As of July 3, 2023, we’ve disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature out of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content owners. We are working to bring the beta back as quickly as possible, and appreciate your understanding! Source: OpenAI

Seems like OpenAI has disabled the beta feature that was available to ChatGPT Plus subscribers which allowed ChatGPT to browse the web via URLs given to it. This could sometimes allow it bypass paywalls and privacy settings. It’s definitely still a continuous process of improvement and refinement.

While Twitter continues to be a set on fire, Meta is launching it’s Twitter competitor in a few days.

Let’s see how this goes.

“We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck,” the official Twitter Support account announced on Monday. “In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck.” Source: Twitter

Unsurprising, but trying to build an audience or business that depends on Twitter is really frustrating at the moment.

Historically, every new technology that matters, from electric lighting to automobiles to radio to the Internet, has sparked a moral panic – a social contagion that convinces people the new technology is going to destroy the world, or society, or both. The fine folks at Pessimists Archive have documented these technology-driven moral panics over the decades; their history makes the pattern vividly clear. It turns out this present panic is not even the first for AI.

Now, it is certainly the case that many new technologies have led to bad outcomes – often the same technologies that have been otherwise enormously beneficial to our welfare. So it’s not that the mere existence of a moral panic means there is nothing to be concerned about.

But a moral panic is by its very nature irrational – it takes what may be a legitimate concern and inflates it into a level of hysteria that ironically makes it harder to confront actually serious concerns. Source: a16z

Marc Andreessen with a great take on the concerns of AI. Great read.

Last week, the IBM-owned Red Hat continued “furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream” by announcing that CentOS Stream would be “the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases,” with RHEL’s core code otherwise restricted to a customer portal. Source: Ars Technica

A good article to get caught up on the recent issue with Red Hat’s new policy on the source code.

Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage that has stymied users’ ability to track new posts.

In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised usage quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a maximum of 6,000 posts daily, while unverified users must contend with a drastically reduced limit of 600 posts.

Newly registered, unverified users face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, according to the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive. (He has since increased the limit to 10,000, 1,000 and 500.) Source - Techcrunch

The insanity at Twitter continues. I believe things will eventually settle down, but it remains to be seen what the collateral damage will be.