Thu. 04/06 – The Secret Bitcoin Easter Egg On Your Mac

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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More examples of chatbots hallucinating might lead to the first lawsuits. Did you know that you have a copy of the bitcoin white paper on your Mac right now? You don’t know it, but you do. I’ll tell you why. Substack is the latest to launch a Twitter clone. And why E3 had to die. It’s called direct to consumer, or, I guess, gamer. Sponsors: Mimecast.com OregonState.edu Links: ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused (Washington Post) The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS (Waxy.org) Google CEO Sundar Pichai Says Search to Include Chat AI (WSJ) Google to prohibit personal loan apps from accessing user photos, contacts (TechCrunch) Substack’s new short-form ‘Notes’ feed looks a lot like Twitter (TechCrunch) Streaming Killed E3 (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, April 6th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	More examples of Chatbots hallucinating might lead to the first lawsuits.
0:13.0	Did you know that you have a copy of the Bitcoin White Paper on your Mac right now?
0:17.0	You don't know it, but you do. I'll tell you why.
0:20.0	Substack is the latest to launch a Twitter clone and YE3 had to die.
0:24.5	It's called direct to consumer or I guess gamer.
0:27.6	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:29.6	Lots of this
0:33.8	this piece in the Washington Post today with the added news item of I believe
0:38.4	maybe our first defamation suit of the AI era. Just going to quote,
0:44.7	one night last week the law professor Jonathan Turley
0:47.5	got a troubling email.
0:49.0	As part of a research study, a fellow lawyer in California
0:51.8	had asked the AI Chatbot chat
0:53.1	gee T to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone.
0:57.5	Turley's name was on the list. The Chatbot, created by Open AI, said Turley had
1:02.2	made sexually suggestive comments and
1:04.4	attempted to touch a student while on a class trip to Alaska, citing a March 2018
1:09.5	article in the Washington Post as the source of the information. The problem, no such article existed.
1:16.2	There had never been a class trip to Alaska, and Turley said he'd never been accused of harassing a student.
1:22.3	A regular commentator in the media
1:24.4	Turdley had sometimes asked for corrections in news stories but this time there was
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