New Twitter features and ChatGPT’s evil cousin
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As Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced, there will soon be new options for influencers on the platform to monetize content. An expansion of the “Super Follow” concept is planned. Creators from the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia can then make special content such as long videos, special tweets, long texts and live conversations available to their fans for a fee. The influencers can choose monthly contributions between 2.99 and 9.99 US dollars.
Of course, at the end of the day, it’s all about Twitter wanting to make some money too. However, in the first twelve months, 30 percent of the income goes exclusively to Apple or Google – depending on the operating system that the influencers use. If this fee is reduced to 15 percent after a year, Twitter then wants to start with “small amounts”. However, exact numbers are not yet known.
Artificial intelligence does not always have to be useful. This is now proven by an AI chatbot that, like the OpenAI product, is based on GPT and bears the beautiful name ChaosGPT. The goals of the program are clearly defined: First, humanity is to be destroyed and, second, the world is to be conquered. Also, thirdly, it wants to create chaos, and fourthly, it wants to steadily improve, fifthly, to control humanity. The artificial intelligence does not seem to have noticed that point 1 and point 5 contradict each other.
The program is said to be designed to ignore users’ wishes and instead perform chaotically malicious actions. For example, the user’s bank account could be hacked to the request “write a poem!” instead. According to experts, the best way to stop malicious AI is to not use it and thus not help it learn.
Just in time for Easter there is news of a resurrection of a different kind: The crypto exchange FTX, which had to file for bankruptcy after a serious fraud scandal in autumn 2022, could possibly not be sold and dissolved, but continued. The company announced this before the bankruptcy court in Delaware. This statement alone caused the price of the FTX token to skyrocket again.
As the new CEO John Ray announced, it could be more profitable for customers if the stock market continued than if the assets were liquidated and the company sold. For a new start, however, the crypto company probably needs some seed capital, which is to be spent through debt financing and the aforementioned assets of at least 7.3 billion US dollars. However, a final decision on this is not expected before mid-2024.
In the US state of Massachusetts, a Gamestop employee was fired because he leaked on Reddit that there would be a special edition of the switch console for the new Zelda part. On the day that Nintendo released the first gameplay of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the self-confessed fan of the series posted information on Reddit that indicated that a special edition of the console would soon be available for pre-order. While that happened just days before the official announcement, it was enough for the employee to lose his job two weeks later. Even the gaming group Nintendo is said to have turned itself on to arrange for his termination. The employee states that he was not aware that he was violating his employer’s guidelines with the leak.
The AI ​​bot ChatGPT has been blocked in Italy for data protection reasons since the end of March. The competent authority has now presented the operator OpenAI with a catalog of requirements that must be met before approval can be given. Among other things, there should be an age check so that no minors under the age of 13 can play around with the AI. The authority also wants the type of data processing to be made transparent. Both users and non-users should also be able to exercise rights to their personal data. This is the case, for example, when the AI ​​spreads misinformation about it.
Italy isn’t the only country wanting to restrict ChatGPT. In Canada, too, the government is now dealing with data protection issues relating to the program.
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