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Shouldn't the govs and laws be immune to this?

Is temperature or even temperature variance not a problem for wood?

I guess with project of this importance, one cannot have anything else than fixed release date, even if the scope is dynamic. A bit like Olympic Games hosts are decided several years in advance (Salt Lake City 2034).

The whole point (or at least the main point) of the tax paperwork is to be able to produce them to tax investigators. If you don't want to share anything, then it's easier not to do the accounting. Which I guess is severally illegal globally.

> the team tested it on 20 million prompts given to Gemini. Half of those prompts were routed to the SynthID-Text system and got a watermarked response, while the other half got the standard Gemini response. Judging by the “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” feedback from users, the watermarked responses were just as satisfactory to users as the standard ones.

Three comments here:

1. I wonder how many of the 20M prompts got a thumbs up or down. I don't think people click that a lot. Unless the UI enforces it. I haven't used Gemini, so I might be unaware.

2. Judging a single response might be not enough to tell if watermarking is acceptable or not. For instance, imagine the watermarking is adding "However," to the start of each paragraph. In a single GPT interaction you might not notice it. Once you get 3 or 4 responses it might stand out.

3. Since when Google is happy with measuring by self declared satisfaction? Aren't they the kings of A/B testing and high volume analysis of usage behavior?

> It has also open-sourced the tool and made it available to developers and businesses, allowing them to use the tool to determine whether text outputs have come from their own large language models (LLMs), the AI systems that power chatbots. However, only Google and those developers currently have access to the detector that checks for the watermark.

These two sentences next to each other don't make much sense. Or are misleading.

Yeah. I know. Only the client is open source and it calls home.

Interesting. So is this what differentiates us from all the animals?

(See^^^)

Don't give up. There are still 5 or 6 years in the decade. We are not even half way through.

Europarlament too?

Nice read.

I guess the article could be called Falsehoods Programmers Assume of Programming Language Syntaxes.

I have been to a on orthodontist office which didn't have any iMac.

I wouldn't apply this observation to judge if the product makes sense

Not sure. Hardly anyone would remember if Streisand was a singer or actor or whoever. Now her name is mostly tied to Streisand effect, not the art she had produced.

TIL. Apparently "sideshow" means blocking the whole traffic (one way) to have illegal street racing or burning tires, etc.

It's from April and he didn't get any response in either SO or the mailing list?

Germany is self-blaming only to some extent or for some definitions of this notion.

Yes, they are well aware of what happened in 1930s and that there was Hitler, etc.

And still they conveniently fail to see any connection with today times. It is some unclearly defined Nazis who took over the control of Germany and did all the killings and destroyed a few countries around. But not anyone's grandfather was involved. And supposedly the companies which built their wealth on slave work and death of thousands continue to prosper.