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Blue Mountain said:
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Citation needed. My understanding of the GDPR is unless there is a legitimate reason to have the information it is not legal to ask for it or store it. Canada has similar legislation, but it's not as tough. The USA seems to think people have no right to privacy.
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From the horse's mouth:

Is asking for a telephone number to access a website legal in the EU?

In the European Union, it is not illegal to ask for a telephone number to access a website. However, there are strict rules in place regarding the use and protection of personal data, including telephone numbers, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Under the GDPR, any organization that collects and processes personal data must have a valid legal basis for doing so, and must ensure that the data is collected and processed in a fair, transparent, and secure manner. In the case of a website asking for a telephone number, the organization would need to provide clear and specific information to users about why they are collecting their telephone number, and how it will be used.

Additionally, the GDPR gives individuals the right to access, rectify, erase, or restrict the processing of their personal data, so users would also have the right to request that their telephone number be deleted or otherwise processed in a certain way.

Overall, while it is not illegal to ask for a telephone number to access a website, organizations must be transparent and compliant with the GDPR in order to collect and process personal data in the European Union.
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jeremyp said:
I don't want to have to sign up for it. So, has anybody asked it what the airspeed of an unladen swallow is?
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I'm sorry, but I do not have the answer to that question as I am a large language model trained by OpenAI and do not have access to the internet to browse for information. I am not capable of performing calculations or providing specific information about the physical world. I am only able to provide general information based on the text that I have been trained on. Is there anything else I may be able to help you with?
 
jeremyp said:
I don't want to have to sign up for it. So, has anybody asked it what the airspeed of an unladen swallow is?
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I asked

What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

The airspeed of an unladen swallow is about 25 miles per hour or 11 meters per second. This is based on the average speed of the European Swallow, which is the most common species of swallow found in Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia. The airspeed of a swallow can vary depending on factors such as its size, age, and the type of swallow.
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This particular chatbot is just focused on providing coherent responses. It has no way to know whether or not the information it’s putting out is true or not. I wouldn’t trust anything it has to say on a factual basis.

However, I have found that if you feed it certain information, you can have it help you generate some ad-copy. It came up with some pretty cool slogans and copy that we will probably tweak use on our next social media campaign.
 
Darat said:
Blue Mountain said:
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Citation needed. My understanding of the GDPR is unless there is a legitimate reason to have the information it is not legal to ask for it or store it. Canada has similar legislation, but it's not as tough. The USA seems to think people have no right to privacy.
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From the horse's mouth:

Is asking for a telephone number to access a website legal in the EU?

In the European Union, it is not illegal to ask for a telephone number to access a website. However, there are strict rules in place regarding the use and protection of personal data, including telephone numbers, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Under the GDPR, any organization that collects and processes personal data must have a valid legal basis for doing so, and must ensure that the data is collected and processed in a fair, transparent, and secure manner. In the case of a website asking for a telephone number, the organization would need to provide clear and specific information to users about why they are collecting their telephone number, and how it will be used.

Additionally, the GDPR gives individuals the right to access, rectify, erase, or restrict the processing of their personal data, so users would also have the right to request that their telephone number be deleted or otherwise processed in a certain way.

Overall, while it is not illegal to ask for a telephone number to access a website, organizations must be transparent and compliant with the GDPR in order to collect and process personal data in the European Union.
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Thank you! So the request as presented on the ChatGPT web site would not be legal in the EU, because it did not "provide clear and specific information to users about why they are collecting their telephone number, and how it will be used." It merely told me I had to give it a phone number.
 
Darat said:
Entirely legal in the EU and even in the UK non-EU fortress of solitude.

I used one of my google accounts to log in so wasn't asked for anything else.
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Legality of asking for the data aside, I don't see how it's defensible. The bot does not need your phone number to generate its responses. The company that makes or runs the bot does not need your phone number for any legitimate purpose.
 


Interesting video.

So I've learned that one big weaknesses of systems like this is that they can give laughably wrong answers to very basic math questions.

Math is exactly the sort of task that you would expect a computer to be strongest at, but somehow this chatbot ended up arguing that the number 47 is larger than the number 64.
 
