Well for one thing, it’s creepy and the people around you don’t want to be passively recorded 24/7.

Remember Google Glass? Its users were called “glassholes” for a reason.

Ideally you would work in a language you didn’t have these inane rules about semicolons

I wish I had the luxury of not working with JavaScript… but sadly it’s still the only game in town on the web.

Enslopification

The company I work for did this last year.

Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they’re too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).

Consider how much money is behind AI right now and it’s a lot easier to understand.

The prophecy as foretold by the ORACLE

…begin?

Enterprise pays by the token instead of paying a monthly subscription, so it’s even more expensive for them than it is for single users.

Grok’s logo is a black hole.

Emphasis on hole.

Think bigger.

Remember the XZ hack a few years ago? That whole mess started with a targeted harassment campaign towards the project’s lone maintainer. Eventually the sock puppet accounts wore him down and he was convinced to bring on a second maintainer to help with the project… who also turned out to be a sock puppet and who introduced the critical backdoor into XZ.

A lot of research has been done into this event since it happened, and the current consensus seems to be that both the harassment campaign and the malware creation were done on behalf of the Russian government.

So we’re now in the era where FOSS maintainers have become the targets of literal nation-states.

Really? Because Claude is already pretty fucking expensive for something that hasn’t been monetized…

She uses it both for gaming and studio recordings with Ardour.

How is the gaming experience on Debian nowadays? Last time I tried it (several years ago now), it was kind of a nightmare jumping through all of the various hoops required to get it to pay nicely with an Nvidia GPU.

CEOs get paid an exorbitant amount of cash, so naturally they assume that their work is valuable and that they must be very intelligent because surely only highly-intelligent people can produce such highly-valued output.

Then along comes a machine that can do the two things that CEOs believe represent the height of intelligence: talk at length about random bullshit, and make vibes-based decisions. Of course CEOs are going to buy into the hype and assume this technology is genuinely intelligent, it’s very good at CEO things and CEOs are very smart! From there it takes very little effort to convince them that this is the technology of the future and that soon it will ‘transform’ the workplace, replace workers, etc

You’re right. I’m usually more careful about that. In fact I’ve even left comments just like yours in the past.

Just goes to show how hard the marketing engine is really working to paint these things in a certain (deceptive) way.

LLMs are notoriously bad at math.

Or rather, they’re completely incapable of it. Even the most “advanced” AI systems basically just say “hmm… I think this might be a math problem” and then pass the data into a regular math API to do the calculation.

But a simple summarization bot isn’t going to be wired up for calling a bunch of external tools, so… yeah, it just spits out an answer that looks statistically correct without having any real bearing on reality.

lmao, I bet they trained the stupid thing on recordings from massive call centers. It probably thinks that all the ‘background’ noise is just part of how humans communicate.

“This leash demeans us both”

thicc (derogatory)

Jesus… more like sun scream, amirite?

Okay, but like… why would anyone want to??