Are you kidding? When researchers observe behavior even without the intent to sell a product, that's pointless drivel?

This is the kind of garbage that gets +5 Insightful?

Indeed. AI system rely on weights and scores to achieve a goal, and the how and why doesn't seem to matter.

The very definition of the ends justify the means.

Where, in the middle of all this exchanged money and new created value, is all the tax revenue?

Ah, right.

Imagine being fined because you're in the middle of repainting, but the AI can't tell the difference between peeling paint and an ongoing construction project.

I loved that scene in Back to the Future II where a back alley had a bale of crushed Laserdiscs.

And when they are finally held accountable for their actions...

"No, no... it's not fair!"

For decades, the standard practice in the industry has been that every user-mode application has full access to the Home folder and can do whatever it wants. Nobody has ever questioned that.

But, yeah... if an AI application goes rouge and destroys your data, that's totally the end-user's fault. Always blame the user. LOL.

Perhaps the tech industry is just way, way past due for a total security overhaul, and AI may just be what finally makes developers get their heads out of their asses.

Please tell me you're mistaken. Bit rot is always a concern. I've had plenty of problems with SSDs developing weak blocks even though they are continuously powered. Maybe some drives will do "maintenance" to prevent this, but my experience with Samsung 830 series drives in particular showed massive losses in performance with old files if you don't do a full drive refresh every year or so.

You've got that backwards. The exemptions from fuel efficiency standards demanded larger vehicles. That's why the auto makers lobbied so hard for the current system.

It's all psychological. Big vehicles are worth more money. They make the doors and wheels huge, raise the hoods, and make the windows tiny, to make the vehicles look bigger than they really are. Then they tack on an extra $20K for no reason.

Same reason we put fins and chrome on cars in the 50's, and made land yachts in the 70's. American cars were always crap, but we pay good money for crap that's huge (or at least looks like it).

Oh, there's plenty of real encryption, security, and privacy in our software. It's just not there to benefit the end user.

No, agreements are legally distinct from contracts.

What good does that do? The companies can change the terms whenever the hell they want for any reason. The text means nothing.

Software licenses should be contracts, not "agreements". Then the terms actually mean something.

I wonder how many real programmers you could hire with that kind of money. Heck, for the same amount of money, you could outsource to 100 times as many foreign vibe coders.

Well, I think it all started with the EV fanatics screaming, "All gasoline cars need to be totally banned, RIGHT NOW!"

After more than a decade of that nonsense, and all the lies EV fanatics have been telling about their experiences, there's kind of a broken trust. Like it or not, there's good reasons why EVs haven't completely overtaken the market yet.

So... to keep using the product you already have, all you have to do is update to something totally different?

Sorry, I grew up in an era before the Internet, so I'm having a hard time understanding why people simp so hard for things that don't make sense. Back in my day, we chose to update software only if we felt it was in our interest, which allowed us to vote with our wallets. Things shouldn't break if you DON'T make changes.