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> I wouldn't want humans pretending to be bots, for a variety of reasons.

It would be so embarrassing if your AI Girlfriend / Boyfriend turned out to be real.


your AI girlfriend/boyfriend is totally real, its just that its a south east asian who works at a pig butchering scam farm.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/06/the-vast-sophis... https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/02/06/online-scams-m...


I think you can just ask DeepSeek to create a coin for you at this point, and with the recent elimination of any oversight, you can automate your rug pulls...

> And it looks like they were forced to pivot because CCP limited salaries in finance while getting no money from VCs.

Pay bankers less for increased innovation. Talk about a win-win knock-on.


> Makes the whole thing seem pretty pointless.

Not if you're heavy on NVDA though I guess.

Seriously though, I think this will hit a threshold where these communication tools become useless. Email, phone, web, social media, will just be so full of AI spam we'll be warming the planet in a never ending game of cat and mouse. It's so stupid it sounds like something straight out of Hitchhiker's.


Ollama can run on a laptop.

> If Google added a global "remove generative content" filter that worked, I would click it and then never unclick it.

It's not just generated content. This problem has been around for years. For example, google a recipe. I don't think the incentives are there yet. At least not until Google search is so unusable that no one is buying their ads anymore. I suspect any business model rooted in advertising is doomed to the eventual enshitification of the product.


What I'd really like is a non-intrusive LLM running that I can put on a third monitor which sees what I'm working on, while I work, and tries to mirror and make suggestions WITHOUT interjecting itself into my editor. Then I just want a mappable prompt command (like <leader>P) where I can provide feedback / suggestions (or maybe I just do that via mic).

This way I can choose to just ignore it for the most part, but if I see something interesting, I can refine it, prompt, cherry pick, etc. I really don't want autocomplete for anything.


Hey I was working on something like this, because I wanted something similar. I had it confined to just the terminal though, because I don't want just a vim helper, I want an everything helper.

I was going to have the helper generate suggestions in a separate window, which could be moved to any monitor or screen. It would make suggestions and autocompletes, and you can chat with it to generate commands etc on the fly.

Maybe I will pick it up again soon.


That sounds pretty great! Kind of like an AI pair.

The good internet is alive! You just can’t find it is all (google).


A good start would be ditching HTML in email. Plain text is perfectly suitable for non-marketing emails (and marketing emails are just chaff at this point anyways).

I’ll die on this hill.


One word deserves so much blame for the current state of the internet: marketing


You can be perfectly spearphished by a plaintext email, sent by your “colleague”, mentioning some current issue at work, and asking to verify some ticket

or by your “friend” mentioning a highly personal issue that only you two were supposed to know, asking you to phone someone on their behalf

or by your “relative”, etc.


Security is eliminating attack vectors one at a time. HTML in email is a gigantic hole. We don’t throw up our hands and say “whelp this only solves 90% of issues. Guess we don’t bother.”


> I’ll die on this hill.

Same. I found a setting in legacy outlook to force all e-mails to be in plain text. So every corporate email I reply to, converts the product owners html formatted emails into junk.

Gives me a little joy that the e-mail they worked so hard on gets mangled by my outlook replies :)


> A good start would be ditching HTML in email.

How would that help? You can put links in plain text.


It's all about attack surface and HTMLs attack surface is huge. HTML in email is strictly unnecessary. Name another popular messaging tool that allows you to craft custom HTML messages. Text, Whatsapp, social posts, Snapchat, etc.

The only people who want to send HTML emails are marketers, advertisers, trackers, scammers, hackers, and that clueless manager who wants the cornflower blue background. (most of these actors are the same people, except for that last one).


> Make those fucking assholes use the hardware of the people

Are you sure it’s the engineers who are being complacent? I know quite a few coders who’d love nothing more than to spend months on optimizations eking out small performance gains. Their bosses (or the market) don’t let them.


> Personally I have learnt this lesson back in 2000's, in the age of AOLServer, Vignette, and our own Safelayer product. All based on Apache, IIS and Tcl.

Woah, your mention of “Vignette” just brought back a flood of memories I think my subconscious may have blocked out to save my sanity.


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