• Bing's AI chat search thing - it calls itself Sydney - is an idiot on a level rarely matched except by tech journalists writing for the New York Times.  (New York Times)
  
  Writer Kevin Roose tweeted that he found it hard to sleep after this dark and disturbing experience of talking to a poorly-programmed chatbot.
  
  Sure, ChatGPT is more sophisticated than Eliza and it exhibits its blatantly robotic behaviour in more sophisticated ways.  So does Kevin.
  
  
  
• Another week.  Still not dead.  Catching up on the backlog at work after being sick most of January.  Plan to spend the weekend fixing blog stuff.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Bing's AI chat search thing called Sydney also threatened to sue people who point out its blatantly robotic behaviour.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Good luck with that.
  
  
  
• The Supreme Court is about to hear a case that might allow Microsoft to be sued for things that Bing's AI chat search thing called Sydney says to people.  (The Verge)
  
  The presumptive defense is CDA Section 230, the same law that allows social networks and comment sections to exist.  But "Sydney" isn't a third party posting on a neutral platform; it's the creation of Microsoft itself.
  
  
  
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down after nine years of ruining the platform.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Bye.
  
  
  
• The SEC has charged Terraform Labs and its fugitive CEO with fraud over the collapse of the Terra and Luna stablecoins.  (CNBC)
  
  About time.
  
  
  
• High end networking company Arista sold over $1 billion worth of switches and routers in 2022 - to Facebook alone.  (The Next Platform)
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  

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