The Wall Street Journal reckons OpenAI has the ability to "watermark" text ChatGPT generates and developed a tool that would make it "99.9% effective" at detecting slabs of AI-generated text. According to the WSJ, marking AI content as AI content has "been a persistent source of tension", with one of the main reasons for not doing so the results of a "survey the company conducted of loyal ChatGPT users found nearly a third would be turned off by the anticheating technology", despite another OpenAI commissioned survey that found "people worldwide supported the idea of an AI detection tool by a margin of four to one".
5,000 NSW Rural Fire Services vehicles are going to be fitted out with Starlink equipment over the next three years as part of its "vehicle as a node" project. This will allow "the use of radios, mobile phones, and other handheld devices anywhere and at any time - even in remote areas or if communication infrastructure has been damaged during a disaster", provides "an important backup to communication systems and location-finding technology already in use", and gives crews "the capability to live stream video of fires from anywhere in the state, providing command centres with the latest intelligence about an incident".
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