...because they merely expect AI to replace existing tasks. Whether it actually does is more nuanced. For example, many employees pressured to use AI say it makes their tasks harder by creating AI slop that needs cleaning up. They have to deal with mistakes that wouldn't be in a human draft or in existing time-tested templates. If and how fast employees will get better models or learn to prompt better is unknown.

It's essentially management's gamble. Those in the C-suite often don't spot or are slow to understand front-line patterns, as nobody likes delivering lackluster news to higher-ups. They'll typically hear, "There are a few learning curve hiccups, as expected, but we're making progress" even if the productivity ship is taking on a little water.

No, but CSAM can be on a phone. So can a list of assassination targets, an app that detonates an explosive, stolen classified data, Stuxnet-like malware...there are PLENTY of actually-problematic things that could be on a phone. ...for the record, that doesn't mean that this person had any of those things on his phone (and I'm inclined to believe that he didn't), just that digital contraband exists and it CAN exist on a phone.

I never activated Sirius, but twice a year they have a free week or so of music as a promotion. I don't do anything with or about that, but "weather alerts" start popping up. It's naturally windy in my neck of the woods so I get bajillion alerts that require pushing Dismiss while driving, but often cannot turn the alerts completely off because the Weather Alert "Off" feature is only available some of the time, but I cannot tell when without going into the menus, which present music options first. If it's not stealth spamming it's crappy UI coding. Either way, it sucks. I contacted Surius once and they said it cannot be fully deactivated. I may have a mechanic cut the antenna wire to Sirius but am afraid it would break GPS also.

but I can't track it down. Memory usage and disk/SSD look fine. I suspect either GPU or some weird OS stack gets full or confused. Windows 10 has a secret bladder that needs a diaper.

Yes, I know XiWare is likely snoopish, but so is GoogleWare. At least make the jerks compete.

Executives can't resist shoving a new spam channel into your face. Even if they can't use it immediately due to regulations etc., the possibilities make their greedy marketing glands swell with giddiness.

SiriusXM is already spamming my older model vehicle using tricks to get me to poke around in their music menu by pretending to malfunction. Long story, but here is similar behavior.

No evidence was given that math skills are atrophying because of AI, nor was that even claimed in the op-ed, which criticizes slipping testing standards.

It's race between cheaper and stingier. Like the Bungle of Hormuz, too early pick a winner

Probably not - it depends on the data that's been ingested.

Odds are pretty good that they've got decades of information regarding flight information. While it's obvious that there are more flights during the holidays, others surrounding regional events may have some value. There may be some custom coded Excel macros that have some value if they still worked; the business logic may still be useful even if the literal programming language isn't. The frequency of words used - or not used - by an airline within internal emails may be helpful. How frequently supervisors catered to customer requests vs. denying them, especially if the outcome is also known, can be helpful in optimizing recommendations for customer interactions.

Even without being super insidious, the useful data to an AI model isn't "did the business succeed", it's "who said what, and who did what, when".

If the crash takes your job with it, you're still hosed.

*sigh*

Because Spirit Airlines failed at BEING AN AIRLINE. Google isn't trying to use the data to become an airline, they're adding it to the meat grinder with which to train Gemini.

that's where all the products & names are gradually converging, like a giant stench-filled black hole.

Anthropic, kill Gemini.

Gemini, kill Copilot.

Copilot, kill Siri...

Could have sworn I've seen a Slashdot story on this a few months ago.

Jelltifa!