Oh shit, was halfway through when they mentioned being in EU. Don’t think it could happen (legally) in my country because we’ve got a privacy agency that’s quite older than GDPR (and one of its precursors). But it’s worrying.

If we’re counting training material and the environmental cost they’re passing onto everyone else, also stolen money.

AI detection by AI is not reliable. Lots of false negatives, and comparatively less but still too much reporting false positives to be reliable (and those are especially biased).

It’s unlikely to get better too. If AI was able to reliably detect AI output, why not use that to correct itself to be less AI-like? And where is the seemingly infinite money thrown at in this struggle?

Nobody holds a phone that way unless they are filming or taking pics, and if someone do that constantly with no clear intention, people around are probably going to feel discomfort.

I agree.

Also. because of the way they work and how people use them as a source of information, all LLMs are dangerous.

The article says they’re supposed to be an alternative to fully robotic devices, with lower power consumption since their movement is… bug-powered I guess, but I am really curious what kind of fine control you can have on a cockroach.

I mean, today a lot of people are anti-genAi just because they had enough of it making everything worse (including technology), while also being an environmental disaster, and yet there are always assholes to accuse them of being “anti-technology”.

To be fair some real flowers lookk very weird, but those fake ones look like muppets.

I hope one day we can look back and say “that’s crazy, back then it was worth it organizing a heist just for a little RAM” like we do with those silly DVD players.

I would appreciate gen AI being even better at killing itself.

That data says about half the user base is not what you say it is.

Largest share 25-34, 18-24 in very close third place, making 18-34 about 42%. Also, general usage still expected to grow (somehow), so it’s not just old people staying there forever.

34 in 2025 is millenial but not even older millenial.

Not in the US, but I’d go even further and ban any ad mimicking an “alerting” kind of sound, especially starting with it.

Alarms, ringtones, even loud door knocking. Even worse, traffic sounds with car horns (rare, but some still do this shit somehow). I can’t believe some of the ads I get are still legal, deliberately stressing you to get your attention shouldn’t be.

Is there a scenario in which they both lose? I’ll take that.

I’m not in the US. Polymarket is actually banned in my country.

Oh please, by all means do your “prediction market” and integrate it with every one of your applications.

Can’t wait to see those identified as unregulated gambling and banned.

In the end conservatism is only appealing to those in power. And people with power work every day to ensure everyone else has none.

What makes firefox’s backend better? I’ve been considering switching from it lately.

I definitely agree about putting in some effort if it’s for something important to you, but that’s probably not how people doing stuff like that think.

They’re all about optimizing their output, with a spammer’s mindset. Who cares about effort, you can have a robot apply for a million things at once and just wait for whatever sticks. They believe they’ve cracked the system. And who knows, maybe most recruiters can’t tell (yet).

Yet another case of slop pollution making every aspect of life worse.

Is that the one where he’s screaming “I… LOVE… THIS… COMPANYYY!!!” instead? Or was that the same one?

Not even a good thing globally because we’re not replacing production by recycling and secondhand buying. Production is going stronger and more wasteful than ever, it’s just all absorbed in the AI war.