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☆ Sergey Brin says Google 'definitely messed up' after its Gemini chatbot caused a firestorm. He has a lot riding on its success — or failure.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sergey Brin says Google "definitely messed up" with Gemini's image generation. The Google cofounder says he came out of retirement because of AI's "exciting" trajectory. AdvertisementGoogle cofounder Sergey Brin has weighed in on the company's Gemini drama. Speaking at San Francisco's AGI House, Brin said the company had "definitely messed up on the image generation." Since then, Brin has been spotted at Google's Silicon Valley headquarters and has been directly involved with developing the company's AI strategy.

Persons: Sergey Brin, —, Brin, Larry Page, Elon Musk, Adolf Hitler, Gemini, Hitler Organizations: Service, Gemini, Google, The New York Times, Big Tech, BI, Business Locations: Francisco's

☆ Google chief says the company got it wrong after Gemini's responses sparked a bitter backlash. Read the full memo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company got it wrong after its flagship AI system Gemini showed bias, which sparked backlash from some users. In a memo sent to employees, which Business Insider obtained, Pichai acknowledged the recent controversy over Gemini. Pichai said in the memo: "I want to address the recent issues with problematic text and image responses in the Gemini app (formerly Bard). Pichai appeared to acknowledge some of this criticism in the memo sent to staff. Read the full memo that Pichai sent to staffers:

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Pichai, Semafor, Bard, Elon Musk, Adolf Hitler, Gemini, Hitler Organizations: Google, BI, Tesla, Business

☆ Elon Musk is going to war with Google
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk has been heavily criticising Google over the past week. Since the launch of Google's Gemini image generator, he's shared and replied to more than 100 posts about the company. Sharing a screenshot of one of Krawczyk's posts, Musk wrote : "This nut is a big part of why Google's AI is so racist & sexist." To give Musk some credit, Google's AI also appeared to be hard on him personally. After taking a similar issue with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Musk founded his own AI company and released Grok, a competing chatbot.

Persons: Elon Musk, —, Elon, he's, Demis Hassabis, Musk, Jack Krawczyk, Gemini, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Grok, OpenAI's, ChatGPT's Organizations: Google, Service, Big Tech, Gmail, Republicans, Krawczyk, BI, V1.5

☆ Google's mission is organizing the world's information. Its 'woke' AI debacle prompted critics to say it's failing.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewSince its inception, Google has had a mission statement that is now practically enshrined as lore: "To organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful." Its AI, critics say, risks suppressing information instead by being too "woke." AdvertisementGoogle's AI troublesGoogle has more than 90% of the search market, giving it dominant control over the world's information flow online. Advertisement"The original mission was to index all the world's information. In a blog published Friday, Google vice-president Prabhakar Raghavan acknowledged some of the images Gemini generated turned out to be "inaccurate or even offensive."

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☆ How the GOP’s rightward shift on immigration helps explain Trump’s primary success
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ron Brownstein | Analysis Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

Amid widespread discontent over President Joe Biden’s management of the border, the overall electorate is moving rightward on immigration too, polls show. For now, there’s no question that hardening GOP attitudes on immigration have been critical to Trump’s strong performance through the early primaries. Then, 56% of GOP primary voters said undocumented immigrants should be offered legal status; in last month’s primary, 55% said they should be deported. Immigration ranked as the most important issue for most GOP primary voters in South Carolina, and finished close behind the economy in both Iowa and New Hampshire. McLaughlin said Trump’s dominance among the GOP primary voters most concerned about immigration encapsulates a broader reason for his early success: widespread satisfaction among Republicans about his record in office.

