Wandering Adventure Party

@cstross just to point out that Linux, Android and other things have a VPN built in so the results will actually be even more idiotic.
It will also stop trans kids using Tor to get info, something I am sure labour think is a huge win

@briankrebs I think we can be sure the mandatory CBP app for the application won't be trustable either and could well be backdooring your device.

Canada needs to apply the same rule to every truck crossing the border, especially to/from Alaska and searching each one for fentanyl or russian contraband.

@dan @larsmb @jzb That's not really an LLM problem though - that's a very targetted problem being solved using an LLM as a large hammer, and a hammer that makes mistakes where formal methods and formal method dervied tools do not in general do

As to "find the plausible stack overflow answer and copy-paste it, changing the names", part of my job at Intel was catching people doing this and dropping them in the shit. Automated versus wilful human copyright violation

@larsmb @jzb Agreed. I used the word "generally" for a reason. There are plenty of cases where both are appropriate parts of treatment.

@jzb an interesting comparison is a 1970s show about the rise of the microprocessor ue 8080 that then had a discussion. The one person arguing it was good was the unions rep who correctly argued it would automate a load of tedious stuff and enable other work.
The difference this time is that generative AI doesn't do useful work Neural nets do and boring uses of the tech but not LLMs.

@katemorley VHS something in the video player is shaking the ship

@Arthfach @Purple Containers was quite deliberate. On one side there were programmers going "ooh this will make our life easier" and on the management side everyone was like "excellent, we can replace all the dev people with low wage mcjobs"

That one was earned and served the management right

@atomicpoet Would also useful if it gave credible answers and provided references. That would also fix the copyright mess because it can spend it's time replying "According to Foobar <cite 1984> the claim is incorrect" without spewing forth the copyrighted work.