Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

It never ceases to amaze me how trivial it is to get temporary control over a phone number, or that given how trivial it is that anyone trusts it for any kind of verification, and so as hilarious it is that the SEC didn't have 2FA set up, it's rather rich for X to claim it's nothing to do with them when they choose to trust a demonstrably unreliable method of proving ownership....

The world's fastest supercomputer blasts through one trillion parameter model with only 8 percent of its MI250X GPUs

I would still manage to break it with ease one week after purchase (and so will stick with my cheap Android phones)

"I can't let you drive there, Dave".

As much as I love playing with ChatGPT, fuck this.

Phrenology: The discredited, useless, racist pseudo-science, now in your dating app!

Because what could possibly go wrong.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7027429

‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care::The bionic arm has been working for years, reducing the user’s level of pain. The first person to receive it tells how life changing it has been.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/8kHHX

Given how Amazon treats its warehouse workers, clearly this is what will set off the robot uprising that kills us all.

Who knew they even had that many...

I don't mind the idea of charging for a quality service the least bit. But that requires offering a quality service first.

A very long but fascinating overview of different attempts at autonomous, self-driving, and/or demand responsive app integrated public transport options.

(ok, so you're probably a bit weird - like me - if you're fascinated by this)

Yes, they are doing a promotion, but I don't care.

Archive link: http://archive.today/71fqd