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- Comment on Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos 5 days ago:
This video is pretty silly too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cYlVWu5Dk
- Comment on Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos 5 days ago:
What Google sees:
The child is likely Caucasian, with an estimated family income ranging from $40,000 to $80,000. Presuming a Christian background, their sexual orientation is currently unknown. Politically, their family might lean towards the Democrat party. Emotionally, they exhibit joy and curiosity, dressed casually in a striped tank top and shorts, paired with worn boots. The child enjoys writing, and drawing. On the downside, vandalism, destruction and irresponsibility.
- Comment on Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos 5 days ago:
Never mind the AI, Google is untrustworthy with your photos to begin with. Every single one of them already was used to train advertisement algorithms on things like personal vulnerabilities, vices, fears, latent problems…
- Comment on Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client 5 days ago:
I started to update my post before realizing you have a much better version of the link, thank you for providing it. Must have been too flabbergasted to even describe the website
- Comment on Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client 5 days ago:
I see your account is just here to troll/harass people who don’t love AI too, but we’re witnessing Mozilla burning goodwill and capital for no apparent reason.
Please don’t tell people to stick their heads in the sand.
- Comment on Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client 5 days ago:
The bad news: MZLA (Thunderbird’s maker) is all-in on AI
The good news: They aren’t using your Thunderbird donations to build this. It’s funded by the Mozilla Foundation, which has been throwing money at every random AI startup it sees. Including one that wants to help electricians wire your home.
- Comment on Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"? 1 week ago:
Wired’s Maxwell Zeff wrote about a number of journalists using A.I. to assist their writing, including the Times columnist Kevin Roose… who [created instructions] to help Claude write in his style, including the “10 commandments” of writing like Alex Heath.
Can’t believe anybody takes Kevin seriously. Not here, sure, but there are some in the tech sphere who loves that he says what they already believe.
- Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years 2 weeks ago:
Those quotes are nearly incomprehensible and they aren’t isolated incidents either. This CEO talks like every tech CEO selling AI products.
When you look at the term browser, it’s very antiquated in the sense that there’s static content, and when I click on the content, I get to the next link… With apps, it became more bidirectional. There’s more rich engagement with AI.
Instead of being a browser, it’s becoming a generative system, but it’s not doing it in a negative way that prevents the person’s incentive from creating the content in the first place.
CEO sure did say a thing. But it’s [the interviewer’s job to say please explain what you mean” in response.
- Comment on Inside Project Nova, Firefox's biggest redesign in years 2 weeks ago:
This has to be the most ridiculous paragraph I’ve ever read:
The difference between Firefox and other apps is that Mozilla has no incentive to prioritize a particular app or service.
Sure, Mozilla has no incentive to prioritize their biggest donor Google.
A choice screen could deliver a variety of models — probably curated by Mozilla, Varma said — or nothing at all. (Perplexity AI just appeared.)
This has to be a joke. What do you mean “it just appeared”? Mozilla only adds search engines after they secure fat stacks of cash, and Perplexity got even more kudos (including an in-browser notification) than other options like Ecosia.
- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 3 weeks ago:
I hope that goes without saying, but you’re correct. The humanizing language about AI in this article (freaking “schemes”?!) is completely cribbed from the companies making the positive misleading statements about it. Bit disappointing to see The Guardian falling for it.
In addition to the humanization, it implies the chatbot is getting better at doing things and not worse.
- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 3 weeks ago:
So the people saying “you’re prompting it wrong” were incorrect.
The AI industry, which is holding up the stock market, is building it wrong.
- Comment on Windows boss promises to heal the operating system's wounds 3 weeks ago:
I’m not shocked MS hasn’t apologized, but actions speak louder than words. Seeing a more efficient OS with less CoPilot sounds good, and other companies should take note.
We’re living in some backwards world where Microsoft is removing AI from their OS, while Mozilla is jamming it into every product they can.
- Comment on Steve Wozniak says he's "disappointed a lot" by AI and rarely uses it 4 weeks ago:
Woz has a better take than the vast majority of people the MSM tends to interview. I’m not surprised (he seems pretty technically competent in general), but it’s definitely a breath of fresh air.
