I mentioned nudity. However this is a medical symptom for hypothermia, dementia etc and medical bots should be able to do differential diagnosis. www.sciencenews.org/article/medi...
Real-world medical questions stump AI chatbots
Subtle shifts in how users described symptoms to AI chatbots led to dramatically different, sometimes dangerous medical advice.
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It's tricky for the live NASA Artemis commentators to have something to say during a slow routine period, but I think their "Now the crew is awake they will be entering their post-sleep phase" has to be a classic. Although I suppose it's better than saying now it's their poo and wash time.
Today marks Larry's 15th year at Downing Street. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(...
Larry (cat) - Wikipedia
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