Heard and seen. What you have to understand is that those AI have no ideas about the content of what they produce, they just probabilisticly infer the next word based on the previous words. Of course, they match to some corpus they have in memory, but there is no reasoning behind this. ChapGPT produces things that look good, but there is no way for it to check the veracity of the production. It is quite frightening people buy this as another wikipedia.
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Youâve got to remember that the CMA procedures are all documented online in full detail. Itâs easy for chatGPT to get that right because itâs all recorded. I doubt itâs as easy for the US court system which is more nebulous and not as neat and tidy.
I would joke saying that you could ask
"Is Florian right ?â and she would reply âyes, because he wrote it on its blogâ 
Of course, this is not possible since ChatGPT is frozen in 2021, but it could be the case. For example, for coding, ChatGPT is trained on stackoverflow forums, but it is hard to know if the answers provided online are good or not.
Itâs pretty good at coding in my experience, especially for scripts and front end stuff.
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That is because the backlog for coding examples that is available online is gigantic. Also, because coding is very formatted and without any subtleties. Finally, everything has been pretty much already done for basic stuff like I/O and front ends.
https://twitter.com/FOSSpatents/status/1677958741231009792?t=yWmIcfdtNpsnJxeAbbn0Eg&s=19
I think MS is gonna extend. Just 1 more day left before the deal will not be able to be completed by due date because of the tro.
Yeah but we all expect a decision before then. MS will have a day to close. We donât even know if they genuinely will close over the CMA or not.
I was leaning on the side that it was unlikely, however now I think they will. If Meta did it I donât see why MS wouldnât, plus with how long this has dragged on they need to go all in or not at all.
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I donât think meta and giphy is comparable. They didnât buy them over the top of legal prohibition did they? They bought them without bothering with the regulatory process. The difference is significant.
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Ended up being worse for meta/giphy to completely ignore regulators (plural).
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But extend until when? Man hopefully this shit just ends soon now.
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They could always just wait to see if the decision comes before the merger end date and extend when it comes if they need a few extra days.
You would think it would be fairly easy to extend a month or two if they have a decision from Judge Corley and an already developed plan for managing the CMA⌠which I think they have. Donât see why theyâd go through all this, or why the FTC would step in, if the CMA was truly insurmountable.
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I agree being this close to having everything sorted seems silly to back out now. Extend the deal for say 4 months. In that time the FTC could walk away and the CMA be overturned.
I guess the risk is does the CAT just refer it back to the CMA again delaying it all even longer. In which case just closing over may be better.
Iâm somewhat suspicious that something has already been worked out with the CMA, assuming they can get past the FTC. Doubt the CMA wants to be the worlds sole regulator trying to litigate this. And imagine the UK government wants that even less.
From my perspective itâs lose/lose for the CMA to try and block on their own. They risk a ton of heat on the UK government from other governments and companies, kill the concessions the EU already won and turn themselves into a wildcard regulator that other deal makers might try and avoid/minimize in the future.
Or they could try and negotiate some sort of concession. Say a price freeze or no COD day one GamePass in the UK. Then they can claim they won and walk away.
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This would be a good concession for consumers and the UK
This would not, theyâd literally just be punishing their own people, so yeah I can see them going for that 
But really I donât see the CMA coming to a deal with this, theyâve dug themselves into a hole and seem just as ideological as the FTC are
But long term if this deal doesnât go through and the CMA remain the sole cause, companies will lobby hard for changes with them with the government, they will not remain as they are, companies arenât going to want to deal with a system and a regulator as backwards as this
Correct⌠and yet, as crazy as it might be, the UK/CMA still might stubbornly do that anyways. 
I find it funny that the CMA logic is they donât want to spend the time and resources to regulate concessions, but theyâll spend literally 1,000 times that trying to prevent the deal. Make it make sense.
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Concessions that have already been put in place and will be monitored by the EU so they donât have to anyway
I hate these people
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Yeah, Im gonna preface this a bit by saying Iâll Canadian, have some British ancestry. Iâm not trying to be an asshole to any UK posters in here.
BUT I do think weâre dealing (at least to an extent) with a bit of a societal attitude of âBritish exceptionalism.â IMO being a part of the EU, with their special privileges etc. kind of insulated the country from the reality that they just arenât a world global economic/political power anymore. Obviously a military power, as we can see with the work theyâve done on the Ukraine front. But that doesnât allow them to project the kind of economic power that they did pre-WW2 or as part of the EU.
So I guess I really see it as best case scenario the CMA got dazzled by the FTC agenda and some clever Sony lobbying. And they just need a good off ramp. Which Microsoft beating the FTC and some sort of condition would provide.
Worst case itâs kind of a UK upper class, working class be damned attempt at exerting UK soft power post-BREXIT. Then all bets are off.
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Completely agree. Again, no offense to the people of UK, but the CMA has an attitude of nominating themselves as ceo of American tech companies. I just donât see that working out well for the UK, these companies will push back.