atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are on the right track with the idea that some work places (and industries) are more prone to use it, but I wonder what subset of the population work in those places/industries.

  And I don’t care if farms are factory or not. I think most people could care less. What they want is convenience, environmental protections, regulations etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It may depend on the iteration you had. I remember very clearly that the touch interface was pretty good for a resistive touch screen, but I found icons and the interface to be made for ants and that was back when I had better than 20/20 vision. I also do remember that apps were pretty sparse.

  I think the interface was better than Palms interface and Blackberry’s but the iPhone in particular had a better easier to navigate UI, and android (even though they took a little bit to catch up), also generally had a better interface.

  I feel like if you were a windows user it was fine. Other than that it just wasn’t that great. But they didn’t even try to compete once they got actual competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows phones were a good product with a UI problem. They could have changed up the UI and been fine. Instead they let Apple and Google and Huawei, LG, Motorola, and every other phone company eat their lunch. They gave up with a token resistance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. No before they come up with this dumb ass idea, and hell no, now that they’ve decided to go ahead with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Consoles Are Pricing Themselves Out of Relevance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem right now is they were sold and prices such that they were less expensive than a high end gaming PC. Now they’re getting into the price of a gaming PC (with the recent increases) at a time when people have less disposable income. They were always for people who could afford their price point. Right now those same people likely can’t afford their price point (PS5 launch price was $500) and usually at this point in their life cycle they get discounted. Instead they have gone up in price at a time when people just don’t have the money for them. The game prices have been increasing as well (PS5 now retails at $100 more than launch price halfway through what’s assumed to be a 10 year life cycle).

  These prices will likely continue to rise (because consoles are manufactured and sold on such thin profit margins) as the components to keep manufacturing them continue to get more expensive.

  If/when the bubble pops we’ll see if they stay at high prices or get discounted but as of right now the article is correct. It’s hard to be relevant when you’re pricing your users out of buying your product because you’re being priced out on the component end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Banning reddit mods was not something I had on my Bingo card. Damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube alternative⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nebula. It’s got a paid sub though.

  There’s also Peertube. I think both are worth checking out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sexual predator used online games and ChatGPT to groom young boys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think highlighting that criminals are using AI to make their crimes more effective is “using it as AI hate”.

  Parents (and the general public) do need to understand the dangers of new technology regardless of whether you like it or don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not by itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to understand that the original headline I saw said something to the effect that the EU was trying to enact a law to close the loophole of VPN’s for age verification workaround.

  So while this headline is also problematic, the first headline was worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big data centers in Florida must pay full power and infrastructure costs under new law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not. The state law allows for local municipalities to make nondisclosure agreements with the data centers which would hide the costs from consumers altogether, and they’re raising prices regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much better headline than the last post I saw on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They refer to it as her because it chose to be referred to as her and as “Cassandra”. They asked it to name itself and this is what it chose.

  I get what you’re saying about anthropomorphizing the LLM (which I agree we shouldn’t do), but the purpose of this was to put the scope of what it can and can’t do and some of the pitfalls it has in a video that is accessible by the general masses.

  Does this make the whole problems with anthropomorphizing LLMs more prevalent? Yeah, probably. Is it intended as a grift? Not that I can tell from watching the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Glasses Companies Are Getting Shamed Into Covering Their Cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies or users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers in fatal Ford BlueCruise crashes were likely distracted before impact | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Ford’s blue cruise isn’t supposed to marketed as self driving and it gives active warnings, including when you take your hands off the wheel to prevent you from trying to use them as a self driving equivalent where you aren’t paying attention.

  I agree that these features that are ostensibly to make driving safer are invasive and that they are being abused by people who do not take the warnings into affect or use them the way they are intended to be used, and I personally hate blue cruise.

  I also agree that blue cruise enabled vehicles also have some pretty significant distractions included like giant touch screens and so on.

  But I don’t think it’s fair to lable them as self driving when the company doesn’t do that (looking at you Tesla who has repeatedly had to walk back such marketing claims).

  Do I think blue cruise is a good product? No. Do I think it makes driving safer? Debatable as I’m sure that in some cases it can do that. Do I think it’s a self driving system? No because it’s not. It’s basically just intelligent cruise control and lane keeping assist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t say something like that specifically because it isn’t an algorithm that receives x input and spits out Y. It’s an algorithm that receives x query and spits out the most common variant worf that comes after query. If there isn’t a most common word that makes sense to a human, the AI doesn’t know that and so it still gives the most common word in its training set.

  If the query is “Juicy” it may output melons. If melons were not available in its training set it might output grapes or cherries, but if those weren’t available it might output apple bottom jeans which would have made sense in 2003 but likely wouldn’t make sense to the average kid today who’s never heard of juicy couture.

  It doesn’t understand anything. It can’t reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We both know that this isn’t about stopping criminals or underaged users. That’s just a pretext to conveniently use as cover for their real reason which is surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I don’t agree that AI alone caused anything (because there had to be some instability there for the words of the AI to manipulate, I can absolutely agree that use of the AI is a very apparent contributing factor in the cause.

  With suicide you need some very specific circumstances.

