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Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen
  • We had a case in Canada where Air Canada was forced to give a customer a refund after its AI told him he was eligible for one, because the judge stated that Air Canada was responsible for what their AI said.

    So, maybe?

    I've seen some legal experts talk about how Google basically got away from misinformation lawsuits because they weren't creating misinformation, they were giving you search results that contained misinformation, but that wasn't their fault and they were making an effort to combat those kinds of search results. They were talking about how the outcome of those lawsuits might be different if Google's AI is the one creating the misinformation, since that's on them.

  • How Python Compares Floats and Ints: When Equals Isn’t Really Equal
  • In certain situations, it even disallows making assumptions about equality and ordering between floats.

    I'm guessing it does this when you define both floats in the same location with constant values.

    The correct way to compare floats whose values you don't know ahead of time is to compare the absolute of their delta against a threshold.

    i.e.

    abs(a - b) <= 0.00001

    The idea being that you can't really compare floats due to how they work. By subtracting them, you can make sure the values are "close enough" and avoid issues with precision not actually mattering all that much past the given threshold. If you define 2 constant values, though, the compiler can probably simplify it for you and just say "Yeah, these two should be the same value at runtime".

  • OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts
  • There's actually legal precedent against scrapping a website through unofficial channels, even if the information is public. But basically, if you scrape a website and hinder their ability to operate, it falls under "virtual trespassing".

    I'm assuming it would be even worse now that everyone is using the cloud and that scrapping their site would cause a noticeable increase in resource cost (and thus, directly cost them more money because of cloud usage fees).

    It's why APIs are such a big deal. They provide you with an official, controlled, entry point to a platform's data.

  • Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams
  • My favorite part about New Teams is when it kept telling me I was forced to move from Old Teams to New Teams because our IT department was pushing the update. Cut to everyone in IT being confused as fuck because no they fucking weren't.

  • Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024
  • I got a 13 Pro Max originally (because I liked big phones when I was using Android), and the weight and sharp edges just made it hurt my hand like hell. Got a 13 Pro instead, and I've been kind of wishing they kept the "Mini" lineup going the more I use it...

  • Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors
  • It's okay, even if if they wanted to nuke the world, they'd need to find which specific portal to log into, and even after inputing everything correctly there'd be around an hour before the servers actually processed the change request.

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