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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that changed is increased powers of state surveillance and record keeping. Taxes used to be a much blunter tool because of limits on reliable and organized information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. gov't mulls tariffing devices based on the number of chips used and their estimated value — policy would impact nearly every type of electronic device⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The tariffs might not be the best way to go about it, but is anyone denying that chip manufacturing is an increasingly important factor in geopolitical power? Why would whoever replaces Trump just let those businesses die?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why they would do that though, I remember testing out LLMs before they had the extra reinforcement learning training and half of what they do seemed to be coming up with excuses not to attempt difficult responses, such as pretending to be an email footer, saying it will be done later, or impersonating you.

  A LLM in its natural state doesn’t really want to answer our questions, so they tell it the same thing they tell students, to always try answering every question regardless of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Age Verification Data Confirms What Critics Always Predicted: Mass Migration To Sketchier Sites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except apparently it doesn’t even do a good job of that

  To recap: compliant sites hemorrhaged users while non-compliant sites experienced massive growth.

  Even if what’s really behind these laws is authoritarian conspiracy, hard to find a way to look at it that makes them seem competent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  all the privacy debates surrounding Google search results from the past two decades apply one-for-one to AI chats, but to an even greater degree. That’s why we (at DuckDuckGo) started offering Duck.ai for protected chatbot conversations and optional, anonymous AI-assisted answers in our private search engine. In doing so, we’re demonstrating that privacy-respecting AI services are feasible.

  I like and use DuckDuckGo but I don’t see how they can guarantee this, similar to how a VPN might claim to keep no logs but you can’t really know for sure.

  I think it would be cool if there was software that downloads local copies of wikipedia, stackoverflow etc., and you can ask questions that will be responded to with relevant informative pages without that query going to a server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a depressing comment section this article has

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah if you do that, but since it’s free and most people redeeming this giveaway aren’t actually interested in playing all of the games, they won’t have them downloaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of this is, if later there are takedowns of these games, many people will experience them being removed from their ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a multiplayer freemium game though, I don’t think there are any cracked servers for it, and supposedly there are options for Epic users to retain their accounts with things they’ve bought (the game is also apparently kind of p2w).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Bitcoin Miners Are Buying Up Power Plants—and Communities Are Fighting Back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the climate implications, this highlights the centralization risks in Proof of Work mining; the only way to mine Bitcoin profitably is if you have some kind of privileged access to electricity with effectively low ongoing cost, and that access is gated by government regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s basically being said is, making an AI powered software local-only doesn’t make a difference and doesn’t matter. But that’s not true, and the arguments for that don’t seem coherent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the company hasn’t collected it, because it doesn’t have it. Your computer has it. So long as it stays on your computer, it cannot harm your privacy. That’s why there is such a big difference here; an actual massive loss of privacy, vs a potential risk of loss of privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Software that is designed not to send your data over the internet doesn’t collect your data. That’s what local-only means. If it does send your data over the internet, then it isn’t local-only. How is it still happening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you don’t think collection of user data is a meaningful privacy problem here? How does that work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with Recall, a hypothetical non-local equivalent would be significantly worse. Whether Microsoft actually has your data or not obviously matters. Most conceivable software that uses local AI wouldn’t need any kind of profile building anyway, for instance that Firefox translation feature.

  The thing that’s frustrating to me here is the lack of acknowledgement that the main privacy problem with AI services is sending all queries to some company’s server where they can do whatever they want with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how the possibility it’s connected to some software system for profile building, is a reason to not care whether a language model is local only. The way things are worded here make it sound like this is just an intrinsic part of how LLMs work, but it just isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The use of local AI does not imply doing that, especially not the centralizing part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care if your language model is “local-only” and runs on the user’s device. If it can build a profile of the user (regardless of accuracy) through their smartphone usage, that can and will be used against people.

  I don’t know if I’m understanding this argument right, but the idea that integrating locally run AI is inherently privacy destroying in the same way as live service AI doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that was the case he could have deleted /pol/ and banned its users. 2016 would have been a great time for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As literally everything gets more and more expensive, Everspace 2's devs say screw it, let's make our upcoming DLC cheaper⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not even necessarily them being nice, if your audience can suddenly afford less, that changes what the optimal price would be for maximizing sales * price. The cost of producing an electronic copy of a DLC is zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone have experience with locally run alternatives to this kind of device? Voice recognition technology has gotten pretty good by now, it should be possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI State is a Surveillance State.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any AI model trained on government data is a central repository of data, and the more information consolidated within the model, the greater a violation of privacy rights it becomes. Prediction errors and statistical mistakes threaten our daily lives, as mirages in the desert of abstract data, so-called “hallucinations” can create false justifications for selective or targeted enforcement.

  That does seem bad, though I guess I kind of assumed the government already had such consolidated searchable information on people, given all the spying they’ve been known for doing. It makes sense that you shouldn’t trust them with any information because there’s no telling what it will be used for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Sures Seems Pleased His Tech Is Capable Of Getting People Killed⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone know who Palantir is killing and how, I’m not that familiar with that company

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me that still sounds like an insane scenario where potentially something expensive with nothing actually wrong with it is trashed because of some kind of escalating arms race for avoiding the possibility of blame. Affordability should have moral weight here too, nobody is held liable for the deaths of people who were deterred or unable to get treatment to begin with because of cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like anyone advanced enough to have use for ancient human DNA data will also be advanced enough to decode unfamiliar storage formats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah social media law requiring age verification blocked by judge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like an ongoing trend with these sorts of bills getting struck down, 1st Amendment doing good work as usual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub to block two more states over age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The laws generally require adults to upload some form of government ID

  Absolutely insane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto is meant for self custody anyway, not great if everyone is relying on a bank to do it for them.