Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

does that mean they'll continue to manufacture the same old models for the US market, which will possibly become less secure over time due to advanced hacking techniques applied to the same old well known hardware? Will it then result in a net loss in security over time?

It might resemble Cuba with their 1950s automobiles, frozen in time. I do agree that there is concern about backdoors and surreptitious identifying data sent to servers under control of China. Would it be better to allow new models, but require them to be completely torn down and reverse engineered by teams inside the FCC, or for their firmware source code to be handed over for inspection? (there's still room for nefarious business....hand over one set of code and install a slightly different set, or install a backdoor with a firmware update....)

I feel there's a legitimate concern here, and there always has been. What's a better solution, if any? Or is this the right solution for digital sovereignty?

Who is the family member installing a Linux distro containing systemd? Junior has admin rights, sets the age data, and Bob's his uncle. This is the basic problem with all possible systems that are not beyond belief privacy invasions.

As for me, I figure I can set two accounts, one that shows me as a late 18 year old, if I want to snoop on 'em, and the other that shows a random age between 21 and 121 when I want to make as close a run on honesty despite unconstitutional levels of privacy invasion.

{^_^}

Since I'm still using windows 10, I can just lean back and chuckle. It's been a hell of a shit show to watch over the years. Glad I'm not in it.

...when they renamed the company to follow that weird bent. It was very easy very early on to see that none of this would ever be popular, people had a hard enough time getting interested in even wearing polarized glasses to view movies in 3D, that whole trend has crashed and burned. (I like stereo photography myself, but I understand the problem with mass appeal) But the fact that they expected people to run out and buy these super expensive VR headsets and do things with them is just laughable. I've watched that market try to take off since the 80s and there's just not a compelling use for it. I thought they were mad for going down that road yet again. Maybe that day will come, but it was super obvious from the start that Meta plowing billions of dollars into it and changing their company name wasn't going to make it happen. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall to hear the pitch about the metaverse inside Facebook. Techbros deluding themselves. I think they were just scrambling to place a bet on whatever the next hot thing would be after the initial round of social media companies and they lost horribly. In the mean time, their original product, despite being enshittified repeatedly, remains somewhat useful and popular. (just install SocialFixer and ad blockers before you touch it, don't use their app....)

Let's see... there is a *much* lower than 1 in 4,200 chance of my toy drone injuring anyone or damaging anyone's property but it's controlled by very strict regulations that are supposed to be their for the public's safety and hugely constrain where and when I can fly it.

Someone explain how this works.

How appropriate can a cookie be? This one came up at the bottom of the page just below this article: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty not saftey." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
(The misspelling in the cookie is not mine.)

This is no more about "the children" than it is about the number of craters on the Moon on July 17th 1897 at 12:37 CET. It is about grabbing personal identifying material - in violation of minor things like HIPPA.

{^_^}

Make Lynx Great Again!!!!!

You kids and your graphical browsers... bah!

And while you're at it, get off my lawn!

This will not end well.

I suspect the most effective means of preventing construction of a data center in some locality is for that locality to legislate that it had to show four 40' US flags on the four corners of the building and have one flag ever 1000 square feet inside.
{O.O} But, even *I* am not vile enough to suggest that....

It amazes me to realize how many people, especially with the mental skills expected here, are furious if the US snoops into your lives or plots to nuke somebody are shrugging off or not even thinking of the consequences of some other less benign country (Russia, Iran, China) doing the same thing. It's gonna happen. How you gonna like it?
{O.O}

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

Eeeeew. Something hit a nerve for sure! How dare anyone insult MiKr0zopht's AI?

Prohibition was repealed.

I don't disagree. Personally I think the Federal government got too powerful after the civil war & we really don't even have the same type of government that the founders envisioned.

I'd be somewhat in favor of an Article 5 convention so long as any changes had to be subject to a vote like the President is elected. The Electoral Collage system is absolutely brilliant & gives the individual vote maximum power because a handful of voters can change the outcome of an entire election. If people really want something they need to get out and vote. If you stay home you can't complain if the other side doesn't.

Anyway, good luck to us all.