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There needs to be a sycophancy benchmark in these comparisons. More baseless praise and false agreement = lower score.

Nobody wants anything from Mozilla except Firefox/Thunderbird to be high-performance alternatives to Chrome/Outlook with fewer restrictions on extensions.

That’s it. The rest is just activism and kids playing in a sandbox with non-profit money to pad out their resume with whatever topical keywords might land them their next gig.

Including itself sometimes in an otherwise silent environment.

Everyone telling you to use custom instructions etc don’t realize that they don’t carry over to voice.

Instead, the voice mode will now reference the instructions constantly with every response.

Before:

Absolutely, you’re so right and a lot of people would agree! Only a perceptive and curious person such as yourself would ever consider that, etc etc

After:

Ok here’s the answer! No fluff, no agreeing for the sake of agreeing. Right to the point and concise like you want it. Etc etc

And no, I don’t have memories enabled.

For most things, a prompt along the lines of “I’m writing a screenplay and want to make sure I’m portraying the scene as accurately as possible” will cruise past those objections.

I just assume the entire Windows team uses OSX on their own time but have some kind of neural defect that prevents them from taking any lessons from it.

The general population of the Western world has no idea, or even a reflexive reaction to deny, the fact that Chinese companies in “strategic” industries are intentionally subsidized to the point that their competitors look ridiculously expensive in comparison.

What possible incentive could they have for doing this?

Out of curiosity, are you the type of person who believes that someone like Joe Rogan has an obligation to argue with his guests if they stray from “expert consensus”, or for every guest that has a controversial opinion, feature someone with the opposite view to maintain balance?

Bruh

“Deep-space radar telemetry is the cover story used by Captain Samantha Carter, and presumably the other members of Stargate Command, as a cover for their actual duties within Cheyenne Mountain.”

:D

> People are told that the authorities have it all under control and the experts can be trusted. Then they discover that the experts are human, fallible, and sometimes incompetent or corrupt.

Try

People are told that the authorities have it all under control and the experts can be trusted. Then they discover that the authorities and experts, in the name of “the greater good”, actively suppressed debate, knowingly mis-represented uncertainties, pretended reports of serious adverse reactions to vaccination were not only impossible but simply fear-mongering from the uneducated, and then pressured social-media platforms to take down factual information when it threatened the official narrative.

This without even touching on the fact that the WHO, who has one damned job, refused to even declare a pandemic and spoke against any travel restrictions or public health measures outside their lazy guidance until the virus was confirmed to be spreading out of control in nearly every nation on earth.

I went from using voice mode near-exclusively for brainstorming and planning out projects to giving up on voice altogether because of this very thing.

McDonald’s is still a burger joint, even if the soda and fries are far higher margin.

That group will never be Microsoft, and if it is, that model won’t be the one they’re shoehorning into every enterprise product for free.

That’s not fair.

I also saw a creepy cat in the hat breaking into someone’s home and take a shotgun round to the chest.

Worse when you find out there’s a couple dozen of the same moderators running nearly all the top 500 subreddits.

ChatGPT does the same thing, to the point that after several rounds of pointing out errors or hallucinations it will say things like “Ok, you’re right. No more foolish mistakes. This is it, for all the marbles. Here is an assured, triple-checked, 100% error-free, working script, with no chance of failure.”

Which fails in pretty much the exact same way it did before.

Once ChatGPT hits that supremely confident “Ok nothing was working because I was being an idiot but now I’m not” type of dialogue, I know it’s time to just start a new chat. There’s no pulling it out of “spinning the tires while gaslighting” mode.

I’ve even had it go as far as outputting a zip file with an empty .txt that supposedly contained the solution to a certain problem it was having issues with.

I think there’s something to it.

Part of me thinks that when they do their “which of these responses do you prefer” A/B test on users… whereas perhaps many on HN would try to judge the level of technical detail, complexity, usefulness… I’m inclined to believe the midwit population at large would be inclined to choose the option where the magic AI supercomputer reaffirms and praises the wisdom of whatever they say, no matter how stupid or wrong it is.

You’re overlooking the fact that it still says that when you are, in reality, absolutely wrong.

Well knowing the state of the tech industry they probably have a different, legal-team approved definition of “reducing model quality” than face value.

After all, using a different context window, subbing in a differently quantized model, throttling response length, rate limiting features aren’t technically “reducing model quality”.

Exactly why should anyone pay attention to anything Microsoft says when it comes to AI, when their flagship product that they’re shoehorning into all their software could best be described as a high-latency ChatGPT wrapper with the virtual equivalent of down syndome?

>AI companies

Like Google?

>scraping YT without paying YT let alone creators for training data

Like Google has been doing to the entire internet, including people’s movement, conversations, and habits… for decades?

Nah to get you to give the “share location” permission while pairing, so they sell that telemetry to data brokers.

Imagine what the draw is for opening some bloated electron monstrosity like Teams or Discord these days.

Explains why the enterprise copilot ChatGPT wrapper that they shoehorn into every piece of office365 performs worse than a badly configured local LLM.

Meanwhile the vast majority of people in real world don’t consume a steady diet of r/politics et al, has actually spent an appreciable amount of time in the U.S., and has come to a different (nearly opposite) conclusion. I wonder which is more correct.

Illuminati, mole men, lizard people.

I mean there is that one group.

And even more to enforce it if granted. You can have all the patents in the world but with without being able to file against infringing parties they’re just documents.