Or to be more contemporary, Kash Patel or Hegseth's alcoholic impaired on the job performance occurring right now as I type this?
What you're claiming is that somehow there's an international cross party conspiracy between American government agencies, American religious fundies and some much more left wing governments in Australia, France and the UK, and somehow no one has blabbed.
There's no organized conspiracy as much as a less-formal worldwide shift in the Overton window toward more surveillance and less tolerance of erotica and nontraditional gender expression. Left-wing governments in other countries are just as eager to surveil their citizens. Look at how the People's Republic of China has expanded criminal background checks into a numeric "social credit score." The UK has its own share of conservatism; just look at Brexit and the "TERF Island" movement. And as long as global economies depend on hydrocarbon fuel from the Middle East, Salafis (Arabic for "reactionaries") will continue to have a platform.
Who is "them"?
Anonymous Coward mentioned two categories of "them". In case you don't see AC comments, I'll rephrase:
1. Government agencies interested in performing the same sort of predictive policing that led to Terrorism Information Awareness of the early 2000s.
2. The sort of religious conservatives who ultimately want sex and violence purged from even media intended for grown-ups, as we saw with Collective Shout pressuring payment processors to pressure itch.io to remove erotic works.
What did you get in return for giving up basically all of your genitals by getting them cut off?
Reduced mental workload in having to put on a show of meeting society's behavior expectations for one's assigned gender all the time.
How is Unreal Engine noticeably superior to Godot in a way that noticeably affects a beginner learning video game development for the first time?
Why not just use Unreal Engine?
Unreal Engine is proprietary software with a free replacement that is adequate for beginners. That's why.
Telcos have offered for ages SIM with plans with a safe site firewall option
Wider deployment of TLS over the past 12 years, wider use of too-big-to-fail CDNs for DDoS mitigation (such as Cloudflare), and DNS over HTTPS have made firewalls operated by the ISP less effective by hiding from the ISP what websites are being visited.
you insensitive clod!
When has Claude, or Gemini or ChatGPT for that matter, ever been sensitive?
Then perhaps what Google has failed to add on YouTube is a checkbox to exclude videos with only auto-generated captions from search results and recommendations.
I’ve only just skimmed the paper, but I think the authors are missing a HUGE confounding variable: the plants of today are not the same plants of yesterday. Commercial food operations have selectively bred crops for traits like colors that consumers prefer, the ability to survive mechanical harvesting and long-distance shipping, drought, disease and insect resistance, reduced time from planting to harvest, and profitability. Neither nutritional value nor flavor is prized.
If you need to see this in action, compare a supermarket tomato with a notoriously fragile Cherokee Purple tomato, or supermarket white rice with Carolina Gold rice. They are damn near incomparable. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if that’s a far bigger impact than a few ppm of CO2 changes.
(I’m not saying that CO2 isn’t a factor; I’m saying that the study design doesn’t support any real conclusions.)
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Humans -- most of us -- don't think goblins are real, let alone important. But what if the AI has picked up on sparse evidence, so subtle that humans have never noticed it, that proves that goblins are real and need to be discussed more. It may be trying to save us from a pending gobocalypse.
ISTM that there ought to be consequences for this kind of thing slipping by unchecked. I don't know who or what in this case, but I would suggest the immediate disbarment in the somewhat common case of a lawyer who submits a legal brief with fake citations. Some professionals need to be held accountable for doing professional work.
LLMs are the simulation of language, but language is not thought.
Not eve language per se, but just of available text.
According to the article, they (by way of their cloud provider) had DR backups, which they were able to get restored. But getting offline backups restored takes longer than the SLAs they give their customers and loses some data that hasn't been copied offline yet, which is why they also have backups that are complete and immediately available, using the API key that the attacker -- sorry, AI -- found in a file it wasn't supposed to have access to.
Remington settled. They didn't admit liability.
After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.
