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"we collect data for your privacy" they have no idea what words or actions mean anymore.

There is no such thing as being purchased by a large company while retaining anything non-evil. If anything this is the remaining employees who were lied to their face about remaining whatever they were

This blog post is quite bad on all of its points.

More specifically to dating apps: There is a huge market imbalance on it, there are only a few women to pair off to whomever they prefer... So they can serve that market just fine, then the rest of the men are the ones to jerk around a bit: trick them with bots, tell them if they pay they will move up the ranks and have a better chance, come up with "studies" that show all they have to do is make better pictures and keep paying and trying.

How immoral is it really to satisfy a percentage of users... and then abuse the rest? Its not like you can properly give them what they are looking for anyway. I think its quite immoral but thats why I am not a successful businessman.

The pizza and other comparisons are quite dumb and not the same thing: A market that requires many participants to benefit a few, only some can be helped so do your best with those, then figure out how to abuse some/many for profits. If they don't figure out how it really works, well, thats a shame that they keep participating.

Nah they just know all the secrets ahead of time, like how they will start allowing tech companies to mess with genetics to cure this stuff

These kinds of tests to me are not complete until they resolve the concept to full solution:

-Start just as they have here

-Keep improving the prompts in a huge variety of ways to see what improvements can be made

-start getting more and more code generated to complete more and more percentage of the work instead of textual prompting

-start fixing the worst parts with real human knowledge code/tools

-finally show fully working solution that does well, with full analysis of what kind of human intervention was necessary, and even explore what kind of prompting could lead to these human intuition-ed tooling going to whatever incredible lengths necessary to hand-hold the models in the right direction

otherwise... i don't get the points of stopping and saying "doesn't do great"

All they have to do is sell regular "windows" and "windowsAI" as a separate product and everyone would be fine with it... but no FUCK YOU ads in your fucking start menu you stupid bitch customer.

(sorry for big words, but this is how i feel they are talking to me when the base operating system I am suppose to put absolute trust in my privacy in treats me like an idiot)

That doesn't quite explain it. The internet has happily been a niche wild west for a long time that has threatened very little power. Besides generally "most people know how evil all rich people have to be to get where they are now"

This is actually good insight and worded in a simple way that clicked in my brain, thanks!

We haven't jumped the shark until AI takes over so pervasively that only truthful ads with everyone getting pissed at everything not working is the norm. Entire PR and advertising companies are replaced and nobody cares that the slop-out is too reality

But doesnt it also give russia incentive for walking distance sabotage

Why shoot a plane down when you can spend untold $trillians on superior everything for many years and write a fanfic story about it someday, just as russia gets good at unmanned drones and bypassess all that jazz the same year

Absurdly good? What are you talking about, it means entire company processes of trying to identify this has cost so much time and effort and tracking and lost trust from the public and finally reporting... and then they still screw it up half the time

Don't despair boys and girls, remember there is always a deeper layer. All this AI slop? Well the powers wont even be suspicious of steganography until there are many terabytes per second of nonsense pictures moving in all directions

What you mean someone working for mossad doesn't just spill all the beans in unencrypted email?!

You know this might be the final push that the long needed IT-overhaul happens: every employee now needs 2 computers.

One super locked down white list only apps and network connections required to get their work data. email links completely blocked, email files can only be sent to a sandbox

One with immutable sandbox tasks: internet browsing, AI processing (super locked down human chosen only data in, and only outgoing connections are to foundational model, or back to the secure system for long-term-storage/backup)

(basically qubesOS, or more likely cant if microsoft needs its own secure boot and tpm hardware)

What is it called where capitalism is this constant fight to push out all cooperation or collaboration? Why cant firefox just support whatever extension features would allow other people to create this AI trash and anyone who WANTS it can install it?

Its this constant fight that everyone must CAPTURE all revenue opportunities at the cost of complete overwhelming tsunami of bad forceful decisions on users, all JUST INCASE its an actual revenue stream that they could be missing out on, before even knowing if a single user gives the slightest shit about it

If it was meant as publicity its an incredible failure. They cant prevent misuse until after the fact... and then we all know they are ingesting every ounce of information running through their system.

Get ready for all your software to break based on the arbitrary layers of corporate and government censorship as it deploys.

Yeah this is exactly what we need. But it has to be source only peer to peer distributed with no legal way to figure out what developer to stomp on.

Hate to have to say it... but killing all the people you owe money to. Its not like reputation means anything to this prez

Yeah this is rough... so assuming this blog post is mostly true:

Why would the ai model makers charge less than $149/hr ?

Why hasn't outsourcing attacked equal chunks of that $150/hr all these years now?

If companies dont realize that if an employee is required 1 hour per week, they still need a full salary that covers all the rising costs of housing/food/health/necessity... then most knowledge workers just die. Even more so in up and coming countries, its just massive world war and suffering if we dont change capitalism somehow. Why would AI employees keep working toward such destruction and death?

