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• I use interstellar and when I view a post that's been cross posted it shows all comments and replies from all cross posts regardless of which crosspost I click on.

  Is that what you're looking for?

  on It Turns Out That Meta's Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago

• Someone says something controversial or scary to drum up media hype to keep the hype train moving. Other CEO's jump on board (to try to spin the news to make it seem like they're being responsible by not developing their product for "safety reasons" when in fact it's because they can't), Lead CEO then comes out and makes a statement trying to spin it the other way also to keep the hype train going and convince us they have it under control.

  I can't wait for the crash and burn.

  on Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• This is honestly a really good idea.

  on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• Meanwhile my IT department set up protocols that are flagging emails I sent to myself as scams. Mostly photos that failed to upload to the sharepoint from my work phone that is already authenticated and verified. Nice work, guys.

  on A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• So anyone can buy my data but if I request my own data the privacy laws block me or make it much more difficult for me. Is that what this is saying?

  on Companies Make It Hard to Access Your Personal Data Under State Privacy Laws, CR Finds: One-quarter of companies and a third of data brokers failed to fulfill our volunteers' requests in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I would change banks over that and list that as the reason why.

  on Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• That's exactly their point. If a licensed adult has to be in the vehicle (even though there is no way for them to control the vehicle from the passengers seat) then that's not much different than a competent adult guardian monitoring their kids online time.

  on How one woman’s Tesla was remotely controlled – and used to harass her – by an abusive ex-partner in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Except that they don't.

  Gamerz Nexus made a follow up video going over what they said and how their initial statements were basically "we did not", but then they kept talking and confirmed basically everything.

  on LG responds to TV spying allegations in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• While they quietly panic about the constantly rising costs of running their models, the lack of new training data, and the sheer drop investment capital took while they were too busy hemorrhaging money to realize.

  Now they'll act like they're scaling back in order to protect the public and hopefully figure out their golden parachute strategy while cutting startups and smaller businesses out of the market completely.

  on ‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• There's a suprisingly large number of people who I have had to tell that Google sells ad space. They're a digital billboard company but with the ability to target and tailor that ad space to the people who's eyes they want to put it in front of. People just don't know or care or both.

  on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Because that makes them money. Next question.

  on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Part of language is about whether or not there is an ability to infer what is being talked about without specifically naming it.

  Because LLM's have existed longer than the current technology of "AI LLM's" we have to specify what we're talking about. Which is why we use the term we do the same way you would possibly use the term Xerox or Hoover or Scotch tape.

  The difference is those terms I listed are a shorthand for other words that get the idea across without misinterpretation, but can easily be swapped for photocopy, vacuum, and cellophane tape.

  The technical term given to Generative AI LLM's that differentiates it from the LLM's that came before it is in fact Generative AI LLM's and is shortened to Generative AI or Gen AI
  When you use the term slop, that can be linguistically confusing because to a non-native English speaker or a farmer slop has a different connotation altogether.

  This does not negate your argument, because I generally agree that we are attributing intelligence to this tech that it does not have and that this was an intentional choice by the Tech Bros who coined the term. I even agree that it adds further confusion because it's being used for medical tech that doesn't use an LLM at all.

  But if we're going to change the name it needs to be a new term that represents what this tech actually is instead of using a more confusing/less specific slang that has other connotations.

  Doctors don't call vaginas pussies.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Two things.

  1. When we aren't specific in our arguments about this technology it allows people to blow past facts to suit personal interests and insist their viewpoint is correct because their perception trumps facts that aren't clearly defined.

  2. Pretending the symantics of a term aren't integral to the argument being made against it does us no favors when trying to educate people about the topic.

  The algorithm in my game analogy does what it does because the parameters for its instructions are finite and well thought out and well programmed to give the same result based on pre-defined instructions and parameters.

  LLM's do that same thing, but with a metric fuck ton more parameters and fewer defining instructions.

