A hole for who? My understanding is that most of us were not vulnerable. Only specific setups were.

Sounds like bullshit AI hype for many of us, and real security threats for a few.

Bullshit. Experts want money. Their tech will never be good enough to replace us. They are selling snake oil.

No no no. Most companies already knew this. Most bosses just pretended it wasn’t happening so they could ride the bubble and bonus themselves… We all said this was what would happen, and it did happen, and only complete suckers would still have fallen for it. Of course some CEOs are suckers, but many of them are simply greedy.

Humans caused it. Period. Maybe negligently, maybe intentionally. But they can be charged with crimes, if the authorities care to do so.

Whenever I’m in situations like this, I think back to my days in high school when I had a CD collection that was worth several thousand dollars. Each of those CDs cost 10 or $15, and for each one that I purchased, the original artist got a few cents.

It was all a giant f****** scam to get the record companies rich. The record companies owe me for that, but they’re never going to pay up, and ethically, I don’t feel like I owe them another cent, nor will I for the rest of my life.

Of course the gaming industry is not quite the same, but in some ways it is quite similar.

No it’s not. Ridiculous headlines.

The software developers are writing code to build dossiers on people. Be precise about who is doing what here FFS.

No, they aren’t. The headline is just a giant lie. Why would anyone pretend to believe it?

Reddit was destroyed by bots years ago. So that’s nonsense. But they have two strong reasons to pull public access. First, if the public has access to the data, then companies won’t buy it for AI training. Second, if the public has access to the data, they can prove (as we already knew) that Reddit is full of bots, so there is no reason you would want to buy training data from it.

Well of course. The whole point of US trade policy was to maintain global dominance. You don’t think that politicians were sending money to other countries purely out of the goodness of their own heart, do you? … Of course some of them have good intentions some of the time, but let’s not pretend no other reasons came into consideration.

Foreign countries using Google, Microsoft, or Apple, would be suicidal not to change platforms. Right now, the U.S. has incredible leverage: it can turn off their government servers, delete their data, and is certainly spying on them right now.

The only reasonable move is some kind of self-hosted setup, at least for a large chunk of critical infrastructure, with some cloud options for backups, maybe, who knows, if the country is too small or centralized.

Well no, the title is wrong. Google itself destroyed Google Search. And the Internet does not depend on Google Search. And most of us don’t use Google’s AI.

Of course there are some real damages, but the title itself is bait click. It’s just false at face value. Do better next time.

They are hyping themselves. So is Fortune.

We all told you it was vaporware and you wanted to ride that bubble. Don’t pretend any of this was a surprise.

Yes and then the audit will be entertaining. If they have multiple properties and fuck up, they could easily maintain residence.

And whatever their residence is, if they do things that look like working while physically present in the state, they are at risk of being forced to pay.

You don’t know? … Wow. How about the error rate? Let’s start there.

1. No, their opinion would not be the most informed. They are biased in favor of making money. They know they can’t deliver on strong AI, but they’d be happy to milk your fears.

They are lying about their fear. That’s all they can do. Stop believing any claim of theirs. Stop being manipulated.

They are snake oil salesman. They sell vaporware. Don’t fucking buy it.

Oh Bernie Bernie Bernie. AI is 95% vaporware. Stop fretting about the shit they claim they’ll produce but never will.

(Obviously changing technology requires some legal changes. Yes yes. But focus on the real shit that’s already happened, not the bullshit they are promising.)

Maybe you don’t read the same articles that I read, but I very much have seen people claiming the things that the article is fighting against.

Here’s something you should consider. The big AI companies just released a statement saying we should be worried about AI killing everyone accidentally in the future or some such s***. But if they’re selling vaporware, and they know it, and they realize the only thing they actually created was fairly powerful LLMs, they would be desperate to cover up that fact. They would be desperate to make themselves relevant, to pretend that AI is going somewhere when it isn’t.

Another way of looking at things as that author has also written is that we’re looking at definitional questions where the people selling us things are liars. If you point out that their technology hasn’t matched the promises that they made, they will counter by pointing at some advanced statistical methods. If you point out that AI drive-thrus are a failure, and that AI at Pizza Hut has destroyed hundreds of franchises to the point that they sued corporate, then they’ll respond by talking about how intelligent ChatGPT sounds.

So at some point if you want to have a sensible conversation about AI, you need to start to define what you’re talking about. Or you could pretend that there is no need to define things to deflect from the issue, so that nobody reading would learn anything about the world.

Of course they want to hype their shit. Pretend the sky is falling (when it’s not) so that you need regulation on AI so that open source and Chinese companies can be blocked out. Get that lock-in before the bubble bursts, fuck yeah.

#precrime #thoughtcrime

Oh look if it weren’t for government handouts that company would be doing even worse than it already is. A lot of what they do is these weird carbon credit trading scheme b******* tactics. It is a money losing company.