I work with AI and use it personally, but I have my own servers running local models which solves tons of privacy concerns. The inaccuracy is another problem but not a big one for me as I know it and will simply fact check. Also, I don’t really use it for knowledge anyway. Just to filter news to my interest, help with summaries and translation etc.

People use AI as some all-knowing oracle but an LLM is not meant for that at all.

Yeah 4% is big enough to get on Google’s radar as a threat. Especially if it’s trending upwards.

This is more than just a few tinfoil hats now.

And yes they’re working on locking bootloaders and also making AOSP less useful

Give them away? Not really, Samsung S series are the same pricing as pixels here where I live. The pixel a is different of course, it’s more like a Samsung FE.

It’s not, it’s easier to visualise one person out of a group of 25 than it is 4 out of a group of 100.

I know, but at least they are making a case which most news outlets probably would but don’t have the means for a long legal fight. They might get some precedent out of this from which the whole news industry will benefit.

I don’t think AI training should ever be fair use. These companies are making billions of other people’s work and giving nothing back.

True but we were talking about Google here that’s why I mentioned Gmail. But yes with Microsoft it’s the same. And together they control most of the email accounts in the world.

Yes they are changing gdpr so that training AI on user data becomes “legitimate use” and won’t need opt in approval (though there may or may not be an opt out(

https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-commission-wants-wreck-core-gdpr-principles

Also many other principles are being removed. It’s basically a surrender to Trump and his big tech buddies

Well yeah but then the mails your receive from Gmail users or the ones you send to are still captured unless they have opted out. Which you can’t see without asking.

And the EU is dropping its protection against unwanted AI training 🤬🤬🤬

The problem I’ve been seeing with email on my own domain is that some services refuse it, saying “please enter a real email address” 🤬 some others just silently refuse to send a confirmation code so I can’t register either (I think tinder did this). Especially the “not a real email address” really pissed me off.

And with proton I got “Anonimisation services are forbidden” once at least.

I forget which services, but it’s Hella annoying…

The marketshare of Google and Microsoft on email is really becoming a problem.

True, the NYT does seem to have a significant impact on OpenAI though.

Very very good point. Google’s ubiquity makes that very difficult.

I don’t agree. Calling it a buzzword diminishes the terrible things that are happening in the world. There’s really a lot of parallels to the 1930s which is really worrying because the 1930s led to the 1940s.

Like I said I don’t advocate erasing languages. Just to have a common international language whichever it is. Local languages can still play a big role in cultural matters (eg literature and life on the street for locals)

I’m from Holland myself and I know most people there don’t care so much about our quirky language, we are happy to speak other ones. It doesn’t mean that Dutch is worth any less. Mind that it doesn’t have to be English (especially now that the US is rapidly declining as a world power). But whatever it is, I wish the world would just pick one so I don’t have to keep learning new languages every time I move.

But failing a global language perhaps AI translators will become so good and smooth to use that soon we can just communicate regardless of what languages we speak.

Oh yes I know but as a common universal language it really has failed. It never became more than a fringe thing (sorry).

Yeah I’m just not really wed to any language. I guess it is also because I have moved around so much. I’m from Holland but I don’t consider myself a Dutch person, more like a citizen of the world. I’ve become too different to fit in in my home country (also because it’s become an extreme-right cesspool lately 😢 ). I’ve spent about half my life elsewhere. And the places I’ve lived where I spoke the languages I fared noticeably better.

Don’t forget that a lot of today’s problems center around not understanding each other. The hatred of immigrants for example.

But I know a lot of people do view language as a cultural thing, it’s just my point of view.

I didn’t know that, but I do know that homelessness isn’t just a housing problem. A huge number of cases are more mental health related: E.g. even if the person had money they wouldn’t be able to live in a stable home. Because the root cause of their lack of money and homelessness is mental health. I would also consider drug addiction to be a mental health issue here by the way which would be a significant percentage of the homeless too.

And that is of course heavily associated with the lack of affordable mental healthcare in the US :( And drug addiction care.

Of course if you would give out housing you would save a lot of homeless, just saying it wouldn’t work for all.

Does it really matter? I think the extreme amount of languages in the world right now is not helping us communicate. I don’t view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol. And I have moved around a lot in the world, it’s very difficult to be constantly adapting to different languages. That causes a societal integration barrier for me.

I think if we had a universal language (note that it wouldn’t have to be English) we would be able to understand each other better and have less wars.

PS: I’m not advocating to ban languages or something, just to have a universal one. A bit like what Esperanto tried to achieve. Mutual language means more mutual understanding and thus less “us vs them” underbelly feelings that the fascists thrive on.

Well yes I thought Zelenskyy looked great in that thing he was wearing. I thought it looked pretty kick-ass. To me personally pissing Trump off would be a feature, not a bug 🤭 But I don’t have any responsibility to save a war-torn country of course. There’s that. I do agree with Zelenskyy’s reasoning, he’s not a president who just sits behind a desk to sign papers.

But yes establishment, that’s what I associate suits with. That’s a better description than “old money” which I said.

For me it tends to have the opposite effect. I remember when my boss always wore this formal stuff and one time we had an issue and she came from home in a hurry to look at it. She was just wearing jeans and a T-shirt and I remember thinking “wow she is actually a nice person” 😆 . But yeah I’m not very (neuro) typical. Though a very typical thing of autistic people is that they love rules and I personally hate them with a passion.

I like the big capes, I sometimes wear them as part of a gothic/alternative outfit, though no suit under it but more like some mesh top. But I wouldn’t wear a suit at university if I had to.

And no I do think that last one is very different because the fabric is very fluffy on that one.