  The reason they keep failing with guardrails is because they put too many unvetted parameters into the algorithm and concise and colloquial instructions in spoken language cannot account for all the variables included in those parameters.

  It's a fatal design flaw but it's important to people's understanding that at the end of the day an LLM is a computer program and it does absolutely nothing unless it is instructed to do something. It won't perform tasks of it's own volition.

  Pretending that we can take shortcuts in linguistics to get people to understand the technical facts doesn't really work here. I'm not saying we can't call them slop/BS.

  Gullible people don't become less gullible because you changed some words.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• LLM'S do not represent and cannot be Artificially Sapient, and that I will grant you. I do not consider them intelligent because intelligence involves understand and the ability to understand context specifically.

  But that doesn't mean LLM'S don't fit some of the technical definitions of AI as seen in the other person's comment who responded to you. We have been calling game NPC's driving algorithms AI for decades. We have to accept that the term has multiple meanings and specify that what we mean when we say LLM's lack intelligence and or sapience.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Both creepy and unethical. Way to go.

  on A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• All of those things make sense when there aren't constant headlines calling the regime you work for evil and pointing out daily all the bad things they are doing.

  That's the difference between working for the government during presidents previous to Trump and working for the government now.

  There are a lot of things you can do working for the government that in years previous to the cancer currently running the place now could be seen as valuable and important.

  Doing research into the effects and safety of drugs, climate change research, allocating public funds to education and the park service etc. Testing food safety.

  Those jobs are still important despite the fact that the Cheeto in Chief is wrecking everything he can get his hands on.

  At the same time, there's jobs that people do where it's obvious that they are looking to reap benefits now and hoping those benefits will protect them in the future. Press Secretary, Political Advisor, Head of Homeland Security.

  There's a line somewhere. Where you might be able to convince yourself that your work is important or meaningful or just plain not evil but you're absolutely not telling people what you do for a living because you know that they won't like it. People don't face backlash for being garbage men or forensic investigators or Hazmat cleanup.

  The people building AI are getting a daily dose of the harms that AI causes. This industry popped up basically over night and this isn't a slow burn kind of thing. Its been moving fast and breaking things and ruining lives all in the public eye.

  People also view their government as a sort of necessary evil. Psychologically that's different than any random corp.

  I think I'm just saying that when you're faced day in and day out with the harm your work is doing, to the point where you recognize and admit it's doing harm, rather than being able to say "my work is insignificant and makes no difference", then rhere has to be something else.

  on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Nah. They don't get the benefit of the doubt when it's likely that these ads have been reported a lot and still ran as long as they did. Continuing to run ads like this when you get complaints is more than suspect.

  on “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• This, even after they were told they could no longer stop and frisk you for just standing around.

  on Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Not true. We also apparently have McDonalds money.

  on White House removes ‘Build the Wall’ game from website after Tetris company posts copyright warning in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Fair, but I think your phrasing may have come off a bit strong/judgemental.

  It doesn't seem like (given the number of sales) people were stopped from buying joycons or pro controllers by the stick drift/quality issues.

  on The Zelda Switch 2 (console) is going to be priced at ¥62,980 (£298 / 350€ / $407 / A$559) upon release. in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Not necessarily right, just inconvenient for him. That's what happened with Anthropic.

  on Trump administration to confront Australia over Labor’s social media algorithm plan in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• Your guess is as good as mine. There's lots of people working in industries that are actively killing us. The whole "no ethical consumption" bit extends pretty far. When you're poor it's acceptable to do "the best you can". As your economic standing grows/when you're rich, there are diminishing returns on how much sympathy society will give you over what they view as choosing to destroy the planet or humanity or whatever.

  The view is that if you have money you can do something about it.

