What do you suppose is the US ranking among all other economies, without California? I don’t know any better, but something tells me California might be a pretty big loss. You can cut your leg off if you get an infection… but, you’ve still got to cut your leg off. That’s enough to make some antiscience people consider meds.

5% of the time? LLMs, from their own perspective, are only capable of hallucinating. There’s no difference in what they’re doing between cases we call “hallucinating” and “correct.” It’s the same process.

Are they loosing money on the OS? I don’t believe for a second that the capitalist company chooses less capital. But, maybe they’ve determined there’s more capital in less market share? What’s your theory, exactly?

I think it had something to do with the embedded antennas, but I could be mistaken.

I spoke with my landlord about removing power to the home security cameras, because they were Ring. He obliged my request, but I later discovered that he (in private) regards my preference as that of a rebellious teenager in need of a cause. I had to let that sink in… I’m a rebel without a cause because I don’t sip from the same koolaid as he does. Wow.

Yep. I remember watching a documentary on how to disappear. Car tires and windshields were both covered, because they can contain traceable technology. This was a decade ago, at least.

Apple did a hell of a job teaching people that means it’s more fancy.

We will learn that so much of their power comes from a docile society acting in predictable ways. They have the privilege of being able to concern themselves with how to influence us… not because that’s a privilege in its own right, but because they can afford to while relatively unhampered. Like if the sea and land were at battle, it’s akin to the land fortifying its sand armory, sand castles, sand moats, sand… a privilege the land can afford, only because it convinced the sea to lower its tide. We will learn, they’re a lot more vulnerable than they would like us to believe.

Every second we can get them to spend thinking of their own defense, is a second we saved in our favor [which would surely have otherwise been spent determining how to further influence our behaviors].

There’s a web client. I’ll use that from now on if I have to. Should I use any particular browser that prevents access to WiFi details?

I wonder if the web client can be bookmarked to my desktop with the Teams icon.

I’ve had these interactions with the head of my IT department. I asked to procure a license for jfrog artifactory. He literally copy/pasted a ChatGPT response to me that began like this:

Here’s a breakdown of how JFrog Artifactory compares to using GitHub, NPM, or other language-specific package mangers (like Pypi)…
…
1. Purpose and Functionality
…
2. Workflow & Developer Experience
…
3. Security and Compliance
…
✅ When to use JFrog
…

It came with a bunch of theoretical risks that are completely resolved by the simple ability of just not being a complete fucking moron.

It was really frustrating that I tried to talk with my IT leader, and instead found a proxy for ChatGPT.

After that, he created a group chat with him, I, and my colleagues in security. He proceeded to paste ChatGPT output outlining bullshit risks and theories, with the implicit expectation that I rhetorically address each of them via my own response. I’d explain things like,

“[well if you read the fucking request yourself, you’d know that] we aren’t planning to use the software that way, so the concern isn’t relevant. Even if we were though, those problems are easily addressable via …”

In some cases, I even had to explain that the problems he’s raising are already problems faced in the current ecosystem. Completely unrelated to the software I’m talking about… ChatGPT just straight up implying that an architectural problem is a software risk.

I’d reply, and I swear to god he’d just give ChatGPT my text and paste the reply from ChatGPT back to me.

I lost a lot of respect for him. Why the fuck would you do that?

Yeah, I see what you’re saying. As far as I am aware, passkeys issue a one-time-token derived from a private key stored on the device. You can only access the private key via your devices own security (i.e., typically biometric). GitHub can only access the resulting one-time token, and it can verify that the token was derived from the private key using some cryptography. So, agreed. It’s not much different from a tracking perspective than just tracking password-based logins.

Though, I got the impression OP was talking about something else. Maybe I misunderstood them.

They are not referring to passkeys. They’re referring to deterministic algorithms for uniquely labeling a particular device or person, despite any privacy enhancing features that device or person employed. It can be as simple as sampling various hardware specs, hashing the result, and using that as an ID for the person. So, if you switch browsers, they know it’s still you. More complex techniques exist, obviously.

This stuff is really scary when you think about it. If we keep getting closer to a reality where technology can silently monitor your every thought, with analysis and automation becoming evermore efficient, what’s bound to happen so long as the only thing stopping it from being used against us is moral standing? Eventually, someone somewhere can make something so trivially that it tips the scales in their favor so long as they lack the moral standing to not do so. Technology is a unique kind of threat, given especially the glorification that’s often given to its innovation. Skepticism could have been applied earlier.

Hey, I just saw Persona mentioned in another article/comment.

https://kbin.earth/m/privacy@lemmy.ml/t/2430118/-/comment/11367715

I wonder if I can automate the workflow with something like Bluestacks App Player

I can’t take it anymore. I am tired of all the countermeasures, and see how my attempts to avoid the AI overlords have always been fragile. The only escape now is honesty.

• My name is Dan Smith
• I live in Maine
• I eat recycled dog farts for breakfast

How does it detect the right parts of a video to skip, if it’s a soundbite from the video creator themselves? Live monitoring of the video with a detection model?

Have you noticed how many YouTube videos are suddenly now including their own ad soundbites? Not even an ad from YouTube, but sponsor messages read by the creator themselves in the video. These are becoming increasingly common.

I think it’s supposed to work like, “well, even if you are right about the massive utility of AI, is that still what we should be aiming for?”

It gets around the combative “you’re wrong, AI is garbage” argument. The people hoisting AI because they believe, even if it does suck, it’ll get better… those people can probably understand this argument much more easily.

Open source content serving algorithms? We’d need to classify the content and have a server that recommends based on the algorithm. Also, user tracking to some degree (but maybe that can be handled locally?)