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  1. jdale

    Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment

    It's not just relationship advice either. https://datachutney.io/cognitive-surrender-explainer/ There's more there, but I think this graph is pretty clear. When AI is right, it helps, but when AI is wrong, people are often mislead by it and do much worse than they would do without it entirely.
  2. jdale

    Google says new TurboQuant compression can lower AI memory usage without sacrificing quality

    Come on, that's a stupid argument. You can't say that because human understanding is somewhat imperfect that the complete absence of understanding in LLMs is therefore irrelevant. That fallacy is what Asimov was talking about when he said: When people thought the Earth was flat, they were...
  3. jdale

    Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps

    Meta just lost their other case today. Google too. https://apnews.com/article/social-media-addiction-trial-la-5e54075023d837ccdc76c4ca512e925d
  4. jdale

    RFK Jr. anti-vaccine ally dramatically quits CDC panel, complaining of drama

    According to the judge's ruling, it may be that, from a legal standpoint, he was never hired in the first place.
  5. jdale

    Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps

    The trial isn't over. This was the jury phase but there are other aspects that will be decided by a judge and not a jury. I don't know what parts that will be though.
  6. jdale

    Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps

    I just want to call out this part. This is one of the things that AI is supposed to help with, since moderation is in fact very hard and can even be harmful to the moderators themselves. But even here, AI is doing more harm than good.
  7. jdale

    RFK Jr. anti-vaccine ally dramatically quits CDC panel, complaining of drama

    It's certainly true that there are an infinite number of things he could do that would be better for all concerned than continuing to serve on the committee. Goodbye, please let the door hit you really hard on the way out.
  8. jdale

    Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

    It's long overdue for us to pass some real privacy legislation and kill this whole damn industry. I'm willing to blame them all on China if that's what it takes.
  9. jdale

    Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

    A product that only deletes all of your data 1% of the time is not safe, and stupid to use, but usually won't delete all your data. It will generate quite a few anecdotes of success. Basing your judgment on those anecdotes is going to get you in trouble.
  10. jdale

    Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

    Preventing the general public from accessing the internet is not the same as preventing everyone from accessing the internet. I'm sure that, for example, they still have people working in intelligence and cyberwarfare roles with access to the net.
  11. jdale

    Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks

    Wouldn't that use case be better served by imaging a working system and applying it to the rest? In that case you know what you're actually getting.
  12. jdale

    Jury agrees that Musk’s tweets during Twitter takeover constituted fraud

    The current war will achieve exactly nothing regarding any of those issues. We replaced the leadership with other leadership that is functionally the same. We have done basically nothing about their proxy forces. We undermined any political movement that would have considered negotiations with...
  13. jdale

    Jury agrees that Musk’s tweets during Twitter takeover constituted fraud

    As far as I'm concerned, any ICE agents being taken off the streets to do TSA jobs are a win. I mean, sure, they're untrained, undisciplined, and often uneducated, they're going to do a terrible job of security screening, but at least they aren't bashing in car windows and dragging off US...
  14. jdale

    Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

    So the search results included links to a store where you could buy related items? That's advertising. Microsoft certainly goes farther than that, but let's not give it a pass.
  15. jdale

    Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

    I don't see anything in there about removing ads, and the issues about a Microsoft account are already noted. It doesn't sound like they plan to do anything to recover trust. The taskbar change is nice, and I'll use it, but honestly at this point it's more like a shameful reminder that they...
  16. jdale

    Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

    This is the way. I'm all for AI failures. This is a dumb idea, I wish them an expensive and elaborate failure rather than a swift and easy cancellation.
  17. jdale

    After Discord fiasco, age-check tech promises privacy by running locally. Does it work?

    I'm not finding any direct matches, but in general, a vector is a direction and a magnitude. One might encode the age and the other the certainty level.
  18. jdale

    EU moves to ban “nudify” apps after Grok made them mainstream

    Trademarks need to be maintained. You have to use them, and if other uses of the trademark become too routine in principle it could endanger your trademark (although not easily). That's not true for copyright though. Copyright only runs out when the term ends, which is quite a long time.
  19. jdale

    Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case

    Harris promised to dial it back, Trump promised to dial it up. It was a counter-productive stance and the outcome is expectably tragic.
  20. jdale

    OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

    That's ok, I'm sure it won't do any harm to the software ecosystem when the bubble bursts. Right?