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Comment AI powered copy-paste? (Score 4, Insightful) 43

I see they mention translation, but that feels like a weird thing to want to do with a copy-paste. If I turn this on and copy some code from an older project and paste it into a new project, will it automatically refactor it into something that doesn't function but looks prettier? It just seems like copy-paste is one of the simplest, dumbest things a computer helps us with in a way that's unobtrusive. Is anyone asking for "smart" copy-paste beyond "paste as plain text?"

Comment Re:Who is going to buy their stuff? (Score 1) 23

I think the plan is for AI-bots to buy all the shit for which we used to have money. It allows the rich to bypass the dirty proles. It will be one giant, mutually recursive backscratching exercise.

One can see a time when most web traffic is bot produced, and the only real income the upper echelon will see is the web advertising revenue, generated by bots, "viewed" by bots, passed between bots, and aggregated by still more bots. Who needs proles when automation can create a giant economic circle-jerk out of what was once an open network filled with easily accessible information?

Comment Re:I've done it all wrong (Score 2) 23

To me it seemed pretty obvious that back to work orders based entirely on reasons good for company leadership and with no empathy given to the employee would be a hit to employee morale. But maybe it's not obvious and I'm a freaking genius. I would even hazard a guess that the worst years were ones in which the most employees were forced back.

Yeah, the only subtlety, and one I don't see mentioned at all, is that prior to the pandemic years, employers could get by with saying it's impossible to work from home. After a couple years of working from home, being told it's impossible is a tough pill to swallow, yet that seems to be the corporate stance. Mostly because managers don't know what to do with themselves when they don't have the opportunity to continually micro-manage the day-to-day interactions in person. It tells me there are a lot of managers that, simply put, are redundant, and simply occupying space when they don't have someone to harangue all day in the office.

Comment Re:The Gov't should put in new laws in place (Score 1) 13

Be real AI has been used by porn and other questionable acts that requires Congress to do something about it. AI Should NOT have any protections and NEEDS Restrictions put on it for Everyone's rights. It's being roughshod at the moment and needs to be reined in. AI content should NOT have any copyright protections whatsoever because there was no Human Creation, Thus no Protections. Just typing in what you want is not enough. There should be a movement created to push this on the gov't, why isnt there?

Because any attempt to create a movement would quickly be flooded by highly motivated, much smaller, but EXTREMELY more well-financed groups to either shut it down outright, or infiltrate and cause them to look like whining morons.

We shouldn't have allowed these companies to gather data the way they did, but that's happened. Now they're massive economic players, as well as huge data thieves. The kind of economic players that can simply buy their way out of any criticism. And anybody not already on board with their agenda is simply a whining lunatic. There can be no valid criticism, for they have deemed themselves the creator of the new god. The one that will supersede their current god: Greed.

Comment Anyone Over 50 (Score -1, Troll) 304

Can attest that autism is way, way, way more prevalent now than it was when we were kids. I live in Seattle, raised 3 kids here, and a third of their peers had autism, Asperger, sensory processing disorder, or something similar. It is more than just more frequent diagnosis, these kids were visibly different in ways that I did not encounter growing up. Never mind that they had food allergies at absolutely shocking rates. It made birthday parties a real landmine as food that at least two kids were not allergic to were rare.

I know shit about vaccine and autism links (knocks wood that my kids were all relatively healthy, by chance, not my awesomeness), and I have no idea what the cause of this massive epidemic is, but it is something, and it would probably help a large swath of future kids to know what that something is.

Comment Re:The dogs internal docs are out there. Read them (Score 1) 39

Ah. So your solution is to preemptively surrender. You know, just in case actually resisting fascism in any way might upset the fascists. I never did understand why so many German Jews supported Hitler. But then you come along and make it all clear.

That's an extremely odd way of saying you didn't understand a word I wrote. Was it the word 'nefarious' that threw you? That typically isn't aligned with positive thought.

Let me spell it out more thoroughly: The bad actors would see this as a benefit so that they can justify creating heavy-armor / more formidable versions of the same thing, probably with better offensive weaponry involved.

If you still see that as some sort of "I surrender" call, then I don't know what to tell you. Putting words in my mouth tends to rub me all kinds of the wrong way, and in no way at all did I imply surrender.

Comment Re:Obvious answer (Score 0) 210

If you can't trust if for simple things like that, it's then a QC nightmare when you try to trust it for important code or design

A thought just occurred to me... could Microsoft relying more and more on AI-generated code explain some of the increasing enshittification of Windows? And Microsoft execs asking AI to tell them what new 'features' to add to Windows account for most of the rest?

They may use AI to accelerate the enshitification, but it's ultimately the company decision makers that decided to expend more effort on forced features no one asked for rather than focusing on security and providing an OS that stays out of the user's way as people have been requesting.

Comment Re:Writing on the wall? (Score 5, Informative) 210

Why aren't more execs listening to voice of customer feedback? Who asked for an AI button on the keyboard? Despite the "Advancements" it is still a cheap party trick. Get over yourself.

There's the real question, isn't it? At one point, companies were attempting to provide customers with what they wanted, or at the very least, what they said they wanted. Now, especially in tech circles, companies are altering existing products and creating new products that end users are screaming bloody murder angry over, and telling us we should love it. It's more than just bad marketing, it's outright hostility toward customers. And then this motherfucker comes along and asks why we're not impressed when they keep shoveling shit at us we don't want, we've told them we don't want, we keep giving them "backlash over, and they're selling as a way to replace us all at our jobs and in large segments of what we do outside of our jobs as well.

Fuck this guy sideways. Sick to god damned death of the tech leadership not just being out of touch with the userbase, but outright hostile toward us and then surprised when we don't worship their every hostile move.

Comment Re:Sounds a lot like... (Score 0) 20

"It doesn't take much imagination to understand why Proctorio is a nightmare for students,"

Hmmm. Proctorio..... sounds a lot like Proctologist, but many times more painful.

Proctorio sounds like alt-dimension Cornholio. Can you imagine if those two met up?

I AM CORNHOLIO! I NEED TP FOR MY BUNGHOLE!

I AM PROCTOIO! I NEED LUBRICANT FOR MY FIST!

ARE YOU THREATENING ME?

TP WON'T SAVE YOU NOW!

Comment Re: Real Patriots don't mess with AI (Score 0) 43

Ever noticed how the fictional TV shows in Idiocracy, often incoherent nonsense that people can't stop watching, are basically the same as the AI slop we have today?

We're not going to be fighting an robot army, like in The Terminator or The Matrix, but a destruction of our humanity from within and of our own making.

It's already happening. Our online world started breaking down minds well before the algorithms started shoveling political shit at us in favor of one candidate or another, usually whichever one increased engagement / enragement. If we hadn't let our minds begin to soften, we would have seen through the ever increasing cloud of bullshit surrounding online discourse and seen the ways it is manipulated to provide a few more pennies to the companies behind the technology that allowed that discourse to take place. Arguing with strangers, where some came into a conversation with the best of intentions, and some came in specifically to fuck with people, left people in a semi-shellshocked state of not knowing which part of which argument was real, and which part was completely fictional. As time has moved on, we're now at a point where no two people really believe in the same version of reality, and the divide between us continues to widen. We've let the algorithms dictate public discourse. First via online discourse, and then by letting "news" stations grab headlines from that online discourse, even when those stations know full good and well that their reaching their hands into a festering septic system and pulling out massive wads of half-rotted shit.

The "war" against the machines was lost a little bit at a time. And nobody seems at all interested in pulling us back a bit from that loss and reassessing. In fact, it seems we're rushing ever faster toward the very thing that's causing us to fall apart.

Comment Re: Lets ask the studio exectcutives.... (Score 1) 35

When real movies have Starbucks cups in a medieval scene, are you as critical? Or do you hold AI to a doubly high standard?

Game of Thrones wasn't a movie, it was a television show where the creators gave up on the concept part way through and then bum-rushed the finish line. But, to your point, *EVERYBODY* was critical of that, including the people that were actually involved in the scene.

Comment Re:Don't panic (Score 1) 21

The further we go down the wrong path, the bigger the correction. That's just how our economic system works, it's not centrally planned but it is manipulated by a few back actors for short-term profit. The consequence is the middle class watches their 401K get flushed down the drain.

Oh it absolutely is centrally planned, or misplanned rather. Who do you think prints the deluge of money that ends up on the stock market, pumping bubbles? Fairies? No, it's neoKeynesian morons at the FED. Who in their idiotic rush to "stimulate the economy" never once stop to think WHERE all the money they print ends up going AFTER it spins the gears of economy once or twice, tops. Well, let me tell you where it goes. It pretty much immediately ends up with someone who does NOT live a hand-to-mouth lifestyle, and who will be looking to invest it, rather than spend it. And pretty much every investment instrument you can think of already shows signs of overinvestment. Bond rates, what is happening with gold prices, crypto. And stock. If you just pump deluge of freshly printed money into stock market you get bubbles, period, it's that f-ing simple. And make no mistake, if it wasn't AI or blockchain, it'd be VR, pharma peddling their newest snake oil, newest hip startup with charismatic CEO. All that money pressure will pump SOMETHING. Where else do you think that money can go?

In the end? Into the pockets of the already uber-wealthy. The FED may not state that as their outright goal, but that's where it's going to go. And, when the economy inevitably "corrects," they'll find a way to grab great gobs of money out of the hands of the middle class to help extend that ever-escalating money mountain of the already wealthy so that they don't suffer any losses while the rest of us struggle to survive. That's always the end result of these economy-wide pump and dumps. Pump, pump, pump some more, and when the bottom finally falls out, throw taxpayer money at the top as a parachute so they can gently glide down over the refuse of the finances of the rest of society.

As massive as this pump cycle is, it's gonna be a harsh reckoning when it comes around.

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