atrielienz
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- Comment on Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide 1 day 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.
- Opportunity. A time and place where the person can’t or won’t be stopped from the attempt.
- A feeling of pain or helplessness that eclipses that person’s ability to deal with or find and outlet for.
- Means/mode. A bus, a rope and anchor point, a weapon.
- 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 6 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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" 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago:
Too little too late, Meta.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m so mad that you took money I rightfully grifted that I’m not going to let you give me money anymore?
Did he think. Ha. Never mind. I can’t even say it with a straight face. God he’s an infantile lunatic.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 months ago:
Or just let me select a primary device. Hell if you let me prioritize like 3-5 devices that would be good enough. I could prioritize them 1-5 and be done.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 months ago:
Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?
- Comment on SteamOS updates and Decky [Question] 2 months ago:
Uninstalling allowed grub to boot Bazzite normally with no errors for me so right now that’s maybe the best we can hope for. I also don’t want to re-install all my plugins.
- Comment on SteamOS updates and Decky [Question] 2 months ago:
Did you try uninstalling and reinstalling?
Also, perhaps just checking for updates? When I checked for updates I could see that there was a new update for decky loader but at that point I had decided to uninstall it anyway to prevent future problems.
- Comment on SteamOS updates and Decky [Question] 2 months ago:
So, I’ve been looking into this for myself and it looks like what’s broken is the MagicPods module in deckyloader. If you previously installed that, you can try uninstalling decky and then re-installing it and leave that module out of the reinstall/setup process and see if that works.
At this point I’m gonna leave decky uninstalled on my system mostly because I’m pretty tired of it breaking.
- Comment on SteamOS updates and Decky [Question] 2 months ago:
I normally have to go in ( uninstall just deckloader), and reinstall deckyloader when this happens. There’s no way that I have found to do it otherwise and it’s happened to me at least three times now.
I’m sure there probably is another way, but I haven’t had success with anything but the uninstall/reinstall method.
- Comment on Valve says "the Steam Machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home," but I feel like that's missing the point 2 months ago:
So, I don’t know what information this is based on, but I’m questioning it.
High end gaming rigs come in pre built, for people who want that kind of warranty, or, more often in my experience, the people who own them build them. Which means they’re not super fussed about installing a different OS.
It’s more likely that some subset of them play games that require windows (VR, some racing sims, competitive online games that require kernel level anti-cheat etc), and won’t switch because of that.
There may be some subset of the gaming populace who wants that without the fuss, and usually they buy consoles. Computer gaming is what it is because people very often like control.
I’m a tinkerer at heart, and one of my older brothers used to build custom gaming rigs as part of his business back in the early 2000’s. Most of my family and quite a few of my friends have been computer gamers for decades.
I’d be willing to wager that a fair number of computer gamers aren’t bothered about the installation process of steam OS, but might be wary of limiting the games they can play using it.
- Comment on Google relaxes Android sideloading requirement for 'experienced users' 3 months ago:
Developers on Google’s app store still have to register to allow their apps on the app store.
They haven’t explained yet how they’re going to rework side loading but there’s not mention of having to register to sideload apps.
For experienced users, Google said it’s working on an advanced flow that lets them accept the risks of installing unverified apps. The flow will include warnings and safety measures “to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer.”
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 3 months ago:
The source code is available from Nvidia directly for the purposes of community built custom OS’s for the shield.
How long that remains the case? I don’t know. But I also do wonder about trying to run a bunch of AI features on hardware that’s anywhere between 10 and 6 years old.
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 3 months ago:
I’m pretty glad I didn’t opt for one of these. I kept thinking about buying on to replace my Nvidia Shield and didn’t pull the trigger.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 3 months ago:
Lol. If humans can’t make money then they can’t spend money on using your AI.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 3 months ago:
Totally fair. I was trying to hold back on “blaming the normies”. But you’re right. There are a lot of people who don’t change any settings they just plug and play and pretend everything is fine.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 3 months ago:
This is what I use in my house. I don’t understand what the deal is with this besides the fact that some people are ignorant and don’t change any of the factory router settings. You don’t even need to use WRT. Just change the factory passwords and config.
- Comment on Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions 3 months ago:
Did they defend MS and Cloudstrike?
- Comment on These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came 3 months ago:
So basically, Open AI is upset that Musk sued to prevent them becoming a for profit company, and they’re upset that so many tiny non-profit companies are opposing them for various reasons. So they have decided to subpoena and or sue all those tiny non-profits under the ‘assumption’ that they must be funded but Musk in order to further his opposition to the company and their for profit plans. And intimidate these small non-profits, which kills two birds with one stone.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 months ago:
I did figure it out and it’s been awesome although I don’t know what the difference is between high refresh and regal.