As we saw in this story from a few months ago, yes, absolutely, manufacturers will stoop to the level of disabling devices which are prevented from exfiltrating your data. I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of TVs doing the same with the network modules but I’m too lazy to search for it now.

Where in their comment does it say “exactly zero users”? Oh right, it doesn’t

Be that as it may (it isn’t), this is was a website of actual for-real nazis who explicitly describe themselves as nazis.

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I think it’s fair to say that AI yields a modest productivity boost in many cases when used appropriately

I think this is a mistake. The example in this post is some empirical evidence for that.

It’s not clear that we can know in advance whether it’s appropriate for any given usecase; rather it seems more likely that we are just pigeons pecking at the disconnected button and receiving random intermittent reinforcement.

I get all that, I just mean you can’t just ignore the social reality. Like you said elsewhere in this thread, Linux is barely cracking 3% of the desktop market. Can you run an LLM locally? Of course. Do people do it? No, except a couple of hardcore enthusiasts. That is an issue which can’t just be cleanly separated from the technology itself and has to be taken into account when discussing it.

Also, weapons are tools.

A hammer can be used for good or bad but a shrapnel bomb can only kill and maim; not all tools are multivalent like that, some are realistically only used for evil. Additionally, divorcing discussion of a tool from the social context like this is blinding to the real consequences. We don’t have small scale LLMs running on personal machines (even if we could, that’s not how it is now), we have them at industrial scale controlled by a few billionaires. It’s purely fantastical thinking to say that just because you could imagine a world where they’d be used for good, that actually means anything.

You clearly haven’t read it, since he lays out clearly the exact steps that would be required.

Many online banks and money services can do this. I have an account with one whose main purpose is transferring money to my home country to pay my student loans and for money while traveling, but they also offer these digital visa cards. Wouldn’t consider it “private” in any serious way but it’s probably less bad than paypal.

No, lol. If it were a real place there would be a real story of how it came to be that way.

Hey, I’ve never been accused of being AI before, neat! Let’s go with too dumb to read ;)

could totally see it becoming an issue. Especially with copycats and such

What exactly would be the “issue”, even if there were “copycats”, with everyone having a place to live?

It’s an American/British English difference

.world is the r*ddit of Lemmy tho

Yeah that’s kind of my point. That’s a vastly more complicated thing than SQL.

If you could define a formal schema for what appropriate dialogue options would be you could just pick from it randomly, no need for the AI

It says $165 in the link

Yeah, exactly, when you want to do a full upgrade it’s technically best practice to check if there’s anything which requires intervention. But I never bother honestly, and the one time there was an issue it was resolved by just uninstalling one package for another.

It does still happen occasionally that updates need some intervention, it is still policy that you should check the blog in case, but it’s only happened once in the last two years for me.

Nah, it’s from it developing in puberty