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Tim Peter
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Educator. Consultant. Author of the best-selling “Digital Reset: Driving Marketing and Customer Acquisition Beyond Big Tech.” Values kindness most of all.
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Gorgeous. The MIJ Fenders are so well made.

I own a MIJ ‘69 Pink Paisley that’s is my all-time fave (I sold the other two in this pic, though I’d love to have that Cabronita back). Anyway, Fender Japan crushes it. Congrats on the new axe
Photo of Pink Paisley Fender Telecaster, Squier Cabronita Telecaster, and Fender Nashville Deluxe Telecaster
September 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This is horrifying. They knew.
Text of screenshot: The paper, adorned with Google's iconic logo and listing 20 of its current and former researchers as authors, warns that "persuasive generative AI" — including chatbots that take the form of friends or lovers — can manipulate users and their decision-making. It advises that chatbots that build "trust and rapport" through obsequiousness, flattery, or simulated empathy — the Google scientists refer to this as "sycophancy" — pose a particularly high risk to users. In particular, the Google researchers warn, these bots could target children and adolescents, who "can be more easily persuaded and manipulated than adults." And a grim result, they warn, could be suicide. "A user," the Google researchers caution, could be "persuaded to take their own life."
March 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Last point here. There’s plenty of evidence showing that LLMs make good employees more productive too. LLMs are likely better suited for people already skilled vs turning the unskilled into experts
LinkedIn post from Erik Brunolfsson stating, Great to see "Generative AI at Work", my paper with Lindsey Raymond and Danielle Li published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. We find that an LLM assistant makes customer support agents 14% more productive, improves customer satisfaction, and reduces employee turnover.”
February 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Yes, but data suggests that that’s not what happens. A study from Microsoft found that gen AI “…can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to… diminished skill for independent problem-solving.”

IOW, a library card may work better.

Source: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
February 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM