I had forgot about Altman getting fired by the board for not 'being candid' (presumably tantamount to lying). Admittedly if there is a business equivalent to being expelled for academic fraud, that might be it.

The thing with Notepad isn't that it's good... rather that it's everywhere.

Notepad is for when you're working but not on your machine. Not everyone's work flow is going to be 100% local and you probably won't have permission to install something on someone elses server.

No matter what the version, what the patch level, what the fuck is wrong with it, notepad is there and notepad works.

Sounds like MS are working on the last part unfortunately.

It'll be three thumbs up shortly at the rate they're going.

Completely agree with your post BTW.

Buy British Beef, Mad Cow disease is still safer than what's in the local stuff.

If nothing else, Kennedy and his cronies can duck behind really expensive equipment while flinging feces at each other. We can leave some bones amongst the servers for them to discover and perhaps use to beat each other.

Vast amounts of money flowing to companies that will leave precious little as they fail out. The rich who are willing to play the game will get richer.

Haven't heard much about DOGE lately. I'm sure they have an unbroken track record of success marrying disparate datasets of a scale that is microscopic compared to what's being proposed here.

Won't matter who wins in 2028. They're going to inherit sweet fuck all except for a half finished White House.

48 months, and I just had Apple put a new battery in. Unless the actual protocols get deprecated, or it flies off my motorcycle to a grisly demise, I expect to have my iPhone 13 for another 4 years.

Internet: "Google is using your email to train AI models!"

Google: "We don't use them to train our Gemini model."

Um... can we have more details? We suspect a devil infestation.

Of course it's nice to see the argument made with substantiation. That's far beyond my ability. But right from the first time I heard the moon origin hypothesis I imagined two rocky planets drifting into each other when clearing their orbits.

The only other thing that seemed plausible was a strike from a rogue planet from somewhere else, but that's just so spectacularly unlikely I never gave it much credence.

*shrug* So, yeah. The thing that seems intuitively right turns out likely to be true. Not a revelation... but checking your assumptions is never a waste.

This might be the best evidence yet of a bubble.

I don't think he will or should receive a lifetime ban from any and all employment.

But as for MIT, or any other research institution with any prestige, my prediction is he is done.

As for Sam Altman, maybe you can point us to some example when he or OpenAI violated academic integrity by fabricating data like this?

It's the only quote I ever use about AI.

As soon as I realise an article, or an image or whatever is AI generated, I just stop and go elsewhere, and often just block that channel/page/site/user.

At this point, it's openly discriminatory as a policy, as far as I'm concerned. This was AI - NOT YOU - making this and I'm not interested in the output of an AI. If I were, I'd just go onto an AI and have it make that, rather than pick it up from some other third-hand place that reposted it.

The irony of "social" media being almost nothing but AI nowadays is so laughable. Facebook was there for me to talk to my friends and family, see how my old school friends were doing, etc. etc. etc. and after becoming just a bunch of curated junk it turned to shit and I basically stopped bothering. And now it's just AI and reposts because everyone else stopped bothering to post too.

I come to Slashdot, for example, not for the articles. They're just there to promote discussion. I come to interact with people and read what people think.

History lesson Children.

First things first, the Nazis never called themselves Nazis... We did that. I mean the German exiles in Britain and the British press were very happy to run with it. The Nazis just called themselves "Germans".

Secondly, one of the core tenants of Fascism is the transformation and rebirth of language, the idea was that you could control the way people thought if you controlled the language they used (which as history has shown was bass-ackwards, language evolves to reflect what people think and not the other way around). Hitler tried to purge the German language of anything he felt was foreign, in particular the French words in pre Nazi German. Socialism was one of these words he wanted to change the meaning of. he, and I quote "wanted to take the meaning of Socialism back from the Bolsheviks". Hitler defined socialism as more a form of civic pride, patriotism border-lining on jingoism. Obviously this didn't work as we kept using the Bolshevik definition of socialism (I.E. collective ownership) and keep using that definition to this day.

Drinky is quite right however, only complete idiots try to claim the Nazis were in any way socialist (as we describe socialism).

Because you might make the trip once a year, some people make these journeys several times a month, if not several times a week.

Smelling the roses gets old fast. So does smelling the cow shit too (for context, a Californian friend once described the I-5 as "smells like cow shit and that's the highlight" but it's the fastest way to drive from SF to LA, I'd already took the PCH up there and had to drop the car off).

I would be so utterly disappointed and surprised if Napster had somehow grown up into a stable, solvent, law-abiding corporation.