hi adrian, exactly: it's the missing liability that makes all this so profitable. the EU could change that just by snapping its fingers! if mr. freedom-of-speech zuckerberg SUCCESSFULLY blocked sarah wynn-williams's publication of "careless people" (at least in the USA), anyone can do it, right?! ✊ jon
Am 25.01.2026 16:31 schrieb "Goldman, Adrian" <[email protected]>: I think it really depends on use case. It’s extremely good at removing english language mistakes, for instance. But at heart it’s a statistical model, right? What word is likely to follow ‘what’ in a sentence about ChatGPT, for instance. Like my last. The likelihood of painterly is very close to zero, but is, word, token have all got high probabilities. So for things it should be good at - it really is good. That doesn’t include facts: the intersection of words with the world. chatgpt5 does facts slightly better than chatgpt2. I remember asking it for sonnets and 2 hadn’t got a concept of sonnet - but 3+ do. You’ll get 14 lines in one of the classic sonnet rhyme patterns in iambic pentameter. But don’t worry it’s going to take over the world. Sam Altman says so. <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jan/25/sam-altman-openai> [4992.jpg] Sam Altman’s make-or-break year: can the OpenAI CEO cash in his bet on the future?<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jan/25/sam-altman-openai> theguardian.com<https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jan/25/sam-altman-openai> You know the real problem with the enshitification of the internet is legal liability. If meta, OpenAI, Google, TikTok, x etc had the same legal liabilities as publishers, they would stop producing and distributing crap because otherwise they would be sued out of existence. Adrian Sent from my iPhone On 25 Jan 2026, at 16:24, Harry Powell <[email protected]> wrote: I read this yesterday - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/latest-chatgpt-model-uses-elon-musks-grokipedia-as-source-tests-reveal And this (and similar articles) a while back - https://grokipediawiki.com/analysis/plagiarism-scandal-investigation/ These don’t inspire me to use either. Harry On 25 Jan 2026, at 13:17, Hughes, Jon <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: hi, there has been much talk of using AI to write code for us and of it making the world better. people in this group have their own opinions regarding alphafold, for example, but at a much simpler level, i just asked chatGTP something about electrical power generation: his/her/their answer finally included, ""Interpretation per joule: 4–12 €cents per kWh equals 4–12 × 10⁻⁶ € per joule, since 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ". well, we all make mistakes, right?! cheers, jon ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