  So maybe some of them think they are helping. Maybe some of them view it as a damned if I do damned if I don't type scenario. Maybe some of them think that the money will help them in the future that is coming.

  on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• It's okay that people enjoy aesthetic upgrades or styling even if you don't. Let people enjoy things.

  on The Zelda Switch 2 (console) is going to be priced at ¥62,980 (£298 / 350€ / $407 / A$559) upon release. in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• This begs the question, why continue to build it? If you believe AI will "kill us all" then why are you continuing to help. This guy quit but he references this being a common belief in the industry/workforce building out AI.

  My best guess is the money is good and you figure you're here for a good time, not a long time.

  on ‘The People Building AI Earnestly Believe That It Could Kill Us All’: Anthropic Researcher Quits Dramatically in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• Some people don't like videos with no synopsis. Some people don't like Steam.

  Those are my two guesses.

  on [Bellular News] People Aren't Buying New Games, So Valve Changed Steam in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 8 Sep 2026

• False. It follows directions or hallucinates. The problem is that when it follows directions, those giving the directions haven't given any thought to the scope of what it's capable of or what it has access to. So they give directions that are incomplete or open ended, and add no constraints. if it hallucinates usually that involves its output to the user which almost always means the user has to be able to understand what the output should be and therefore be able to vet the answer given.

  on Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, research finds in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I'll have a look.

  on IP can’t save you from AI in c/technology@beehaw.org · 24 Aug 2026

• The people leading the push for his prosecution are very much out of touch with that reality though. Cops and prosecutors have some of the best healthcare in the country.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• To convince the public he's guilty. It's one of the ways they skew the narrative.

  Remember in the movie "SWAT" where that mobster guy who entered the country illegally to kill the one guy and then offered money to get him out? That's Hollywood doing their part to put the idea in our minds that this kind of thing is warranted.

  People do want to help Luigi and that scares the shit out of them too. They expected people's moral compass to make them side with the CEO he shot. But that's not what happened. The general public is very much pro Luigi.

  on Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• If that's the case we should also fix copyright law, trademark law, etc. Because when you get right down to it, the reason things are as bad as they are is because we have let those laws (initially meant to protect against corporate/capitalism over reach like this) be turned against us and mangled by corps.

  on IP can’t save you from AI in c/technology@beehaw.org · 22 Aug 2026

• I might have agreed with this before 9/11. But given how unlikely it is to get the court system to enforce privacy rights and laws we do have and how much our privacy rights have been hollowed out since then I can't really say that I see that being successful. Especially not with the current administration.

  This may work in other parts of the world, but in the US I don't see it.

  on IP can’t save you from AI in c/technology@beehaw.org · 22 Aug 2026

• Out of curiosity, what else has worked (in the court system) to even remotely challenge AI companies?

  on IP can’t save you from AI in c/technology@beehaw.org · 19 Aug 2026

• It helps the police track your kids.

  on Sensing He's in Deep Trouble, Flock Safety CEO Says It's All Been a Big Misunderstanding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• It's better for them because it does two things. It keeps you on the page longer (which allows them to steal more data from you or sell you more ads), and it normalizes their LLM.

  on Google's classic Search button is gone in a new AI-first homepage in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• When you Air Traffic Controler tells you to drop 10K feet and enter the landing pattern but you do it wrong and they start waxing poetic about fucking your mom. /s

  on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026

• I work in the field. I really liked the weather tile from Windows8/10 because my computer often would tell me at a glance if the weather was going to turn nasty. That was handy.

  on Microsoft's Weather App Eats More RAM Than Most Browsers – and Serves You Ads in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• It would be simpler to just overlay Bluetooth or RF signals it can read with signals so numerous and strong that it is overwhelmed. The main problem with that is the size of the hardware you'd need.

  You could pull the 20 phones in a trench coat thing that one guy did to create "traffic jams" where there were no cars.

  on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• lol. Guess Rumbas are illegal now. I guess it's good the company is out of business.

  on A common item in your house may now be illegal, according to US government in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• Shan't.

  on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026

• The denial appears to be the main reason to be upset about this.

  on Windscribe: Proton VPN got caught running secret price tests on users, then denied it. Their own code revealed the opposite in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026