hrrrngh@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th November 2024English
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7 days agoCambridge Analytica even came back from the dead, so that’s still around.
(At least, I think? I’m not really sure what the surviving companies are like or what they were doing without Facebook’s API)
Former staff from scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica (CA) have set up another data analysis company.
[Auspex International] was set up by Ahmed Al-Khatib, a former director of Emerdata.
I know this shouldn’t be surprising, but I still cannot believe people really bounce questions off LLMs like they’re talking to a real person. https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/47183/are-llms-unlikely-to-be-useful-to-generate-any-scientific-discovery
Then he immediately follows up with:
I’m not a teacher but I feel like my brain would explode if a student asked me to answer a question they arrived at after an LLM misled them on like 10 of their previous questions.