PierceTheBubble

And then music that gets ripped off by AI, gets the original creator flagged as AI, that in turn has to prove to an AI, that they are in fact not AI…

Law enforcement shouldn’t become too convenient (“The company built a staff of hundreds of compliance officers, many of them veterans of U.S. and European law enforcement agencies. The police could often get information about accounts far faster from Binance than they could from banks.”), but equally not be excessively hindered by procedures or cronyist governments (“[…] unable to obtain account records from some Binance users based in the United Arab Emirates. […] certain information requests flow through the Emirati government […] conflict of interest, because the investment firm MGX is funded by Abu Dhabi royals.”); so I’m quite mixed on the change of direction.

It might be positive for legitimate users of the platform (which are less likely to be investigated, let alone receive specialty-treatment), but simultaneously protect Trump’s crypto-scamming inner circle, alongside other high-value targets.

Having no issues with the Bypass Paywalls Clean addon. It’s so good, it got removed from: the Mozilla add-on store, GitLab, and Github (which is why it’s now hosted on the Russian GitFlic).

There is a better way. Instead of considering these bills, the Senate Commerce Committee should be focusing on a national consumer privacy bill that would protect ALL internet users, or on banning behavioral advertising that tracks us across the web—again, for users of all ages.

Refreshing to hear someone who gets it… But I guess that would hamper their ability to surveil adults, where targeted advertising simply serves as an excuse for it happening.

lead people to form erroneous beliefs … whether they promote consensus or belief accuracy … more polarized and less accurate beliefs … help users find more mutual understanding on these platforms … content that receives approval across different groups is promoted … bridge divides and encourage positive interactions across diverse audiences … bridging-based ranking can promote consensus … elicit belief updates that benefit collective accuracy … improve both collective accuracy and average individual accuracy … aligning them more closely with socially desirable goals

I don’t know what’s creepier: a polarized society but with a more diverse view on topics, or a cohesive society with an eerily uniform view instead. Polarization is problematic, but so is thought-policing. I would argue feeds shouldn’t be algorithmically determined, but composed of content by channels the user has explicitly chosen to subscribe to; and a separate explore feature for interest-based suggestions, without creepy “this is what most people agree with, and so should you” course-correction measures.

Who would’ve thought consumers, in an economy propped up by an AI bubble, wouldn’t exactly be risking their financial stability for last year’s model bút with AI bloat- and spyware, or some extremely vulnerable folding party trick? Apple’s partnership with Klarna should set off alarm bells with regards to demographic being targeted; as for the intent of the buy back programs: furthering control over the second hand market. The AI circle jerk has created the perfect conditions for this anti-ownership model, and the innovatively stale industry is sparing no time to capitalize off it (Samsung for both the consumer- and enterprise segment).

You’re missing the point: that’s where the autonomous driving comes in! People are now just sitting there watching the road, while they could be spending that time watching ads…

• Some BMW exec probably

ISBNdb has never purchased, scanned, or sold a book — for AI training or anything else

Nobody is accusing you of that, but instead of facilitating it (or at least trying to) as an intermediary. You got caught red-handed, and now you’re trying to pass it off as a “marketing experiment”, you weasel. But at least you didn’t double down and take down the entire platform with it, so I’ll give you that.

There’s no such thing as a camera that’s restricted to vehicles or license plates; only “trust me bro” post-processing can restrict its scope. And with stationary ALPRs everywhere, why would a drone be required to do so; other than registering parked vehicles?

If the 2027 AirPods and AI pin/pendant, both expected to come with cameras (or at least an optimally placed microphone bug), are anything to go by: “the cameras … are not designed for taking photos and videos, and will instead send information about the wearer’s surroundings [including any others in it] to Siri.”

Phew… I’m soo relieved the data is just being fed straight to Siri.

Based on a facial recognition selfie, checked against your existing profile pics

They’ve been doing this for a long time, but supposedly for bot-detection; which are now just using LLMs to generate slop to game the platform and its users. But with human users now possibly considered unauthentic by others, because they haven’t yet de-anonymized themselves.

It teasing a “reimagined experience” that will test full-screen videos for a section of users “the moment they open the app.” is an interesting choice, when addictive design features for its platforms are under scrutiny. But I guess it only addresses the problem in relation to children; adults of course being fair game, which could be another reason to be extra cautious and use age-estimation in the verification process.

until we can get those data, privacy, security and sharing concerns ironed out through a contractual relationship

Trust me bro. These systems will never be abused by those managing the system: surely they couldn’t give themselves access privileges, surely they couldn’t remove data access records, surely individuals in positions of power would never modify, remove or share data out of self-protection, including their buddies’ (assets)…

You’re all just a little confused, you see: these video-capable cameras currently only record snapshots of vehicle identifiers, that happen to be registered to individuals, and might depict its driver and persons surrounding the vehicle. And don’t give me any of that future hocus pocus of “video footage”; that doesn’t exist actually, it cannot simply be enabled with a single over-the-air update…

These cameras, among the many others might, or might not keep a record of everything you do outside your home, and stack it on top of data harvested by other data aggregators; but we promise we won’t look at it. Why aren’t you smiling? It’s by contract: we’ll monitor compliance of both our self and our partner with a mutual interest. And uuuhp, no loopholes that we actively exploit.