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Local models are theoretically safer, by virtue of not being connected to the company which tried to make Recall a thing, but they're still LLMs at the end of the day - they're still loaded with vulnerabilities, and will remain a data breach waiting to happen unless you make sure its rendered basically useless.

I'm sure such blatant and unrepentant price gouging won't end in any violent altercations from infuriated customers!

(Ah, who am I kidding, somebody's gonna blow their lid over Kroger jacking up water prices on a hot day. They'll be lucky if nobody gets shot before they ditch the idea.)

As a personal sidenote, part of me says the “Self-Aware AI Doomsday” criti-hype might end up coming back to bite OpenAI in the arse if/when one of those DoD tests goes sideways.

Plenty of time and money's been spent building up this idea of spicy autocomplete suddenly turning on humanity and trying to kill us all. If and when one of those spectacular disasters you and Amy predicted does happen, I can easily see it leading to wild stories of ChatGPT going full Terminator or some shit like that.

Also, this is just an impromptu addendum to my extended ramble on the AI bubble crippling tech's image, but I can easily see military involvement in AI building public resentment/stigma against the industry further.

Any military use of AI is already gonna be seen in a warcrimey light thanks to Israel using it in their Gaza Geneva Checklist Speedrun - add in the public being fully aware of your average LLM's, shall we say, tenuous connection to reality, and you have a recipe for people immediately assuming the worst.

Same here. Any kind of jab's a PITA for me, and anything intravenous is some of the worst shit I've ever experienced, but I've gritted my teeth and gotten through them no problem.

Granted, whoever tries to put these into production is probably gonna give it a belt-fed or some shit like that. A gunbot isn't much of a gunbot unless you've got at least a couple hundred rounds ready to go.

Not a sneer, but an interesting article from WaPo (archive link) about the rise/return of "dumb tech", and its link to the backlash against smart tech

Microsoft added AI to MS Paint. W H Y ?

(Also gosh dang I just expressed that meme image about information, data, knowledge, wisdom, in comment form didn’t I)?

I have no clue what you're talking about.

Holy shit he's doubling down

AFAICT basically all of them failed at the "become too important to be busted for mass copyright infringement" part - turns out actively stealing from some of the most litigious and DMCA-happy motherfuckers on the planet was an easy way to get mired in lawsuits.

Bonus points for becoming essentially a money pinata for their lawyers in the process.