program captures keystrokes, clicks, mouse movements and periodic screenshots […] to train AI agents capable (?) of mimicking human workflows

Question mark added. Adding insult to injury, they’ve been training their “replacements”. Can’t wait to see the whole enterprise go down in flames.

Sicss?

“When I think about what’s going to lead to intergenerational prosperity in Utah, it is not a data center, it’s the beautify of our landscapes”

This is what’s going to kill us as a species. Because a data center doesn’t do anything. Nothing worth this horrific environmental damage.

At every turn, there’s another terrible consequence to wildlife, more pollution… when did we forget we are animals, too?

Wouldn’t it be great if someone could invent some kind of technology to distribute the compute so it wasn’t so terrifyingly concentrated /s

I’d say the spectrum goes from local ML, that seems fine, to recordings being made, leaving the device and being potentially seen by other humans (even “anonymised”), that’s much more problematic.

Sounds great for watching videos, reading, music. Can’t wait.

Everyone’s losing their shit over an additional sensor. Does everyone think their phone is constantly recording video because it has a camera on it, the same with the microphone? Laptops?

Maybe if it was Meta? I don’t think Apple’s business model incentivises personally identifiable spying or keeping any recordings outside of their standard analytics and “improvements” model.

They have been caught being pretty ham fisted with using third parties to process this data (eg. Siri recordings), so I wouldn’t put it past them for any of these anonymised recordings to fall into anyone’s hands really, but that’s why you can now turn them off.

Which I would immediately do. I would never buy these anyway, and it sounds like a terrible idea, but some of this freaking out is giving them way too much credit.

Even if it had existed and replied with an answer, we all know it would be a giant fucking gamble. To rely on it you have to be a giant fucking moron, although who else sings “I am genius” to themselves

PARC Life

No the last thing we need is big tech private armies

Canon

Fair enough, in which case, it could be unintentional, the result of using a generative model to “upscale” it for printing, rather than a deterministic upscaler

The other poster has the image that was likely plagiarised by the unscrupulous vendors manning the slop machine.

General purpose or image-focussed models have weak OCR so they tend to hallucinate / extrapolate, resulting in this gobbledygook.

It’s not the same. Likely this is the very image that was fed into the AI, and the printed result sold online.

AI and OCR have converged, though in most general purpose models it’s not very good.

This pattern is now a very common copyright avoidance tactic used to produce low quality goods.

I think they are all lifelong believers since the get-rich-quick schemes initiated by “the city” and hutch prices. They’re all landlords with shares in the grain market, and this constant feed of grain down their gullets has turned them into plump idiots. Many of them even don’t even care we’re getting close to Xmas any more, there are even Xmas cultists

Yeah, studies are mixed, but all interesting. The fact the studies were commissioned at all points to there being some concern, though seemingly somewhat overblown. As you say, the main anxieties were financial.

• Polish migrants’ experiences of Brexit: anticipating new social divides
• Racism and xenophobia experienced by Polish migrants in the UK before and after Brexit vote
• Perceived stress and well-being of Polish migrants in the UK after Brexit vote

No I think these are cultural differences, this was written for an English audience. Ironically the xenophobic Brexit vote was iirc campaigned largely on sending emigrants back to Poland.

This is very obviously an English nationalist, nativist, xenophobic, racist, rally.

Whilst it’s pointless to further discuss precise authorial intent, what is interesting is your insistence that this little illustrated story is not referencing the far-right with a character that has been subsequently co-opted by the far-right.

Yeah I played it. She was player bait, a classic femme fatale. You were supposed to end up at the racist rally because look she has fun hair and then oop regret your decisions.

Orwellian is a misnomer here, though. The “game” was literally about getting on with homework instead of being drawn into sketchy shit. Unless you really hate homework and you want to rage against learning idk

Amelia is thirsty fascist slop, derivative and boring like everything right wing. Because conservativism is by definition dull samey grandad politics for dull samey cardboard cutout tryhard emotionally stunted bootlicking johns