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Try these: 1) Move your cursor across the screen and track it with your eyes, as you would a bird or squirrel in real life. The cursor blurs. There's a picture in the article to help illustrate this blurring effect. 2) Move your cursor in quick circles. You will see multiple instances of your...

I'd like to believe it's because Ars readers are discerning--not fanboys, not haters, not luddites, not yuppies. Definitely not categorically opposed to an entire family of technological solutions--i.e. LLMs. "Seldom affirm, never deny, always distinguish." - St. Thomas Aquinas

This still seems trivial to bypass. Use a C2PA camera to take a picture of a monitor displaying SynthID-tagged-AI-generated content. If needed, tweak the camera exposure or compression settings so the SynthID gets filtered out along the way. Am I wrong? [Edit: LordOfThePigs beat me to it. I...

Tangent (related, like upspeak): How about when someone ends every sentence with the word "right"? For example, "I was at the store, right? And there was this old guy talking to his wife, right? And he was using so much vocal fry it was literally the most annoying thing in the world." I. Don't...

[edit: deleted inaccurate stuff] I notice errors in the CC [edit for clarity: closed captioning or subtitles] of almost every movie I watch, even in some cases flipping the meaning to the complete opposite. It is slightly concerning to think of that happening to the notes taken during my doctor...

This should be publicly posted everywhere your credentials are posted. "I cheated to earn all of these credentials, and I have no regrets nor feel any shame or embarrassment about it." See how it affects your (working) relationships with people.

Maybe they wanted to do 4-1/2-point-weighted "lines"? 😉 (I guess Bondi Surfer beat me to it.)

The photo with everyone wearing PPE is the most reassuring thing I've seen relating to this story. Thank you, WHO, for your guidance, and thank you, passengers, for your compliance.

The ("extremely low") risk depends on the behavior of those passengers and the people they are close with, doesn't it? The behavior of Americans regarding evidence-based recommendations seems to be uniformly distributed along the spectrum, from full compliance to actually doing the...

Thank you, yes. Hedging makes sense, if (1) there's unavoidable risk at a magnitude too high for you to be comfortable with, and (2) for some reason, you can't just spend your money on products or services that lower the risk. For example, the money that would have been spent on future steel...

If you know what's going to happen, you can confidently place a bet buy a contract, but it's illegal. If you actually have information that actually makes you confident that you're going to win, it's illegal to play. So, it's only legal when you don't know what's going to happen. Right? I still...

I just want to show my appreciation for the term "data hygiene", as a former medical research assistant, science teacher, and skeptic of all statistics (especially those used in advertising). Analysis is a waste of time without clean data. [edit: That is, I like the implication that unclean data...

All fans blow out? For a diagram that's meant to show heat management, that's disappointing. It looks like an improperly assembled PC. Where does cool air flow in?

AI chatbot companies are selling chatbots as being friends, therapists, nurses, and assistants, and the chatbots use emotional and personal language, like "I care", "I hope", and "I'm sorry". Yet, they don't want the chatbot to be held accountable like an actual person? I don't think it's fair...

So you're a fan of sweeping generalizations against an entire sex of people? How would you feel if something like this was said about women? Shame on you. I can't believe this kind of sweeping generalized insult is tolerated--even upvoted--here. What's popular isn't always right. [Edit: removed...

As Gibborim and joshv have pointed out (before they were downvoted to disappearance), if trusted but fallible human experts--a.k.a. "licensed health professionals"--are using chatbots to help them do their job, where's the logic in saying we should trust the humans and not the chatbots? I'm...

It's "2x2x2" or "3x3x3", not "2x2" or "3x3". In most contexts, I would excuse the inaccuracy, but in an Ars Technica article, it's a bit disappointing.

(Insert socially obligatory reverence for legitimate scientific work here.) Skeptical critical discourse: I think using the word "pretend" is a bit too anthropomorphizing, based on these results alone. I see other commenters describing treating a stick as a baby--that's better evidence than this...

Thank you for bringing this paper to everyone's attention. I'm quite disturbed that any of those "magic links" or confirmation codes actually stay alive for more than 15 minutes or until I use them, whichever comes first. Hopefully this coverage will cause improvements all around.

"Lag behind"? "Haven't yet"? Too fatalistic. The US may never have adequate infrastructure for charging EVs, so they may never be more popular than combustion vehicles (t)here.