What if the 80/20 problem is more reality, machine learning and LLMs can never get that last 20 percent working right, but now nobody knows how to finish the last chunks? Seems more like the last 10% of coders that dont die, should be charging hundreds of times more $/hr. Even this doesnt fix the problem because the knowledgeable will die off and nobody hired juniors for years.

You think housing prices can sustain their value in this nonsense? Old people who are still in charge of everything and own everything will destroy all of this before it starts affecting their assets

nightmares (if anything went wrong i had to blow helm stuff away and start over) ontop of nightmares (kubernetes when i was trying it was tons of namespaces called beta, then you never knew what to update to or when you had to update, or what was incompatible) ontop of the realization that no one should be using kubernetes unless you have over 50 servers running many hundreds of services. Otherwise its just a million times simpler using docker compose

No this is obviously not corporate marketing, this individual is doing many things wrong by their own choice:

"creating an svg is surprisingly revealing" No it is not. They all do the same thing, they add suns and movement lines, and some more details. Like they were all trained on the same thing.

he makes up his own definition of "agent" there are at least 6 different definitions of this word now in this space. And his is again new for no reason.

The core idea here is "being vague and letting the models make weird random choice" This is the exact opposite of ALL direct instructions from the major model and coding agent programs at this time.

Actual interesting methodology would have been to create all combinations of the variables: let them use different svg to image tools and compare them, try many many different prompts with more specific instructions like "try to be more mechanically accurate"

Analysis is baseless assumptions: It is not "adding realism" all the models just had more pictures of roads trees suns and clouds... so it kept going back to the training data to add more like you keep telling it to do. It certainly wasn't understanding "more mechanically coherent" If it started focusing on the bike, it had more detailed bike pictures in the training data with chains.

This is why all the ai stuff is infuriating, people are mistaking so much for "good" or "useful" . At best this is a laugh once joke about how bad it is.

I admit the first time I saw that big george carlin generated video/stand up comedy, there was a special new feeling about "what on earth did they prompt to get this combination of visual and audio?" But that was such a fleeting thing I never need again

Hmm you would think if there was a proper way to do it, they would write up this nice concise manual for everyone to follow

Once again no one is capable of coming up with a good analogy: the analogy here would be that someone comes up with occasional exploding electrical lights that sometimes create black holes to suck up all the surrounding light for a block, and then really work as intended under 60% of the time. But the city rushes to implement as recklessly and quickly as possible because promises and lies. Also the whole time its happening they keep saying not a single gas-lighter will lose their job because the blackholes need to be fed human flesh sometimes... so we will get them to do that

NO, the fact that you are hitting scalability problems to do a whole bunch of redacting is a solid indicator that this is going too far on surveillance data.

The only indicator that it was done right, is that the redactions are happening in real time at the camera, only the list of license plates that have full warrant cleared authority for should be leaving the camera itself. (or full car description: color, make, model, scratches, time of day) Otherwise there is a private company with a bunch of extra-legal tracking information they will monetize utterly illegally

I have a feeling it wont affect canadian non-business individuals much: I see retailers listing prices of $6000 for the max395 type computers, none in stock. Direct from minisforum has one listed for $3200... Tried to buy it, but the bank blocked it as fraudulent transaction. No idea what is even going on these days. If they cant even ship hardware to an entire country, something real fucky is going on

Sorry but that is nonsense. "The file format is the basis for security, not the client application" is so wrong, any messing with the application is game over.

Hell if you leave your computer unlocked, a rubber-ducky could replace your executable and middleman your master password.

Yes absolutely relevant, especially in this software case. There is no requirement for mass-amounts of boilerplate code to be written here, just supposedly smart and correct cryptography and as little code as possible to do the job right... so if someone is using AI... that is a huge red flag.

An obvious sign that something is going horribly wrong in this project.

In fact i think this kind of news is enough to garner a huge influx of international hackers all targeting this package now, if they weren't already. They will be looking closely at the supply chain, phishing the hell out of the developers, physical intrusions where they can, its a hint that the developers might be stressed and making poor decisions, with huge payoff for infiltrating

But you see now my LLM can use less tokens to parse his commit messages instead of the entire code base to then boil it all down to "85-- minor-- inconsequential-- commits emdash emdash emojji"

Yeah my experience is that canada has always sucked: I graduated electronics engineering, then did 20 years of technician, IT, software, just whatever shit beneath my abilities that i have been offered. My resume has always been a list of things i clearly don't want to do anymore. Still get offers for photocopy repair, what a shit low paying job that was/is. But that is what life is for many people i think, can't be too picky, do what pays bills.

If you have real skills you are expected to make something of your own on the side. Nobody teaches you how capitalism really works, they want suckers to do the shit work. The ways to win are to work for yourself, eliminate as many middlemen as possible, hide sacred knowledge, come up with scams, hide bodies for rich people.

My entire 20 year career is filled with wordpress blunders, i could never ever trust php again, ever ever ever, even if they said it has been reimplented by completely different people in every other language.

there is something about "theme" code leading to complete control of servers that is fundamentally broken in every way, there is no coming back from this reputation