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Comment Re: Clearly the (human) author doesn't get AI at a (Score 1) 65

I was wondering about that⦠I suppose at some point these LLM dudes are going to need robots on the ground to ask insightful questions at press conferences, gauge the word on the street, and find out the opinions of people whoâ(TM)ve just been killed in war zones.

On the other hand, will the common scum even be able to tell if the newspapers simply use LLMs to make up any old bollocks, instead of using flesh reporters to gather news?

Comment Re: Expendable (Score 1) 232

Ahhhh, I remember seeing some of the news coverage back when that Clinton fella got his knob polished by Monica from Friends in their round office.

To be perfectly frank, it would be nice to only have to get outraged by simpler things like that these days. The guys there have definitely allowed their empire to degenerate a little too far :-(

Comment The silence of the sheep (Score 0, Offtopic) 144

Not American. At first glance, this looks like an effective method for pulling the wool over the eyes of the gormless proletariat. Presumably there would be corresponding suppression in the news with regards to unprofitable weather events.

However, will they also need to find an effective solution to prevent the common scum from discussing unprofitable weather events in public?

For example, people are definitely going to realise that somethingâ(TM)s awry when their home is destroyed. That sort of thing is hard to ignore.

Submission + - Censorship and fraud driving creators away from YouTube 1

NewtonsLaw writes: When YouTuber Bruce Simpson received notification of a community guidelines infringement on his xjet YouTube channel he wasn't happy. YouTube alleges that one of his videos constitutes "hate speech" and even after review, the platform stands by its allegations.

What was the video that risks inciting hate and violence to such an extent that it needed to be removed, even after "appeal"?

Well it wasn't anything political, ideological or even violent. It was a two minute video of a radio controlled model aircraft flying in the skies at his local airfield in Tokoroa, New Zealand.

Incensed by this baseless allegation, Simpson posted this video to YouTube and within a few hours it had already gathered tens of thousands of views and over a thousand comments. Those comments make for great reading and show just how "out of touch" YouTube has become with its target audience and its creators.

The hypocrisy is also highlighted, as Simpson points out just how YouTube is prepared to overlook or even support frauds being perpetrated on its audience by way of scam advertisements that continue to play weeks or even months after they've been reported by countless people, many of who have become victims of the scams.

Has YouTube lost its way? Has it forgotten its roots? Are many creators now turning to self-hosting in reaction to ridiculous levels of censorship?

Or do we have a reverse adpocalypse — where content creators are shunning YouTube because they do not want their content being run alongside fraudulent scammy ads placed by YouTube?

Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 71

Hm, I recently had to go through old insurance and pension accounts, to get some things tidied up.

They all seem to have the âoeAIâ chatbox thing now.

Every question I asked of them was met with âoecall us.â

Itâ(TM)s bizarre. It would be simpler if they just put the phone number in the place where the little âoeHi! Call-Me-Kenneth, how may I destroy all fleshy ones I mean help you today?â speech bubble pops up.

Of course, then thereâ(TM)s the robot telephone receptionist that doesnâ(TM)t understand any questions either, and simply says to wait for a fleshy one to be let out of its cageâ¦

Comment What exactly are careers, anyway? (Score 1) 141

As the title. I'm in the exact age bracket that this is talking about, and still don't really understand what a "career" is.

I've been lucky enough to at least have had a job since the mid 90s, but it's always been that: a series of jobs.

I've always been in the position where it was too risky rocking the boat by trying to jump ship. Paying mortgage for parents' home, married with kids, etc.

Pay raises have pretty much always been science fiction (in the UK, and now Japan), and from what I can tell, "promotion" is either just a change in job title, or else is a result of the CEO saying something.

And what are these benefit things? The last company had a programme for selling it's own stock to employees, and the current one's been taken over by a private equity company with an offer to "invest" in the company; where the blazes do they think that money's supposed to come from, because they already know that we've not had pay reviews for ... well, there wasn't ever one.

Still, at least I've got a job. For now :-)

Comment Re:COBOL (Score 2) 338

Big Balls will probably go for Java's BigDecimal type.

More realistically though, they'll use floats of some sort, with the positive errors automatically routing the leftovers into super secret bank accounts, like in Superman III. All according to plan. Whatever the fuck "the plan" is.

Comment Re:US Constitution (Score 1) 99

Wait a minute, we can drink beer in Tokyo Disneyland. In fact, it's positively encouraged.
Shit, I'm hard pressed to think of a place where beer drinking is discouraged; maybe on the grounds of the Imperial Palace, not sure.
Anyway, the folks there really ought to assert their human rights more, it's just not right.

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