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- Comment on Why NEMA 1-15 Power Cords Still Matter for Everyday Devices? 4 weeks ago:
With a name like “sfcable,” I don’t know what else they’d do besides promote their website. You’d figure a legitimate group would create their own community first where people can request help and stuff
- Comment on Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude 4 weeks ago:
Bernie Sanders has unfortunately been duped into thinking AI is what the evangelists (tech CEOs and doom evangelists, including the cult leader Eli Yudkowsky) have told him about it.
Here (Twitter) is a video from Bernie’s office that starts with cult leader Yudkowsky promising that AI will kill humanity.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 5 weeks ago:
I half agree with you and @Mercurial@todon.nl – the “shocking” part is mostly that he would pitch this directly in public, but the “confession” part is more of an offer or a wish
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 5 weeks ago:
I endorse this way to meet new friends both in person and “on line” at the same time
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 weeks ago:
“If”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 weeks ago:
Considering the amount of damage AI has done to well-funded projects like Windows and Amazon’s services, I agree with this entirely. It might be crucial to help fix bigger issues down the line.
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 1 month ago:
Block CEO Jack Dorsey, a Bitcoin and AI enthusiast,
announcedalleged that he was laying off roughly 4,000 workers—nearly half of the company’s workforce—due to AI.Fixed that
- Comment on Social Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts 1 month ago:
Thanks, I don’t know how I copied that word and didn’t notice
- Comment on Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments 1 month ago:
I don’t like Chromebooks because they’re already a thin client for web services. We are in dire straits if they are getting hard to buy.
- Social Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake poststechcrunch.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms 1 month ago:
no mention of how the affluent, surveillance-obsessed exec dictating its trajectory enthusiastically cozied up to fascists
There are so many surveillance-obsessed AI CEOs that this one wasn’t in my top two guesses. Excellent reminder, Techdirt.
Stories like this Times piece will often fixate on the AI “doomer narrative” (SkyNet will kill us all), but downplay that this specific strain of doomerism (very often pushed by wealthy industry insiders), often exists to both misrepresent what LLMs are capable of, but also to direct attention away from more realism-based criticism the industry doesn’t really want to talk about.
The amount of attention the pro-business doom narrative gets, is fundamentally at odds with this realism, because the reality is that LLMs aren’t all that great.
- Comment on Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. 1 month ago:
Did Jack Dorsey hire an unsustainable number of employees?
Maybe, but Jack would rather you look somewhere else.
Jack trusts AI to be the future, and he is good at predicting things (Block is a reference to “Blockchain"), so you need to be frightened.
- Comment on OpenAI’s ‘Red Lines’ Are Written In The NSA’s Dictionary — Where Words Mean What The NSA Wants Them To Mean 1 month ago:
It continuously astonishes me that people spent so much time looking at the “red lines” - pure spectacle - promised by OpenAI/Anthropic, and promoted by mass media that hailed one as a hero and the other as a villain - that they never bothered even a cursory glance at the things both companies accepted, which were basically the same.
How wrong I was. This wasn’t a case of one company accepting 99% of Trump’s surveillance demands and another accepting 100%. They were identical:
So OpenAI’s “red line” against “mass domestic surveillance” is defined by compliance with legal authorities that, in practice, permit the collection of enormous quantities of Americans’ communications data without warrants, without court approval, and without congressional oversight. That’s the “safeguard.”
For a little additional context, I found this helpful breakdown: OpenAI and Anthropic appear ethically identical, identically evil. The difference is cash money.
Altman had secretly been working on the [Department of “War"] deal since Wednesday.
- before he announced his support for Dario
- before Trump had denounced Anthropic
- but after [OpenAI’s] Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC
It was all theatre. Dario never had a chance.
- Comment on AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No. 1 month ago:
Anthropic’s biggest issue isn’t even killing people with their autonomous weapons. Their complaint, if you read what they say, is that they can’t deploy weapons that won’t kill Americans. Everybody else be damned.
CEO Dario Amado wants to develop these autonomous weapons in conjunction with Hegseth and Trump’s “Department of War,” as he calls it.
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 1 month ago:
That’s also basically how thinking models work too, isn’t it? And probably the new GPT-5 router, which everybody hates…
- Comment on Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs 1 month ago:
That’s easy. You just get a second AI to ask the first AI if their responses were accurate or not
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