NEW: Google's AI Overviews are treating entities from the SCP Foundation — the famously fake fan-fiction universe — as if they're real.
The AI feature often contextualizes SCP entities as actual discoveries while describing made-up SCP records as "official" documents.
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Google's AI Overviews are presenting sci-fi and horror phenomena from the famously fake SCP Foundation fan-fiction universe as real.
Hours of rainfall forecast into the night too - ‘Oil rain’ falling as Moscow refinery burns
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A fire at the Moscow oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone attack has led to what residents describe as “oil rain” falling across the surrounding area. Residents of Zheleznodorozhny, east of Moscow, po...
Note the "I am not human, but a machine, and as such can make mistakes or give wrong answers." disclaimer.
That’s on a website people rely on for information on how to get unemployment benefits, where mistakes and misinformation can mean people who need it most lose access to benefits.
#nature #photography
Meanwhile by Øresund near Humlebæk, Denmark
Also on YouTube
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Samo Korošec
Miska Knapek
As with many such efforts in Austria: The good thing is that someone made a ton of cash consulting on this.
The better thing is that, if this blows up in everyone’s faces, no one will have to be responsible or liable.
Or: Mit dem Angriff Digitalisierung wird das alles in Ordnung kommen. 👌
The defining property of startups — and even big tech — post 2020 is that most don’t have a single person in their ranks that would stop things like these. Everyone is cheering such projects on because they care more about not risking their good income than they do about anything else.
Shocking. Shock. Ing!
Samo Korošec
Samo Korošec
Samo Korošec
New look at Snapchat’s Specs AR glasses
• Costs $2195
• $SNAP stock price dropped immediately after the announcement
very international
in diesem land fragt sich in digitalen sachen nie jemand, warum man evtl. erster mit dieser art "innovation" ist.
in diesem land fragt sich in digitalen sachen nie jemand, warum man evtl. erster mit dieser art "innovation" ist.
Culture Crave 🍿
Another good example of how the “statistical” nature of LLMs distort the world. Undoing centuries of social progress one bias (network gravity well) at a time.
NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.
One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors. The information was revealed only after ProPublica went to court to obtain it.
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Indeed, women are "less salient" in a men dominated world.
Just note that less salient stimuli extinguish more slowly.
Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”
