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ChatGPT is a real head scratcher. Today I prompted it for DoD- and NSA-grade Linux security, it gave me some good info for extreme security configurations. Then it asked me if I wanted it as an Ansible playbook.

The result? The 85-line configuration file it provided wouldn't have even passed compliance to a Level 1 CIS Benchmark.

Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
From https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472068-revealed-how-the-uk-tech-secretary-uses-chatgpt-for-policy-advice/
These records show that Kyle asked ChatGPT to explain why the UK’s small and medium business (SMB) community has been so slow to adopt AI. ChatGPT returned a 10-point list of problems hindering adoption, including sections on “Limited Awareness and Understanding”, “Regulatory and Ethical Concerns” and “Lack of Government or Institutional Support”.
Apparently it didn't say "because it's unhelpful and probably harmful to most SMB problems" or "what on earth are you doing asking a computer this you fool?".

#GPT #ChatGPT #AI #UKPol #policy #BadIdeas
New Scientist · Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy adviceBy Chris Stokel-Walker

These are not serious people, and they do not understand the technological world they have been voted in to regulate. The Tech Bros will just dangle shiny things in front of these unserious politicians and there goes our Future.

"Oh Chat GPT, which podcasts should I go on? I could ask a human being with a mind, but instead I'll ask Fancy Autocorrect for the most likely answer that I want to hear"

"#ChatGPT, for instance, incorrectly identified 134 articles, but signaled [sic] a lack of confidence just fifteen times out of its two hundred responses, and never declined to provide an answer. With the exception of #Copilot—which declined more questions than it answered—all of the tools were consistently more likely to provide an incorrect answer than to acknowledge limitations"

#GenerativeAI

cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared

Columbia Journalism ReviewAI Search Has A Citation ProblemWe Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

#OpenAI is teaching #ChatGPT to spew out #MAGA loyalty signals like ”All lives matter” in response to #BlackLivesMatter. ”Avoiding moral authority” in questions like Palestine. Teaching it that ”it’s a complicated question” is the wrong answer to nonsense constructions aimed to discredit a minority

USA is the wrong place to build a machine that will steer the intellectual development of the coming human race

It’ll come on the side of soft eugenics & false equivalencies

techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/open

TechCrunch · OpenAI tries to 'uncensor' ChatGPT | TechCrunchOpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace "intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be," the