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eveninghere , 26 days ago to Technology in Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data

Adobe has probably employed dozens of top-level PhDs to implement and train AI models, optimized their code.

Hobby projects will never reach that level regardless of the number of users.

Even proprietary developers would have to close the gap made for 10+ years, with far less resources. Just look at the state of Affinity...

I don't think it's realistic.

eveninghere , 29 days ago to Technology in OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

This is a horoscope trick. They can always say AI destroyed humanity.

Trump won in 2016 and there was Cambridge Analytica doing data analysis: AI technology destroyed humanity!

Israel used AI-guided missiles to attack Gaza: AI destroyed humanity!

Whatever. You can point at whatever catastrophe and there is always AI behind because already in 2014 AI is a basic technology used everywhere.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in German parliament will stop using fax machines

Japanese Prime Minister

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds

I feel the Doc in Back To The Future vibe.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I'm fine with that, it's called "you're entitled to your opinion". That's not objective though.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

I can say it's both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.

And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don't think that'll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I'd be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.

In any case, I won't listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying "that's oranges vs apples", and everything time this happens you'd not have an objective way to counter that.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.

Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it's still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Privacy in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

THE YEAR OF OPENWRT!

/s not /s

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

We aren't naive. We all knew this will happen. But, as it happened, it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in The level of engagement on Reddit these days

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don't have stats to distinguish them.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era

You're right, but I was talking specifically about blogs.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era

But... have we ever had privacy with blog articles? I mean the public ones.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era

I think you should clarify the problem first.

Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

Is it visibility? You never expected Google to show your blog in most cases.

AI training? You could self-host and hope companies respect your robot.txt. But what's the actual problem if you released your blog to the public in the first place? Anybody could've copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

eveninghere , 1 month ago to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.