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☆ Google’s Gemini AI picture generator to relaunch in a 'few weeks' following mounting criticism of inaccurate images
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Google introduced the image generator earlier this month through Gemini, the company's main suite of AI models. "We are hoping to have that back online very shortly in the next couple of weeks, few weeks." "The Gemini debacle showed how AI ethics *wasn't* being applied with the nuanced expertise necessary," Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face and former co-leader of Google's AI ethics group, wrote on X. On Sunday, a text-based user query went viral, asking the Gemini chatbot whether Adolf Hitler or Elon Musk's tweeting of memes had a greater negative impact on society. WATCH: Google's Gemini chatbot is 'evolutionary not revolutionary'

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MUNICH (AP) — Long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order, the Munich Security Conference this year will be more of a reflection of America’s political turmoil. And overshadowing it all will be Trump’s threat to not automatically come to the defense of European allies should they be attacked by Russia. That is a cornerstone of NATO’s founding treaty, which has taken on additional significance since Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022. Blinken, too, will be conveying that message in Munich, according to the top U.S. diplomat for Europe, James O’Brien. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz assailed Trump’s comments.

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☆ Boris Johnson calls out Tucker Carlson for 2-hour Putin interview: 'Bum-sucking servility to a tyrant'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFormer UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called out Tucker Carlson after he went to Moscow to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. “When Tucker Carlson went to the Kremlin, he had a function well known to history. He was to be the stooge of the tyrant, the dictaphone to the dictator and a traitor to journalism,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for the Daily Mail on Friday. “In his fawning, guffawing, slack-jawed happiness at having a ‘scoop,’ he betrayed his viewers and listeners around the world,” Johnson wrote. Using British slang for buttocks, Johnson called the interview "bum-sucking servility to a tyrant."

Persons: —, Boris Johnson, Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin, “, ” Johnson, Putin, Carlson, Johnson, ”, Adolf Hitler Organizations: Service, UK, Kremlin, Daily, Business, UN Human Rights, Ukraine, GOP, Fox News Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russia, American, France, Western

☆ Tucker Carlson set to interview Vladimir Putin
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Ryan Anastasio | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he will interview Russian President Vladimir Putin, becoming the first member of the Western media to interview the Russian leader since the country's invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago. "Why is Vladimir Putin such a bad guy? He's not Saddam Hussein, he's not Adolf Hitler, he's not a danger to the United States," Carlson said in 2017. He is a dangerous authoritarian who has used a hundred billion in U.S. tax dollars to erect a one-party police state in Ukraine," Carlson said in 2022. The far-right commentator's interview with Putin will be released on X and the media startup TuckerCarlson.com.

Persons: Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Carlson, Saddam Hussein, he's, Adolf Hitler, Tucker, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Lenin, George Washington Organizations: Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems, CNBC PRO Locations: Ukraine, Moscow, United States

☆ Malaysia's new king has a $5.7B family fortune. Here's how he spends his money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, 65, was declared king on Wednesday as part of the country's rotating monarchy. King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor is photographed with his sister, Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, after his accession was announced in October 2023. MOHD RASFAN/AP ImagesSultan Ibrahim is head of the Johor royal family and is considered one of the country's wealthiest men. In May 2023, a video posted to the Johor royal family's TikTok account showed them dining at Istanbul Turkish Cuisine, a reservations-only restaurant in Horizon Hills, Johor. King of Malaysia Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar (right) speaks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (left) after the oath-taking ceremony.

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ISTANBUL (AP) — Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing what appeared to be a rudimentary explosives belt and holding a handgun. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been particularly outspoken, referring to Israeli “war crimes” and comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. The photograph of the suspect carried in the Turkish media shows him with a black-and-white Arabic headscarf covering his face. He is standing next to a graffitied wall showing the Turkish and Palestinian flags with the slogan “The gates will open.

