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jddj writes:
A Toronto Mom says the recently "upgrade" of a Grok AI chatbot that Tesla installed in her vehicle steered a chat about soccer stars Ronaldo and Messi to a request for the child to send nude photos.
When CBC asked Tesla about the incident, they got no response, however xAI sent what appeared to be an automated response of "Legacy Media Lies".
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jddj writes:
GitHub (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2F), the Microsoft-owned repository popular with all sorts of open-source projects, is about to require that those project repositories accept Copilot-written issues.
The concerns are that AI-written issues could be numerous, beyond what a project is staffed to handle, perhaps adding millions of issues to a backlog (in that there's _always_ something you could do better), that AI-Written issues will be no better than the AI slop polluting search results, perhaps often hallucinated, and that AI-written issues will become de-facto DoS attacks, as was seen with curl recently.
There is no opt-out, and Copilot is prevented from being blocked by repo managers.
The anger is fierce and widespread, with commenters suggesting that any such feature be opt-in, and that Copilot-generated issues be filterable.
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jddj writes:
The Next Web reports on a hilarious design failure built into Cisco's 3650 and 3850 Series switches, which TNW terms "A Network Engineer's Worst Nightmare". By plugging in a hooded Ethernet cable, you...well, you'll just have to see the picture and laugh.
