Comment Employment is not the goal (Score -1) 55
AKA: mass layoffs.
AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.
Submission + - Software engineer scored a religious exemption from using AI at work (notthebee.com)
schwit1 writes: Erin Maus is a Unitarian Universalist and Unitarian Universalists believe everything.
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
Submission + - Fox to buy streaming device maker Roku for $22 billion (cnbc.com) 1
schwit1 writes: The combination will merge Fox’s sports and news networks, as well as its free ad-supported streamer Tubi, with Roku, which makes streaming devices and has The Roku Channel.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Comment Can do something fun too! (Score 0) 39
it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones
Bot-sitting does not require as much attention as doing it myself requires. While the AI is handling the tedium, I can do something fun — both work-related and otherwise...
A co-worker next to me is doing cross-word puzzles, for example...
Comment Re:Doesn't ring true (Score -1) 50
Apparently a *lot* of people on Slashdot are completely fooled by the CCP propaganda.
And some of them are CCP propaganda, using multiple "sockpuppets" to both post and moderate.
Decades earlier — during Vietnam war — USSR was financing all of "peace" movements in the West in particular, while attacking the "Capitalist way of life" in general. It'd be quite foolish for China to not be doing the same now. Even more foolish would be for us to not realize, that they do.
Submission + - Germany makes landmark decision on Google's AI Overviews (the-decoder.com)
Morpeth writes: A German court made clear distinction between Google simply returning search results which point to websites they did not generate/control/own, versus the information provided by Google's AI Overviews, which the court deems as content they are creating, and hence liable for.
"A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews..."
"Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results "in its own words and according to its own structure," the ruling says. "
"The court also examined existing rulings from Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which gave traditional search engines and autocomplete limited liability. The BGH had argued that search engine operators were only liable as indirect infringers because they merely made third-party content findable. A proactive duty to check results would threaten how search engines work.
The Munich court found that this reasoning doesn't apply to AI overviews. A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate "independent, new, and substantive statements"
"A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews..."
"Google's AI overviews work nothing like traditional search results, the court argues. The AI rewrites and judges results "in its own words and according to its own structure," the ruling says. "
"The court also examined existing rulings from Germany's Federal Court of Justice (BGH), which gave traditional search engines and autocomplete limited liability. The BGH had argued that search engine operators were only liable as indirect infringers because they merely made third-party content findable. A proactive duty to check results would threaten how search engines work.
The Munich court found that this reasoning doesn't apply to AI overviews. A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate "independent, new, and substantive statements"
Comment Re:So what? (Score -1) 123
You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises?
I don't know, what voters you're talking about. I voted for exactly the kind of aggressive stance Trump is showing, thank you very much. If anything, I'd like him to be still more aggressive — long years of appeasing foreign assholes have made them too confident, America's "red lines" can be ignored with impunity.
Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.
Do you seriously think, Chinese citizens have better control of their foreign policy? Or are you going to claim, America is "the same" or "just as bad"?..
Comment Re:So what? (Score -1, Offtopic) 123
How many American companies have ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex?
US military is controlled by American voters, such as myself. The rest of the world, make a choice already!
Comment Something generic about it... (Score 1) 50
I watched the trailer, sure the visuals looks 'nice', but I wasn't blown away. The AI component is problematic imo.
Maybe it was the way to trailer was put together but it feels like it's very a much a scripted, on the rails experience, which doesn't really interest me. Though it seems a lot of high budget 'pretty' action games are this way now.
I thought the YouTube comments were interesting, they felt AI to me, every one a positive one liner, really? Thought it's the official TombRaider channel, so heavily censored and curated I'm sure. If you look at other comment sources, it's far from pure glazing...
Comment Don't threaten me with a good thing (Score 0) 215
AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology -- one that could bring enormous good for the world in science, healthcare, and beyond
Indeed!
If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing
No, it would not be. I want more people's lives — my own included — improved by those developments. And I want it yesterday.
Imagine Wright brothers sabotaging airplane-development, because it would allow people to travel too far too fast? Or the early automakers fretting over "implications" of using internal combustion engines for personal vehicles — because millions of grooms and coachmen would lose their jobs?.. Electric lamp? Wow, nice — but what about the candle-makers?
Submission + - OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic warn AI could help people build biological weapons (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence and biotechnology are now warning Congress that advanced AI systems could make biological weapons easier to create. Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft AI, Meta, and several biotech firms signed a public letter calling for mandatory screening and recordkeeping for synthetic DNA orders in the United States. The group argues that AI systems are rapidly improving at answering complex biology and virology questions, potentially lowering the expertise barrier for dangerous research.
The proposal would require DNA synthesis companies to screen customer orders for sequences linked to pathogens and maintain records that could help investigators trace suspicious activity. While many companies already do this voluntarily, the signatories say federal rules are now urgently needed. Critics will likely see the effort as another step toward scientific surveillance, especially as the same companies building increasingly powerful AI systems are also warning about the risks those systems may create.
The proposal would require DNA synthesis companies to screen customer orders for sequences linked to pathogens and maintain records that could help investigators trace suspicious activity. While many companies already do this voluntarily, the signatories say federal rules are now urgently needed. Critics will likely see the effort as another step toward scientific surveillance, especially as the same companies building increasingly powerful AI systems are also warning about the risks those systems may create.
Submission + - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that those chatbots will scrapeâ"in this case, a popular Reddit community.
Comment Damage control (Score 1) 6
Probably trying to earn some brownie points after forcing Fitbit users to their much hated & maligned Google Health app, with no option to keep the original app.
https://www.droid-life.com/202...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
https://www.androidauthority.c...
https://kotaku.com/google-fitb...
Comment Love adafruit (Score 4, Informative) 39
I used their CPX (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333) in some introductory programming/electronics classes at my school. They're a cool company in my experience, run by nerds, affordable, and big supporters of education & teachers.
I've never heard of Flux.ai, but they can Flux off if they're messing with Adafruit...
Comment NOT the Cannes Film Festival (Score 1) 65
so the promo headline is fake too
"Despite what some chatbot or Murdoch-owned newspaper told you, Hell Grind, the 95-minute farting-demon movie generated by AI, did not premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week. Per Futurism, Hell Grind was “not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program,” according to a festival spokesperson. Though outlets like Screen Daily and the Journal say otherwise, the film screened at “an industry event organized by third parties in Cannes,” the city, not the festival. "
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