Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

February 18, 2025

Introducing Test-Last Development (TLD)
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This is a good satire which shows well the excuses people use to not test first.

ChatGPT’s Political Views Are Shifting Right, a New Analysis Finds
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This might be accidental but this highlights the lack of transparency on how those models are produced. It also means we should get ready for future generation of such models to turn into very subtle propaganda machines. Indeed even if for now it's accidental I doubt it'll be the case much longer.

Can I ethically use LLMs?

I like this paper, it's well balanced. The conclusion says is all: if you're not actively working on reducing the harms then you might be doing something unethical. It's not just a toy to play with, you have to think about the impacts and actively reduce them.

Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
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Interesting research, looking forward to the follow ups to see how it evolves over time. For sure the number of issues is way to high still to make trustworthy systems around search and news.

Don't call yourself a senior until you've worked on a legacy project
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I'm not sure I would phrase it like this but there's quite some truth to it. It's important to figure out what we take for granted and to open the black boxes. This is where one finds mastery.

How Google turned 'I'm not a robot' into a massive surveillance system - Boing Boing

A good reminder that everything they buy they turn it into a surveillance system indeed... This time under the pretense of security.