I agree with you in general, I think the problem is that people who do understand Gen AI (and who understand what it is and isn’t capable of, and why), get rationally angry when it’s humanized by using words like these to describe what it’s doing.

The reason they get angry is because this makes people who do believe in the “intelligence/sapience” of AI more secure in their belief set and harder to talk to in a meaningful way. It enables them to keep up the fantasy. Which of course helps the corps pushing it.

I didn’t. But I also can’t say I’ve been paying attention.

GiGo.

I’ve never been comfortable with ring cameras specifically because even if it isn’t a tool to be harnessed by the state it’s still a tool to be harnessed by anyone holding a grudge. The vast majority of IoT users don’t know the basics of securing their network or their cameras. They connect things to the internet for the convenience and that’s it. And the cameras pick up the comings and goings of people who don’t really have the ability to not consent to having someone record when they leave their house or return to it. My neighbor doesn’t need that information. And why yes they could sit in their house and watch at all hours through the curtains, there would still be a physical limit to what they could see.

For the same reason I don’t want drones constantly surveiling my home, I don’t want camera footage I have no access to but that can be used against me by someone who doesn’t like how I rake the leaves in my driveway.

Anyone who’s been in a dispute with a neighbor who’s got a ring camera knows this struggle. And the advice you get, by and large is to get one of your own. No thanks.

My main concerns are mostly to do with the fact that Google in my experience has always had the benefit of enticing software and services that are extremely invasive but also very convenient (even if we remove IoT from the table for a moment). This is mostly due to how invasive Google Play Services is, and how invasive the Google app has been since the first iterations of Google Assistant (Google Now). I’m concerned that even those of us who have done what we can to turn off Gemini and not use Generative AI are still compromised regardless because big tech has a choke hold on the services we use.

So I suppose I’m trying to understand what the differences are in how these two types of technology compromise cyber security.

Pre-Generative AI, lots of companies had AI/Algorithmic tools that posed a risk to personal cyber security (Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri, MS’s Cortana etc).

Is the stance here that AI is more dangerous than those because of its black box nature, it’s poor guardrails, the fact that it’s a developing technology, or it’s unfettered access?

Also, do you think that the “popularity” of Google Gemini is because people were already indoctrinated into the Assistant ecosystem before it became Gemini, and Google already had a stranglehold on the search market so the integration of Gemini into those services isn’t seen as dangerous because people are already reliant and Google is a known brand rather than a new “startup”.

It died a long long time before this. The enshittification directly started back in the early 2000’s when one of the owners basically usurped the whole company. Which of course lead to mods quitting en masse. After that it went downhill and that downhill trend continued. Then it got bought out by the Israeli’s, and the AI art injection was them trying to prevent the site from going under.

Nothing about the site is what it was.

It’s not clear that the except is a quote. No quotation marks. No vertical bar denoting quotation. The ellipses at the very start of the first sentence.

Generative AI LLM’S? No. GiGo Counters? Yes.

People who live in third world countries like the US who don’t have Internet at home/internet isn’t available to them because it’s not profitable for the company providing for that area.

And before you say phone, you have to have service to receive or make a phone call. There are places in this country that don’t have either.

We have a wireless Android Auto dongle. And it takes an age to auto connect. Not to mention the problems with it still wanting us to pull over and put the car in park to switch, something I thought would be circumvented when I bought it but somehow is not. Usually it’s the person in the passenger seat trying to change something and not being able to. I’m not advocating for distracted driving. I’m pointing out that someone else in the vehicle who’s not driving can’t interact to change certain things even though it’s perfectly safe for them to do so.

It’s a Honda. But that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make here. With both car play and Android Auto I have issues but they’re down to how the manufacturer chose to implement each. Car manufacturers deliberately hamstrung these features and still didn’t get what they wanted.

I have equally bad experiences with both Android Auto and Apple Carplay. I don’t really want either and am fine with what I’ve got (only 1/3 of the cars I own even has Carplay/Android Auto). I mostly dislike how it’s been implemented with “safety controls” that require the phone to be plugged into the infotainment center in some cars and the requirement that I only connect it while at a stop with the car in park. If someone is driving with me and they want to change to their phone I have to pull over and that’s stupid.

The infotainment centers themselves with their stupid touch screens and lack of buttons are where my real problems start, and the end with the tracking BS and telemetry data. You can keep the new cars. I don’t want them.

Yeah. Looks like RootmyTV is only for older models of LG TVs and that’s kind of sad.

I haven’t but that’s probably because I don’t use it to do anything that would require that. Like. Everything (switching inputs, volume etc) is handled by my receiver. The devices that are hooked up to the receiver all have their settings on device.

It may also depend on what firmware your TV came with and what model you have?

Sorry I can’t be more help.

Interesting. But my house basically is a faraday cage. I have no signal outside it from my wifi or any of the others because of the way they were constructed. I have to have wifi repeaters indoors and a mobile repeater setup to get cell coverage inside.

So I guess I’m lucky in that respect.

But all in all this is good information for people to know including me. Thanks for that.

It can’t send screen shots if it doesn’t connect to the internet. I own an LG TV and it’s never been connected to a network.

For those of you who need it:

1. Press the Settings button on your remote (the gear icon).

2. When the side menu pops up, select Settings.

3. Choose the General option.

4. Scroll down and select System.

5, Select Additional Settings.

6. Toggle Live Plus off.

Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?

Lack of context for what was being discussed, mostly. No joke I read this without context and was very confused (and I had already read a similar article about this event).

It did what now? What the hell is this title?

“We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.”

Is the actual title. What gives?