Persons: Ismet Zihni, Suheyla, “, ‘ We’ve, ”, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Adolf Hitler, Bruce Shipkowski Organizations: U.S, Procter, Gamble, Health Ministry, Police, G Turkey, Embassy, Associated Press Locations: ISTANBUL, Turkey, Israel, Gaza, Gebze, Kocaeli, Cincinnati, Istanbul, U.S, Turkish, Ankara, Trenton , N.J

☆ Malaysia's new king is a billionaire with a collection of 300 luxury cars, his own private army, and family ties to Hitler
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Mikhaila Friel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Malaysia has a new billionaire king who has his own army, a fleet of private jets, and 300 luxury cars, including one apparently gifted by Adolf Hitler. King of Malaysia Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar (right) speaks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim (left) after the oath-taking ceremony. AdvertisementAccording to Bloomberg, the Johor family is worth an estimated $5.7 billion. In a resurfaced 2013 interview posted to YouTube in 2017, Sultan Ibrahim said Hitler was a friend of his great-grandfather. AdvertisementSultan Ibrahim's wife, Raja Zarith Sofiah, is from another royal family, an Oxford graduate, and a children's books author, according to the Associated Press.

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☆ A Mind-Bending 7-Hour Epic About Hitler Gets a Rare Screening
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Beatrice Loayza | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This weekend, the hottest ticket in New York is a seven-hour-plus movie about Adolf Hitler. Showing just once at Film at Lincoln Center, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s rarely screened epic, “Hitler, a Film From Germany,” is, according to the programmers, sold out despite its behemoth running time (which includes a few breaks). “There is Syberberg’s film — and then there are the other films one admires,” she wrote. Divided in four parts, the film is a Wagnerian opera on acid, composed of theatrical sketches inspired by the German dictator’s life. Syberberg wasn’t without a sense of humor, either: In one scene, steam pours out of a sculpture of a rear end.

Persons: Adolf Hitler, Jürgen, “ Hitler, ”, Francis Ford Coppola, Susan Sontag’s, Sontag, Syberberg Organizations: Lincoln Center, Hans Locations: New York, Germany, United States

☆ Mr. Beast posts video to X, receives thousands
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

“MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000!” MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, said in a post on the platform. He also shared what appeared to be a screenshot of X’s creator payment screen, showing the post had earned $263,655. But last week, MrBeast decided to test the X ad revenue sharing program by posting one of his old videos, about trying out various expensive cars, to the platform. Following his payment from X, MrBeast said in a post on the platform that he planned to give away the money he earned to “10 random people that repost this and follow me” on X. Progressive media watchdog Media Matters, for example, reported in November that an X user who had praised Adolf Hitler had posted about receiving around $3,000 in payouts from X’s ad revenue sharing program.

Persons: Influencer MrBeast, MrBeast, Jimmy Donaldson, Elon Musk, —, ”, Musk, Logan Paul, Charli, Dan Bongino, he’d, Adolf Hitler Organizations: New, New York CNN, Meta, YouTube, ’, X, Progressive, Media Locations: New York

☆ Opinion: Our possibly short national nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over,” President Gerald Ford said. “Our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the Trump-Biden nightmare,” the former UN ambassador said. If not, it won’t be as protracted a “national nightmare” as the two-year-long Watergate scandal that put Gerald Ford in the Oval Office. Though, depending on your point of view, the real nightmare could begin after the swearing-in. Yet, John Avlon wrote, Trump and some members of the House GOP, want to tank an emerging compromise in the Senate that would couple border security measures with aid to Ukraine.

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☆ British intelligence releases unseen images of code-breaking 'Colossus' computer that helped allies win WWII
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

British intelligence has released new photos showing the World War II era "Colossus" computer. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementBritish intelligence has released "rare and never-before-seen images" of the World War II era "Colossus" code-breaking computer. It played a key role in helping the Allies win World War II. Housed at the UK's code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, 10 Colossus computers helped 550 people decrypt "63 million characters of high-grade German communications" by the end of World War II, according to The National Museum of Computing.

