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thomasapowell

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Mostly sharing thoughts on #webdev, #softwareengineering, #retrogames and humanistic aspects of tech. Old tech guy, UCSD CSE Lecturer, Author, pint.com founder, and person behind ZingChart and ZingGrid. 🤓

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thomasapowell, to ai
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I asked ChatGPT another BS engine to calculate Google’s BS engine’s failure cost and it came up with about $10.4 billion. Is that accurate who knows? Hilarious ? 💯

Cost calc below from ChatGPT

“Total Estimated Financial Impact:

• Ad Revenue Loss: $2 billion
• Increased Operational Costs: $300 million
• Legal and Regulatory Costs: $600 million
• Brand Damage: $7.5 billion

Total Estimated Loss: $2 billion + $300 million + $600 million + $7.5 billion = $10.4 billion”

thomasapowell,
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@schizanon apparently zero per ChatGPT unless we can go viral with this! Let’s goooo 😝

overholt, to random
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These fake William Morris prints for sale on Etsy are such an aggressive attack on historical reality. Not content with mutating his work to better fit a 21st century market, they come with fictitious provenance as well. https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

A print of an orange tree. Text at bottom: COTTON PRINTS EXHIBITION WILLIAM MORRIS TEXTILES HISTORY OF BRITISH DESIGN LONDON THE ART OF XIX CENTURY

thomasapowell,
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@overholt I think this would be an interesting story for @404mediaco to dig into. I’d make a sad prediction that there is a rapidly expanding amount of this kind of thing across many types of objects on Etsy.

Cmastication, to random
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Google: unsafe at any speed

thomasapowell,
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@Cmastication this just sucks. AI is absolutely gonna take my job of being mostly wrong about things I don’t know much about.

thomasapowell, to MemeryAlpha
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Tired: Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)

Wired: Large amounts of content mixed with garbage in, averaged content sprinkled with garbage and sometimes brand new super garbage out (AI)

thomasapowell, to ai
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If I want to get the American right all wild about accuracy I'll point out that giving Chat GPT 4o the task to estimate Bronx Rally crowd size (they claim 25k) but the AI has a different thought (< 5k)

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