josourcing

>a slight alteration in the data they receive can lead to a wild change in outcomes.

In my experience, it's not the alteration that creates an unpredictable outcome; it's the lack of nuance. Accuracy requires an insane amount of details, and it appears that some people might be waking up to that fact that the brain is better suited to handle those nuances.

I work with NLP and have discovered advantages in leaving some decisions up to the person using AI rather than the computer. One advantage being accuracy :-).

If I hear you correctly, you're asking whether banning Windows is a secure, smart thing to do? And if I understand Windows correctly, the answer is hell yeah.

Not to hijack your thread or anything, but I just discovered Window's MSIX Packaging Tool takes snapshots of your desktop shortcuts (and other files) and then distributes them to complete strangers when you upload a package to Microsoft's store.

It's a reproducible phenomenon, too. Just pack something with this tool, right click the resulting .msix file, choose Extract with the Packaging tool, and then look at what's inside these three files:

UserClasses.dat User.dat Registry.dat

Those three files and all the content inside of them goes straight to Microsoft and the strangers who have access to your .msix package!

I asked about the same about a decade ago.

Haven't seen such a thing yet!

FWIW...

I experienced the same outcome due to an outsourced foreigner being unable to access my U.S.-only website. So Google's 150,000 foreigners are in charge of determining everyone's website visibility.

I smell GPT-3 (or 2 or 4 or whatever it is, it stinks).

>Presumably they have a web crawler of some sort.

Can confirm. Caught one of their bots on my site and called them out about it on Twitter.

They did not respond.

>you can host your own server!

If a person needs a server to figure out grammar, it's time to go back to school or crack open an English book.

I doubt this has anything to do with Russia. Sometimes, all it takes is a little common sense and curiosity to even ask about these things.

Or maybe the guy just read the TOS. Some people actually do that!

> Yes but if people are gravitating towards Grammerly it's because it's offering something those other ways aren't.

I disagree. Grammarly has bombarded the internet and YouTube with so many ads, there are ads that make fun of Grammarly ads.

Nevertheless, people don't use it because it offers something that others don't. They use it because they don't know any better.

Sam Altman is a Mark Zuckerberg wannabe.

It isn't. US copyright law says brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim

----> for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research <----, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.

Copilot is not criticizing, reporting, teaching, or researching anything. So claiming fair use is the result of total ignorance or disregard.