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Discode Inferno

I came across discode.ai this morning, which describes itself like this:

You choose the rhythm, not the algorithm. Ecological, private, true and smart AI — built in Austria.

While I initially thought that it was a bit odd that a EU-based startup positioning themselves like this only allowed you to sign in via Google, thankfully you can provide a user name and password and just use that.

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AI ventriloquism

This post very much goes with my previous one about embodied cognition. Although we shouldn't allow people to wield capricious power based on "gut feel", nor should we accept the outsourcing of decision-making to LLMs. Especially when it's done in the way outlined below, by people unaware of the way that commercial full-stack AI tools are built to validate whoever is using them.