Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

BBC Analysis: Over half of LLM-generated news summaries have "significant issues"

>Fifty-one percent of responses were judged to have "significant issues" in at least one of these areas, the BBC found. Google Gemini fared the worst overall, with significant issues judged in just over 60 percent of responses, while Perplexity performed best, with just over 40 percent showing such issues.
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>Accuracy ended up being the biggest problem across all four LLMs, with significant issues identified in over 30 percent of responses (with the "some issues" category having significantly more). That includes one in five responses where the AI response incorrectly reproduced "dates, numbers, and factual statements" that were erroneously attributed to BBC sources. And in 13 percent of cases where an LLM quoted from a BBC article directly (eight out of 62), the analysis found those quotes were "either altered from the original source or not present in the cited article."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/bbc-finds-significant-inaccuracies-in-over-30-of-ai-produced-news-summaries/
@techtakes

The Onion: Democrats Blocked From Entering Capitol Building Due to 'Push' Door Labeled 'Pull'
https://midwest.social/post/23088963
#TheOnion

Longest title in the world says it all:
"A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google"

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-2023-study-concluded-captchas-are-a-tracking-cookie-farm-for-profit-masquerading-as-a-security-service-that-made-us-spend-819-billion-hours-clicking-on-traffic-lights-to-generate-nearly-usd1-trillion-for-google/

#Trump addressed the drought in arrival by ordering the completely pointless release of two dams.

Fortunately, he made sure to be shown on TV doing it.

https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/113948144811289107

Elon Musk Is The Biggest Loser From Trump’s Tariffs So Far

"Tesla stock declined 5%, the largest percentage loss of the 46 American public companies valued at $200 billion or more."

"The dip knocked $11.8 billion off of the net worth of Musk, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list, by far the biggest loss of any billionaire; Musk is Tesla’s largest individual shareholder with a 13% stake and a further 9% equity bonus awaiting appeal."

"Tesla shares tanked as much as 7.5% in the morning, touching their lowest intraday level since Jan. 2."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2025/02/03/elon-musk-is-the-biggest-loser-from-trumps-tariffs-so-far/
@politics

Elon Musk as a gamer
https://awful.systems/post/3388357

Elon Musk as a gamer
https://awful.systems/post/3388357

Here's the original first Pixelfed post from Xmas 2018. Like and share at will...

I personally am not much impressed by #Musk's salute. Not so much inconsistent with his other behaviour. But I am appalled by all those investors in Tesla Motors, who are unwilling to divest after this event. They are basically declaring that to them the risk of #nazism is not worth a profit loss (which I think would be fair to estimate at <5% of their portfolio).

Phone manufacturer ethical leaderboard
https://feddit.bg/post/15581