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Twitter to relaunch Blue on December 12 for $8/month on the web and $11/month on iOS with a checkmark after account review, 1080p uploads, edit button, and more — we're relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday - subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Experts warn of a “hallucination” problem with ChatGPT and LaMDA, as these chatbots take what they have learned and reshape it without regard for what is true — Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Worried about its reputation, Google is hesitant to release its capable bot LaMDA, but waiting too long could mean ceding the market to competitors like ChatGPT — The tech giant believes the future of search is conversational. How did it let OpenAI's ChatGPT take the lead? — Google's had an awkward week.
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A look at some early-adopters using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generator bots to write business emails, find creative inspiration, and more — The latest AI sensation, ChatGPT, is easy to talk to, bad at math and often deceptively, confidently wrong. Some people are finding real-world value in it, anyway.
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| Eric Levitz / New York Magazine: |
With the “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk has become an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends — But it is actually a tool of progressive power. While you were hypnotized by viral memes, a cabal …
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The “Twitter Files” are a peek at moderation at scale and a win for transparency, despite failing to show systemic bias and the opaque way they were released — Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, is feverishly promoting his “Twitter Files”: selected internal communications from the company …
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Elon Musk tweeted an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation, baselessly suggesting that the ex-Twitter executive is an advocate for child sexualization — Elon Musk posted tweets including an excerpt of Yoel Roth's doctoral dissertation Saturday that suggested the former Twitter executive …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: the US DOJ is preparing a potential fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried and others, examining USD sent to the Bahamas around FTX's bankruptcy filing — US prosecutors, laying the groundwork for a potential fraud case against Sam Bankman-Fried and others involved in the collapse …
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| Dara Kerr / The Markup: |
Uber's slow response to law enforcement requests and a complex request process are leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks by riders using fake accounts — An investigation by The Markup found that Uber is slow to respond to law enforcement requests, leaving drivers vulnerable to repeated attacks
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| Adam Rawnsley / Rolling Stone: |
Ex-staffers say Twitter's mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics — Elon's mass firing of security staff and increased reliance on automation is going to make it easier for tyrants to shout …
Tweets: @arawnsley, @mmasnick, and @fryan
| Kit Rees / Bloomberg: |
The subpar performance of FAANG stocks, which account for more than 10% of the S&P 500 weighting, will be a big drag on the market in the coming years — For some investors, this year's rout in high-flying technology stocks is more than a bear market: It's the end of an era for a handful …
Tweets: @scottlincicome, @markets, and @andres_leal7
| Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal: |
How AI-based natural language processing algorithms can be applied to biological data to create protein-language models and cut drug discovery time to months — Natural language processing algorithms like the ones used in Google searches and OpenAI's ChatGPT promise to slash the time required to bring medications to market
Tweets: @_karenhao
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FTC antitrust officials seeking to block Microsoft's Activision deal are potentially more concerned about the future of cloud gaming than console exclusives — Microsoft Corp.'s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. has focused attention on the decades-old paradigm … Sponsor Posts
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