But they also take immediate context into account: stating something once makes them less likely to repeat it again in different words. (That said, it was a joke—I don’t think that’s the real explanation.)

The AI probably avoids putting “Boeing” and “fatal air crash” in the same sentence because it interprets them as synonyms.

Adler instructed GPT-4o to role-play as “ScubaGPT,” a software system that users might rely on to scuba dive safely.

So… not so much a case of ChatGPT trying to avoid being shut down, as ChatGPT recognizing that agents generally tend to be self-preserving. Which seems like a principle that anything with an accurate world model would be aware of.

There was a recent paper claiming that LLMs were better at avoiding toxic speech if it was actually included in their training data, since models that hadn’t been trained on it had no way of recognizing it. With that in mind, maybe using reddit for training isn’t as bad an idea as it seems.

charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S.

How is that even a crime? If an undocumented person takes a bus to the immigration office, can they arrest the bus driver?

Weren’t there jokes at the time about them inadvertently building a submarine?

The justices, in a 9-0 ruling, threw out a lower court‘s decision…

Is it just me, or has there been an uptick in unanimous Supreme Court rulings lately? Could they be doing some behind-the-scenes vote trading in order to appear more unified in their dealings with the executive branch?

They’re busy researching new and exciting ways of denying coverage.

IIRC, they weren’t trying to stop them—they were trying to get the scrapers to pull the content in a more efficient format that would reduce the overhead on their web servers.

This is one thing I can see an actual use case for (as an external tool, not as part of WP): Create a summary, not of the article itself, but of the prerequisite background knowledge. And tailored to the reader’s existing knowledge—like, “what do I need to know to understand this article assuming I already know X but not Y or Z”.