Nobody cares about "AI" (Chatbot: I disagree.)

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I stopped using The Weather Channel app many, many years ago - as in like, back in the iPod Touch days - because of ad spam. It has just gotten worse ever since. Most recently, they've started using some LLM or other to inject useless "relatable commentary" fluff into their weather forecasts and it's just terrible, lol.

 

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Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models

Silicon Valley and Washington are debating a multibillion-dollar question: Should American companies be able to use Chinese artificial-intelligence models?

OpenAI and Anthropic executives are sounding the alarm about the rise of cheap AI, particularly powerful new models produced in China, suggesting they will lead to a “dystopian” AI future and present unacceptable security risks without regulation.

Some analysts who study the AI industry say the two companies, which are preparing for public listings in the next year, just want to eliminate the competition.

That doesn't sound like how an American tech company would behave, does it?

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It's Official: AI Execs Are Quaking in Their Boots

Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic are sounding alarm at the latest threat in the form of a powerful Chinese open-weight AI model.

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