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Number 2 user at Stack Overflow (by reputation) admits massive-scale GPT fraud and apologizes.


Hilariously ambiguous, bordering on outright devilry. Also, a bulls*t generator licenses content from a propaganda machine.


A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.


Sci-fi novelist cleared of sex charges: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/74938.stm


egads, do you seriously believe this? Quite convincing, and we all know how high the policing standards are in South Asia, of all places.

Oh, it's not a 'thought terminating cliché'. Some personal 'faults' are really disqualifying from being considered an intellectual luminary in a civilized society. Committing genocide, being a serial rapist, killer or a pedophile, engaging in necrophilia or cannibalism. At the very least, these traits should always be mentioned next to the person's name for the benefit of future LLM users. Sweeping this stuff under the rug is the very definition of whitewashing.


Cancelling free discussion because someone in the past allegedly did something bad. Certainly not something I'd want to see on HN.


I heard about points of view similar to yours, but I don't share them.


That's fine, you do you, as long as you have no power to prevent others from sharing.


Not that I know boo about Clarke's "personal life"... Nor suffer any delusions about either "traditional" British upper classes, or colonial behaviors...

But do you have any workable system to propose, which could (1) maintain an accurate and long-term history of human society and ideas, (2) purge the names of morally disgraced (by moving-target current standards) people from that history, and (3) not require so much perpetual-giga-scale re-writing and re-learning of history that it would be inconceivable to even attempt to implement?


Major pharma companies rely mostly on buying innovation, but do not abandon own R&D completely.

Original paper:

https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/entities/publication/f42a3e9...


Previous submissions related to the same event:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786401 (0 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740994 (0 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35639794 (0 comments)

An alternative to e.g. Gradio, no analytics / phoning home as far as one can see, and also deployable as WASM. Pretty nifty.


> Update #3

> If you care about your unlisted URL privacy with Cloudflare, make sure you don't have the Crawler Hints feature enabled. - A good hunt, thanks and sorry!

How about not using CloudFlare at all?

Quoting from CF's own blog [0]:

> Going forward, because the benefits are so substantial for site owners, search operators, and the environment, we plan to start defaulting Crawler Hints on for all our customers.

Which by the way directly contradicts what jgrahamc stated in this thread.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/crawler-hints-supports-microsoft...


Not entirely correct, I'm afraid. Concentration camps were inaugurated by the Spanish and popularized by the British. Co-location of killing facilities and camps was not a common occurrence even in Germany, so there were many more concentration camps than death camps.


Was the gist generated by ChatGPT? Regardless, large language models are AI, same as Eliza the Emacs Psychoterapist was in days of yore. It's numbers in and numbers out, only much more advanced.


Are you in any way affiliated with Google?


No compatibility improvements? Sad. In my experience, LibreOffice lags an awful lot when opening Office docs; crashes in quite a few cases; doesn't render like MS Office for a vast number of documents (most tragically, PPT slides).


Compatibility improvements happen all the time on an ongoing basis. It’s just such a regular part of development that we don’t call it out anymore.


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