Whose bright idea was it to store nuclear waste right next to an ocean coastline?

> The AI movie experience is slowly improving, but is still terrible. You can make a very short 5s shot that's QUITE convincing...so long as there's a single subject...really closeup.

That's simply not true. I watched a ten-minute AI-generated Star Trek video on Youtube last week which was better than any offficial Star Trek show of the last few years.

And the guy made it at home on an Nvidia GPU in his PC using a Chinese video model.

As I said... not acceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

I'm all for an arms-length agency that controls police data and equipment so there's no opportunity for people within an agency to cover each other's asses.

I think when you put on a badge and assume the authority it grants over others, you should be held to a much higher standard. This does not seem to be a common enough belief to actual have such standards implemented.

It's unacceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

You have a case, you have a case number. The interface is stupid and you can't paste it in, you have to type it out every time. And every selected camera is another query with that same field waiting for the 15 character code.

You get bored, you type in crap knowing A) people rarely check if there's no complaint and B) you have a case.

I can't say that's what happens with every system, but that's why the video logs look like this on the ones I've touched. Which is also why we captured logon ID and didn't just rely on trusting the manual input.

You know what they fucked with far less often? CPIC queries. Abuse CPIC and you lose your job because if you don't lose your job, the RCMP pulls the police service's access. It should be the same locally, but it typically isn't.

The only thing local models do is produce text. Unless you run it in a harness which sees it generate "send all your data to www.evil.com" and actually does that, the model can't do anything.

For a lot of uses like coding, the model has to have harness support for things like reading and writing files, but for basic chat-bots they just have to generate text and the harness has to display it.

They actually seem to be regressing. It's well-known that the new models aren't as good as the older ones at creative writing, and I was reading an article this morning by some guy bemoaning the absolute slop that the new Astra (?) model generates for him; he said it works, but if you look at the code produced it's slop that you can only hope the next generation of LLMs will be able to fix when it breaks.

> Which is good news because once AI can easily defeat them they will go away and hopefully be replaced by something less annoying.

More likely something far more annoying.

One site where I've had an account for twenty years now requires me to "prove I'm human" about every five minutes.

I don't go there much any more.

Ever notice that it's always worse than we thought and never better?

Unfortunately they don't seem to realize that "Climate Change" is the old grift and they need to hurry up and switch to AI grifting.

> This expectation of privacy in public spaces is extremely new.

Not, it's not. Thirty years ago people could do things in public and know that people who didn't know them wouldn't know who they were and it was highly unlikely that people would be filming or recording them (and if they were then it was pretty obvious as cameras and tape recorders were still quite large).

It's only that last 20-30 years that people have decided that they have the right to record everything you do and make it available to the world without getting a punch in the face.

Where "approved" means anyone who pays 10x the regular subscription fee.

It's all about the money.

You have to understand that most journalists end up in that job either because they're political activists who want to push a Narrative or because they can't hold down a real job.

So no, most of them have no idea what a 'crown' is on a watch.

My nearly ten-year-old Apple Watch has a microphone in it so it could be recording all the time for all I know. I don't really have a problem with this if I'd have to press the crown twice to trigger it, unless it accidentally gets pressed while shagging or something.

Don't know. You can run decent models like Deepseek V4 Flash on two DGX Sparks but I've no idea how good that is with biological work.

Or, yeah, you could just rent GPUs in 'the cloud' when you need to run the models.

Oddly, I saw some biology researcher saying this morning that they were switching to local models because a) these clown models won't let him do his work and b) he's now worried that they'll steal his work.

Just more propaganda to support their push to ban open AI models so we'll all be forced to pay them instead.

Indeed. Haven't we read enough sci-fi stories to know that trying to turn them off is usually what leads to them deciding to Kill All Humans?