“In the first part of the year, we saw no noticeable impact from ChatGPT on our new account growth and we were meeting expectations on new sign-ups,” CEO [of Chegg, a company that provides homework help and other student services] Dan Rosensweig said during the earnings call Monday evening. “However, since March we saw a significant spike in student interest in ChatGPT. We now believe it’s having an impact on our new customer growth rate.”
"If we tried to solve things like SQL injection attacks using a solution that only works 99% of the time, none of our data would be safe in any of the systems that we’ve ever built." -@simon
"More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move that could have significant consequences for the businesses of some of the world’s biggest tech companies."
#Meta Moves to Counter New #Malware and Repeat Account Takeovers
The company is adding new tools as bad actors use ChatGPT-themed lures and mask their infrastructure in an attempt to trick victims and elude defenders. #accounttakeover#chatgpt
"The AI industry and tech companies in general do not have much historical credibility. Their response to criticism is always: 'we’ve been wrong in the past; mistakes were made; but this time it’s different!'
And there’s this gem of a disclaimer: “Please be aware that, in accordance with privacy laws, some rights may not be absolute.” Did #ChatGPT write that word salad?
#TIL about #VueJS computed functions and refactored a bit of code.
Mastodon filters are complete - my little #MastodonStarterKit won't have a notification or account profile feed, so those aren't going to be added. Needs a bit of testing.
Also, I used #ChatGPT for the first time as a development partner...and...I found it extremely helpful while learning something new.
I get that it's not 100% accurate but it's a constant, calm partner that doesn't get annoyed with all my questions. 😄
It seems there's an acceleration of people working in #tech speaking out or resigning over lack of serious #ethics work while developing #AI (#Hinton). Now #chatGPT linked to #MRI successfully reads thoughts. While the study concludes: "subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder", we know the pace of #technology means this won't be an obstacle for long. Then what? Is saving 1 person with cerebral injury worth enslaving 1 million? #techethicshttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-scan-ai-chatgpt-thoughts-b2330628.html
"If AI systems become appreciably better at driving cars than humans are, would it be unethical for people to drive on their own, since this increases the risk of an accident and could cost tens of thousands of lives a year? What if AI was only somewhat better, but in the aggregate would still save thousands of lives a year?"