Dangers of Microsoft's Proprietary Products
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Activision Shutters ‘CoD’ Fan Servers, Which Were Better, More Secure Than The Official Servers
Here we go again. We’ve talked several times in the past about game publishers and studios going out of their way to shut down fan-run servers for online play. The excuses for doing so mostly amount to either claims that intellectual property laws require this sort of policing action (it doesn’t), that the publisher needs to shut down servers for older versions of games to get people to buy newer versions (objection: asserting facts not in evidence), and some just seem to want to play strongman for whatever reason.
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The poisoning of ChatGPT
The problem, in market terms, is that if buyers don’t have enough information to tell the two groups of goods apart—Akerlof worked with the used car market as a test case—they will price all goods as if they were potentially defective. The seller of the defective car gets more for it than if they were upfront—especially at the beginning before market dynamics kick in—but the seller of the non-defective car gets less. This drives the good sellers out of the market.
AI language models aren’t used goods. We don’t buy and sell language models on Etsy. But information asymmetry is still an issue because, as with the “lemon” cars, we have no way of telling a defective good from a non-defective one.
Except this time, the defects are security vulnerabilities and it looks like they are all quite defective.
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On the Poisoning of LLMs
Interesting essay on the poisoning of LLMs--ChatGPT in particular:
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They’ll also have to update their training data set at some point. They can't leave their models stuck in 2021 forever...
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Microsoft’s Healthcare AI Arm Announces Layoffs
Nuance Communications, a company working with AI for speech recognition has decided to hand over pink slips as it intends to focus on the healthcare sector.
As reported by Boston Globe, the company informed the employees through an internal memo.
While the exact number of impacted employees is not known, macroeconomic variables and inflationary pressures have seemingly made the company prioritise the core healthcare segment going forward.
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Why are Chinese hackers targeting Guam? [Ed: Why is Microsoft speaking on behalf of the US government now and why does Guam use Microsoft stuff with back doors in it?]
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US, Microsoft warn Chinese hackers attacking 'critical' infrastructure and Guam [Ed: Microsoft is at fault here, it's not a spokesperson on security matters.]
A state-sponsored Chinese hacking group has been spying on a wide range of US critical infrastructure organisations, from telecommunications to transportation hubs, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft MSFT.O said on Wednesday. China's foreign ministry on Thursday said the reports were a disinformation campaign initiated by the US.
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US, Microsoft warn Chinese hackers attacking ‘critical’ infrastructure as Beijing denies allegations [Ed: Stop distracting from the fact that Microsoft is at fault for making stuff with back doors]
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone
Surface Pro X owners are reporting that the cameras on their devices have stopped working this week.