That's how it used to work here in the USA. Then the subsidies were terminated in favor of forcing students to get loans. Then a US senator led a campaign to prevent those students from discharging that debt through bankruptcy. That senator's name was (and is) Joseph R. Biden.

The boomers got the handout. I don't want anything they didn't get.

I don't expect to get it. I do expect to immediately discount any bullshit from the hypocrites who got it and think I shouldn't get it.

You didn't get it, and you're insisting nobody deserves it because you didn't get it, which is sad. You're sad.

OK, how do we provide this feedback? The article is chock-full of links, but not one for that. It gives strong "get fucked" energy.

Since it's not worth putting out the effort to figure out where to submit some comments they definitely won't give a fuck about anyway: In no way is it a "first class" anything when it's only for GNOME and only in a snap. Let us know when it's ready for prime time so we can test it out and decide if we care. There's a 0% chance I'm going to use GNOME or snap.

Yes.

So you moved the goalposts and declared victory? Good work, clown.

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That would be the sane thing to do. I doubt Microsoft is aware how bad their problem has become though, because their profits are excellent. And hence I think they will continue the enshittification until things cannot be repaired anymore. That point may already lie in the past.

AI hallucinations are not a new observation, even if people with no understanding of computing history think so.

Probably not much of a surprise, but always worthwhile to verify.

Indeed. I mean I did a few ChatGPT queries back when it came out and found its use a waste of time. I see the same level of incapability today in the AI summaries for Internet search and I am mostly ignoring these now. Occasionally I check and just find "still incapable". And while the paid models will surely do better, they will still not do well.

Yes. But most people do not understand NLP. They do understand "magic intelligent box", or think they do.

Obviously. Look at Musk's porn generator, for example, that does not mind undressing anybody underage, even when that is clearly illegal. Or at Googles AI summaries that may hallucinate stuff to the detriment of enterprises or people. This is a short-term money-grab and they do not mind if it all comes crashing down in a few years or tomorrow.

There is no AI tech that can do what GenAI is missing. All we have is actual human intelligence, but that requires expert-level capabilities.

Agreed. I get like 30% hallucinations in the AI responses to stuff I ask search engines now. But I generally do not ask simple stuff. The other problem is that for simple stuff, you do not need AI and its use will only have significant negative impact on your mental processes. And for advanced stuff (where you actually need to know and understand the simple stuff to verify the answer), hallucinations become pretty likely and so does missing context and caveats in the answer.

I do not see how this tech can be long-term useful for anything but the simple stuff. But there is is not cost-effective at all.

Hallucination are a severe problem whenever the damage is large. For example, driving a car, controlling an industrial process or writing software that will be exposed to the Internet. The problem is, humans generally do not hallucinate (unless they are managers or politicians or cult leaders and these all can and often do extreme damage), they are just somewhat off bust still mostly where they should be. Even a drunk driver is basically driving fine, just with reduced reflexes and capabilities. That is not the case for an AI hallucination. AI hallucinations can and will be completely off. And hence, safety mechanisms designed for humans do not work for AI and it may not be possible or economically feasible to extend them enough.

That is why scaling will not solve things. Effort grows exponentially bot in training data needed and effort of training the model. Hence, forget it. I am constantly surprises that nobody but the actual experts understand what exponential effort means. Incidentally, this is the same problem that will make sure QCs never reach useful sizes.

You are the only loser here ;)

Actually, let's correct my comment a bit since you, being a snowflake, couldn't grasp the "why" of it. I actually used to buy games. But those were games that I still own, and if I want to play them again (even decades later), I can. While the games they currently sell to you they can take them away from you at any time, unilaterally and without warning. You'd have to be an idiot to accept those kinds of terms. So, pirating.

Maybe one of these days they'll go back to selling games that are actually yours, and then I'll go back to buying games. But I think it's unlikely they'll change their minds.

I'm not able of care even less about what you think.