chgs's comments

On: Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway

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That does not look like a legal child seat

On: The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela

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If they can make an extra $20 from adverts on to they will.

Sky TV makes 10 times as much from subscription as adverts but spends 30% of the time showing you adverts. London underground revenue is a similar ratio - for every £9 tickets they make £1 in adverts. If I go to the cinema they spend 20 minutes showing adverts to people who spent £50 on tickets and popcorn.

Companies shave very little incentive not to make things shit with adverts. The measurable cost to them is tiny, the cost to the rest of the world is massive. Odeon won’t attribute lost revenue from my reduced visits to their adverts, but will measure the 50p or whatever they get.

On: The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela

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Driving itself kills more people in the us every month than 9/11, yet has been glamourised for a century

[WesolyKubeczek → chgs]

It's just that bad drivers are abundant in the US, and driving is way underregulated for such a car-centric country.

On: Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers

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Do you trust an ai run by a shady company but not an attributable human editor.

[rozap → chgs]

Yes, the AI is trained on a vast quantity of data therefore it is less likely to be manipulated vs a single editor that may have ulterior motives. Therefore it's much harder to manipulate. A corporation which represents many shareholders' interest has its own reputation on the line, which would be seriously damaged if they were caught doing anything like you suggest.

But this can only be understood within the context of the white genocide currently happening in South Africa. Some are saying it's not real, but there have been documented attacks on farms and chants of "kill the boer".

[throw_m239339 → rozap]

> Yes, the AI is trained on a vast quantity of data therefore it is less likely to be manipulated vs a single editor that may have ulterior motives.

Gemini was caught stuffing prompts with "custom" keywords on certain requests, so there is still an editor between you and the AI.

[rozap → throw_m239339]

Read my whole comment :)

[marcus_holmes → rozap]

I see what you did there :)

[Baader-Meinhof → chgs]

I think you have an outdated understanding of AI workflow. They generally cite their sources, which you should check, just like regular search.

[ambicapter → Baader-Meinhof]

The source is not what’s convincing you, it’s the way the ai is presenting you the information. The source just confirms what you’re already thinking at that point (what the ai has just presented to you). You’re still trusting the ai.

[retsibsi → ambicapter]

That may be true of the average user, but you have no way of knowing it's true of the person you replied to. It's 100% possible to check the sources properly, and form your beliefs accordingly, if you want to.

[mlinhares → chgs]

We’re so cooked, all the thinking outsourced to LLMs.

On: Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers

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Those adverts and clickbait will infect llms soon enough, just be far harder to block.

[nitwit005 → chgs]

Yes, unfortunately for those saying AIs will only get better, advertising is a major reason we should expect them to get worse.

[techjamie → nitwit005]

Ironically, I wonder if it would inspire a slew of downstream services that use LLMs to clean advertising out of the mainstream LLM responses.

[downsplat → nitwit005]

With the huge usage that LLM APIs are getting in all sorts of industries, they cannot be going away, and they're cheap.

If consumer AI chatbots get enshittified, you can just grab some open source bring-your-api-keys front-end, and chat away for peanuts without ads or anything anti-user.

I use https://github.com/sigoden/aichat , but there are GUIs too.

Plus, anyone enterprising can just write a web front-end and sell it as "the ad-free AI chatbot, only $10/mo, usage limits apply".

[brettermeier → downsplat]

But what if the AI output contains ads, not the UI or whatever...

On: Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

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Why would a Canadian company care about American laws?

On: Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

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Effectively a /64 is the new /32.

Your isp should really be giving you a /56 or /48.

On: Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user

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Well yes, natting is not normal on ipv6 - that’s a major feature.

On: Coventry Very Light Rail

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They also provide major disadvantages, like a single obstacle or broken down vehicle blocking the entire route.

[thehappypm → chgs]

BEVs will become more popular (in my prediction) because they are simpler than diesel, and are self-contained unlike electric trains that depend on external wire systems working, so they will be more reliable.

On: Coventry Very Light Rail

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A tram is just a bus running on smaller, steel, roads.