Came here to mention this theory...could it be tested by producing a sci-fi-free variant of an LLM that appears to have a "survival drive?" If that doesn't change anything, maybe it picked it up not just from stories where AIs do underhanded things to survive, but stories where people do?
Discord is only the latest and least of the problems in that regard - Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest locked all of that content up first.
So this is basically a "last straw" thing, TBH I think the AI thing is more an excuse (with of course some true anti AI zealotry thrown in, you can tell whenever somebody uses the word "slop" they are likely a hysterical zealot - not saying AI is good, far from it, but some people are irrational).
Slop is a totally fair term for any low-quality AI-generated material, and not an unreasonable one for AI-generated content in general due to average output quality.
It sounds like "Graf Zahl" was a not-so-benevolent OSS project dictator and this was the last straw.
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yeah it sucks that they renamed that mountain to cover up the fact that it was named after a guy who massacred a bunch of innocent native Americans. OH WAIT
Sloppy McSlopperson, Attorney-At-Slop
You don't need physical access to install a bootkit, just root access, and full disk encryption would only protect against bootkit infection via an evil maid attack. The bootkits being discussed here get install by just running on top of the full OS with root privileges.
But on the other hand, bootkits are an extremely rare form of malware, likely the rarest type, and I think creating Secure Boot in response to it was a case of whipping a curious little problem into a crisis and then never letting a crisis go to waste.
Either put up or shut up. If it's so toxic, leave & start your employee's utopia. I'm sure you'll have workers breaking down your door to work for you at your much-higher-than-market wages, with 'work when you want, vacation when you want' hours, work freely from home policies, and (somehow) the most expensive glorious health coverage available.*
If it's not enough to leave, stay and STFU. Complaining AND staying is just cowardice and carping.
The reason they can't (even if they have the resources) is that the market rewards brutal worker exploitation, or at least fails to punish it in any way while allowing businesses to reap the benefits. Labor laws that enforce decent working conditions would be a good start towards a solution, and those start falling into place after similar union-negotiated working conditions become common enough that they're a de-facto market standard. Unions make the progress and government just locks it down.
Not being snarky, it's a genuine question. If they're that unhappy, there is absolutely nothing stopping them starting a business themselves and running it with all the principles of kindness and generosity and compassion that (they assert) is missing in the workplace they're in.
Because they don't have the money to start a business lying around (a $1k emergency expense would be a big ask for the average American, average startup cost is around $20k), they likely have health coverage tied to their employment, and they probably don't like the odds of competing in a market riddled with oligopolies that benefit from massive economies of scale and labor arrangements that can treat workers as consumables and work them to their limits.
HTH
Unfortunately we have an economic system where people who can't get others to pay for their toil become destitute.
Yes, and IIRC in the '90s/early 2000s they recommended a lower grade of AES for civilian vs. military use. And more recently, there was the TrustCor debacle.
If the NSA can get the non-hybrid PQ algorithm to be the standard for future versions of TLS that would be the NSA's biggest ever win in cryptography standards sabotage. The level of danger they're willing to heap on all non-military communications again raises the question of whether they think their foreign adversaries are massively inept compared to themselves, or if they just think that creating this widespread danger is worth making their jobs easier.
Unfortunately you generally can't make electricity cheaper for consumers with cheaper grid power due to how the idiotic regulatory-captured electricity market works (in the UK most notably, electricity prices can't fall until natural gas is eliminated from the grid completely), but until that's fixed, you can shift the money from your local job-intensive renewable producer to authoritarian petrostates with fossil fuels.
So with Queensland having local coal production and politicians on the take from the fossil fuel industry now in place, what they're doing makes sense for people who give zero fucks about the environment.
The cost of adding storage to renewables is minor enough that it doesn't come close to shifting the price in favor of fossil fuels, so either demand is growing faster than supply where you are, or you're getting ripped off.
Here's data on the effect of renewable power on consumer electricity prices: https://www.theclimatebrink.co...
As soon as I read the headline I was wondering what kind of right-wing morons willing to pay extra money to use coal instead of renewables just won an election there.
All the simple programs have been written.
