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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
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#102> The most helpful AI will also be the most intimate technology ever built. It will hear everything. See everything Big Brother is watching you. Who knew it would be AI ... The author is quite right. It will be an advertisement scam. I wonder whether people will accept that though. Anyone remembers ublock origin? Google killed it on chrome. People are not going to forget that. (It still works fine on Firefox but Goog…
It would be really great if Google had a setting that allowed you to exclude certain domains from all searches by default. Like you, a YouTube video (or a Facebook page, or an Instagram or Twitter post) is basically never what I am looking for.
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#103The product that’s being implicitly advertised here is supposed to ship at the end of this year and there doesn’t even appear to be a real photo of the thing and if that’s an indicator of the quality of the product then I must assume that it is poor and the people responsible also apparently do not have the money to hire a capable web designer and I’m sorry if this is harsh or unnecessary but I never thought I would…
> is supposed to ship at the end of this year and there doesn’t even appear to be a real photo
Given they're "still finalizing the design and materials" and are not based in China, I think it's a safe bet that the first run will either be delayed or be an alpha.
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> not enough people speak about the normalization of the global surveillance machine, with Big Brother waiting around the corner
Everyone online is constantly talking about it. The truth is for most people it's fine.
Some folks are upset by it. But we by and large tend to just solve the problem at the smallest possible scale and then mollify ourselbves with whining. (I don't have social media. I don't have cameras in or around my home. I've worked on privacy legislation, but honestly nobody called their representatives and so nothing much happened. I no longer really bring up privacy issues when I speak to my electeds because I haven't seen evidence that nihilism has passed.)
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#105This is just an ad for maximally intrusive “AI”. We’re quite inured by now to all the dystopian nightmares, so this barely even registers.
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#106The product that’s being implicitly advertised here is supposed to ship at the end of this year and there doesn’t even appear to be a real photo of the thing and if that’s an indicator of the quality of the product then I must assume that it is poor and the people responsible also apparently do not have the money to hire a capable web designer and I’m sorry if this is harsh or unnecessary but I never thought I would…
In addition to being vaporware, it’s presumably vibecoded slop, so: vaporslop.
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#107Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. This is the age of enlightenment in reverse, the age of immaturity.
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> not enough people speak about the normalization of the global surveillance machine, with Big Brother waiting around the corner Everyone online is constantly talking about it. The truth is for most people it's fine. Some folks are upset by it. But we by and large tend to just solve the problem at the smallest possible scale and then mollify ourselbves with whining. (I don't have social media. I don't have cameras in…
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> not enough people speak about the normalization of the global surveillance machine, with Big Brother waiting around the corner Everyone online is constantly talking about it. The truth is for most people it's fine. Some folks are upset by it. But we by and large tend to just solve the problem at the smallest possible scale and then mollify ourselbves with whining. (I don't have social media. I don't have cameras in…
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> I'm not convinced that there is a point in attempting explaining it
That encapsulates my point.
I’ve worked on various pieces of legislation. All privately. A few made it into state and federal law. Broadly speaking, the ones that make it are the ones for which you can’t get their supporters to stop calling in on.
Privacy issues are notoriously shit at getting people to call their electeds on. The exception is when you can find traction outside tech, or if the target is directly a tech company.
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#110Perhaps I'm not totally clear on how this particular device works, but it doesn't seem like it has no ability to connect to the Internet.
Honestly, I'd say privacy is just as much about economics as it is technical architecture. If you've taken outside funding from institutional venture capitalists, it's only a matter of time before you're asked to make even more money™, and you may issue a quiet, boring change to your terms and conditions that you hope no one will read... Suddenly, you're removing mentions of your company's old "Don't Be Evil" slogan.