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emsign··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
This is fraud. Unknowing to its customers a company is running a daemon that wastes a commodity it sells to said customer.
emsign··on No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
It IS going slow though. The rest of the economy will be slowly adapting it, just like they have slowly adapting other computer systems before. There simply is no use for frontier models in the real economy as of now. For the economy it's just another cost factor, a substantial one if they try to actually build something with it, that has no real benefits that results in increased productivity and revenue making. So why should anyone except AI companies adapt frontier models? They have no reason to. And it will be that way for many years to come.
emsign··on "Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands
It's always bout the monies. Always. And about the evil EU. EU is only good as long as it gives subsidiary monies, but we don't mention that. Never. We only take and moan.
emsign··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
This was once known as Gestapo and Stasi.
emsign··on US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The USA is a technofascist state dismantling itself and every democratic institution that stands against the coming technocracy.
emsign··on Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Reminds me of Idiocracy. Are we idiots yet? This is so that AI agents can "guide" a human, directing the meat bot more easily. Telling the meat bot where to click and what to do. The entire "what to think" step isn't even necessary when there is no thought. Because thoughts and decisions are annoying. It's astonishing how much people are already "algorithmically" steered so they don't have to turn on their rational thinking.
emsign··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
50%? Not 51%? Or 49%?
emsign··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
That's old news. It was known that Palantir was responsible for the murder of the school girls. What's new is that the Pentagon finally admits to it now that it's out of the focus of the news cycle. A very typical strategic disclosure.
emsign··on AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
Not a surprise, so do financial advisors: garbage in = garbage out.
emsign··on Hitting a NERVE with attacks on AI-powered brain-computer interfaces
This sounds like something from a sci-fi horror movie. "Snorting charged nanoparticles" that can then be manipulated by magnetic fields sounds more like a weapon or life-long disability than anything I'd want to be done to me willingly.
emsign··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
But you're not working for Flock, are you? We could go on much further until we reach the what Popper called the Tolerance Paradox: "If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

The point is that total surveillance is like the destruction of tolerance or in thie case privacy, and it makes watching the watchmen impossible. There's a point of no return and before that one is reached resistance IS allowed or else you lose everything.

emsign··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
Guy is not just a technician, he's a technician working for Flock installing surveillance tech to monitor the public. Wrong life choices have consequences like being filmed being complicit in establishing a surveillance regime.
emsign··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Not the current government, it's unwilling to even call this out as what it is: a crime.
emsign··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
OpenAI won't make their illegal activities public by themselves.
emsign··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Why is nobody in jail for this? Oh, I see, it was an AI agent. So nobody is responsible. What's going on here? Do we see the undermining of the legal system by putting LLMs as intermediaries between us and our bad deeds?
emsign··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
I buy CDs, DVDs and BluRays second hand. You can get pretty good deals because there's still people who sell their entire collection because "everything is available through streaming now!". I just hope there will be much more people who sell their old stuff in order to pay for those rising subscriptions prices.
emsign··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
As long as these comments come up, people haven't given up against this flood. It's a good sign. Also consider cause and effect. These comments only exist because of AI content.
emsign··on Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
> “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”

Shielding the executives from the voices of the people. There's a recurring pattern that people with power physically distance themselves from common people, journalists and victims of their actions. They do not want to get personally confronted, every interaction "with the public" needs to be 100% controlled by them. Critics can ask them anything, sure, but only on their terms. This is how they protect themselves from responsibility.

emsign··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
If it was only the small shops doing it... companies that could easily hire ad designers use AI slop images full of errors.
emsign··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
But they both consume too much water. That's why we need less of both. Much less golf courses though.
emsign··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
The fun of some is the horror of others.
emsign··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
They have nothing to do with Cloudflare. Their challenge page is only made to look like the one from Cloudflare. It's entirely their own page. Only the reCaptcha challenge is not theirs. And the reason why nobody gets redirected is because the have used up their free enterprise quota with reCaptcha, as you can read in the widget itself.
emsign··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It's not that. Archive.today have simply used up their free quota.
emsign··on LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
A virus that is trained on mostly the wort human output the internet had to offer.
emsign··on Billionaires Are Funding 'Anti AI' Content [video]
Thanks, that's a very eye opening interview!
emsign··on Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
It's funny how the article just assumes PIM be for computing weights of a model without even mentioning it in the introduction.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
It's because the companies doing this bought the current government.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
Makes me wonder how much garbage they actually collect across the web. That can't be good for the quality of the LLM.
emsign··on Creepy Crawlies
What a waste of energy LLM training is. Meanwhile Himalayan mountains are crashing down. I love this world. It's so idiotic.
emsign··on Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
The future will be solar. Especially in underdeveloped regions without a centralized power grid, solar makes the most sense. And even in developed countries having solar panels on your roof and a battery in your cellar is the most cost effective way of getting all your electricity needs.
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