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- on New "Siri Recap" Feature for Apple Watches Can Create Summaries of Your Conversations Throughout the Day, Apple Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
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on New "Siri Recap" Feature for Apple Watches Can Create Summaries of Your Conversations Throughout the Day, Apple Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Ulgh.
In some sense, I’m simultaneously trying to stay aware of specific features and companies that I want to register displeasure of, but also there are clearly underlying technologies that are part of an open Pandora’s box. We all need to realize that the ubiquity of microphones, data transfer, and AI summarization means that we need to be prepared to live in this world. We can work to hold certain companies accountable, but there’s no going back to a time when it wasn’t possible for a bad actor to record a room full of hundreds of people in a union hall or socialist meeting and then afterwards try and identify voices and build summaries over time of who are the most influential members and things like this. These are technologies that we’re going to have to figure out how to navigate.
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on Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
I don’t think you can guarantee that.
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on Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Anyone have a gift link?
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on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
No, California already does lots of gun regulation.
If anything, I think this is the result of a culture in which they’re looking for ways to do more when there’s no much more they can really do without federal changes.
It’s fucked up. California legislators just do not really care about surveillance or civil rights at this this point.
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on How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies | ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in th… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Yeah but that’s just marketing and free agents expressing their ideas in the marketplace of ideas! This is propaganda! /S
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on Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Not to brag, not I encountered “Spiralism” over a decade ago.
I was in grad school studying biochemistry and stumbled across a crank article in a lower tier scientific journal by some weirdo with a pseudo-spiritual philosophical belief that life was fundamentally and intrinsically developed out of the concept of a spiral. It was hilariously vague low-quality stoner nonsense that I couldn’t believe he got published anywhere. I remember it because I sent it on to friends to laugh about.
My impression now is that ‘it’s all spirals, mannn!’ is apparently one of the most popular valleys you wind up in if you follow every dumb thought further down to its lowest conclusion. So of course a machine that churns out the most vapid, generic human output in a concentrated slop inevitably keeps arriving at this destination.
I sometimes wonder what the outcome would be if instead of protecting privacy, we switched to nullifying the asymmetry of surveillance.
I’m not advocating for this: I know this idea is radical and unpopular and likely very dangerous. But if a majority of us concluded that we’d reached a point where protecting our individual privacy was no longer possible, what would it look like if we accepted a panopticon society, but through law and hacking, forced the information to be universally available to all?
What if my movements and political attitudes and sexual preferences were tracked by the government, but rather than being known exclusively to the state, this was public information, as were the identities of every member of law enforcement and their locations, associations, and thoughts too.
Would it level the playing field? Would it break the state’s love of surveillance if the tools couldn’t be contained for their use? I rather hope we don’t reach the point where we need to test this.