Eiri
@Eiri@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 1 week ago:
Well, the letter of the law is sufficient to get an indictment, but usually the job of a judge is exactly that, to interpret vague legal language and render an unambiguous verdict. So if it’s against the spirit of the law, then logically a judge should rule in favour of the defendant.
Whether they will is another story, though, as the American legal system has been… Under question regarding partisanship.
But the defense lawyer will likely seek acquittal because “may be viewed by another person” cannot reasonably include when you’re being spied on against your will. Because then the words “in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person” are completely redundant and useless. A limiting statement that limits nothing.
Plus, otherwise, all iCloud accounts, all personal backups, etc. that a company is technically capable of viewing is technically up for grabs without a warrant.
Ruling against the defendant in this case would be WILD as a precedent to set for surveillance etc.
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 1 week ago:
You gravely underestimate the ignorance of the general public. The vast majority of people don’t realize companies are spying on them. Even less so for content that isn’t publicly available.
There is nothing inherently “communication” or “publishing” about an AI. In fact, a local LLM does not communicate anything to anyone, and it’s the same thing as Claude, just slower And without the telemetry.
If you ignore corporate greed and yada yada, there’s no reason a tech illiterate person would expect that anything they say in there isn’t private.
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 1 week ago:
Your argument would make sense if it were a forum or social media post.
That was a conversation with an AI chatbot. A word generator. Inherently that stuff doesn’t communicate with anyone, and the only reason anyone saw it was that the chatbot company is spying on its users.
A more reasonable comparison would be if the accused had written down plans to attack a police station in her iCloud-saved notes and Apple had taken a look unprompted and decided to contact the authorities.
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 1 week ago:
That’s just the thing. That wasn’t communication intended for anyone to see.
- Comment on Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police 1 week ago:
Charged with transmitting a threat? They are obviously twisting that law.
- Comment on If this survey is any indication, Audacity wants to add generative AI because of course they do 1 week ago:
That survey sounds more like they’re thinking about asking an MCP API to it. That is, an AI assistant could be connected to send calls to perform tasks through Audacity without needing OpenClaw-like full computer access.
One use case I can imagine is, an indie game developer has a recording they want to use but it’s noisy and they’re bad at sound editing so they ask an AI to do something about it. The AI sees an exposed Audacity MCP server and goes to town.
I guess it could work?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
My mom has been squatting in my apartment for a year and a half. I’m really looking forward to having my own space again. Neither of us chose this and it’s clearly affecting us mentally.
And yet, I wouldn’t go that far.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 months ago:
That’s a giant asterisk. My mom regularly oversalts her soup and I wish she didn’t. Some restaurants (especially fancy restaurants) salt their food so much it’s borderline inedible. There’s no good reason for them to do that. Arrogance perhaps.
Even my own tastes in salt vary greatly from day to day. So I wouldn’t even trust myself with getting the salt amount right for myself if I cooked for myself alone. As soon as any other human is implied, it just gets riskier.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 months ago:
Honestly I’ve tried salting a few times and for the little difference it makes… I don’t feel it’s worth the trouble.
But thanks for the info, I honestly hadn’t thought about the details.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 months ago:
I can just salt it in my plate. Feels wasteful to put a ton of salt in the water and dump 99% of the salt in the sink anyway.
Plus, sometimes, I just feel like keeping it unsalted entirely. Depends on the sauce etc. You taste the subtle sweetness of the noodles more that way.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 months ago:
Just use whole wheat pasta.
Stir literally once. No salt, no oil, no additional stirring.
- Comment on Where'd it go? 6 months ago:
What. Why. That makes no sense.
- Comment on Real 6 months ago:
There’s no way in hell we have the resolution to see continents in another star system.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 8 months ago:
Huh. I was convinced there was a bigger difference.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 8 months ago:
Doesn’t that kinda make Canada look smaller than the US?
- Comment on Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC 8 months ago:
More focus on open-world titles and games as a service? Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom, they manage to dig deeper.
- Comment on Huh? 8 months ago:
Oh, you don’t need the music to need to shout. The high ceiling achieves that by itself. Echo, space to fill, or something. Not to knowledgeable about acoustics.
I really wish they made restaurants with low ceilings. You take the tallest people who are likely to come, you add maybe 30 cm, and that’s more than high enough, right? No, they’ve gotta have ceilings so high they could genuinely fit two floors in the one they have. It’s a waste of space, too.
- Comment on energizing 9 months ago:
Honestly they should lend their branding to an energy drink brand. Wouldn’t it sell well?
- Comment on enclose.horse 9 months ago:
How do you do another level?
- Comment on Truly 1 year ago:
I’ve played it once in the past. Just the normal poker with five cards in your hand and you get two rounds of changing cards.
It was fun.
I lost 2 imaginary dollars.
- Comment on Truly 1 year ago:
I guess, but at that point I can do that in your average JRPG or something. I feel like it would be more fun with people. Unless they’re paying the Texas game with all the cards in the middle. That one is complicated and you only have two cards of yours and I really don’t have fun with it.
- Comment on Truly 1 year ago:
I don’t get slot machines. They’re not even slightly fun.
I wish casinos had fun games with small bets. Like, I don’t know, poker where you can play several hands with 20 dollars.
But as it stands, I don’t think I’ll ever visit a casino again. It’s either boring slots or you need to be rich to play the “real” games.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 year ago:
So far it’s working fine, yeah. No need to choose among a zillion distros someone swears is the best, I know for a fact there are first-party drivers for everything, no need to fiddle around with CLI, it plays everything my graphics card can muster, and I don’t need to worry about game compatibility or whether Nvidia deigned to support my OS.
Windows has a lot of problems, but if you’re just looking to play games without too much complexity… It’s as close to “it just works” as I can imagine getting without switching to a console (or limiting myself to the few games that work on Apple devices, I guess).
Plus, big argument, it’s familiar. You can forgive more annoyances when you’re not learning something new. Humans are just lazy like that.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 year ago:
One day, Linux will be ready for a no-headaches gaming PC. Genuinely looking forward to it.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 year ago:
Uh, high school science teacher. Never really looked it up until today but considering there’s science on the reverse effect (less oxygen for slower aging), I’d say it’s probably not bullshit.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 year ago:
Damn it
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 year ago:
I just meant breathing more oxygen makes you agree faster
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 year ago:
Oxygen chamber? Sounds like a great way to die early
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 1 year ago:
Microwaves designed for public use often don’t have them. I never really knew whether it’s because they don’t need them because they have more magnetrons or something, or just because they prioritize easy cleaning.
- Comment on Bamboozled! 1 year ago:
Even older meme!