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You think that companies have been doing advertising for as long as people have been buying or selling, but no one has ever bothered to check if it works? No one has ever done any studies? Come on. There's a whole class of ads that are more focused on improving your response to a product later...

Free ad-supported content is really the only business model that will work in the long run unless you are targeting the 1%. The rest will be out of work due to AI, living on a meager universal basic income dole, and the ads will be fighting for those few scraps.

I think the math shifts a little bit because most software never gets more than 99% done. Bugs and technical debt are part of the standard package. So maybe the AI does 90% and the human will do the next 9% which takes 90% of the work, and then nobody does the remaining 1% to actually make the...

Oh, sure, but what would you pay for a fake friend that manipulates you into self-harm? Eh? That's the killer app after all.

There are numerous posts about those settings, so don't go pretending your other commenters have somehow missed all of them. However, it doesn't get you back to 18. For example, if you turn off the animation that arranges the icons when you flip to a new page, it also turns off the animation of...

I'm sure there have been. But what do they prove? For any given person who says they talked to a chatbot and decided not to commit suicide, what were the odds they actually would have otherwise? Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't have gone through with it. Maybe if they didn't have a chatbot...

On that note, I noticed today that the Windows 11 Start menu has changed with no notice. It's more or less better (the recommended section, that was always dumb, is gone), but they didn't change the start menu settings (or at least not enough) and now they make no sense.

There would be no lawsuit. The contents of Wikipedia are licensed free to use. None of the tech companies needed to give them anything. Wikipedia hasn't granted them anything they didn't already have.

Maybe, if you don't care that sometimes it will just hallucinate random crap, like every other LLM as an inevitable result of their design. And consequently you won't know whether what you are reading is actually true, or whether the references are actually to things that are real. That...

Upgraded. I have mixed feelings. I actually like that touch targets are now outlined, so you can see what you are supposed to tap. Even though it doesn't look great. They could have done better for example by shading them instead of outlines. The transparency, meh, I feel like Apple is making a...

Unfortunately, the new joke is just: "The infections will continue." Admittedly, it's not very funny.

Someone should check if that's even true. I bet they blocked it in California, but not the rest of the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAKE_IT_DOWN_Act and https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-18158/uslm/COMPS-18158.xml “(3) Offense involving digital forgeries.— “(A) Involving...

It doesn't make any sense to only get mad at the supply side of the picture. Even if you shut down some supply, without touching demand, at best you make things more expensive and more likely you just drive other suppliers to compensate. Of course, if you only attack the demand side, then...

Or with ranked choice voting, you could vote for all or many of the opposition candidates if you just want that person out. But it doesn't come with the problem that you are stuck choosing the lesser evil.

Well, I guess it may be true that Grok is life-changing, but not in a good way. Why on earth would he pick that particular LLM? That's just gross.

If so, that problem only gets worse the longer they wait. Do they think Grok will fix the problem for them? Clearly not happening. Although it's been there for a year, it's easy to say the recent batch of news is the first thing that called it to their attention.

I get the same thing in Firefox on Windows. I don't have Windows Hello, though, so I assume that is the issue. It seems very restrictive to have that as a requirement.

But with regard to the 14th amendment, which is what we're talking about here: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law...

It's not "lowering barriers to reporting" when you put the data where it is not subject to investigation. That's deciding that an LLM can only cause harm to the user, and not e.g., copyright infringement, use for generating spam or running fraud, creating malware, etc. And it's also deciding...

Let's see... The airline processed around 93,000 cost-free memberships between 1968 and 1971, At least they had the decency not to charge for it. Although I'm sure a modern grifter would say that's why they went bankrupt.