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It looks like Reddit is keen to pull an Elon around API pricing.

Yes, of course it is risky to build a business based on access to someone else’s platform. They hold the cards. But one of the joys of the open web was the ability to use the client you wanted. A graphical browser, a command line browser, from a script etc.

Once again, what a mess corporatisation of the web has caused.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

—@neil

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Procrustean Epistemologies, Pt 1: The Allergy Problem
In the last month, two different hospitals both managed to almost kill D by medication errors. At least, I'm insisting they were errors, though such as they were is, I gather, not what is usually considered a "medication error". She was not administered too much, she was not administered someone else's meds, she wasn't administered something other that what was prescribed.
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If you really want to know why and how ChatGPT works, here is a fitting post about it: Stephen Wolfram explains the basic mechanisms, how the probabilities are calculated, how neural networks work and how ChatGPT uses all that concretely.

It’s a long post and you need some pauses to think about it. But I think it’s worth reading.

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

#ChatGPT #AI

—@robert

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Honestly, the most alarming thing about AI isn’t so much about AI itself, but about how utterly hell-bent humans are to use it for things that it does a bad job at. H sapiens is bound and determined to use this chisel as a screwdriver.

Case in point: the recent news story about a lawyer (or pair of lawyers – finger pointing is underway) who submitted a filing in federal court which had actually been written by ChatGPT.

What is the one thing one can assume everyone has heard about LLMs? That they make completely bogus shit up, including inventing nonexistent citations.

It would be hard to overstate how unacceptable to a court it is for a lawyer to submit a legal argument which cites nonexistent case law. That’s the kind of shit that can get a lawyer disbarred. It’s a, uh, *career-limiting* move.

But apparently some lawyer actually did it: he took the output of a computer program famous for fabricating false citations and piped it directly into a court.

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—@siderea