It's great that individual life is saved, however the surveillance of every car and driver is the cost. They could save a lot of lives if they had cameras in every house to know when we fall. They could chip us to watch our heart rate and that would save lives and someone maybe even me would benefit. In the end the price of loss of privacy is too great and surveillance is nobodies friend.

President Joe Biden sold/issued 80 pardons and 4,165 commutations, totaling 4,245. Which is significantly more than Trump has commuted.

Or... Make it illegal for companies to market this data or sell it to the government.

All of this was revealed by Snowden, and by others lot earlier if you paid attention. If you watched the defunding of the TIA this was revealed. At least congress cared enough about our rights back then to defund the TIA. Trying to make this a partisan issue is missing the point.

LLM's are not reasoning machines. They function as statistical pattern-matching engines rather than reasoning agents. Yes to a small degree so does the human mind but, these are Markov engines with a higher success rate and the words Artificial Intelligence pasted on by some marketing knob. Intelligence requires self awareness. These LLM's pattern match they don't understand what any word means. Ask your trusty LLM about something it wasn't trained on and it can't speculate or reason.

What you are describing is called eugenics. Are you the arbiter of who should and should not be allowed to procreate? Are these people awful human beings? Most certainly. But who are you to assign the forced sterilization of their families? Who else do you think should be forcefully sterilized? Who is upvoting calls for eugenics?

One drive keeps turning itself back on and finding new ways onto my system, CoPilot is the same. I am not sure you have used WIndows.

The fact that a third party or secondary market is willing to buy/trade it does give it value by definition. Subjective value is still value.

This likely has the FBI in an absolute panic. Their abuses of the surveillance apparatus are almost certainly now known by an unknown entity, and can be used as blackmail or they can become a new wikileak. I doubt they care what was done with it as much as they care about what is known about the FBI itself and how they abuse the system on the regular.

investing in a company who is building their own chips is likely a bad business strategy. Is NVIDIA working on their own AI service? It seems like they may be hedging their bets for when some of these companies start building their own chips for AI processing. Providing investments top empower a customer to develop their own chips sounds like a poor strategy.

This issue started with the Bin Laden Letter. America wants to censor TikTok.

The only reason America wanted ownership of TikTok is to censor. The Bin Laden caught wind and they struggled to censor it. Until then the US did not care about TikTok or our privacy.

Too bad your Apple overlords decided for you that you shouldn't be able to change or have spare batteries.

That slop will sadly be good enough for enough people that most artists will barely be able to make a living. A tsunami of slop will be good enough for an alarming amount of people.

I think the algorithms used here promote the articles that get engagement. This article alone got more engagement than many postings that land here because for whatever reason this is an area of strong opinions on both sides. The finger wagging side is out in full force huffing their own farts and the bird flipping side is defending the smell of their opinion. Most of these opinions are molded by the news and media we consume which use similar algorithms to foster engagement and shape opinion. Very little original thought makes it to the internet these days.