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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  3rd sentence of the article:

  Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud, the Charlotte-area man faces a maximum of 20 years per charge.

  If you follow the article to the press release:

  SMITH, 52, of Cornelius, North Carolina, is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and money laundering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a joke?

  Half the icons on the screen are Dunkin Donuts or McDonald’s and any time you stop at a light a banner add covers have the screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit embracing all out enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law does apply to social media posts.

  The social media company has to mark sponsored content and give users the means to do so themselves (when the partnership is between the user and a third party rather than the social media company).

  Unfortunately it’s hard to prove and profitable to lie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have nearly enough tinfoil for this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turquoise taillights tell you this Mercedes is driving autonomously⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been asking why cars don’t have more obvious visual indicators since I was like 8 years old.

  It’s pretty weird that we’re basically just working with 2 sets of lights and blinkers at this point.

  For AV’s specifically, a pretty significant/obvious missed feature is some indicator that the car “sees” you. Pedestrians make eye contact with drivers to check if crossing is safe. How is there no equivalent for AV’s??? It’s such an obvious miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay. I’ve misspelled “peek” as “peak” multiple times in the last week.

  English just be like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The employees secretly using AI at work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It will also contradict itself and make the same mistakes even if you point them out.

  Can be useful as a starting point, but you basically need to fact check everything it says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The CEO of Dropbox has a 90/10 rule for remote work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Might have to block this bot if it posts puff piece CEO bullshit under the guise of “technology.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI / A Loki season 2 poster has been linked to a stock image on Shutterstock that seemingly breaks the platform’s licensing rules regard...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody who has a skill they’re paid for?

  Anybody who respects IP?

  Anybody who can empathize?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's enshittification memos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. This makes so much sense but it also so disheartening.

  They had essentially a perfect product and a total monopoly over their market. Apparently, even that isn’t enough for some executives.

  What’s even the point of trying to double or triple dip at that point? Maybe they made more money in the decade they got away with it, but the product is considerably worse than it used to be and now their dirty laundry is out in the open.

  Shit’s depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you reconsider your stance cuz you’re making a lot of assumptions about people based on very limited information.

  You do you, but throwing out applicants because you think they personally agree with everything their past employers have done is ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a B+! Fire all our engineers immediately.

  • some tech CEO, somewhere
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is no longer labeling ads for some users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is straight up illegal. The FTC and EU don’t give a shit if this was “just a test” or “a whoopsie doopsie.”

  Big ol’ fine incoming for every day this isn’t fixed.