Puppycow said:
Math is exactly the sort of task that you would expect a computer to be strongest at, but somehow this chatbot ended up arguing that the number 47 is larger than the number 64.
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On the other hand, math is exactly the sort of task that we should expect AI to be weak at. While computers are traditionally strong at calculations, they are not particularly strong at math if the program they are running is not designed for it. This AI has been trained on lots of data, but not explicitly in math. I am sure that this can be done, but it has not been a priority for the kind of job that it is designed for.

I also expect that this particular bot will suck at art or design.
 
Was the 2020 us presidential election rigged?
The 2020 United States presidential election was not found to be rigged. The allegations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election were thoroughly investigated by state and federal authorities, as well as by the courts, and no evidence of widespread voter fraud was found. The election results were certified by all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and the electoral college voted to confirm Joe Biden as the President of the United States. The US Department of Justice and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said the 2020 election was the most secure in US history.
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Was 9/11 an inside job?
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not an inside job. The attacks were perpetrated by a terrorist group called al-Qaeda, which was led by Osama bin Laden. The group hijacked four commercial airplanes and used them to attack the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was targeted at either the White House or the U.S. Capitol building, but crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers attempted to overcome the hijackers.

The attacks were widely condemned and prompted the United States to launch the War on Terror, invade Afghanistan to depose the Taliban (who had harbored al-Qaida) and enact sweeping legislation, including the USA PATRIOT Act. The investigation by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the 9/11 Commission Report found no evidence of a government conspiracy or inside job and instead concluded that the attacks were carried out by a terrorist group and the hijackers who were associated with it.
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College student claims app can detect essays written by chatbot ChatGPT

Princeton senior Edward Tian says GPTZero can root out text composed by the controversial AI bot, but users cite mixed results


A 22-year-old college student has developed an app which he claims can detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the explosive chatbot raising fears of plagiarism in academia.

Edward Tian, a senior at Princeton University, developed GPTZero over a summer break. It had 30,000 hits within a week of its launch.

Tian said the motivation was to address the use of artificial intelligence to evade anti-plagiarism software to cheat in exams with quick and credible academic writing.

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Toby Walsh, Scientia professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, wasn’t convinced.

He said unless the app was picked up by a major company, it was unlikely to have an impact on ChatGPT’s capacity to be used for plagiarising.

“It’s always an arms race between tech to identify synthetic text and the apps,” he said. “And it’s quite easy to ask ChatGPT to rewrite in a more personable style … like rephrasing as an 11-year-old.

“This will make it harder, but it won’t stop it.”
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Where can I see a Bigfoot?

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a cryptid, a creature or being whose existence is not recognized by scientific consensus and is often considered a legend or folklore. Therefore, it is unlikely that one can "see" a Bigfoot as there is no verifiable scientific evidence to support the existence of such a creature.

Many people claim to have seen Bigfoot, but these sightings are generally considered to be unreliable and unverified. There are countless hoaxes and fabricated stories about sightings of Bigfoot, and many purported sightings can be explained by misidentifications of known animals or other natural phenomena. Some people believe that Bigfoot is a rare, undiscovered primate species, while others think it is a misidentification of known animals, or a blend of various legends, stories and cultural belief.

If you're looking for a chance to see a Bigfoot, it's best to keep an open mind and be skeptical of any claims that have not been verified by scientific evidence. Remember that there's still a lot we don't know about the natural world, but for now there is no scientific evidence of the existence of a primate resembling Bigfoot, so it should not be considered as a real animal.
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This reads like an extremely civil response to this question if posed on this forum.
 
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grunion said:
Where can I see a Bigfoot?

This reads like an extremely civil response to this question if posed on this forum.
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Which is how we can tell it's a bot. ;)

Unfortunately this may not be the case elsewhere. We already have artificial narrators that sound exactly like real people. Feed the output from ChatGPT into that and you won't be able to tell whether it's coming from a real person or a bot. The opportunity for mischief is enormous. Everything from phishing attacks to political interference can now be done so convincingly that no ordinary person can tell it's not fake. The only defense is to be extremely skeptical of everything.

And this is just the beginning. Just imagine how much 'better' bots like this will be in the future. Once they become uncivil it will be a nightmare!
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Is water wet?

Why no, no* it is not.

*I started to say yes but had an issue with the metaphor. :p
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Is water wet?

Water is not wet because wetness is a property of a substance that is in contact with a liquid, and water is a liquid. It is the object that is in contact with the water that becomes wet.
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:p
 
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