I’m definitely guilty of putting it off, but the very second that my operating system asks me how old it I am is the second that I stop using it and switched to something else that does not.

The power of voo-do!

Thank you.

I probably could have been a little bit more succinct and just said “past is prologue, QED, you are incorrect.”

The babe with the power!

I might be able to agree with you if they hadn’t already said that it’s basically being misused and I’m talking about the people using it, not some crackpot or tin foil hat person. Also, the case for its necessity and its utility is very flimsy. Looke into snowden. Look into flock cameras. If you can even scratch the surface on those two topics and come back with the same argument… Well, then I just don’t know what to do with you. lol

You can put in whatever safeguard you want, but there will still be people that will misuse it, and they won’t get caught. That’s what’s already been happening with the levels of surveillance that we’ve already had since 2001, and even more so in 2004 with the Patriot Act.

In many ways, it’s already too late and it has been proven that what we have already has not not been handled responsibly.

Democracies require privacy, therefore they are in their most basic mission, anti-democratic.

You remind me of the babe…

Same ol’ divide and conquor, and they’ll fall for it. They’ll also continue to fund AI development until it works as well as the shills say it does. It’s closer that than we think, too close for comfort.

I really need to get into Usenet but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations?

I really need to get into Usenet but don’t know where to start. Any recommendations?

Oh, for sure it’s a dick move! As the surveillance spreads and grows, we owe it to ourselves to be aware of the countermeasures.

Also, I’ve only tested this, not tried it in public, but 100% works on condenser mics I’ve tested it on.

And to your point, at the gym, I do ask people if they’ve got to headset when I hear them blasting their media on their phones.

So, I got an ultrasonic dog trainer. It actually effectively jammed microphones. So, you can look on Amazon for an ultrasonic dog trainer and use that in the presence of these people and just hold the button down and it will jam their microphone. Your mileage may vary. This might not be legal in all places, but basically it sounds like terrible static to the person on the other end. Best of luck.

For my part, I have tried to be very clear-eyed about this and have been driven to learn and understand how it works. I want to know what its strengths are and what its weaknesses are. And mostly, I want to know how it’s going to be used to further subjugate us. I have already seen how it has been used to deny people insurance coverage and for various and sundry other nefarious uses. Most recently, it has been suspected as being one of the prime causes of the deaths of many little Iranian girls. The future is now.

I feel that if I understand it well enough, then I will be better equipped in the coming struggle against it. I see how already people are losing their jobs at the mere possibility that AI might actually replace them and be able to do their jobs for them. And I relish the coming articles that go into detail about how badly it’s been overestimated and how completely it has caused ruin in the companies that have chosen it over humans.

I use AI. I don’t trust it, but I know what it’s good at. I also know what it’s terribly bad at Most importantly, I have seen it improving and it is becoming more concerning.Articles like this seem to indicate the possibility that AI will become much more affordable and much more powerful very soon. and yet it seems clear that it is being intentionally kept out of our reach.

I am not so concerned about AI causing an extinction-level event, but more so in its acceleration of our own self-destruction through many other means, not the least of which is climate change.

I am reminded of an old adage.

To err is human. To really louse things up takes a computer.

The thinking behind this being of course that if you make one mistake and you automate it then you have the opportunity of exponentially failing, where otherwise it would just be a simple typo that you could fix with correction fluid.

To the point mentioned earlier though, I don’t think it matters as much whether the technology has advanced to the point where it can replace workers (it hasn’t, but it’s closer than I’d like), but that they believe that it already has and are replacing workers with it anyway.

/rant

Sorry for the bad writing PH, I’m tired.

I think since before 1998 2007. There was a “prism” project. Supposedly they had the ability to use some kind of early STT to catch keywords on phone calls and had black boxes at every ISP that duplicated traffic to their servers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

The very day I hear that my os is asking people their age is the day I find a different one.

Probably for auto-de-anonymization.

This seems like a kind of obvious and innocent mistake, really. So, what you have is an English voice model and Spanish voice model. You can give an English voice model Spanish and you can give a Spanish voice model English. Now, obviously the person that gave the Spanish voice model English text thought that it would translate for them. They were stupid. I don’t think this was malicious.

I think the order actually is even more narrow than that in that it only deals with the part of the business that they do that has to deal that has to do with actual sensitive stuff that is, if the anthropic CEO is to be believed.

I’m on the fence about whether I agree with you because it’s kind of a toss-up as to whether that’s true in my mind. Put on the flip side of that, they were already neck deep in with the DoD anyway, so your argument is convincing, in that respect at least.

While it is correct and totally fair to challenge the math, I believe that’s the kind of math that HR typically does. They were planning on getting rid of people already, now they can get rid of more.

Given that LLMs are so bad at math maybe they would be the best fit for job. It would be a nice change of pace because I’ve never been able to convince HR to give me more money on my paycheck, but I could definitely convince an LLM to do so.