“We thought having the ai voiced by ai would be cute” would have been acceptable, had they paid a voice actor to train the model. It doesn’t say in the article but I’m assuming they used some off-the-shelf model, which is tantamount to theft unless the company selling it in turn paid for use of everything in their corpus.

The “take that, liberal snowflakes” framing is beyond crazy.

The CEO of Ford drives a Xaomi. He could have any car he wanted, and he chooses a Chinese car. It’s ostensibly for market research but he’s said he really doesn’t want to give it up. So yeah they’re cheap, and also I think China might just genuinely make better cars at this point. While China has been investing into manufacturing and consumer tech the big three have been dragging their heels and kicking and screaming because they see engineers as cost centers and that is biting them in the ass as well.

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They wouldn’t sue, they’d just co-opt it. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s MO for a reason, it works.

The hallucinations are real. I don’t use them for longer stuff, I demand admin time for anything that’s longer than a paragraph. But for quick office politics type stuff that I don’t really care about but also need to not get ground under and also worry about coming off as blunt I’m kinda grateful to have it.

I have noticed that damn near every email I get that’s longer than a paragraph seems to come from copilot though.

Tbh I’m starting to fantasize about switching to a trade. Front line office work is for the birds.

Copilot is okay at being a copy editor for my work emails. I struggle with tone so its nice to have a built in thingy that strips my personality out of my emails. Specifically my emails to my supervisor.

For example, “hi supervisor, I checked and that email was sent an hour ahead of the deadline from the email you sent me on date x and I was waiting on access to y. What the hell are you ccing your bosses on this for,” turns into “something something per your previous email something, if I misunderstood something something, thank you for your guidance.”

In a perfect world I would have time to write all my own emails but my job is very… Communication heavy, let’s say, and I personally have a lot of work to do directly with clients that can’t simply be put off.

Tbf they’re the only ones using the agentic features, and they’re definitely the only ones using frontier models for it. That shit gets expensive fast.

The maintainer of the project probably won’t see it here, but that repo does appear to be fairly active, they’ve got thousands of merged PRs. If you contribute a better logo they might replace the AI one.

Judging by MBS’s steam account, the next Battlefield is going to be an extraction shooter about the coalition of the willing securing pipelines and putting out oil field fires. Also Tehran doesn’t get nuked in the game, it got nuked 20 years ago, and this is framed as a Bad Thing With A Silver Lining. The Line is your primary hub city and your ground vehicles are things like solar powered Abrams and cybertruck but good

It was nice that they included BSD

Every time I try to use reddit when it comes up in search results they slam the door in my face with pop ups demanding I install the app or log in. Can anyone even access enough content on reddit to convince them to join anymore?

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At 2k feet you’re going to need some kind of equipment to find them.

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sorry, needed to get that out of my system

Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Once you bring power into the mix people get touchy lol. Thank you for engaging, my understanding is embiggened on this blessed day.

It is a complete answer, but it also makes a lot of people feel like they don’t know something they should. Repeatedly feeling that way is why they start to get defensive. In my experience. Its the repeated asking of questions they don’t have “good” answers for. And so I try really hard when people share things with me to pay extra attention to how they are reacting to my questions.

The same structure holds true when I’m asking questions about peoples beliefs or any other topic. People really hate feeling caught out in a conversation. My girlfriend almost broke up with me towards the beginning of our relationship for being “too Socratic.” And so now I try to be more conscious about what I ask, and when, where, why, and how I ask them. So far it’s been working pretty well.

Anyway your experiences are your own, my point here was and still is that people don’t react this way because they are stupid or incapable of self reflection but because sometimes we really do come off justly or unjustly as interrogators, and it’s on us to learn to identify when that’s happening and back off.

It is very real. I have experienced it myself. And when it happens I try to recognize that I am not a bad person, and neither are they. Sometimes you trip somebody else’s insecurities. And it’s on them when they let those insecurities get the best of them, and it’s on me when i don’t notice they’re getting uncomfortable because they’ve said “idk man I just started this hobby” three times and instead of taking the hint and high fiving them for their kickass walking artillery robot miniature I ask what brand of paint they used and why. Spoiler: they used it because the dude at the store recommended it and they don’t know anything about paint. Sometimes it is unreasonable to expect someone to be an expert, and repeatedly asking questions beyond the scope of their expertise is incredibly rude because it embarrasses them. That doesn’t make anyone stupid or evil. It just makes us human.

My objection here is that the linked tweet avoids any accountability. “I’m just curious and therefore virtuous, and they are triggered because they lack self reflection” is beyond insufferable, it is corrosive. When you think like that it feels like self acceptance, but it’s also complacency. Conversation is hard, especially for autistic people, but that doesn’t give us license to act like jerks and refuse to learn from the experience.

I think it’s a little unfair to brand the other person as avoidant of self-reflection, as if that’s just a core personality trait and not something that varies contextually. This kind of therapy-speak in inappropriate venues is such a huge red flag. No, you did not “trigger” the other person. You hurt their feelings on accident. That happens, but your measure lies in how you respond to having unintentionally hurt someone. This tweet reeks of “I acted like a shitty person, and now to soothe the feeling of my superego poking my ego I will go online and paint the person I was a dick to as an unreasonable person through oversimplified vagueposting.”

edit: With half an hour of distance between me and this comment it now feels important that I point out that I’m not calling out anyone ITT. Just the original poster on Twitter. Weaponized therapyspeak really, ahem, triggers me. I’ve been on both sides of this dynamic, and both sides can really ruin my day. I just really hate it when people try to avoid accountability for their behavior by using detached and clinical language. Ironically, the author of the linked tweet is avoiding self-reflection in real time. It’s just… goddamn, dude. This shit is serious. You can really hurt somebody when you start talking like unregistered therapy tiktokers. Don’t ask me how I know, that part’s private.

that would drive up the price of ram in China too, which would likely make the CCP quite cross with them. Electronics are a huge export and the Chinese government has to worry about entire cities going offline or having to pivot their entire industrial sectors if the shortage lasts too long.

DRAM is a global commodity. Kind of like how Iran selling oil to China affects the price of WTI crude.

i think. I’m not a fuckin economist I just like to sound smart