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Comment Re:Curious (Score 1) 70

These spying claims are much more dubious.

Dubious spying claims? Say it isn't so!

One wonders about how many thousands of stories there have been right here on slashdot about this or that bit of software, hardware or service supposedly wrecking democracy with its home phoning and data collection. But let the cost be less cut rate grey market hardware for the buying, and all such concerns become "dubious!"

If not for double standards, we'd have no standards at'll.

Comment Re:Curious (Score 2, Interesting) 70

But now big government is telling you what you can and cannot buy.

Ironic. A little while ago there was a big thread about dieselgate. All sorts of slashsnotters creaming over cases and fines for violations of big government regulations.

Now big government enforcing regulations is unwelcome when it comes to cut rate electronic junk...

Here is my surprised face :|

Comment Re:Always the "business" assholes (Score 1) 105

Sure. And if the government cretins would forego a lawyer or two and instead hire an actual technician tasked to actually verify the performance of regulated products once or twice a decade, you'd actually have some means of keeping the business cretins under control. But time and time again, whether it's Madoff or dieselgate or Boeing, we find no functioning technicians anywhere in the whole, bloated clown show: just a bunch of lawyers covering asses and gleefully dancing through revolving doors.

Business cretins will be cretins. That is a metaphysical certitude. Even if you throw enough of them in a GULAG to cripple you're economy, the survivors will still be cretins. If you want compliance, the only hope you have is diligent regulators. When (not if) they fail, be sure your government-worship hasn't blinded you to their culpability.

Comment Re:They said the same thing (Score 2) 68

"They" do. The Great Recession debt bubble was immediately proceeded by luminaries such a Barney Frank self-assuredly denying any problems, and characterizing the pesky noticers as misguided.

The AI bubble is end stage. LLMs are essentially next level search engines and, while powerful, their power is finite, especially since the training material is already exhausted. Further, there is little value in redundant implementations: there is no need for a dozen plus distinct tier 1 LLMs all exhibiting approximately the same performance.

So a shakeout is imminent. We will not be carpeting the country with nuclear reactors because Sam Altman. That's actually a shame: if a bunch of reactors were built for the wrong reason, at least we'd have the reactors when it's all over.

Comment Re:Fake "success" is fake (Score 0) 92

If it is a larger number, then this is still a fail and unusable.

Do you have any rational basis for this claim? If there were 101 reports, and 51 were bogus, the discovery only 50 legitimate flaws in a widely used and mature code base is somehow an unworkable process?

I believe we're witnessing the emergence AIDS. AI derangement syndrome.

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