You mean the AC post showing a pattern? (I didn't even know you could still psot anonymously on Slashdot but I digress...)

A service worker shouldn't just 'run' automatically without any user prompting (certainly not the hundreds I have on my box from every single news and slop page I've ever clicked which I have to go wipe out every few months).

They were for web-apps and should only be installed when the user installs the web-app or actually approves notifications. You can say "no notifications" but the service worker will still get installed. This is just a fundamental design flaw that's been there for as long as the SW feature has.

I mean, that doesn't still mean that under better installation security, SWs couldn't still exploit a flaw like this, but it would make it less automatic.

There are no 'personalities'. There are no 'feelings'. There is software looking at patterns and regurgitating text that fits that pattern, because that is what it was programmed to do.

These idiots using those words would still be fooled by Eliza.

but DO they have their audience?

or maybe this is gaming the system on two sides: the company puts out AI slop on the channels, and then creates hundreds of fake accounts and downloaders and streamers to make it seem like the thing is the bees knees, none of which have ad-blocking on , so it just rakes in the ad-view count?

This is far beyond just spotify and podcasts. The AI Slop of music has invaded YouTube on a massive scale, where common searches of semi-rare material (say, Disney Parks Background Loops) are now flooded with "Ambient" and "Jazz" and "Orchestra" loops that have nothing to do with Disney, their songs (however they are arranged) nor the parks music at all. It is just generic AI-generated junk but picking up on those keywords and including fake Disney video animation content to get the click.

Pretty sure this is going to hit other genre things, too, like if you were to search for "Star Wars Music". Maybe the "Christmas Music" AI slop might actually be recognizable Christmas/Seasonal tunes this coming season...but something tells me probably not.

Don't you mean Bwandi-chlorians? Stardiocrawars !

A long time ago in a galaxy dumbed down for television...

> So there are people are literally, anti-human?

People? I think you're using that term pretty loosely here. Since when are the take me to your leaders with absolute power corrupting absolutely actually "people" anymore?

> Just a soltuion. Whatever that means.

I thought we learned all about final solutions in WWII ?

seriously, he's going to lose these in the long run (he already has on several other firings), but he continues because 1) SCOTUS has never made a blanket statement he can't yet, and 2) it isn't his money, win or lose.

...doesn't this open up the ultimate in bait and switch excuses? Oh sorry, that car doesn't actually exist. The AI just made it up. We'll see if we can get our provider to fix that but for now can we show you THIS car that's only $4000 more expensive?

at the very least, doing code reviews of jr developers gives one (of age/experience) the satisfaction that the mentoring is going to produce a better developer who can take on bigger tasks, eventually start reviewing others, and the company experience continues to grow until the obligatory pointless layoffs to boost the stock price.

you can't trust an AI to truly remember anything you tried to "teach" it if it even got a look at your fixes of their crappy code, because even if it did, the next version of the bot's engine may need to be retrained from scratch as it "forgot" almost everything. Plus, it is REALLY hard to get AI to understand general code design philosophies like "3 strikes and you refactor" - it is designed to regurgitate first, not solve problems by increasing the use of shared code. I look at some AI results and all I see is tech debt that will eventually kill the product but never get fixed because nobody quite understands the original task it was trying to do when it just did 'copy and mod'.

Maybe we could start by limiting the sale of these things based on age somehow... If only there we some technology at the location of sale that could identify purchasers of products...

> this article is about age verification.

Through individual biometric identification.

Let's kill every human, then no one underage can smoke. There's a sentence "about underage smoking" for you.

some have suggested that's just because it has more or less illegally webscraped the entirety of stackoverflow and reddit, so you're really just doing a resource-intensive google search to find the right stack overflow question/answer page, without either of those sites getting any credit for it.

That's what it comes down to. When you start vibe-coding, you're no longer really coding, and you're not even really creating anymore.

You're just editing. All you're doing is code reviews and quick bug fixes...and those tend to be my least favorite parts of my job.

At least code-reviewing a junior developer, you're teaching, mentoring, instilling some new disciplines or expanding their horizons.

There's no satisfaction in doing that to a bot. Especially because the next time it codes something for you, it is going to come up with something completely different as if the 'experience' you tried to give it doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah, maybe it gets the job done...but I'm not in this to 'get the job done'. If this is what the job was or is going to become, then I'll quit, do my own coding on the side for open-source or other projects, and just make money as a substitute teacher... ...that is, if I didn't have to pay for health insurance, but America sucks in that regard and always will.