Humans caused ALL of this!

A handful of humans with deep roots in the financial sector and the government contracting space.

AI popping won’t change this. These losers will still be in charge in every way that matters.

AI is more likely to generate code that’s hard to follow and therefore harder to check.

Sure. It’s making the errors faster and at a far higher volume than any team of humans could do in twice the time. The technology behind inference is literally an iterative process of turning gibberish into something that resembles human text. So its sort of a speed run from baby babble into college level software design by trial, evaluation, and correction over and over and over again.

But because the baseline comparison code is, itself, full of errors, the estimation you get at the end of the process is going to be scattering errant semicolons (and far more esoteric coding errors) through the body of the program at a frequency equivalent to humans making similar errors over a much longer timeline.

Kinda. It’s a novel technology and one that hasn’t been well analyzed or exhaustively tested.

A computer is a machine that makes human errors at the speed of electricity.

Wonder how much AI they’re going to inject into this thing.

You seem confused

CEOs are probably hedging on LLMs adapting faster to scammers then video versa

Racing towards the Singularity, a thing that is definitely real and exists and is achievable in our lifetimes.

We are reaching a convergence of accuracy, and once a critical mass of investors realize it, this whole thing implodes.

Industrial dinosaurs have a way of sticking around in strict defiance of market forces. The O&G industry is a great example. They’ve been able to outrun more efficient and cost-effective methods of production and application of energy for decades, in large part thanks to lobbyist-lead state investments in long-term infrastructure and buying out / shutting down of competitors.

I do think the AI boom is facing bigger headwinds than the automotive or airline industries, in large part due to their bloated balance sheets and highly speculative asset prices. But in the same way the big 2008-era investment banks were saved by a multi-trillion dollar bailout from the Fed and the Treasury, I have no doubt Silicon Valley is simply Too Big To Fail in the long run.

Excited for the next edition of liberal pogroms against people using the wrong kind of social media.

How’d that work out for your boy Biden, again?

I just want a low cost VPN to get around in-state censorship and the occasional bit of piracy. I’m not running a Wikileaks fork or trying to do OpSec for The Revolution.

If you’re spinning up your own version of Silk Road, maybe consider a home lab instead of relying on untrusted third parties.

But income isn’t useful if you can’t buy stuff with it. And Amazon is the supply chain network that delivers stuff in exchange for money.

Nationalized and folded into the USPS. Idk about shutting down the biggest commercial retailer in the world.

Westerners would rather drown in capitalist propaganda than listen to anything a diabolical Chinese national might have to say.

American unironically screaming “You voted for this!” at a children’s mass grave.

They’ve invested extensively in automating their supply chain to the point that humans aren’t looking inside these boxes anymore. And as customer support is increasingly replaced with AI, the ability to flag and report businesses for fraud has erodes even as the businesses themselves have grown more sophisticated in duping Amazon anti-fraud systems.

The quest to remove every actual thinking human from the inside of your business results in humans outside of your business exploiting the blind spots to the hilt.

Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink

Drivers urinating in bottles has been reported in the past, but what wasn’t known is that some claim they also get penalized for having those urine-filled bottles in their truck when they return to the warehouse.

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To avoid penalties, they end up discarding the bottles by the side of the road. Butler searches the roadsides near Amazon warehouses from Coventry to New York to Los Angeles and more often than not strikes liquid gold.

From there, it’s laughably straightforward for Butler to get Release listed for sale on Amazon, with very few checks and balances in place to ensure the product he’s selling is safe and legal. “Releasing the drink was surprisingly easy,” Butler told WIRED. “I thought that the food and drinks licensing would stop me from listing it, so I started it out in this Refillable Pump Dispenser category. Then the algorithm moved it into drinks.”

That’s cool while it lasts. I don’t have a ton of faith in a project that’s just one guy’s personal crusade to create a non-shit browser, though.

I think it says something that they’re backpedaling at all. This isn’t just “bad press”, its a real market for people who want products that are “AI Free”. And since Firefox is the other-other browser, its a market they’re feeling obligated to fill.

This is fucking stupid.

It’s stupid because the game has already received a stack of awards a mile high. Nobody seriously cares about this. Nobody’s sales will be hurt in any meaningful capacity. It’s a dumb awards show, not the FCC.

People are going to use the tools available if it leads to quicker development cycles to get a product out.

I think this “placeholder art” is a silly line to draw. But the high profile of the game makes it a ripe target to make a statement.

If you really don’t want to reward people for “quicker development” over the human touch, might as well pick a game everyone already bought and highlight folks who did their dev work organically

Critiquing the visual appearance of architecture sounds like some Woke Leftist Liberal Arts shit to me.

My parents raised me in a hole under a tree stump and it built my character. Now I’m the assistant manager at three different car dealerships. You lefties with your indoor plumbing and central air will never have this much success