>"rarely had one who seemed to care about what was going on"

Defense mechanism and perfectly understandable. They have to deal with the worst situations all day long. If they had too much emotion or empathy, they would burn out immediately.

>"ugh.... fine I'll take down the info because the law probably requires that I do so" vibe.

They also have to deal with constant abuse of the system. Not saying your calls were, but such things tend to make people very dispassionate.

Remember that other article recently about using AI to help screen calls... to weed out nonsense and abuse, and also to help reduce tons of identical calls from different people about the same crisis. This house on X is on fire! OMG, there is a house on fire! On X street, there is a house on fire! Has anyone reported a house near X is on fire?! My neighbor let his dog poo on my lawn! Lordy, house on X is burning down!

but ICE and troops hanging around poling stations and selectively harassing people

What's the problem?

If you're not a citizen, you aren't allowed to vote....why would you be anywhere near a polling station if not a citizen or worse....an illegal alien?

I've got a style guide skill that I've based off of years of my (technical writing for work), emails, and fiction.

My models talk to me in my own voice.

It's frustrating, because Claude genuinely DOES have good writing style - for copy and publication purposes. But it's absolutely obnoxious because you know it's AI slop every time you see it, with the "Not X, Y" bullshit and the emdashes specifically. When you see that, you know you're consuming a lot of filler that's beating you off while it gets to the point. It's absolutely destroyed Youtube and most social media.

or they just made the entire thing up as a propaganda statement to make it easier to campaign for more war.

Except that might not really be true. I had a friend of mine die of brain cancer in 2019. Dude was constantly on his cellphone when he was younger, and it matched the side of his head in the MRI scans. Could it be coincidence? I think it's much more likely some people are genetically sustainable to biological damage to non-ionizing radiation. It's probably a small percentage, but there are a lot of cases in the courts, even with modern LTE phones. The phone companies are going to do whatever damage control to make this seem like it's a non-issue, while at the same time any couple trying to have a kid will have fertility experts tell them to not carry their cellphones in their pockets.

These are also slow cumulative effects, so it's not like these people won't pass on those traits. It might be another century, but at some point clusters of families with brain cancer won't be deniable. For the vast majority of peoples it's a non-issue, but I don' think it holds true for everyone. People going on about how it cannot possibly harm DNA are probably just going by news articles vaguely based off studies that are probably funded by cellphone research groups.

It's negligence.

If you were an IT Director, or even an IT Technician with the ear of the Founder/CEO, and you had the budget for internal network and security ops, what would you do?

Not give it unbrokered access to other models and infrastructure which it could use to puddle jump elsewhere. Not put Skynet on the Internet directly, is my bet.

That hardly sounds like a controlled release environment, to say the least.

They seriously need to hire some criminal psychologists and actual hackers to help them figure their shit out. Same goes for Anthropic.

When has someone's computer ever hacked someone else's computer ?

Not ever, before recently.

Clearly it's not something they can objectively say is an outlier - they don't have enough data. In fact, you can most certainly say the opposite, due to how frequently it's happening now.

Not a serious or honest company. (Oh, sorry - "nonprofit".)

Everything I've seen simply suggests they're bad at computers.

My experience with startups is that the things that don't make money or make customers happy don't get any attention. Network/system security in depth is not one of those things. Sure, they've got a bunch of psi-brain neuroscientists and mathemagicians, and goodness knows lots of DEI-enforcers for alignment, but their repeated dumb mistakes in this department tells me they're not really hiring too many experienced ops, nevermind devops, types.

It's true for OpenAI and Anthropic both.

In the past YEAR they have:
- accidentally published the full Claude Code source (and then effectively... did nothing).
- Numerous Claude Code RCE/API-key vulnerabilities which could have been mitigated with at least one person on their core infra team aware of injection attacks.
- Publicly exposed their internal CMS (and files) to the Internet
- Had their training escape numerous times and hack other orgs
- hacked HF

They're not a serious company. Some are to be expected given their visibility and exposure, but you'd expect a bit more from a company implementing Skynet-level capabilities. However you slice it, they're fundamentally building weapons which can write poetry. A little more seriousness should be involved.

Someone needs to end this crazy tyrant's empire, though I suppose it's too late for that. He's so diversified at this point that ending Microsoft won't materially impact him.

That said, it'd be great if the thing he built could be ended - perhaps by reimplementing Windows functionality through reverse engineering, minus the crap.

Just enough to get it to work with the things we still need to run on Windows - then replace the kernel.

Right! That's exactly it. I was part of "Gen X" myself, and while I had friends who lived the whole "latchkey kid" lifestyle to the max? It really wasn't the norm to just be unsupervised all day or night.

I remember my folks both worked, but my mom went to working only part-time, early in the morning until around the lunch hour, when we were younger. She hired an older lady as a part-time nanny for us while she was gone. When we got older, mom was always home by the time school let out - so we barely knew she was ever gone.

And also true that even for the teens I knew who had a house to themselves after school each day until bedtime? Their parent(s) weren't just buying them electric motorcycles or any of that like you see going on today. Obviously, the Internet wasn't anything like it is today. Even as a hard-core computer geek though? I called and ran my own computer bulletin board system where it was just really a local niche community of like-minded people dialing in with modems. Most heated arguments that came up on a BBS got squashed when the BBS operator decided he had enough and banned all of them. It just wasn't *anything* like what goes on now where people get video-recorded against their will in high resolution just so someone can get famous on TikTok, or ?

Rei: Do you actually work for Amazon in a capacity where you're informed on how they're obtaining these books?

I'm asking for a couple reasons.

1. We all know Amazon has plenty of money to be able to afford to buy rare, out-of-print books that are difficult to obtain. I'd be surprised if they refrained from doing so if that meant their AI risked not having some of that knowledge/information while a competitor's did. I'm not saying the guy tasked with being manager over the disposable labor doing the book scanning is authorized to make direct choices about what books to buy. I'm saying someone in Amazon corporate, in charge of the AI project itself, was probably given the funding to buy what he/she felt was needed.

2. The original article's anonymous interview with the low-level worker sounded very accurate with such statements as the details/orders changing daily and everything feeling disorganized. I can speak with some authority that that's exactly how it feels when you work for them in a non-management capacity. Multiple layers of management are dictating new processes or policies in a constant stream, and then often? The entire thing is up-ended when top level management makes a company-wide decree or mandate. Your team lead/manager is even liable to change on short notice. Their push to constantly "reinvent" causes a whole lot of reinventing of the same wheel another department or team already invented, and it's kind of a zoo. That's why I'd also take their comments as legit when they express concerns some of the books appeared to be obscure titles, etc.

I have to agree. I'm not defending Facebooks' practices, but at the same time? It seems to me social media as a whole can become addictive, or promote bad ideas to kids or teens. You have to control this at the parental level ... not just depend on corporations to self-police it all.

So sure... slap them with large fines and use the money for good, where you can. I'm not opposed. But your kid or teen wouldn't be spending all day on social media if you controlled it as their parent. By the time they're old enough to legally move out of your house? Then it's too late for you to try to "fix" anything they're doing. But before that, they live under your roof and by your rules.

I've stopped caring. When I had good karma and got mod points I'd vote up all the -1s that made perfect sense and try to fight the deranged one-sided echo chamber Slashdot has become. It was never like this in the early 2000s when I started using it; lot more debate and reasonable people. My karma is sliding back towards terrible and that's a good thing. It's easy to vibe code a user script that highlights all the 0 and below comments to find things that are truly insightful. It's also why you should read from the bottom of ranked comment sites:

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