gorbachev

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by gorbachev 9d ago
I bet there are an army of lawyers in those states preparing class action lawsuits right now. I'm pretty sure Attorney Generals will also join the fray in due time. This crap needs to be shut down hard.
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by gorbachev 12d ago
I don't know a single company where an executive would be downloading training data themselves. The only exception would be a very small startup, which isn't the case here, or all IT, admin and engineering staff told the company t
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by gorbachev 13d ago
Expat...as in Finnish citizen living abroad.
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by gorbachev 13d ago
It's also impossible to use if you're an expat, and you get locked out of every Government online system that requires strong identification.
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by gorbachev 15d ago
I have colleagues who have replaced ctrl-f on a (long) document they already have open with prompting an LLM to find things for them.
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by gorbachev 21d ago
This is incorrect. The physical card itself expires every 10 years, but your status as a permanent resident doesn't. That can only be revoked by a legal process. Obviously if you do not renew the green card itself, you are going to fac
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by gorbachev 26d ago
Now that everyone knows this can and will happen, are any of the future incidents inadvertent? What if the damage in future incidents is more than just "The LLM saw some stuff it shouldn't"?
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Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been(wired.com)
72 points by gorbachev 1mo ago|32 comments
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The Post-Literate Engineer(joereis.substack.com)
4 points by gorbachev 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
Oh, yes, because one example makes this generally true. I'm sorry, but I have about 1M counter examples.
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
The cap will be reached when LLMs run out of original material to train on and the large majority of their training material is AI generated content.
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
The average person, yes. A professional, competent writer, editor, journalist? Not even close (currently).
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
The Olympic Committee comes pretty close, maybe even ahead of FIFA.
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
In the UK diabetes patients get automatically invited to followup appointments by the GP and eye screening tests every <n> months, where n depends on the severity of your condition. Adjustments to medication will happen at those appoi
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by gorbachev 2mo ago
You'll understand when/if your Plex media library grows so large that every rescan takes a week.
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by gorbachev 3mo ago
So...don't buy any Ford vehicles designed and/or manufactured in the last 8 months or so?
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by gorbachev 3mo ago
yomomma@example.com works for me, most of the time. Some of the places that like to spam their users no matter what filter example.com out.
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by gorbachev 3mo ago
I was a big fan of your OpenPhoto / Trovebox solution back in the day. It was ahead of its time. Glad you're still working in the photo sharing space!
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by gorbachev 3mo ago
If I read the whole thing correctly, people on the IRC channel didn't instruct the agent to set up the bloated AWS infrastructure, the agent did, and its operator clearly didn't review any of it. That was the root cause for the co
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by gorbachev 3mo ago
If it's a one off and needs no or minimal maintenance work afterwords, sure. If it's intended to be actively maintained, then you probably should understand how things work, unless you want to wipe everything and start from scratc
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by gorbachev 4mo ago
That answer will change very quickly, if someone marches to a Creative show room, sales event or CES and "patches" all of their devices.
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by gorbachev 4mo ago
For every Apple, there are 100 mom-and-pop companies who have nothing. Even more so in the future when a software company can be launched by a farm of AI Agents with a founder at helm with no clue about computing or security. What's de
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by gorbachev 4mo ago
I'm not seeing any of this, and I've have been using the same email address that forwards to gmail for decades at this point, and it's in every major email data breach. I get, maybe, one actual spam email per year through gma
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
TD Bank is the perfect lender for this. https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-assesses-re...
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
Except when Zuck decides it's profitable to violate the rules. The man is without any redeeming qualities.
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.
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Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs(bbc.com)
526 points by gorbachev 5mo ago|433 comments
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
Even if so, it doesn't matter, because 4 - 8 years later it'll be reversed again. And because it takes longer to rebuild than dismantle, it will never be the same. This is the cycle now. 180 degree turns in policy every 4 or 8 yea
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
When I worked at a company that was using Palantir's software about 15 years ago the average age of a Palantir employee was in the early 20s in my experience. It was almost certainly everyone's first job. It's not too hard to
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by gorbachev 5mo ago
Zuck and his minions are also responsible for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide Your examples pale in comparison.

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