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Sellers on Shopee, TikTok call out auto-generated AI ads that mislead customers(channelnewsasia.com)
1 points by ahonhn 23d ago|1 comments
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While government reviews aged care algorithm, waitlists are growing(abc.net.au)
2 points by ahonhn 25d ago|0 comments
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by ahonhn 28d ago
Computers ruining lives with wrong or misleading output has always been a thing, consider e.g. the Post Office scandal in the UK or Robodebt in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal http
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NTU to stop using 'fundamentally unreliable' AI detector from 2027(channelnewsasia.com)
2 points by ahonhn 1mo ago|0 comments
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Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated(abc.net.au)
157 points by ahonhn 1mo ago|129 comments
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by ahonhn 2mo ago
But wouldn't the text it generates reflect such motivations and emotions that were present in the training data?
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Copyright law is now the biggest battleground in Australia's AI boom(abc.net.au)
4 points by ahonhn 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ahonhn 4mo ago
Decades later I still have better muscle memory for the Beeb's typical ZX*? ( and ELITE's SX<> ) than I do for WASD or arrow keys.
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Billionaire Andrew Forrest takes Meta to court over scam ads using his likeness(abc.net.au)
3 points by ahonhn 5mo ago|1 comments
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by ahonhn 7mo ago
A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I thought it was Washington". Should it be
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Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras(abc.net.au)
15 points by ahonhn 7mo ago|14 comments
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Scammers fleeced pensioner out of $1,338. So he sued his bank for $379M(abc.net.au)
8 points by ahonhn 7mo ago|2 comments
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High school students forced to fight false allegations of AI cheating(abc.net.au)
1 points by ahonhn 9mo ago|0 comments
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by ahonhn 1y ago
This mention of verbs reminds me of Steve Yegge's blog post "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" from 2006. https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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by ahonhn 1y ago
I am happy to anthropomorphise a rock with googly eyes. It is when the rock with googly eyes starts to anthropomorphise itself that I get creeped out.
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Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google(abc.net.au)
122 points by ahonhn 1y ago|114 comments
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Murdoch University student fights accusation of illegal AI use in assignment(abc.net.au)
7 points by ahonhn 1y ago|3 comments
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by ahonhn 1y ago
I often remember something I posted and wish nobody had ever seen it.
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by ahonhn 1y ago
I stopped using a mouse when I moved from desktop to laptop computer because I found the touchpad is so much more convenient for keeping my hand near the keyboard. However, doing this for over 20 years means I'm now very stuck in my ha
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by ahonhn 1y ago
Common practice was to increment line numbers by 10 instead of 1. Would give a bit of wiggle room to add more lines in later without having to renumber everything else.
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by ahonhn 2y ago
WinAmp's yellow lightning icon is still sitting happily in my Windows icon tray right this very moment. Pageant is in there too with its cute little spy-hat :-)
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by ahonhn 2y ago
I had SAS/C which came on 5 or 6 floppies and my A2000 had no hard disk at the time so compiling meant lots and lots of disk swapping and I used the RAM Disk a lot. Later, for a princely sum I recall being over a grand, I got a SCSI co
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by ahonhn 2y ago
I threw out a 17" Trinitron last year. It had outlived all of the flatscreens bought to replace it and was still working, but after ~23 years the plastic casing was dangerously brittle. It left a trail of little bits of broken plastic
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by ahonhn 2y ago
Very. In simple terms there's just a lot more of Brazil to deal with. Brazil is a massive 8,514,215 km2 while Singapore is just a tiny 734 km2 island which is very highly urbanised and developed and doesn't have a significant rura
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by ahonhn 2y ago
Had such inspections before whenever kena red zone here. As well as checking all these things the agent will advise on what to look out for. For example our unused plastic buckets in the bathroom are upside down so they don't accumulat
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Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished(troyhunt.com)
1723 points by ahonhn 3y ago|564 comments
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Singapore Android users to be blocked from installing certain unverified apps(channelnewsasia.com)
4 points by ahonhn 3y ago|1 comments
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Indeed, though I suspect many might first have learnt of it watching Blackadder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rNopZDwahg
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by ahonhn 3y ago
I'm reminded of the last page of "Orbitsville" (Bob Shaw, 1975). "In time even the flickering ships ceased to ply the trade lanes between the entrance portals, because there can be no reward for the traveller when depart
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by ahonhn 3y ago
Many cases of this happening in Singapore where people get tricked into installing malware. It feels like the banks have been going out of their way to make it hard if not impossible to use many services without installing their app now, so

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