OK, so Mythos finds really challenging security bugs, right? That’s why it’s cordoned off from the hoi polloi, to protect the world from such a powerful finder of exploits.
I am skeptical of the reasons given publicly, I suspect it’s really just so much more expensive to operate than their current models that they don’t want to offer it broadly, yet, given the difficulty they’ve had growing capacity to keep up with use.
Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots 'are not your friends' and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]
Big Tech is a thief and a liar, says New York Times publisher - strip-mine news websites without permission and repackage these stolen goods as their own
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EEG study from MIT found that people who wrote essays with ChatGPT showed the weakest brain connectivity of any group, and when later asked to write unaided, their brains stayed under-engaged compared to people who never used AI.
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