International organisations estimate that across Southeast Asia, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to work in so-called scam centers. The situation has reached the level of a humanitarian crisis.

@Reuters just published a new piece on the subject:

"Scammed into scamming" is about graphic novel style scrollytelling as it depicts insidious trafficking operations, purported immigration officials, and the harsh life in the compounds.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SOUTHEASTASIA-SCAMS/mypmxwdwwvr/

#VisualJournalism

"Imagine a world where scientific experiments yielded different results every time you ran them, even with identical setups. (...) In most fields, such inconsistencies would be unacceptable. Yet, in the (.) world of large language models (LLMs), we’ve often accepted a curious paradox: the same prompt, run multiple times, can produce entirely different outputs."

Anthony Laneau for @hackernoon:

https://hackernoon.com/the-unseen-variable-why-your-llm-gives-different-answers-and-how-we-can-fix-it

#AI #LLM # nondeterminism