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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • “It’s little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.” Instead, ChatGPT generated false testimony from “wholly fabricated witnesses,” according to an order of direct contempt from the New Mexico Supreme Court.

    Aarons’ reasoning for trusting ChatGPT, he said in the August hearing, was that he’d heard of doctors using AI for medical research.








  • It has varied. I used to keep them 1-2 years when they used to improve a lot year-to-year. The last 2 phones I’ve had 3 years each.

    After I’m done with it, I hand my phone over to my brother, who runs it into the ground over the course of the next 3 or so years, until it’s almost unusably slow. My brother does the shower thing too, but less often. Maybe 30% of the time and less steamy.

    It’s possible that there could be gradual, over time damage. Rust growing until it forms a short. But that’s not been my experience.

    Ultimately, it’s up to you if you want to take the risk, but given how I treated mine, if you even did this half as often as I did, you’re probably fine.

    I didn’t mention this above, but I sometimes also used the phone inside the shower. Clicking the next video or checking a message notification. Maybe 1 in 8 days.

    I’ve also sometimes washed the crud off the phone under the sink, rather than my normal approach with isopropyl alcohol. The worst I’d get is a notification saying I couldn’t charge for a bit, or the speaker sounding funny for half an hour or so.

    You might call me crazy, but I don’t like to baby my stuff. I paid for water resistance, I’m going to make use of it.