  1. Opportunity. A time and place where the person can’t or won’t be stopped from the attempt.
  2. A feeling of pain or helplessness that eclipses that person’s ability to deal with or find and outlet for.
  3. Means/mode. A bus, a rope and anchor point, a weapon.
  4. Intent.

  I think the last one is where things get a bit murky from a legal standpoint.

  Barring accidental suicide, what can legally be considered as responsible for causing suicide is limited. If you encourage a suicidal person to kill themselves, you as the other person had intent to harm, even if you didn’t mean for them to actually follow through, or believe that they would.

  My fear is that these legal battles won’t result in the AI being held accountable because they’re not able to have intent.

  My bigger fear is that the companies who are responsible are not going to be held responsible for the same reason a fun manufacturer isn’t when someone sticks the barrel in their mouth and pulls the trigger. The argument that it’s a “tool” that’s been “misused” is gonna be thrown around a lot.

  I wish I could believe we’d get more stringent regulations out of such lawsuits. But I just don’t have that kind of hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying Generative AI lies is attributing the ability to reason to it. That’s not what it’s doing. It can’t think. It doesn’t “understand”.

  So at best it can fabricate information by choosing the statistically best word that comes next based on its training set. That’s why there is a distinction between Generative AI hallucinations and actual lying. Humans lie. They tell untruths because they have a motive to. The Generative AI can’t have a motive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck is out of stock in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok. So explain where the investment is. What does “eating the loss” do for them in the long term? How do they recoup that loss? Loss leaders (the Costco hotdog, PlayStation consoles etc) are used by businesses as a way to get people to buy into their other products that do make healthy profits. Costco’s hotdog gets people in the door, and those people buy other stuff because “while we’re here”. There’s a psychology to that strategy.

  Sony uses sales of the PlayStation consoles to get people locked into their platform where they spend money on games, and skins, and micro transactions etc. People used the PlayStation to play Blu-ray (also a Sony property), and DVDs, and stream content like movies, and music. This nets them healthy profits while selling the hardware at or below cost.

  Nintendo is said to do the same thing with the Switch/Switch 2. So there’s a cost to benefit ratio equation going on in each case.

  What is the cost to benefit equation for Valve selling the Steam Deck at a loss? Their e-shop doesn’t depend on the hardware to sell games. They aren’t locking people into Steam in a way that’s meaningful because other hardware exists with the same or better ability to play all the same games. The Steam e-shop doesn’t require you to only play games on the Steam Deck.

  So that’s where you lose me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord just had a breach of that ID data. Discord is going to lose a lot of users this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the “Maize Dictatorship”. It’s a hell of a phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newegg stock falls 17.7% after owner is detained by anti-corruption authorities in China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy server drives from them still. Well I did. Before everything kind of went a little crazy. But yeah they are a shadow of what they once were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,” Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the “new equilibrium” of human nature. (As WC points out, there’s actually growing evidence that AI harms human cognitive ability.)

  Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about “riding the exponentials of model capabilities” as well as managing AI’s “‘jagged’ edges” to allow us to “get value of AI in the real world.”

  “Ultimately, the most meaningful measure of progress is the outcomes for each of us,” the CEO concludes, in an impressive deluge of corporate-speak that may or may not itself be AI-generated. “It will be a messy process of discovery, like all technology and product development always is.”

  TLDR: That’s not what he said and rehashing the same interview in article after article with this frankly clickbait headline is getting old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t do that. Just based entirely on their wealth of comment replies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a gripe with this article and it’s the way that their “expert” Riedl talks about AI and the anthropomorphic personification inherent in the language he uses.

  AI doesn’t think. It can’t overthink. It doesn’t “misunderstand”. It doesn’t understand. It doesn’t do context. So while I understand that this person is trying to communicate the differences between these two types of technology, this gives an unreasonable overestimation of the techs capabilities, making some people believe the tech is more than it is.

  Some people on another thread about the same article were upset that this writer bought a coffee machine with AI integration. But that’s to be expected of people who write about tech. They try that tech out. Experience it so they can write about it. See what it does. What it’s good at. What it’s bad at. This is how we get reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the AI gonna buy your products? Is it going to buy your web services? Is it going to keep you in business?

  This seems like a no brainer to me, but I don’t have an MBA so what do I know. Common sense is thin on the ground I know, but there either needs to be an end game or a long game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is possible to be right for wrong reasons. Nothing prevents a general ban on gambling ads from moving forward since underage users might still see them.

  I can agree with what you’re saying but also say that this is more a case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

  They wanted to offload their responsibility as parents for enforcing parental controls for their children onto the internet at large, which puts the identities and PII of adults at risk in a way that is increasingly more dangerous. It also directly contributed to the erosion of our privacy.

  They also claim to be a grass roots movement and wouldn’t claim to be affiliated with a corporation (especially not one involved in gambling). That is an important distinction and they should have their feet put to the fire for it because either they knew and didn’t care, or they didn’t know and were manipulated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m shocked. Well not that shocked.

  It’s always a good idea to follow the money. A few random bandwagon jumpers screaming about saving the children provided a front for a gambling company. Should we be asking them questions about their involvement in said company? I think we should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook redesign focuses on friends, photos, Marketplace and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too little too late, Meta.