Em Adespoton

If the model is just a model, a pre-trained probability seive, what difference does it make if someone is abusive? If it causes a token spike, the user has to pay for that. The abuse shouldn’t survive beyond the context window and the model isn’t wired up to “feel” or suffer.

So is this a publicity stunt (“Our model is as intelligent and human as a real person”), or is it about social influence/normalization—they worry that if people become accustomed to abusing the prompt, that will trickle over into other social interactions?

Seems like it should theoretically be possible to have AI subscribe to all the news feeds (AP, Reuters, NewsWire, public reporting databases, legal and police feeds, websites of all registered non-profits, etc.) and generate hyper-localized page content linked to an ad network.

As long as you pull in more in ad revenue than you pay in tokens and infrastructure costs, it’s a win — once someone sets up such a system, they just need to fix things when they break; most of the process would be automated and self-healing.

I’m surprised we haven’t seen more attempts at this. Would it be slop? Definitely. But it would be profitable slop.

For 12 hours out of every day? :D

No, because Apple and Google aren’t providing third parties access to the Internet through your devices.

Well, it was inevitable.

Yes. Yes, they are.

I’m a computer scientist and got into it before it became popular.

I suck at programming and have never labeled myself as a programmer. I write software to solve problems and know my way around the SDLC, but there’s a LOT of CS work out there that isn’t being a code monkey.

The shame was the number of people who went to college specifically to learn how to write software that can now be generated by AI, at the quality level generated by AI. Those jobs are now gone. Being a software analyst, integrator, architect, security engineer, information systems analyst, data scientist, etc? Thise are still in high demand, as are programmers who are subject matter experts or can lead a team.

AI didn’t decide anything. The humans failed to properly define the rules, and their translation model took the path most likely to succeed.

If it had been told not to use human created bots to win, it would probably have reverse engineered the game, found an exploit, and leveraged that instead. Because using the human interface to play/win the game is not the most efficient or dependable or easy to figure out method.

This actually sounds like he might be trying to turn Apple back into a hardware company— trimming the service portfolio while strengthening hardware options.

Of course, the last time we were there was under Gil Amelio, and THAT required bailouts from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs because the software side of things imploded.

Devices that only do what YOU want are now premium devices.

And it’s between people who we already know are morally compromised.

I prefer to call it Ontario Intelligence.

Here’s a question: when Google blurs things, do they go back and blur historical footage too? Is there even historical street view? I thought there was.

I wouldn’t call it pretty in any state.

Any semi-recent desktop or laptop has no need of a lightweight Linux. That’s for embedded solutions, rPis, and other resource constrained systems.

Having said that, in 2026 and going forward, we may have need of lightweight desktop distributions again. 64GB storage, 4GB RAM style.

Any Linux distribution based on KDE or GNOME is not going to be lightweight. It did have the LXDE option for stripping it back somewhat, but the repos were still mostly filled with software that requires KDE or GNOME.

Mint is kind of like LxUbuntu back in the early days; still no lightweight, not even by desktop standards, but it’ll bloat up quickly if you want to get anything done with it.

I mean, Puppy Linux and DSL are still around. Anything based on Debian could claim to be stable or enterprise ready, but not lightweight.

Though Flock claims it does not utilize facial recognition technology in its cameras currently, the technology is available and the company has applied for a patent that would permit the tracking of individuals and allow searches of individual persons in its database.

A patent that would permit the tracking of individuals?

Patents give limited monopoly power over inventions; they restrict, not permit.

This indicates that Flock already has the technology to track people and just hasn’t deployed it in a manner that is usable by its customers.

Funny; I haven’t seen any change in uBlock origin on Firefox.

It has indeed occurred to me; none of those signs by itself is enough to flag the output as LLM generated. But when you put them all together, and combine it with the fact that the article itself claims everything else (the site pages, the anti-bot analysis and techniques, etc) was all generated by Claude, there’s little room left for doubt.

Nothing like passing legislation to force a collection of international communications protocols to ban sites the state doesn’t like….