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Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 70

This discussion is about what Apple would need to do to satisfy people with privacy concerns when it comes to third-party replacements for Siri on devices that Apple makes. Arguing that you don't trust Apple because parts of the OS are closed source is irrelevant, because you won't ever trust their device in the first place (or any devices, in all likelihood).

That's why I don't trust them, or anyone. You especially cannot trust phones, since you don't get the code running on the baseband processor even in the best cases — they're not allowed to give it to you.

Comment Re:The Enemy of My Enemy (Score 1) 53

The enemy of my enemy is my firend. - Chanakya Arthashastra

That's always been a facile look at alliances. The enemy of my enemy is only my temporary ally unless we actually have a reason to be allied long term.

China is not your friend. They just want your money, same as OpenAI or whoever.

Comment Maybe they did, so? (Score 1) 53

The anti-AI-DC attitude has legs because it makes sense, not because of ad campaigns. Maggots prove every day that you can agitate people to work against their own interests, but that doesn't mean that's what this is. If China is spending money agitating people against bullshit DCs, it's only working because they are in fact bullshit.

Comment Re:Microsoft can't sustain two platforms (Score 2) 29

Yeah, you got a $900 box that can't open a spreadsheet, run GIMP or Blender or multitask, and it can't be modded much, but on the upside it'll play COD at almost the speed of a decent gaming PC.

And the gaming industry created this problem, by not allowing you to do something useful with your console once it's no longer useful as a console, by locking it down and never providing an unlock. Thousands of us hacked our Xboxes and used them as media centers, then Microsoft made this infeasible going forwards. Sony did the same with the PS3 and "Other OS." Nintendo has just always been locked down AF, but we used to have some freedom with some of the game boys... so much for that.

I have zero reason to buy a console because it has zero value after it's been a console for me.

Comment Re:Sovereign Systems (Score 2) 23

Essentially. the Ai companies have overshot the commercial sweetspot for AI. You don't hire a PhD to deliver mail or repair a leak.

You also don't hire a PhD who might decide to enter an empty elevator shaft. But that's what every LLM is. You cannot expect it to do anything sane, it's just thoughts and prayers.

Existing open source, locally hosted models can do quite a bit of digital work right now, as is, at a predictable, fixed cost

The cost is unpredictable as long as the behavior is unpredictable.

Comment Re:Sensible ruling (Score 1) 77

Makes sense. The same standards apply to humans. If we were to tweet something completely made up, there is a chance of legal troubles. So should be the same for AI

Have you ever tweeted something completely made up? What happened? Or, if you haven't done it, what do you think would happen? Suppose, for example, that you tweeted out a claim that "Coca-Cola contains extract of ground-up baby brains". What do you think the legal consequences of that (horrendous!) claim would be?

There is an important legal distinction that this court chose to ignore, which is that you're only liable for incorrect information if it's reasonable to expect that people would believe that you are providing correct information. If you, bubblyceiling, tweet false information, you will not, in fact, be held liable for it, because courts would rightly reject the claim that readers had a reason to believe they should trust you.

Obviously, Google's statements are held to a higher standard that bubblyceiling's. But everyone understood that web search results weren't Google's statements. The question at hand then is whether people believe that Google's LLM's statements are, in fact, statements made by Google, the corporation.

No one could seriously believe that. This court was dead wrong.

Comment Re:This is not logical (Score 1) 73

Headline is that Solar produced more power in May than Coal in the U.S. Yet most of the comments here are about how evil Trump is and how he's destroying the environment or what not. Which is it? Is Solar increasing electrical production share under this administration, or not? Conflating whether or not people's political preferences align has nothing to do with the other.

I think you missed that most of those comments about Trump are gloating that he is demonstrably failing in his effort to destroy renewable power generation and favor fossil fuels -- and especially Beautiful Clean Coal (just like he's failing at approximately everything else, except this failure is good). Once you have that context, it makes a lot more sense.

Comment Re:Hurray, almost (Score 3, Informative) 73

The US could turn off all electricity and cars and use zero energy and Indonesia, India, and China would solely continue to destroy the environment at just about the same rate. Just to put things in perspective.

Well, China, for one, is building renewable energy generation far faster than we are. They're also building a lot of coal plants so it's going to take them some effort to push their emissions down to the global average per capita. However, note that we're far, far above the global average, and also well above China.

As for India and Indonesia, their emissions are already well below the global average, so they're not really the problem. Once we and China get down to their level, then we can all start pushing the average (and therefore total) down further. We need to cut our emissions by 85% to get to that point. Or keep them constant while importing about 1.7 billion people.

Comment Re:Shots Fired! (Score 1) 70

Well, that rules out 99.9999% of all mobile phones for you, then, with a +/- .0001% margin of error. :-)

I don't "trust" any of these providers. I expect them to fuck me. I just don't get the option to use none of them if I want to participate in modern society.

Open source is not even slightly immune to those sorts of issues.

Which issues? Not being able to trust that the code doesn't do things which are intentionally malicious? It's as close as you can get. Literally all closed source software is less trustworthy.

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