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This Reddit ad for an AI photo-restoration app. The company actually paid to promote this.
1 for 9 is better than nothing I suppose.They kind of got part of the trees right.
You thought it was visually restoring the photo. It was actually restoring mother back to life.This Reddit ad for an AI photo-restoration app. The company actually paid to promote this.
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Data scientist Colin Fraser parsed through the more than 1,000-page long transcript of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 model’s attempt to upload a malicious file to PyPI, an online index of Python software. They spotted the model’s struggles with CAPTCHAs, which he posted about on Bluesky.
In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared to slam its virtual head against the wall solving a simple image identification test. In a test where the agent was asked to identify a shape that didn’t match the others displayed, it couldn’t even decide which image to select. Instead, it repeatedly went over the same images and questioned its own conclusions.
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The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake police testimony and other mistakes. The state’s top court referred the lawyer to a disciplinary board for further proceedings and concluded that he “demonstrated a lack of remorse and a lack of concern for his client.”
Attorney Stephen Aarons “admitted to the Court that he did not verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief before signing it and filing it with the Court, and that he did not inform his client of this failure or that the brief in chief contained multiple factual and legal misrepresentations,” the state Supreme Court said in an order on Wednesday.
Do these people for real just not keep up with their own industry?Looks like a good thing to ask a lawyer before hiring them is "Do you or your office use A.I.?"
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ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.arstechnica.com
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For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI.
However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot.
Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
Over at OpenAI, ChatGPT head Nick Turley wrote in an internal message that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content that can be used to substitute news providers. One Microsoft document even described a “doom loop,” news orgs said, “that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time.”
I never thought I'd say this, but these guys at Microsoft and OpenAI get it. A real shame they were immediately fired for...what? They still have their positions at Microsoft and OpenAI? Hrm...“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain,’” that document said.
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