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Comment Re:Not going to change humans... (Score 1) 95

"We're not going to change humans, and humans make bad decisions," Langley said. "What we can do is make sure that they know if you use this tool, you will be held accountable...."

Wow he's right,

So maybe what we could do instead is to outlaw mass surveillance and warrantless surveillance, whether government-owned or corporate, across the country.

We could even have a constitutional amendment! Let's call it #4. The OLD 4th amendment doesn't seem to be doing anything; we can call this one '4th-Prime'.

To be clear, the language would have to change if you wanted it to outlaw corporate surveillance, because the existing one applies only to government. And I suppose the new one would also have to explain "corporate" and how that's different from other kinds of organizations or surveillance by individuals.

Comment Re: Reddit for [Funny] Human Content (Score 2) 45

Slashdot's main problem is the total lack of will to fix anything. For example they know who the pure trolls are, but won't stop them. In fact they disabled but then re-enabled anonymous posting via the checkbox, presumably because their post count fell too low without the trollbags.

Comment Re: The Value of AI? (Score 1) 45

Reddit is indeed choked with AI slop, but that doesn't mean this is wrong. All that means is that nobody should know better how bad slop is.

Gemini search results are fundamentally sloppy. They are sometimes kind of useful but like all LLM output you must check the results carefully. And doing so is the quickest way to get pissed off at the AI search results because you will rapidly find that the provided citations don't support the source text. Ironically, this does not make it wrong! Often the text is correct, but the alleged citations simply provide absolutely no support for the statements to which they are linked, and if you search the claim you can find real citations. This is actually more frustrating to me than no citations, because you have to check each one every time, so it's often smarter to just not do so and find new citations instead.

All this means that Gemini results are only useful if you don't care about accuracy or citations. They are certainly no substitute for the days when Google searches worked intelligently and respected what you asked for.

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