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- Comment on Dia, The Browser Company’s AI-first browser, launches Mac beta - 9to5Mac 1 day ago:
I had to click to figure out just what an “AI Browser” is.
It’s basically Copilot/Recall but only for your browser. If the models are run locally, the information is protected, and none of that information is transmitted, then I don’t see a problem with this (although they would have to prove it with being open source). But, as it is, this just looks like a browser with major privacy/security flaws.
At launch, Dia’s core feature is its AI assistant, which you can invoke at any time. It’s not just a chatbot floating on top of your browser, but rather a context-aware assistant that sees your tabs, your open sessions, and your digital patterns. You can use it to summarize web pages, compare info across tabs, draft emails based on your writing style, or even reference past searches.
Reading into it a bit more:
Agrawal is also careful to note that all your data is stored and encrypted on your computer. “Whenever stuff is sent up to our service for processing,” he says, “it stays up there for milliseconds and then it’s wiped.” Arc has had a few security issues over time, and Agrawal says repeatedly that privacy and security have been core to Dia’s development from the very beginning. Over time, he hopes almost everything in Dia can happen locally.
Yeah, the part about sending my data of everything appearing on my browser window (passwords, banking, etc.) to some other computer for processing makes the other assurances worthless. At least they have plans to get everything running locally, but this is a hard pass for me.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 4 days ago:
I think you missed the part at the very end of the page that showed the timeline of them reporting the vulnerability back in April, being rewarded for finding the vulnerability, the vulnerability being patched in May, and being allowed to publicize the vulnerability as of today.
- Comment on Is there anybody over here who can tell me more about smart meters ? 1 week ago:
Smart meters work mostly same way meters have always worked with one minor difference, they occassionally transmit the current value via a radio frequency. Same as always, you install them at some point where they can measure just how much water/electricity/gas is flowing into the home. The transmitting frequency will be different depending on the device and what country you live in.
If you want to see the details on how water meters measure water flow, go here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_metering
If you want the details on how gas meters work with all of the different sensors for that, go here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_meter
If you want the details on how electricity meters work, go here and read the “Electromechanical” and “Electronic” sections: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_meter#Electrome…
Some newer meters are setup to attempt to guesstimate additional information such as what is being used in your home. For instances with water meters, a small flow of water for a short time can mean the faucet was turned on, or a toilet was flushed. A larger flow for a longer time can mean that the bathtub is being used, or a shower, or an appliance (dishwasher/laundry), etc.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 week ago:
I really like the “Feeds” feature of PieFed, it allows anyone to combine all of the different communities into a single feed. It really makes browsing something like “Technology” a lot better.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 week ago:
Based on the uptick in “I was banned from Reddit” posts, I’m thinking that we’re getting a lot more users that were banned for good reason from Reddit. Looks like Reddit has also stepped up their game in their ability to keep those users off their platform.
- Comment on AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound 3 weeks ago:
It’s not sending the audio to an unknown server. It’s all local. From the article:
The system then translates the speech and maintains the expressive qualities and volume of each speaker’s voice while running on a device, such mobile devices with an Apple M2 chip like laptops and Apple Vision Pro. (The team avoided using cloud computing because of the privacy concerns with voice cloning.)
- Comment on WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages 5 weeks ago:
Highlighting the main issue here (from the article):
“This means that it is possible for the WhatsApp server to add new members to a group,” Martin R. Albrecht, a researcher at King’s College in London, wrote in an email. “A correct client—like the official clients—will display this change but will not prevent it. Thus, any group chat that does not verify who has been added to the chat can potentially have their messages read.”
- Comment on Subtitle Glasses 1 month ago:
I’ll take these over something that attempts to “dub” what they’re saying.
Some cool tech that’s likely coming about because of AI/ML. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all 1 month ago:
Looks like the research was only looking at Denmark:
economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard looked at the labor market impact of AI chatbots on 11 occupations, covering 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark in 2023 and 2024.
- Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 1 month ago:
Its probably better this way.
Otherwise you end up with people accusing movies of using AI when they didn’t.
And then there’s the question of how you decide where to draw the line for what’s considered AI as well as how much of it was used to help with the end result.
Did you use AI for storyboarding, but no diffusion tools were used in the end product?
Did one of the writers use ChatGPT for brainstorming some ideas but nothing was copy/pasted from directly?
Did they use a speech to text model to help create the subtitles in different languages, but then double checked all the work with translators?
Etc.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 2 months ago:
Too far would be anything outside of fair use. If a user generates an image of a specific copyrighted character, then attempts to make money off of that image, they could be sued.
You can’t copyright a style, but there’s still a lot of legal grey area here.
It’s also worth noting that OpenAI has an indemnification clause in their Terms of Use. This means that if someone else goes after OpenAI for something that went viral and was created by a specific user, OpenAI can then turn around and bill that user for all legal fees incurred by them (whether they win or lose the case).
If anyone is into using AI for anything, I would strongly suggest that they avoid using (or at least publishing/posting about) any of OpenAI’s tools especially while all of these legal issues are still being sorted out.