Why would they need a warrant? Flock consents to their customers accessing Flock's data.

[various anticipated objections] Yes, but this is in America.

So many Hollywood scriptwriters who lazily decided, "I'll just use Nazis for the bad guys, they're universally-recognized evergreen enemies," are facepalming these days.

The problem is Flock is a private company so in theory anyone can pay for access. It just so happens all the customers are the police. That's the legal loophole.

The police will pitch a hissy fit and threaten a work stoppage.

Racism is in fashion now they don't have to hide.

(I'm just speculating.) People don't need help with selling fun things; they want a 'bot that can sell the crap which humans have given up on. Anthropic doesn't want to sell widgets; they want to sell stores which sell widgets (sort of like selling pickaxes instead of getting into mining).

Maybe the problem it has been asked to solve is "I have some crap that nobody wants. Sell it."

This story (and the one in December it links to) is telling me the proper use of AI is to be abused, drawing fire away from humans.

Can you explain the accounting for me then?

I thought "Mommy Has Four Graphics Cards" was pretty good, but "Not Everyone Computes" did a great job of explaining why the industry is largely about remote services rather than running it locally.

It's 2026. Companies don't like to pay people. They know that there's already 10 people lined up for your job if you leave or get laid off. The job market is a dumpster fire and it's not going to improve. Most listings boil down to responsibilities of a senior engineer but pay of a junior engineer and the listing stays up permanently.

Microsoft revenue is up 18% this quarter. I think they'll manage to scrape by. https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...

Flock and Axon are corporations with close government ties. They have more rights than we do. If they break the law, would anything happen?

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Why not both?