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When Good Frontline Workers Make Bad Supervisors
Promoting top frontline performers into supervisors can backfire. Gallup data show why promoting based on supervisory talent and offering managerial training matters.
Please stop inviting bots to your online meetings
We don't need to be recorded by five notetakers.
Journalistic Malpractice: No LLM Ever ‘Admits’ To Anything, And Reporting Otherwise Is A Lie
Over the past week, Reuters, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, CNBC, and a parade of other outlets published headlines claiming that Grok—Elon Musk’s LLM chatbot (the one that once referred to itsel…
Why I’m Really Worried by the Negative Trend of Hallucinations Cases (and It’s Not Because of the Ethics Failures)
A recent eDiscovery Today article reported that cases involving hallucinated citations and excerpts are not just continuing to occur, which would be bad enough, but are actually increasing at a rapid rate. Readers of this site will be familiar with the problem and its ethical implications, so I’ll jump right into the three reasons I’m really worried by this trend.