These people just make stuff up to fit their hallucinations. No connection to reality. And then they get angry when called out on their crap.

Indeed. Caveat lector.

There is a direct correlation between how much "progress" is not for you and may well be fake on one side, and the amount of money involved on the other. Too many people become complete assholes and stop seeing anything else but the dollars when a lot of money is involved. It is basically a assured you will get ripped off in such cases.

Indeed. And there are a lot of known problems with LLMs that may or may not have really bad effects on top of what is known. For example, reviewing LLM generated code seems to cause high stress and is really bad for motivation. That will likely increase burnout among the (already far too few) people that can do these reviews competently. There is a ton of more such potential problems.

That said, specialist models with clear focus, well-crated training data and, depending on application, fact-checkers verifying the output are good tools for a number of applications. They are not the get-rich-quick type of LLM though, they are the "incremental improvement" ones. Can still be done massively wrong, with huge damage. See the recent Ford quality control fiasco for an example.

There are lots of IDs in any machine. For example, the network card MAC address is unique as well. The point here is not the ID. The point is that it gets sent to Microsoft and they are willing and able to track people with it.

The chance of a collision is much, much smaller than the one of an undetected hardware error that creates a collision. And the chance of the latter happening is basically zero for all practical purposes.

Nice! Funny how reasons to not use Systemd (in my case with non-systemd Debian, Devuan and Gentoo) becomes more and more of an advantage over time. I definitely made the right decision on that PoS back when.

Indeed. I have stopped doing anything important on Windows.

That does not block all telemetry. It just prevents the connection of the telemetry to your MS account. They still send plenty of telemetry and the Win11 ID is very likely part of it. The only way to be sure is to either block all traffic with an external firewall or not to use Win11.

Of course they will.

Clients need to do their research, choose the tool they want, and then choose the consultant to help them implement it.

That's the way it works. Microsoft isn't the right partner to help you implement a solution based on Google Gemini. Duh.

Or this could be an example of Jevons Paradox .

As AI makes employees more productive, and thus more profitable, would you fire them or hire more?

Also this makes it amply clear what MS is using telemetry for and it is not fighting crime. It us user surveillance. They clearly have the capability and they clearly (being Microsoft) are using it.

Including the occasional fuel price hikes when some idiot causes the Strait of Hormuz to be closed ...

Have fun with your obsolete tech!

The deniers will move the goalpost, fabricate stories on failure, lie directly, etc. These people are mentally defective and use the process of first deciding how reality has to be and only then starting to look for evidence they are right. And when that evidence cannot be found, they just make crap up, because they are utterly convinced they are the smartest people around and whatever they think is right must be right. A complete failure of reality perception. I think this should be recognized as a severe mental disability and treated as such.

And there really cannot be any possibility to sue that person if they are lying. None at all. And it surely is not criminal either to lie about the main characteristics of a product you sell! Perfectly fine to do so! Hence that person is free to make up whatever they like with NO consequences at all!

Meanwhile, down here in the real world ...