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Professor Lisa Given, director of RMIT University’s Centre for Human-AI Information Environments, said the Reuters findings were unsurprising because “most of these tools are being designed without a view to potential harms and the need for those kinds of safety controls”.

That’s basically the history of the Internet. The vast majority of security, privacy and safety mechanisms have been bolted on after the fact. Not only should tech companies know better by now, but they are deliberately exploiting the human need for connection. So-called AI is even worse since many LLMs are borderline sycophantic and there is no easy way to filter out all the adult or dangerous content from them without rebuilding the model from scratch using a carefully curated dataset.

On another note, it will be very interesting to see what X does about Grok… It would almost be funny if the platform ended up blocked here.

You don’t say…

Yeah… me too.

I don’t quite understand all the downvotes unless people aren’t reading the post? I get that nobody wants a LLM to be writing drivers, but this article is basically a “let’s see if it can do it” - sharing the author’s experience and results (which he pretty much says not to use at the end)! It’s still an interesting read to see how the technology performs at this task and the number of hoops the author had to jump through to get any kind of functional result.

Frustratingly this is not just affecting the current generation of devices, but the previous one too. DDR4 RAM (which I use in my desktop) has gone up 300% since I bought it a few years ago.

Here’s hoping that nobody needs to replace current or previous gen hardware if it breaks in the next 2 years…