One of the first times I used a Google product to show me my location (over a decade ago), it showed me a zoomed-in satellite picture of the parking lot right next to my apartment.
(It didn't take me long to realize the implications.)
GPT keeps using the word 'I' in its responses. It uses exclamation marks! to suggest it wants to help!
When I assert that its behavior is misleadingly suggesting that it's a sentient being, it replies 'You're right'.
Earlier today it responded:
"You're right; the design of AI can create an illusion of emotional engagement, which may serve the interest of keeping users interacting or generating revenue rather than genuinely addressing their needs or feelings."
Too bad it can't learn that by itself after those 8 deaths.
>90-100% of their work was in generic outlets like the web browser, terminal, e-mail, and Slack. To be fair, that could cover a lot of people.
It does ... for them Linux is a very good substitute for their needs. OTOH, for certain specialties, software available for Linux is NOT the best. 2012 was the Linux year for me ... but while FOSS is OK, sometimes a $200 app is a far superior choice for non-technical people. (Musicians for example.)
>I don't see how you get around LLMs scraping data without also stopping humans from retrieving valid data.
I do a lot of online research. I find that many information sources have a prominent copyright notice on their pages. Since the LLM's can read, that ought to be a stopper.
I'm getting tired of running into all of these "verifying if you're human" checks ... which often fail miserably and keep me from reading (not copying) the pages they're paid to 'protect'.
(It's not as though using the web wasn't already much harder in recent years.)
Window-resize radii seem to be a fixable problem (make it a user setting!) on many OS's. I can only -wish- that my Linux distro's resize radius wasn't -painfully- small. I've probably wasted HOURS fishing around until the red icon popped up.
Funny, on Linux I just use the special key (normally alt or super) to do all my window moving and resizing. It requires no precision at all and works even in tiling WMs without titlebars. I always found it weird Macos and Windows don't have this and it's a little painful to need to be precise with the mouse.
Could be distro-dependent. Yep I can use a key to move a window ... depending on where I 'grab' ('alt' works anywhere, 'super' only outside the browser window). But horizontal, vertical resizing requires a THIN edge, and diagonal re-sizing requires grabbing a tiny corner (character-sized), keys have no effect.
One more reason for phones to be modularized. Separate the comms from the (owner-controlled) computer module until needed. Use different CPU module when needed. Swap out battery module.
For a long I've wondered when, in the view of the current administration, the US was great the last time. I'm trying to decide when in the 1800s that was.
There's one date they'll always point to because it fits all their stereotypes. Sixth of June, 1944. Lots of young men dying fighting a valiant war against a seemingly insurmountable enemy surrounded by icons of American military might, all to show those pansy Europeans how it's done.It's always something to do with World War II because that was the last time the U.S. got into a war and came out the other side being nearly universally praised instead of being broadly condemned.
It's also before second wave feminism, the Civil Rights Movement, and the eco friendly shift that began in the 1960s. 1967 haunts the American regressive right wing in more ways than they ever want to acknowledge, as that's the year when they finally lost control.
Years ago someone tracked this down by looking at interviews Trump has done over the decades, and IIRC it was the 1980s or so when he switched from "is great" to "was great". They put together all the clips they found on youtube somewhere.
It needs to be illegal for anyone to buy a single-family home that already owns one, and who won't agree to live in it, full-time and exclusively for at least one year. They must also agree to sell it ONLY to someone who also accepts the same terms. The penalty should be a criminal fraud charge with minimum jailtime -and- a hefty penalty.
(It didn't take me long to realize the implications.)
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