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People are talking about Sam Altman’s declaration that “tens of millions of dollars” are being wasted due to users saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.

Beyond the headline is the fact that politeness influences responses and that users do plenty of other things that burn more money.

#AI#LLM#ChatGPT
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@nixCraft actually this screams "#GDPR & #BDSG violation" so loudly that even demanding #PII and espechally an #ID should get them sued by @noybeu and @Bundesverband ....

  • Cuz "#OpenAI" has neither "legitimate interest" nor a mandate to even demand to see an ID, much less to store and process it!

This isn't like a contractual agreement or some finance where one could argue "#KYC" is warranted "to combat #fraud"...

  • The only thing worse I've seen is some obscure company that brokers #bandwith with a hidden #proxy feature in #apps...

Via #LLRX @psuPete Recommends – Weekly highlights on #cybersecurity issues, 4/19/25 - 5 highlights from this week: Text Message# Scams Cost Consumers $470M in 2024, FTC Reports; Trump shifting #cybersecurity to states but many aren’t prepared; #HomelandSecurity #Email Tells US Citizen to ‘Immediately’ Self-Deport; #OpenAI Tightens Access As Evidence Mounts of AI Model Mimicry; #ICE Just Paid #Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations llrx.com/2025/04/pete-recommen

www.llrx.comPete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 19, 2025 – LLRX

#OpenAI #AI #LLM #AIErrors

"OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models."

techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/open

TechCrunch · OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more | TechCrunchOpenAI's reasoning AI models are getting better, but their hallucinating isn't, according to benchmark results.

En Guardian-analyse af virksomheds-registreringer viser 🇺🇸 #tech -moguler, der investerede i mineselskaber, der opererer i #Grønland 🇬🇱 med deres eget sæt planer for landet

... har investeret millioner i KoBold Metals, mineselskab i spidsen for Grønlands »moderne guldfeber« for sjældne mineraler, der er vigtige for tech-virksomheder, er #Meta, #OpenAI, #Amazon og andre Silicon Valley-moguler
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Trump donors eye potential bonanza if US succeeds with Greenland land-grabBy Tom Perkins

so JD Vance basically told the EU, he & Trump will destroy #NATO and sic #nuclear #bombs on them, if the union won’t let #Facebook #Meta #Google #Alphabet #Twitter #Xitter #Microsoft #OpenAI #Amazon #Apple and the Silicon Valley fascistocracy, traffic Europeans digitally and rob them of their lives & livelyhoods.
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because let me be clear: they aren't trafficking our "data". they are trafficking us.

turning humans into tradeable assets is a cornerstone of #slavery

Bluesky Social · emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)Van der Leyen addresses the threat of tariffs on digital services.