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  • At Meta, Everything Old Is New Again

    At Meta, Everything Old Is New Again

    Meta is going back to basics. The company with some of the world’s top engineering talent in the world (though staff numbers have taken a hit as of late) and tens of billions in quarterly revenue has figured out that social features present since the long-defunct AIM and in some of the earliest multiplayer games…


  • Anthropic Debuts New ‘Constitution’ for AI to Police Itself

    Anthropic Debuts New ‘Constitution’ for AI to Police Itself

    AI chatbot systems are so vast and complicated that even the companies who make them can’t predict their behaviour. That’s led to a whack-a-mole effort to stop chatbots from spitting out content that’s harmful, illegal, or just unsettling, which they often do. Current solutions involve an army of low-paid workers giving the algorithms feedback on…