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Comment Re:could not be (Score 4, Informative) 160

Basically the EFF exists to defend pedo rights

You are disturbingly confused and thinking of the (GOP) RetardedKlan Party whose head is a literal 34-time convicted felon, pedophile who admitted in a Howard Stern video to invading locker rooms of underage girls at pageants, and all-around Treasonous Shitrag who wears caked orange makeup to hide his syphilis blemishes.

Comment Re: Stop treating them like people (Score 2) 19

That they exist is not the issue. It is the credulity with which people talk about AI agents. AI, no matter the guidelines, cannot be forced to stick to writing things that are real. It is a simulacrum of intelligence, of self directed agency, of humanness. They are sophisticated simulation algorithms. Not true self-aware intelligences.

part of the problem is one of vocabulary. We need new vocabulary to separate what LOOKs like a person with agency, from some that that actually IS a person with agency. By reviling our existing language, we are conferring greater significance with what these programs are doing than is appropriate, based on HOW they work.

it is easy to believe these agents are being truthful and honest, because they parrot real humans, but every AI output I have ever attempted to validate has turned out to be completely disconnected from reality.

Comment Re: Liability time (Score 4, Insightful) 28

Yeah, and one thing we know about situations like this (referred to as a âoereverse centaurâ, where the person is the liability sink for the computer) is that AI can make mistakes faster and more subtly than busy humans can catch them. So, No, this is not a good use of AI

Comment Stop treating users like misbehaving children (Score 1) 111

AI needs to win or lose on the merits of what it can do. NOT on the basis of how good they are at shoving it down our throats.

office first put copilot into the ribbon, which is logical. That is where all new features appear eventually. Then, after people ignored it, because the did not want to use it, they put it into a button that hovers over the document, and cannot be hidden (unlike objects in the ribbon). I rolled back my office install to a version with copilot in the ribbon, so that I could hide it again, and disabled auto update. Hopefully this means they will put it back into the ribbon, and I can re-enable updates and go back to ignoring their AI until such time as I find a use for it.

Comment Re: Nice idea; won't happen (Score 4, Insightful) 64

The things he is advocating for are a means of generating leverage disproportionate to the size of their population. Which is his point.

Being an author, and being an FOSS advocate are not mutually exclusive. That you seem to think they are shows - again - how little you understand. His books, a couple of which I have read, describe his time lobbying against big tech, which makes him an advocate. His books themselves take his lobbying positions to the general public, which makes him an advocate.

you can disagree. Just as all the big tech CEOs and their co-oped politicians. Just do so honestly. He might fail (again), but success isnâ(TM)t what makes one an advocate. The act of pushing is.

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