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@XLE@piefed.social
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 2 days ago:
Link to Tom’s Hardware article for reference?
6GB is a lot. I thought these things only tweaked registry settings to disable things, not remove them.
- Comment on Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers 2 days ago:
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes 3 days ago:
That’s just one explanation among many. A more reasonable guess is that the Ars writer went to his webpage, then asked an AI extension, which would have total access to an open tabs, to pull out quotes or something similar. LLMs find it hard to not change text, even when instructed to.
There are more egregious examples of the author overestimating AI on the same blog post…
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter Over AI-Generated Quotes 3 days ago:
Ars saw his old explanation and conducted an internal review that took weeks, and found it lacking. His new explanation is… He isn’t giving one, after being asked for comment.
- Comment on Twitter Will Stop Paying People for Sharing Unlabeled AI-Generated War Footage 3 days ago:
Paying people to share content was the problem. If you bought a Twitter Premium subscription, your big posts would get you money back. So people from poorer countries would post engagement bait.
Elon Musk already subsidizes fake media generation. So why not use that too, right?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
Okay, right-wing reactionary. Thanks for expanding on the NRA slogan and expanding your warmonger rhetoric to defend Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. They’re just making the guns!
But even if I take your entire pro-military-industrial-complex rhetorical stance as granted, Warmonger Dario Amodei said he wants to develop fully autonomous weapons, which is a step even beyond your bloodthirst. I hope. So you don’t need to keep defending him… Right?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
What’s wrong with drones?
Jesus Christ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_the_United_States_drone_strikes
They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.
Cool Trump apologia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
If you aren’t familiar with his actual stance, you have been told a warped version of Warfighter Dario’s vision.
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R\&D to improve the reliability of these systems.
Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters.
Dario Amodei, Warmonger
Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
Dario Amodei, Just Following Orders
- Comment on Chinese artificial intelligence distorts perceptions, Estonia warns 6 days ago:
China’s strategic aim is to integrate AI as widely as possible into its high-tech smart systems, such as smart cities, autonomous vehicles, smart ports, electrical grids and the Internet of Things.
Wow, that sounds like a terrible idea. If both America and China implement AI across all these things, there will be no more superpowers left to fight a cold war.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
OpenAI’s Sam Altman has praised Trump and our “warfighters.”
So did Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, in a desperate attempt to please Trump.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 6 days ago:
Anthropic is still an incredibly evil company; always has been. And there’s no discernible difference between the OpenAI and Anthropic deals with the Trump administration.
Here’s a list of things Anthropic was willing to do for Trump:
- Mass surveillance of non-Americans
- Targeted surveillance of Americans
- Semi-autonomous bombings
- Fully autonomous bombings… in the future
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 1 week ago:
Block is a various serious company run by various serious people, and we should treat their staff reduction as an equally serious problem.
Block has made a contrarian bet on bitcoin at a time when many payment companies favored stablecoins: cash-like digital tokens that became regulated in the US last year.
Block’s strategy was spearheaded by Dorsey, a “bitcoin maximalist” who has said he believes the digital currency will eventually eclipse the dollar.
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 1 week ago:
I think Dorsey left a Bluesky a long time ago. is Dorsey’s social media of choice. He’s obsessed with Bitcoin. They’re obsessed with Bitcoin. He gave them a huge Bitcoin donation…
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 1 week ago:
The AI described in this article is already whispering in people’s ears, so the psychosis might happen sooner than you’d expect.
- Comment on WordPress.com Flags Concerning Spike in AI-Generated DMCA Takedowns 1 week ago:
Our tax dollars are hard at work. We subsidize AI’s infrastructure and electricity costs, and the companies subsidize AI-powered DMCA spambots.
“The targets included both static pages with no content, and dynamic search query URLs with keywords pre-filled by the complainants that returned no results. This caused a significant amount of work, as our team manually reviews such notices to screen for abuse,” Blythe says.
The number of requests has only increased by 20% or so… but that doesn’t account for the number of URLs per request, which, according to this article, sounds gross.
Somebody please tell me that companies are well within their rights to ignore bad actors who are this malicious. That DMCA requests are not basically “guilty until proven innocent”.
