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Comment Re:Somebody blew it (Score 1) 45

It was impressive! It was a mostly decentralized communications app where calls were routed over clients that were promoted to supernodes meaning it didn't have a huge bandwidth, but then weirdly eBay bought it and it didn't really fit into eBay's business model so it languished for a while to a time where that technology didn't really work and wasn't needed

Comment Re:Okay... (Score 5, Insightful) 34

So some random unknown app was hacked that used to be used by a guy who was already fired for being insecure

Let's be clear here - he wasn't fired for being insecure, he was fired because people found out he was being insecure and it was becoming too much of a distraction from all the crimes against humanity the administration was trying to do. According to Trump, he wasn't even fired, he was promoted to UN Ambassador

Comment Re:Already Using Lots of Bots (Score 1) 40

Sounds like you're not familiar with the latest generation of LLMs. They've come a long way in the past 5 years so it might be worth giving them another try. If you're not yet taking advantage of them I would encourage you to as they're a really useful tool

Comment Already Using Lots of Bots (Score 5, Interesting) 40

Wikipedia already uses lots of bots to update formatting fight vandalism, etc. It would be crazy if they avoided using newer technology to help improve the site.

I would assume that any informational changes would still come from (or at least be reviewed by) humans or there wouldn't be much point to it existing over just using the AI tools directly

Comment Re:We shouldn't be surprised (Score 1) 32

It's always astounding there are people on slashdot saying stuff like this. Guess it comes down to one or more of the following
1. They don't understand the technology - usually see people comparing LLMs to Markov generators and the like
2. They've never used the technology or seen demonstrations by third parties
3. They're unable to consider uses. Even if you can only imagine LLMs being bullshit generators, there's a huge demand for bullshit of different types.
4. They're afraid of the technology and don't want to admit it exists

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