I’m not sure about that implementation, but this certainly sounds clever. Especially if they can roll it out before Facebook manages to do the same thing.
Now whether this will be used for scraping AI data, or whether it will be a privacy disaster in the long run, remains to be seen.
Microsoft had no reason to trust Anthropic to be private to begin with. And this complaint is mighty rich coming from them.
Hard to see this as anything except some kind of PR stunts on both sides. Anthropic is collecting data to act “responsible,” Microsoft is throwing a stink while they’re already in bed with OpenAI.
[Data is stored] at least 30 days. There is an “almost” that is doing a ton of heavy lifting here “deletion after 30 days in almost all cases”. My read of that is they can hang onto data for as long as they want, even if they usually won’t. And “all traffic” with an agentic harness is basically your entire codebase you work on.
“Military helicopter intercepted Iranian drone”
“You will own, uh, nothing, and you will, uh, be memed”
- Some Afrikaner billionaire
There is already essentially an AI-Satan cult. They’re called the Rationalists. Unlike your average Satanist, however, they are very irrational, nearly theistic, and exert a lot of control over Silicon Valley.
His bill would also require a review process for autonomous or semi-autonomous weapon systems, in addition to barring the military from using AI to monitor individuals for constitutional activities, removing human involvement from nuclear weapons deployment and purchasing personal data on Americans from third parties in some cases.
I didn’t expect this bill to be an improvement over what the Trump administration currently does, but it seems it actually is. Especially that last part.
(Regarding the headline, that’s more smoke and mirrors. I don’t think any AI company wants to build a tool that kills people, not because they don’t want to, but because they know the responsibility would rest on them rather than the military. And they want the money in the murder sector with none of the responsibility.)
I hope those tools are exempt because, just like a browser, they respond only to specific commands issued by a human user. They don’t “crawl” pages in the way we describe bots that jump from page to page.
The field of “AI safety” has to be populated with some of the dumbest people to touch a computer.
But I didn’t think they would be this dumb.
The AI boosters managed to make AI dangerous in a real life by pretending to be afraid of scenarios that were only fictional.
It’s actually wilder than that. The official Proton account went onto several platforms to repeat the endorsement.
Anybody who uses an Android phone and hasn’t dug into their Location Services settings, and hasn’t disabled them.
Currently, the mobile hotspots from Calyx use the T-Mobile network when available, and fall back to using the Sprint network otherwise.
Doesn’t this ultimately just make an IMSI available anyway? Or am I missing something here?
Erosion of public opinion has always been the plan. I did a double take recently when I found out that back in 2017, Mozilla adding telemetry was something that people actually were offended by. Unfortunately, people stopped being offended by it, and nobody noticed that the telemetry experts were from the Facebook company, and soon that innocent data collection turned into an ad network.
We need to go back to treating these people the same way Google Glass users were treated back in the 2010s. They were Glassholes then. They’re surveillance freaks today. They should be shunned by society. The nicest thing you should do to somebody wearing these surveillance glasses is to politely tell them that you are uncomfortable around their weird behavior.
Wow. We need the Google-funded company that’s not quite as evil as Google. Heaven forbid anybody suggest they acted less evil.
It’s not as good as not implementing the things in the first place
Then you understand exactly why Mozilla is so problematic.
Mozilla wrote the playbook that said “Defaults matter!!!” and then Mozilla made their defaults shit. Mozilla should be apologizing to you for requiring a switch to begin with. If they had any semblance of morality, they would be endlessly contrite.
Please take this clarification to Mozilla: AI should never have been in their browser in the first place. If they felt it was necessary to waste donations on, they could have offered it as an actually optional extension.
Mozilla take note. You can actually get money from your users for a change, and not just through Google.
Especially when your userbase, the people you’re supposedly building your browser for, keep telling you to keep AI out of it.
Brave is actually listening to their users. Mozilla should feel humiliated that they never do.
Mandatory note: you cannot contribute a dime towards Firefox. Google contributes, not you. Money given to Mozilla will find its way into AI experiments (https://www.mozilla.ai/) and AI grants (https://mozilla.vc/).
Vivaldi’s ad blocking is far worse. I’m not sure how they built it, but even after you disable the whitelists for their paying partners, it misses things Brave and uBO on Firefox don’t.
Ah it’s the AI evangelist troll. You know better than to actually believe this, and even if you didn’t, the statement is a thought-terminating cliché that has been thoroughly mocked.
Everybody knows you give a warning slam before you proceed to blast