Microslop does have a strong pattern of going all-in on terrible decisions and completely ignoring customer backlash until it gets bad enough that the board of directors finally notices and the “visionary” moron in charge who keeps trying to force that bad idea down everyone’s throats gets finally replaced way too late. But not before being given a golden parachute because at that level, incompetence is still rewarded with absurd amounts of money.
It has an emergency vehicle light bar on top and those police-style hub caps so I’m safely assuming it is their security guards trying to pretend they’re real cops.
Technically you could use that push bar to move a disabled vehicle… if you don’t mind causing expensive damage to the bodywork of the other car. This kind of bar is for when you want to use your vehicle as a weapon to pit or ram other vehicles and keep your own vehicle in functioning order. As security guards they’ll never do that.
Why does a Microsoft owned security guard vehicle need a law enforcement push bar?
I’m cheating a bit but the French movies Asterix: Mission Cleopatre and La Grande Vadrouille (1966) are both criminally underappreciated in the English speaking world.
“Come over here. READ. Now you print, print, print and get out of here!”
“Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before “salaries”
Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.
If you smoke enough you won’t be able to see inside again.
Me as a kid “Man, those grownups who don’t like kids are evil people. I’ll never become one of them.”
Me 30 years later: “Goddammit.”
Best prank idea: Put someone’s browsing history on one of those.
Meanwhile Putin keeps hiding in his bunker
Coming next: Person buys bottled water. Is surprised to find water inside.
When in a gold rush, be the one selling shovels.
I’m off to buy stocks in bananas.
Shit like that is why AI is completely unusable for any application where you need it to behave exactly as instructed. There is always the risk that it will do something unbelievably stupid and the fact that it pretends to admit fault and apologize for it after being caught should absolutely not be taken seriously. It will do it again and again as long as you give it a chance to.
It should also be sandboxed with hard restrictions that it cannot bypass and only be given access to the specific thing you need it to work on and it must be something you won’t mind if it ruins it instead. It absolutely must not be given free access to everything with instructions to not touch anything because your can bet your ass it will eventually go somewhere it wasn’t supposed to and break stuff just like it did there.
Most working animals are more trustworthy than that.
Gabe wins the internet once again.
Look up the phenomenon called “Chatbot Psychosis”. In its current form, especially with GPT4 that was specifically designed to be a manipulative yes-man, chatbots can absolutely insidiously mess up someone’s head enough to push them to the act far beyond just answering the question of how to do it like a simple web search would.
What if, bear with me here, what if people just don’t have as much disposable income after the dramatic transfer of wealth to the rich class we’ve been seeing?
The economy is collapsing and the lower classes are feeling it already. The rich investor class isn’t seeing it because the tech industry has been propping up the market with their investments going all-in with unrealistic expectations for AI technology. We are currently experiencing a K-shaped recovery where the richest are on a spending spree while the poorest are cutting back their expenses. How much more obvious must it be that this is what’s going on?
You want the general population to start wasting their money on useless crap again, you’ll have to give them more money to work with.
I’d say it’s more akin to a bread company saying that it is a violation of the terms and services to get sick from food poisoning after eating their bread.
I came back to see this removed comment and now I can only imagine what it was