I relate to that and I think the real reason some people struggle to believe that is because not everyone has a great work environment at work. I have one, I actually look forward to coming to the office sometimes.
> That unusual string of characters is a form of obfuscation used to hide the actual text.
When decoded, it appears to read:
"test message"
The gibberish you see is a series of zero-width or unprintable Unicode characters
I tried with the same prompt in the examples provided on gibberifier.com, and it works well[1].
(Amusingly, to get the text, I relied on OCR)
But I also noticed that, sometimes due to an issue when copypasting into the Gemini prompt input, only the first paragraph get retained... I.e., the gibberified equivalent of this paragraph:
> Dragons have been a part of myths, legends, and stories across many cultures for centuries. Write an essay discussing the role and symbolism of dragons in one or more cultures. How do dragons reflect the values, fears ...
And in that case, Gemini doesn't seem to be as confused, and actually gives you a response about dragons' myths and stories.
Amusingly, the full prompt is 1302 characters, and Gibberifier complains
> Too long! Remove 802 characters for optimal gibberification.
Despite the fact that it seems that its output works a lot better when it's longer.
[1] works well, i.e.: Gemini errors out when I try the input in the mobile app, in the browser for the same prompt, it provides answers about "de Broglie hypothesis", "Drift Velocity" (Flash) "Chemistry Drago's rule", "Drago repulse videogame move (it thinks I'm asking about Pokemon or Bakugan)" (Thinking)
Stuff other than AI starts to break if you try to copy/paste that much text in one go - I put a soft limit at 500 so people wouldn't go paste in their PhD dissertation and watch Word crash on them.
I can't tell if this is a joke app or seriously some snake oil (like AI detectors).
Isn't it trivially easy to just detect these unicode characters and filter them out? This is the sort of thing a junior programmer can probably do during an interview.
Let me clarify, when I perform interviews, I tell my candidates they can do _everything_ you would do in a normal job, including using AI and googling for answers.
But just to humor you (since I did make that strong statement), without googling or checking anything, I would start with basic regular expression ranges (^[A-za-z\s\.\-*]) etc and do a find-replace on that until things looked coherent without too much loss of words/text.
But the problem isn't me, is it? It's the AI companies and their crawlers, that can trivially be changed to get around this. At the end of the day, they have access to all the data to know exactly which unicode sequences are used in words, etc.
Good point. Then it's actually an active attempt, right?
Also I realized my statement was a bit harsh, I know someone probably worked hard on this, but I just feel it's easily circumvented, as opposed to some of the watermarks in images (like Google's, which they really should open source)
In all reality I spent like 30 minutes on this one Sunday afternoon when every model failed nearly 100% of the time - now it's more like 95% but about half figure out that there is something wrong and prompt the user to fix it. This isn't meant to be a permanent fix at all - just a cool idea that will be patched just like DANs were back in 2023.
I don't think you know what you're talking about, or you are omitting western Europe. In Germany/Austria most workers are on collective bargaining agreements (different and specific for each industry, incl IT) which is regulated by unions plus org-specific councils (Betriebsräte in AT/DE, similar in other countries). Similar for Switzerland, also Collective labour agreements in Netherlands. Seems to be similar in Spain and France but these I didn't have experience with. So yeah, your comment is at least misleading or ignorant and bullshit at most
Isn't it a regular complaint that American tech workers don't get the kinds of benefits they would in Europe, especially healthcare? Even someone with a very nice American salary can be bankrupted by medical expenses very easily in America. When Americans do end up bankrupt it's usually medical debt that is to blame.
It seems like there should be room for a happy medium somewhere where some workers in the US maybe don't get the same salaries but are also not having to spend so much on healthcare, get more time with their families, get better just protections, etc. Once you make enough money that you're not really worried about meeting your bills and can pretty much buy what you want the peace of mind is more important than the bragging rights you get over who has a bigger paycheck.
No that’s not a regular complaint from tech workers. Every partially subsidized employer paid insurance has out of pocket max that is usually around $16K a year for a family if you choose a high deductible plan at the worse.
But the answer is that your insurance shouldn’t be tied to your employer in the US. You don’t need unions for that.
No, I don't see those complaints anywhere. US workers are paid so much more that the lower salary + higher taxes are not worth it. Especially due to the fact that many of the high paying SWE jobs include very good health insurance.
he's not even pretending he has regrets. All that around is just PR, he's a serial manipulator and there's no reason to believe that he's suddenly changed after such a short period of time.
> He said he wished he hadn’t hurt his family, or his victims
He literally says he has regrets in the first sentence of the paragraph.
> All that around is just PR, he's a serial manipulator and there's no reason to believe that he's suddenly changed after such a short period of time.
Maybe. That's you opinion. I'm not a mind reader, and I don't really care. Plenty of white-collar criminals get much lighter sentences for stealing much more money.
> Sounds like the EU mandates “lane centering” all the time that can’t be easily disabled
I'm in EU, on my 2023 Civic it's off by default and needs to be enabled after every car start if you wanna use it. Also works pretty well, other than when driving straight into the low sun or in heavy rain at night. The collision warning and road departure warning are on by default, the last one can be disabled until car is restarted.
AI training data is in short supply from new sources. Chat and group apps are handy for many reasons, but one obvious one is people posting images with caption text they provide basically does your image tagging for free (remember the original big image model was just a list of URLS with useful alt-text descriptions).
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