You’re asking them to put their livelihood on the line for your privacy. They’re gonna choose the thing that pays their bills every time.

I agree with you in general, I think the problem is that people who do understand Gen AI (and who understand what it is and isn’t capable of, and why), get rationally angry when it’s humanized by using words like these to describe what it’s doing.

The reason they get angry is because this makes people who do believe in the “intelligence/sapience” of AI more secure in their belief set and harder to talk to in a meaningful way. It enables them to keep up the fantasy. Which of course helps the corps pushing it.

I didn’t. But I also can’t say I’ve been paying attention.

GiGo.

My main concerns are mostly to do with the fact that Google in my experience has always had the benefit of enticing software and services that are extremely invasive but also very convenient (even if we remove IoT from the table for a moment). This is mostly due to how invasive Google Play Services is, and how invasive the Google app has been since the first iterations of Google Assistant (Google Now). I’m concerned that even those of us who have done what we can to turn off Gemini and not use Generative AI are still compromised regardless because big tech has a choke hold on the services we use.

So I suppose I’m trying to understand what the differences are in how these two types of technology compromise cyber security.

Pre-Generative AI, lots of companies had AI/Algorithmic tools that posed a risk to personal cyber security (Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri, MS’s Cortana etc).

Is the stance here that AI is more dangerous than those because of its black box nature, it’s poor guardrails, the fact that it’s a developing technology, or it’s unfettered access?

Also, do you think that the “popularity” of Google Gemini is because people were already indoctrinated into the Assistant ecosystem before it became Gemini, and Google already had a stranglehold on the search market so the integration of Gemini into those services isn’t seen as dangerous because people are already reliant and Google is a known brand rather than a new “startup”.

It died a long long time before this. The enshittification directly started back in the early 2000’s when one of the owners basically usurped the whole company. Which of course lead to mods quitting en masse. After that it went downhill and that downhill trend continued. Then it got bought out by the Israeli’s, and the AI art injection was them trying to prevent the site from going under.

Nothing about the site is what it was.

It’s not clear that the except is a quote. No quotation marks. No vertical bar denoting quotation. The ellipses at the very start of the first sentence.

Generative AI LLM’S? No. GiGo Counters? Yes.

This is likely the fault of the pill manufacturer who the pharmacy is at the mercy of.

People who live in third world countries like the US who don’t have Internet at home/internet isn’t available to them because it’s not profitable for the company providing for that area.

And before you say phone, you have to have service to receive or make a phone call. There are places in this country that don’t have either.

I use reader mode pretty often on news websites. That’s the main use case for me.

Mostly this is for sites I click on links to that do paywall banners honestly. That’s what I use it for. Most of the places I go to I could exclude or whitelist and be fine.

I should do this. This is an amazing idea.

We have a wireless Android Auto dongle. And it takes an age to auto connect. Not to mention the problems with it still wanting us to pull over and put the car in park to switch, something I thought would be circumvented when I bought it but somehow is not. Usually it’s the person in the passenger seat trying to change something and not being able to. I’m not advocating for distracted driving. I’m pointing out that someone else in the vehicle who’s not driving can’t interact to change certain things even though it’s perfectly safe for them to do so.

It’s a Honda. But that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make here. With both car play and Android Auto I have issues but they’re down to how the manufacturer chose to implement each. Car manufacturers deliberately hamstrung these features and still didn’t get what they wanted.

I have equally bad experiences with both Android Auto and Apple Carplay. I don’t really want either and am fine with what I’ve got (only 1/3 of the cars I own even has Carplay/Android Auto). I mostly dislike how it’s been implemented with “safety controls” that require the phone to be plugged into the infotainment center in some cars and the requirement that I only connect it while at a stop with the car in park. If someone is driving with me and they want to change to their phone I have to pull over and that’s stupid.

The infotainment centers themselves with their stupid touch screens and lack of buttons are where my real problems start, and the end with the tracking BS and telemetry data. You can keep the new cars. I don’t want them.

No. No. I think you misunderstood. I’m not saying people should have ill will toward her. I’m saying that the ill will is an expected part of how society functions when a person gets notoriety for doing something wrong.

If she had been outed by the papers in a less public way, people she doesn’t know who we’re were not affected by her actions would still be judging her.

Most people would judge the average person who got caught cheating if they knew about it.

She had to know going into her relation with a married man that there was the potential to get caught. She had to know it would be unlikely to receive anything but vitriol from people who’ve been cheated on. She went along with it anyway.

There’s a possibility that because of the power dynamic between her and a man who was her boss, she was taken advantage of. That’s why I brought up and compared her to Monica Lewinsky. However I don’t have energy to waste on worrying about what ifs.

I don’t follow the story and didn’t even really remember her until this post popped up. I can’t even tell you what her name is without googling it. I’d wager most people are equally ambivalent. It’s most likely a very loud minority of people who remember and are giving her shit about this.

If she were a celebrity would we feel the same?

Because really what it comes down to is she knowingly helped a high profile person cheat and got caught. I’m not saying she deserves it. I’m not saying it’s a good thing. To me this is on par with the whole Monica Lewinsky thing.

I personally bear this woman no ill will. But I also don’t really think we should be expected to have empathy for something she did to herself because she couldn’t think ahead to what the potential repercussions of her actions were.

Here’s the thing. She knew. And while it’s none of my business, if you’re going to cheat, you gotta be prepared to be caught and shamed. Humans being what they are.