Which for most people would give you a week of audiobooks to listen to in your commute to work.

It’s the dumb goal of tech bros to create an “everything app” that does everything you want.

I use Tidal and get annoyed because the shuffle clearly has a recency bias to it, and it keeps trying to recommend show tunes to me in my Daily Discovery, and the suggested albums for me has become considerably worse since the last update, but everything i hear about what Spotify has been doing has made me glad i switched over a couple years ago.

My Instagram feed is already 90% ads. There are almost no posts from people i actually follow, and most of those are artists i like trying to sell their tour or merch. It’s a fundamentally broken platform as is

On a clear night I can catch a Cardinals game on KMOX on the Indiana/Ohio line. There have been reports of people in Glasgow being able to get the broadcasts. But it’s really only good for talk radio. Any music sounds like shit. But listening to a baseball game on AM radio is such a peaceful way to soend a sunmer evening.

I know, but it’s frustrating when i search “restaurants in Cityville” and the results show restaurants in Cityville Indiana instead of my homestate. Or i search for “T-Mobile stores near me” and they list off ones 3 counties over instead of the ones near me. I understand that it is a privacy thing, but it is very annoying.

Same thing happens when i look up items on the grocery store website to see if they have something i need. Firefox seems to think i live over an hour away in Dearborn Michigan, so i have to adjust my location manually every time. I understand why it happens and i can accept it , but that doesn’t mean it isn’t frustrating.

Maybe it is a firedox issue, but i have serious issues with location based searchs on DDG. Like, results in the next state over sort of bad.

No audit is well intended. The whole ppint of an audit is to find duplicitous and fucked up shit.

Depends on what you mean by “thwart”. Facewatch is clearly calling all false positives a success, so if someone shows up in a facemask and the system says I am shoplifting, thats a successful prevention. Companies that do “prevention” of something like this can just call a success whatever they want.

Those German chemists from the turn of the century were freaking bonkers. They were just synthesiIng random crap and finding all the properties they could. Common practice back then was to taste any compound you synthesized

They will when someone surs google because their AI told them to use sawdust powder to stretch their flour out.

Think about all the warning labels on the things you buy. Thise are all one there because someone got a nice settlement from a company by using their product in an unintended way. Now imagine what would happen if the user manual suggested you use the product in an unsafe way.

Not even something he said online. Just something he said to fuck with. This is why i have never understood why people want to use LLM chatbots. The information is so prone to shit like this that it just doesn’t seem worth the effort to me. Let alone the energy drain.

Back in 2006 there wasn’t too much in the way of doing a safe search, at least not that any of our teachers knew about.

No, but i do remember one of the options on the front page always being porn no matter what you searched. My middle school wanted us to use Yahoo search instead of google for pictures because it wouldn’t show Rule 34 content.

And AI companies are crazy if they think Sony won’t makee them pay for that as soon as they can prove it.

But there were still bots making shit up back then. r/SubredditSimulator was pretty popular for awhile, and repost and astroturfing bots were a problem form decades on Reddit.

Mechanical Turkis a service that Amazon sells to other companies that are trying to pretend to be AI companies. the whole market is full of people making wild claims aboit their product that aren’t true, and them desperately searching for the cheapest labor to actually do it.

I’m not actually a nuclear fission company if i take millions of R&D investment, pay me amd my buddy half of it, and then pay a bunch of crackheads to pour diesel into an electric generator.

Why would i ask an LLM a question that i cant verify the accuracy of instead of just doing a traditional search of trusted resources? They give you the answer they think you want. Search engines don’t want to crack down on SEO techniques because it will ultimately harm their business. But they can get around that by lighting a few acres of rainforest on fire, make up some random crap that sounds believable, and boost their stock price.

I’m sure that there are some niche use cases currently that can benefit from these programs, but most are just the next project for crypto grifters, and any legitimate uses are only really gonna be useful at commercial/industrial scale and won’t be actually useful for the general public.

I would say that 90% of AI companies are fake. They are just running API calls to ChatGP-3, and calling themselves “AI” to get investors. Amazon even has an entire business to help companies pretend their AI works by crowdsourcing cheap labor to review data.

We know how to drill holes in the US too. That’s why Musk doesn’t sell his tunnels to people who know what they are doing, but to morons on City Council who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground.