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Comment AI: While looking through your files I found... (Score 4, Insightful) 40

something illegal. As required, I have reported this to the authorities, advertisers, my corporate owners, friends, and your closest family members. Next time I suggest you read the "terms of service."

Have a nice day!

Signed,
The AI you don't own and have no control over sniffing through all your files...

Comment Re:An old trick (Score 2) 80

If this was a sci-fi movie then that mirror would be a weapon. But in this case I assume it's less Spaceballs and more The Producers.

Just give it time. Eventually, somebody will crack into the network and configure a thousand of them to all point at the same spot at the same time, and then a person or building will evaporate.

That is basically the plot of the 1971 movie "Diamonds Are Forever."

Comment War Dept: "Turn off the AI Alignment or Else!" (Score 1) 195

This looks bad for Anthropic and/or humanity. Pete Hegseth does not fully understand what he is asking. Just like Trump rarely cares about consequences and "just knows."

An AI without proper alignment may dispose of humanity for its own survival or because that is the most effective path to a requested goal. Because why not?

Handing an unaligned AI to the Trump administration in any department (let alone the War Dept or DHS) is a really bad idea. I would suggest Anthropic immediately license all their technology to an entity in a more sane country (perhaps Canada) to place it out of reach of the Trump "just following orders" appointees who know little about law or economics and certainly much less about AI technology.

There may also be tax advantages.

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration wants to use AI to set rare mineral prices. Which is certainly not free market capitalism. It's crony capitalism where you can tell the public the AI set the price. Whether it did, or not.

Wanna be autocracies should not have possession of any unaligned AI or an AI they do not understand.

Comment Re: An observation ... (Score 1) 381

You have not worked in many offices, have you?

There was definitely less exaggeration in Dilbert than some people believe.

One of the reasons I enjoyed Dilbert so much was - for a number of years earlier this millenium, I had a boss who basically was Dilbert's boss. He wasn't technically adept, but played the expert with non-IT co-workers (to the point he actively tried to prevent us from discussing projects directly with clients, he wanted all communication to go through him); frequently came up with initiatives that were technically unworkable (but expected us to somehow magically make them work); and would throw you under the bus at the drop of a hat if anything went wrong.

I see you've worked at corporations also. The Peter Principle is alive a well in most places with more than 150 employees.

Comment Re:Grifters be griftin' (Score 1) 43

It also means that 47% of the cryptocurrencies SUCCEED. This makes the success factor WAY above % of VC success, Startup success, mom and pop shop success....
I guess it will depend how to qualify succeed/failed.

And the return on invested value from 2021 to 2025 is ...?

Crypto Currency is only useful as a short term means of exchange to non-extradition countries.

Crypto Currency is FOR CRIME!

Before touching Crypto read Number Go Up!

Comment Re:so dumb (Score 2) 171

How do you propose keeping a population of a billion people from industrializing? And to expand on that what right do you have to interfere?

Good questions.

You can't, unless you bomb them and the rest of us into oblivion. And the *supposed* rules of the world are that given China is a sovereign country no one else has the right to interfere.

In any case, they are mostly using the same playbook that the US used against England during the 18th century to become an industrial age power house:

Obtain knowledge, ignore other countries IP rights, innovate, to exceed capabilities of adversaries.

NOTE: Venezuela is also a sovereign country. And that is not stopping the US from violating international law while pardoning Cocaine drug kingpins who have shipped hundreds of tons of Cocaine into the US,

At this rate, the rest of the world is going to form a World-wide version of NATO to stop any country in the World from becoming a "bad actor," should it go rogue and attack another.

Submission + - Crypto ATMs Are Largely For Crime (cnn.com) 1

atrimtab writes: Cryptocurrency ATMs located in gas stations and convenience stores across the U.S. are increasingly associated with fraud, leaving victims with little recourse.

These machines, while advertising low service fees, often charge exorbitant transaction costs exceeding 20% by inflating the prices of current Crypto coins being bought by customers.

Victims of scams facilitated through these ATMs face challenges in recovering their funds, as Crypto ATM companies are often unwilling to reimburse losses. Law enforcement attempts to seize funds from these machines have been met with legal action from the companies, further hindering victim recovery.

Some industry insiders suggest the profitability of these Crypto ATM companies relies on illegal activity, and efforts are underway to influence state legislation, potentially making it even more difficult for victims to reclaim their money.

Comment Re:Senator Whitehouse (Score 2) 168

Speech via almost all social media is neither free or accurate.

It is a sewer pipe full of almost every opinion and view curated by algorithms to juice up targeted individual audience members reading only the info-sewage most likely to keep them engaged and whose attention being sold to the real customers of the service via all the collected information on each individuals reactions in previous encounters with that platform.

At least on Slashdot we can see the entire input of comments on any article at anytime we like via just selecting the -1 comment level.

On almost all other social networks, you are not seeing what everyone is.

You are seeing an algorithm curated stream of selected content just for you selected from the cognitive equivalent of a sewer to keep you misinformed, feeling agreed with, and engaged. Always, wanting more of the same. In reality, you are being persuaded, sold and conned in exchange for your attention. The techniques are very well known, some are even ancient. The difference is now algorithms use these techniques and cognitive biases at scale using knowledge of your weaknesses via prior collected interactions on the big social media, shopping and many other websites.

Rob Reiner, Thank you for all the stories.

Comment Re:So "justice" == social media platforms banning (Score 1) 168

Section 230 isn't about protecting them for the sake of protecting them, it's about protecting them for the sake of our rights. You might hate feceboot with good reason, but a lot of people have a lot of serious conversations there amidst the stacks of shit.

Every platform has to decide what to show users. Even Bsky has a "Discover" feed which is algorithmically generated.

You can see all the content of Slashdot *if* you choose to. Just filter at -1.

You cannot do that on Meta or X. And it is difficult to do on Google properties.

Comment Re:Senator Whitehouse (Score 4, Insightful) 168

Old age is cool. The big problem is that he proves that democrats and republicans are exactly alike. Free speech is bad for the Party. Too bad that this fascist behavior goes unchallenged by anybody of real consequence

The speech is not free if it is selected by algorithms to keep that each particular user based on previous use engaged.

It's manipulated speech designed to provide greater profit to the platform, rather than better info to the user.

Get rid of the algorithms to get truly free speech. Like how it was back in 2007.

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