It might be worth knowing that the definition of obesity was changed some years back. People who were formerly considered normal might suddenly find themselves considered obese, even though their weight hadn't changed. So, comparing today's obesity rates against older obesity rates may not show you an accurate story.

Comical troll is cowardly.

I believe the most popular opinion on that thing is "it looks like a dumpster on wheels, but at least it's fabulously expensive". There are several in my neighborhood, and I'm always shocked when I see them. Who would buy these bizarre artistic statements? Picasso might have enjoyed them.

It sounds like you probably do. Have you been wearing your tinfoil hat while smoking that curious-looking pipe? Your paranoia is outstanding. On the other hand, if you're manufacturing what you're smoking, it might be reasonable to be afraid of any observers.

You're claiming that we're out of land? I'm not sure where you live, but most of America is completely wide-open space. We have an incredible amount of that. It's a little farther away from the port cities, which isn't a major issue.

"Normies". /cough Talk about ticking boxes. Also, you're using the wrong character set for Slashdot. You are not autistic enough.

You seem to be confusing Christianity with Catholic doctrine. Nice try, but you do not get to define Christianity.

What sandbox? Their computers were linked to the INTERNET, hello? Again, what sandbox? Of course there should have been monitoring but, given that OpenAI gave their programs access to the internet, they are grossly negligent at best. They keep making the same mistake, so it's either not a mistake or they're dangerously incompetent. Possibly both.

The current massive influx of news against Flock cameras just seems bizarrely heavy-handed. It's everywhere, all the time, and seems like a manufactured crisis. Seriously? Don't we have anything else to worry about? Possibly the insane war in Iran, the insane President, inflation, the insane President, the Epstein files, the insane President, gas prices? Possibly the insane President? Maybe the living corpse of Mitch Connell? Possibly the insane President? I'm just waiting to hear he's decided to change his name to Super Intelligence, possibly "of America".

The story runs, "Idiot Military Nearly Starts WWIII". Don't try to blame this on LLMs. How were they possibly relying on a single unreliable source for their response?

This may come as a surprise, but oranges are not orange. They're green. They will turn orange if exposed to excessive heat. Since we've grown used to that in the U.S., oranges are usually treated to make them orange, in the same way that cheddar cheese is dyed to make it orange, in the same way that President Trump is dyed to distract you from his own disturbingly unhealthy color.

The phrase "pervert glasses" is delightful, but does anyone at all really buy into the idea that guys are following around the women of Walmart to video them? It's not impossible, I guess, but this can't be common, nor would you need expensive glasses for that when you have a cellphone. The phrase "We, as a society" is never going to end well, either. Don't try to coopt me into your vision of what everybody needs to do.

I get that kids can use AI to make cat-headed zebra movies, but what exactly does anyone need it for?

The AI was in an environment where it was given access to the Internet, which should not have happened in the first place. The article suggests that they think the problem was only that the AI wasn't safeguarding itself well enough, which they're going to attempt to fix by giving it new base instructions. In other words, they're still going to rely on the AI to do something it obviously can't, and are going to leave the original security holes in place.

We've seen these attempts for years and years, and now it seems the politicians are finally having some success at trying to collect everyone's personal information by claiming it's "for the children", now on the basis that "social media" is witchcraft^W addictive like heroin.