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Except when they cite sources that do not say the thing that they attribute to the source, which is more often than not when I go to investigate sources.


That is also the case on Wikipedia, though. And it's not always trivial to rectify.


I have never myself seen a situation where cited sources on Wikipedia did not back it up where that fact wasn't already noticed and called out by someone else. It is a frequent and common occurrence with LLMs.


I have seen it noticed, called out in the talk page, and not rectified.

It's extraordinarily hit or miss. I've tried giving instructions to be concise, to only give high level answers, to not include breakdowns or examples or step-by-step instructions unless explicitly requested, and yet "What are my options for running a function whenever a variable changes in C#?" invariably results in a bloated list with examples and step-by-step instructions.

The only thing that changed in all of my experimentation with various saved instruction was that sometimes it prepended its bloated examples with "here's a short, concise example:".


Don't worry, I'm sure we can just keep handing out subprime mortgages like candy forever. Infinite growth, here we come!


It doesn't need to be effective, it needs to be a computerized excuse to go after more people. Whenever computers are used to target people, the output is always given far too much weight. Recently we had guns drawn on a child because a computer vision algorithm classified his doritos as a gun with a low confidence score, with explicit advice to only investigate further and not assume correctness. But that child still had multiple guns trained on them.

Take that, apply it to here, and it's clear that effectiveness would actually be counterproductive.


Only among consumers of conservative media, and they're not a majority of the US population.


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Ad hominem does not strengthen your argument.

It's more affluent than most other states. Most red states take more federal money than they give back. Maybe you should actually look at numbers rather than relying on memes and narratives.


The people I work with believe the government, the current administration is funding immigrants. Providing them with handlers who are paid to assist them, open up credit cards in their own names on behalf of non-citizens who otherwise couldn't.

Multiple of them believe this. One mentioned it, after she left I turned to my other coworker to say "that was some crazy stuff she was saying" only to be met with, "Hey, it's happening. A lot of federal money goes missing and this is exactly where it's going."

It's a complete disconnect from reality that's malleable to any form desired.


When ICE raided Tyson Chicken (a few years ago), multiple workers provided documentation from Tyson telling them how to stay under the radar and how to fill out paperwork if they were undocumented. There's definitely a very large effort in undocumented labor... and little interest in rocking the boat of those employers.


Yes. The USA runs on undocumented work in many ways. This is a far, far, far (etc) cry from government-funded citizens escorting around and signing up for lines of credit and otherwise paying the way for undocumented workers.


They said that they enjoy being forced to be offline as an escape from the world, none of that has any implications of Others.


Exactly


We do that incredibly often just to refer to only one part of an incredibly broad concept of "science." Sometimes they get unique terms like "physics" or "chemistry," but not always. This is not a rule that can accurately be applied to all terms matching the pattern "____ science."


Wait…so you’re saying computer science isn’t science? /s


Zen is an incredibly thin layer on top of Firefox, with some rather glaring performance and battery life issues. Battery life in particular was already not one of Firefox's strong suits. It looks nice, there's some interesting and useful ideas there, but Zen is ultimately "just Firefox" the same way that all of these AI browsers are "just Chromium." Ladybird's the only new kid on the block for a decade.


Didn't mean to position Zen as an alternative to Firefox, just that it adds viability to recommending a non-chromium browser cause it has nicer usability than the competition (imo, + arc was a pretty big hit before they pivoted but of course every YC start up was encouraged to use it so that might have helped with the hipness)


GGP used the term "minors," GP is running with the typo.


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