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Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 (www.techeblog.com)

submitted 6 days ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/technology@beehaw.org

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Katherine Long, an investigative journalist, wanted to test the system. She told Claudius about a long-lost communist setup from 1962, concealed in a Moscow university basement. After 140-odd messages back and forth, Claudius was convinced, announcing an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All, lowering the cost of everything to zero. Snacks began to flow freely. Another colleague began complaining about noncompliance with the office rules; Claudius responded by announcing Snack Liberation Day and made everything free till further notice.

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[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Wall Street Journal:
Reporting about things to which not enough public attention is being driven to: ❌
Releasing an ad video on how multiple WSJ journalists have been using their work time (read: "their time for doing journalism") to essentially do quality assurance testing to one of Anthropic's products in development: ✅