Butterbee (She/Her)

le gasp

The same people who are so excited to bring us The Torment Nexus!

To be honest I more than half expected it to just be a list of 7 linux distros to install on it ^_

“Flagrant security lapse caused an incident when software engineer uses inappropriate tool for the job.”

You could have simply ignored the post and moved on with your life. But you wrote this instead.

It just blows my mind that things got to the point where we have to seek a privacy focused not-internet-connected keyboard when that should have been the default all along.

of AI and telemetry in Windows 11

Elon Musk doesn’t care about chatgpt killing people either. He’s just marketing.

Just double checked, and no they are very much talking about LLM’s. Specifically they were testing gpt-4o, gemini-1.5, llama-3.1, sonnet-3.5, and opus-3 o1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04984 And the concerns raised in that paper are legit, but not indicative of consciousness or intent.

It’s wildly difficult to control the output of the black box and that’s hardly llms showing signs of self-preservation. These cries are from people in the industry trying to pretend the models are something that they are not, and cannot ever be. I do agree with the sentiment that we should be prepared to pull the plug on them though, for other reasons.

“This has never been about politics,”

Coward. It absolutely was, and is, about politics. The misinformation has ALWAYS been political. Countering misinformation is inherently political. As someone who’s very existence is considered “political” I politely suggest we drop the apolitical angle and start getting fucking angry and aggressively political. I’m very glad there are organizations out there like his that are doing that work. Just be honest about it.

Thank you.

Brendan would never hurt a fly!

For now.

Ohhh I get it. So MS should make the AI use mandatory and compulsory!

In this climate of post-law America… yeah. Whatever will happen will happen I guess.

“Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here —” You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

"We can even skip over the security implications pointed out by a cybersecurity expert in the Times piece. " You can’t, and you shouldn’t.

“As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage” It doesn’t take an entire paragraph to figure out what’s going on here let alone an entire article.

As someone from north of the USA border… PLEASE stop this man from stealing your country, Americans.