The guy stomps on innocent, unsuspecting little turtles and occasionally burns them alive. Of course it should be flagged.

This is the perfect waterfall analogy.

The difference is that we’ll just be running small, specialized, on-demand models instead of huge, resource-heavy, all-purpose models. It’s already being done. Just look at how Google and Apple are approaching AI on mobile devices. You don’t need a lot of power for that, just plenty of storage.

There’s no need for huge, expensive datacenters when we can run everything on our own devices. SLMs and local AI is the future.

Just stay far, far away from their forums.

That would be great. It would make it a lot easier to convince people to try Ubuntu.

In conservative politics.

Advertisers will go where people are. Unless people are leaving the Zuckerverse, the advertisers will just go along with it.

I didn’t realize that. What’re the best Proton alternatives?

It’s not just government that is the problem. The problem is that the data has been collected. It’s still being collected. It already exists. And think about that incompetence you mentioned… do you think that data is safe from less incompetent actors?

The best time for action on protecting privacy was yesterday. The second best is right now.

I never said something shouldn’t be done about it or that it shouldn’t exist. I consider privacy a natural right that we should fight to protect. I’m just saying that, whether people realize it or not, it no longer exists. It has already been taken away, and the repercussions of that reality are going to echo through time.

Sorry ☹️

Privacy no longer exists; it’s now little more than an illusion.

If you use modern technology at all, even your own thoughts aren’t safe. Existing ad tech can intuit what you are thinking before you are even aware of it, and AI will be able to dig even deeper into your mind in the near future. There is no escape.

Fire and brimstone preachers used to scream about how God was always watching, but regardless of whether you believe in that sort thing, one thing is true: technology is always watching, and your identity and innermost thoughts can be reassembled at any time by any number of entities, and you wouldn’t even know.

Cost.

But not for us. For them.

Their excuse is that telecom services aren’t actually providing telecom services, but information services.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, it’s because you aren’t brain-damaged.

The only thing I want AI to do for me is to make digital voice assistants not terrible. So far, that has not happened and literally everything else is worse instead.

Skilled workers cost money.

Shareholders hate that.

It’s hard to say. They put out some great stuff that filled some genuine gaps in the market… then the whole thing with the one case happened. It’s very possible they’ve always been shady creeps and we just didn’t notice right away.

this has less to do with using AI, more to do with sloppy code reviews and code quality enforcement.

They are the same picture.

Borderline?

There’s still DuckDuckGo, or Kagi if you are rich.