… In a post last week , the moderators of r/biohackers said they would be banning new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy HRT because of attempted manipulation by the companies that make, market, and sell them. r/Biohackers is a long-running subreddit about using supplements, experim… …
… They also suggest curtailing emotional manipulation by including options to “strip the chatbot of social and emotional layers” and avoiding “using any simulated distress, implied emotional neglect, or guilt-inducing language as default responses when users attempt to end conversations.” "When we th… …
… The fact that such small snippets of texts in even single comments can be used to ultimately trick LLMs raises questions about whether Reddit’s volunteer moderators or Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are going to be able to durably protect the communities they moderate and edit from AI manipulation o… …
… While wealthy tech evangelists like Sam Altman continue to make wild proclamations about how large language models LLMs are destined to do our jobs and raise our children, critics have compared Silicon Valley’s attempts to force dependence on chatbots to a mass-enfeebling event —an attempt to convi… …
… Crucially, Flock maintains a national lookup tool where agencies in one state can search data generated by cameras in another, even if those cameras are on the other side of the country. …