My last day of work before 3 weeks’ vacation

I’m sitting here between Airport Margaritaville and the restroom, drinking a Starbucks refresher and trying to get up the energy to head to one locale and then the other. I wasn’t planning to do an EOY wrapup, but this seems to be a perfect summary, so here we are.

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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what ...

It is never an answer. It is merely answer-shaped. Grok offered to summarize my 2020 keynote at RSAC on “Democratizing Security,” and I said sure, why not. EVERYTHING in the summary was what other people statistically tend to say on that topic. None of it was what I actually said in the talk. LLMs are there to be plausible, NOT to be correct. View quoted note →