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- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 19 hours ago:
Alex Karp thinks people only care about one kind of surveillance. And he thinks he will alleviate our fears if he gives us a pinky promise not to surveil us in that one way.
That way is cheating.
He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.
Well, thanks for clearing that up, Alex. That was indeed my sole concern.
(The rest of the article is full of indecipherable quotes from Alex, which demonstrates you don’t need to be smart to be rich.)
- Comment on Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint 5 days ago:
I thought the government just banned any regulation against AI companies. The inconsistency doesn’t surprise me, but the brazenness sure does.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 6 days ago:
Especially because they are only good for AI, and they rapidly deprecate in value.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 week ago:
What’s the deal with the “HPE” in some Register articles? It’s apparently the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise logo, but articles about HPE don’t appear to have that logo.
Is The Register affiliated with HPE now?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
AI companies are definitely aware of the real risks. It’s the imaginary ones ("what happens if AI becomes sentient and takes over the world?") that I imagine they’ll put that money towards.
Meanwhile they (intentionally) fail to implement even a simple cutoff switch for a child that’s expressing suicidal ideation. Most people with any programming knowledge could build a decent interception tool. All this talk about guardrails seems almost as fanciful.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 1 week ago:
This is good writing.
In promoting their developer registration program, Google purports:
Our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.
We haven’t seen this recent analysis — or any other supporting evidence — but the “50 times” multiple does certainly sound like great cause for distress (even if it is a surprisingly round number). But given the recent news of “224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered”, we are left to wonder whether their energies might better be spent assessing and improving their own safeguards rather than casting vague disparagements against the software development communities that thrive outside their walled garden.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The expectation is for the Foundation to use its equity stake in the OpenAI Group to help fund philanthropic work. That will start with a $25 billion commitment to “health and curing diseases” and “AI resiliance” to counteract some of the risks presented by the deployment of AI.
Paying yourself to promote your own product. Promising to fix vague “risks” that make the product sound more powerful than it is, with “fixes” that won’t be measurable.
In other words, Sam is cutting a $25 billion check to himself.
- Comment on Plymouth scientists win £2m to use AI in deep-sea mapping 1 week ago:
Mighty thoughtful of Jeff Bezos to award money to a project that coincidentally promotes AI, and puts his name in the same sentence as environmentalism.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos’ dirty secret is the environmental harm he’s causing, and intentionally covering up, while trying to greenwash it.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 2 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence has been something people have been sounding the alarm about since the 50s. We call it AGI now, since “AI” got ruined by marketers 60 years later.
We won’t get there with transformer models, so what exactly do the people promoting them actually propose? It just makes the Big Tech companies look like they have a better product than they do.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 2 weeks ago:
Sam Altman himself compared GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project.
The only difference is it’s clearer to most (but definitely not all) people that he is promoting his product when he does it…
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 2 weeks ago:
Geoffrey Hinton, retired Google employee and paid AI conference speaker, has nothing bad to say about Google or AI relationship therapy.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 2 weeks ago:
Superintelligence — a hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence — has become a buzzword in the AI race between giants like Meta and OpenAI.
Thank you MSNBC for doing the bare minimum and reminding people that this is hypothetical (read: science fiction)
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 3 weeks ago:
The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.
I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 3 weeks ago:
The article is pretty clear that the issue is with the Android devices themselves, not with lazy users. There is no indication that a malicious app has these permissions.
- Comment on Building a fairer future for digital advertising: Mozilla partners with Index Exchange | The Mozilla Blog 4 weeks ago:
I saw the writing on the wall when they purchased ad company Anonym… There were other signs before that, but that was the most brazen.
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 month ago:
Way back in 2023, Matrix was the jack of all trades but the master of none. It wanted to replace Discord but the video messaging was not stable enough. It wanted to replace Slack but message searching didn't really work. It was still struggling to get a decent client and server implementation, and message loading times were a huge pain point.
Fast forward to today, most of the problems are still there. Give it a couple more years to cook.
- Comment on Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant 2 months ago:
Your tl;dr appears to be missing some important data. You can have an opinion but please don't represent it as an accurate summary.
Things you crucially missed:
- Less open than every other service available
- Bills itself as the most open
- Server side source code is MIA
- No model card available. Evaluations, risks, biases, guardrails and safety measures unclear.
- Comment on Lumo: the least open 'open' AI assistant 2 months ago:
Can you be more specific?
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- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 2 months ago:
FWIW Ente just added photo editing
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 3 months ago:
To be fair, the article itself recommends it.