- Comment on Google Messages, Apple testing encrypted RCS on Android & iOS 26.4 1 week ago:
Google has allowed you to do RCS encrypted messaging since Android 10. But isn’t this all still on their proprietary infrastructure, using their proprietary apps, where we just have to trust these two corporations?
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 2 weeks ago:
What it did was assemble words based on a statistical probability model. It’s not lying because it doesn’t want to deceive, because it has no wants and no concept of truth or deception.
Of course, it sure looks like it’s telling the truth. Google engineered it that way, putting it in front of actual search results. IMO the head liar is Sundar Pichai, the man who decided to show it to people.
- Comment on Tesla calls police on IG Metall rep at Giga Berlin works council meeting before critical vote 3 weeks ago:
If I remember correctly, Elon Musk promised he would pay for lawsuits against companies that did this.
- Comment on Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry Spotify. I’m not a pirate. I’m an “AI researcher”.
I’ve even got as much coding cred as Eli Yudkowsky.
- Comment on Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site 3 weeks ago:
TwoTwo wrongs don’t make a right, though. Being targeted by big actors doesn’t mean you should try to DDoS someone else. And the Archive.is maintainer also has a little history with spamming Wikipedia with links to his site, so it’s not as if the decision materialized out of thin air.
Some additional reading from Gyrovague, the victim of the DDoS, and other interesting context.
When asked by a commenter,
do we want archive.today taken down over this? Who would lose and who would benefit the most from this takedown?
Gyrovague responded:
As for outcomes, I’m very much a bit player/spectator in this drama, nobody’s going to be “taking them down” over DDOSing an obscure nerd blog.
If they do go down, it’ll be the FBI or equivalent, and it will be publicly justified as some combination of “protecting the children” (cf. WAAD) and/or copyright violations.
- Comment on Spain announces plans to ban social media for under-16s 4 weeks ago:
I’m generally okay with a social media ban for children, as long as it doesn’t come with extra surveillance as a result. You know, like how the US handled adult websites back before they got all Big Government about it.
With a little extra friction and with a little extra help for teachers and maybe social workers, it seems like a good idea.
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 5 weeks ago:
I really hope the project doesn’t end up being basically Matrix again.We already have a nerdy group chat app that doesn’t really work well as a Discord replacement. We don’t need two.
- Comment on Meet Roomy: An Open-Source Discord Alternative for the Decentralized Web 5 weeks ago:
I agree. I think the average person just wants Roomy (or Matrix) to do what Discord already does. Voice. Video. Desktop streaming. All this haggling about protocols and decentralization don’t matter, but that’s what the article (and the app?) seem most focused on.
- Comment on Anthropic releases new AI Constitution for Claude 1 month ago:
In some insurances, they’ve just said it outright.
When users confronted [Anthropic executive] Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Sam Altman is taking these people’s deaths as seriously as Elon Musk. The only difference is one of them will gloat and vice signal, and the other will lie and tremble onstage while he tries to scare people into believing he can barely control his word generator.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 month ago:
I tried the Galaxy S25 Edge for about a week. I loved how thin it felt. Unfortunately, the feeling was all it was worth. The battery was very bad, and despite being two years newer than my current phone, didn’t appear to perform better in any respect.
It seems performance is plateaued, and while most of the tech industry is gambling on AI being the next big thing, most people aren’t impressed. It seems like a great time to try a wider variety of phones out on the market.
- Comment on Mozilla welcomes Amy Keating as Chief Business Officer | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
New Mozilla’s goals:
As Mozilla pursues a new portfolio strategy centered on building an open, trustworthy alternative to today’s closed and concentrated AI ecosystem…
That’s the only goal listed. No second point. No mention of Firefox anywhere in the article.
- Comment on Musk says he’s going to open-source the new X algorithm next week 1 month ago:
There are plenty of true things that aren’t a perfect fit for Wikipedia. Is the article untrue?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 1 month ago:
What’s the most concrete use case for AI that justifies its existence?
- Comment on Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence 2 months ago:
This article is about how AI exacerbates those tendencies. And since there are so few ways to accurately measure the functionality of AI in general, those self-segments are a significant portion of AI’s value proposition.