Persons: —, GCHQ, Tommy Flowers, Adolf Hitler, Bill Marshall, Reuters Andrew Herbert Organizations: Service, Women's Royal Naval Service, Nazi, Reuters, Microsoft Research, National Museum of Computing Locations: Nazi, France, Pas, Calais, Normandy, Nazi Germany, Europe, Bletchley Park

☆ Opinion: Germany’s far right is surging. Banning it would backfire
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Opinion Paul Hockenos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But today, Germany is staring at a surging far right – and the country’s mainstream politicians and democratic citizens, still by far the lion’s share of the population, are understandably rattled. Since then it has veered steadily to the far right, where its members tout barely veiled racism and Islamophobia. But studies show that time and again the accommodation of radical right positions benefits the hard right – and not its imitators. Moreover, democrats of all stripes should expose the far right’s populist arguments for what they are: exaggerations, falsehoods and demagoguery. Germany’s ascendent far right shows that all of Europe – and beyond, including the US – could be at a tipping point.

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The Iowa caucuses, which are the opening contest in the months-long Republican presidential primary process, begin at 8 p.m. EST. Trump's political strength heading into the Iowa caucuses, which come 426 days after he launched his 2024 campaign, tells a remarkable story of a Republican Party unwilling or unable to move on from him. On the eve of the caucuses, Trump predicted he would set a modern-day record for an Iowa Republican caucus with a margin-of-victory exceeding the nearly 13 percentage points that Bob Dole earned in 1988. Last month, some presidential campaigns were expecting close to 200,000 Republican voters to participate in the caucus. Associated Press writers Jill Colvin in Des Moines, Iowa, and Adriana Gomez Licon in Council Bluffs, Iowa, contributed to this report.

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☆ Germany leaps to the defense of Israel at the International Court of Justice, rejects South Africa's accusation of Gaza genocide
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The German government rejected South Africa's genocide allegations against Israel at the ICJ. Germany is set to intervene on Israel's behalf at the international court. "The German government decisively and expressly rejects the accusation of genocide brought against Israel before the International Court of Justice," Hebestreit said. Germany will be allowed to present its own case disputing South Africa's allegation of genocide against Israel, according to reports. The Israeli defense called South Africa's accusations of genocide "baseless, arguing that the stated aim of Israel was the destruction of the Hamas terrorist organization and liberating the hostages that remained imprisoned in Gaza.

Persons: Israel, Israel's, Netanyahu, Olaf Scholz, —, Steffen Hebestreit, Adolf Hitler's Nazi, Hebestreit, Benjamin Netanyahu, Scholz, Adila, Al Jazeera Organizations: ICJ, Service, Hague, International Court of Justice, Federal Government, Genocide, Israel, Getty, Israel's, Minister's Locations: South, Germany, South Africa, Hague's, Israel, Hamas, Be'eri, Gaza

☆ The Trump Voters in Swing States Who Are Returning to the Fold
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +11 min

To try to understand his enduring appeal, Reuters spoke to five Trump supporters in five general election battleground states: Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Trump currently leads Democratic President Joe Biden in several swing state general election polls, suggesting he will be highly competitive in a likely re-match next November. None are full-blown "election deniers" backing Trump's false claims that he, and not Biden, won the 2020 election. The second issue that swung Ruiz back behind Trump was the multiple criminal charges against him. Johnson likes Trump's tough stance on migration, and believes Trump will slow the crossings and deport as many migrants as feasibly possible.

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☆ Biden campaign says Trump's repeated anti-immigration comments 'parroted Adolf Hitler'
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-17 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Biden campaign slammed former President Donald Trump for echoing Nazi sentiments with his repeated statements on Saturday night that immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of the United States. The Republican frontrunner most recently repeated the anti-immigrant remarks at a New Hampshire rally and in a Truth Social post Saturday night. "President Trump gave a great speech," Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said about the former president's remarks. Trump's inflammatory comments come as Republican hard-liners in Congress refuse to pass a Ukraine-Israel aid package until Democrats agree to stricter border policies. After Republicans voted to block Ukraine aid, Biden quoted a Kremlin propagandist saying, "Well done, Republicans!

