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Comment Re:PR article (Score 1) 151

For people, the internet is one source of information. For AI training, it is the only source.

If you don't get why that difference matters, go ask Mummy for cookie and some milk, it's past your bedtime and you have school tomorrow.

Comment Re:I wouldn't trust Google to protect my identity (Score 1) 24

All it's going to take is a subpoena and that's that.

Yes. In a society with a rule of law, it cannot be any other way. The only alternative is to people can tell whatever lies they want without fear of consequences, even if it literally gets people killed. We see too much of that already.

Comment Re:Online reviews are bullshit. (Score 1) 24

The entire idea of the 5-star system is stupid. By definition, average would be 3-stars. But try explaining this to the legions of dumbass MBAs running things.

When you're a narcissist, and stupid, it's pretty obvious, to you, that you're inherently superior to all other human beings, therefore, it is literally impossible for anyone to honestly give you less than the best possible rating.

Yes, these "people" really do believe that.

Comment Re:PR article (Score 2, Insightful) 151

And yet, he is correct. AI is based on scraping the internet. Even if it were capable of actual intelligence, anything based on the internet is based mostly on lies, misunderstanding and willful ignorance.

Comment Re:This feels like a band-aid solution (Score 3) 64

Open your task manager. Look for explorer.exe. It is running all the time already.

Then riddle me this, Batman: Why are they preloading it? What are they preloading? Since it's running all the time, they're clearly not preloading it. Ergo, they're doing something else that will impact system resources, and need some kind of explanation.

Comment Re:This feels like a band-aid solution (Score 5, Insightful) 64

XP didn't spend as much time going through all your documents and data files and sending its "telemetry" off to Microsoft for AI training (and sale to advertisers for "targeted ads").

And now, file explorer will be running all the time, so make certain they don't miss anything.

Comment Re:What they didn't say (Score 3, Insightful) 37

They've always been open about doing that for unpaid consumer accounts, it's how they can provide the service for free.

An everybody else who provides a similar service for free does the same thing, only with worse spam filters (say what you want, Gmail has the best spam filters in the business - they don't want the competition).

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