Persons: Donald Trump, Biden, parroted Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, Harris, Ammar Moussa, Trump, Raheem Kassam, Hitler, Steven Cheung, South Carolina Republican Sen, Lindsey Graham, that's, Graham, Andrew Bates Organizations: U.S, Republican, South Carolina Republican, Trump's, Trump, Press Locations: Coralville , Iowa, U.S, United States, American, New Hampshire, Ukraine, Israel, Hampshire, Russian, Russia

☆ X may lose up to $75 mln by year-end on advertiser exodus - NYT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

'X' logo is seen on the top of the headquarters of the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, California, U.S., July 30, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNov 24 (Reuters) - Elon Musk-owned social media company X could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing campaigns, the New York Times reported on Friday. X said on Friday $11 million in revenue was at risk and the exact figure fluctuated as some advertisers returned to the platform and others increased spending, according to the report. The platform's U.S. ad revenue has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since Musk's takeover, Reuters previously reported. Reporting by Samrhitha Arunasalam in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika SyamnathOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Iowa school officials said they didn't realize their 'Respect Quote of the day' emailed to parents was a Nazi Germany slogan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An Iowa school district sent a "quote of the day" to parents that was actually a Nazi slogan. "My honor is my loyalty," read the quote, a Waffen SS motto attributed to Heinrich Himmler. AdvertisementAn Iowa school district has apologized to parents after emailing an announcement with a "quote of the day" that was actually attributed to Heinrich Himmler. "Here's today's Respect Quote of the day: 'My honor is my loyalty,'" a line at the bottom of the email read, per KCCI. The Indianola School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Heinrich Himmler, hadn't, —, Adolf Hitler, Himmler, Ted Ihns, didn't, Ihns Organizations: Nazi, Waffen SS, Service, CBS, Defamation, ADL, Indianola Independent, Indianola School Locations: Iowa, An Iowa, Indianola, Nazi Germany

☆ Elon Musk's X is 'profiting off violent content' by Hamas, House Democrats allege
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In addition to the records, the House Democrats asked Yaccarino and Musk to detail how X plans to address Hamas-related content currently on the platform. The already "inexcusable" issue of antisemitic content on X, they wrote, had become "outright indefensible" since the deadly Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel by Hamas militants. More than two dozen House Democrats on Tuesday accused Elon Musk 's X of "profiting off violent content by a terrorist organization" and demanded that he and CEO Linda Yaccarino address Hamas -related content on the social media platform . "You have said the actual truth," Musk wrote last Wednesday in response to that post. Instead, the Democrats highlighted numerous X accounts that have reportedly been "spreading Hamas terrorist propaganda videos glorifying barbaric acts of violence against Israelis."

Persons: Yaccarino, Dan Goldman, Jamie Raskin, Elon Musk, Linda Yaccarino, Musk, Adolf Hitler, Angelo Carusone, Goldman, Raskin Organizations: Democrats, Hamas, Reps, Maryland, CNBC, Disney, Comcast, Wall Street, Washington, Media, America, Reich, Tech, Accountability, Strategic, X's Locations: Israel, U.S, New York

In the letter to Musk and X chief executive Linda Yaccarino, the lawmakers noted reports from nonprofit organizations that showed people with X Premium accounts "glorifying barbaric acts of violence against Israelis." The letter is the latest fight between Musk, who bought Twitter and renamed it X, and those who have advocated for better content moderation. The lawmakers said X profited from the posts both from subscription fees as well as ads displayed in replies to both Premium and regular posts. "X has financially benefited from the spread of demonstrably false and misleading content as well," the lawmakers wrote. These are videos that carry official Hamas branding and iconography," the lawmakers wrote.

Persons: Tesla, Elon Musk, Rishi Sunak, Kirsty Wigglesworth, Linda Yaccarino, Musk, X, Adolf Hitler, Diane Bartz, Daniel Wallis Organizations: British, Rights, X, Twitter, Media, Nazi, Hamas, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, U.S, United States

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