“This technology is the most dangerous and powerful thing in the world, and everyone should be paying attention to it,” says company directly profiting off adoption of said technology. Quelle surprise! Surely they can be trusted to be telling the unvarnished truth!

the closer we are to Trump having an excuse to do election fuckery.

That implies he won’t invent one regardless. I won’t be blaming people like this when he does.

In short, it’s fine. Take a breath.

Ehhhhh, that depends on how you take it. Personally, no, I’m not very worried about the legal aspect. But,

It’s still LLMs. FOSS communities have been better than average, but that bar is a low one considering coders generally have been using LLMs most of all. And LLM usage is reckless, not to mention presently harmful in numerous ways. (And yes, this means the latest models too. “Looks good” doesn’t mean it is good.) I’d just as soon FOSS not use the tech at all.

None that I’m aware of unfortunately.

Only one I know of is archive.org / The Wayback Machine, but that’s got limitations that archive.today never had, since the latter ignored corporate restrictions & U.S. copyright law. So not a perfect replacement, sadly.

archive.today isn’t fantastic either, unfortunately. A while back they took advantage of their popularity to DDoS another site that they had a beef with. uBlock Origin had to add a rule to prevent visits to the site from causing your computer to make an entirely unnecessary network request that contributed to the attack.

Saying they didn’t take it into consideration sounds overly harsh, especially without a source for it. Reminds me of that old tale of how “NASA made a space pen, the Russians used a pencil,” which neglected to mention how problematic pencil graphite was in space.

I think it’s fair to give NASA the benefit of the doubt.

passed in California, where Democrats control the entire legislative process.

I think that’s the “with the help of tech bros” part. Rather high population of those in California, and boy do they have lobbying money.

Wasn’t Kaplan doing pretty well with regards to Overwatch? My understanding of that was that it got turned to shit despite him, not because of him.

I wouldn’t know. But I know there’s already a lot of open world multiplayer survival games competing for this space, and so it being in a different setting isn’t going to do it a lot of good. For that matter, neither will it being pretty, since that describes loads of games these days, and gameplay is almost always more important.

But personally, I only care about this sort of thing when it starts getting treated as the metaphorical golden goose egg, which this isn’t. It’s fine. I’m not so concerned with the game so much as the disconnected appearance of someone being surprised at lukewarm reactions to oversaturated concepts.

Were it that Kaplan’s comments had not happened, this is likely exactly what I would have done. Not really a concept deserving of a lot of attention, if you ask me.

Oh Lord, no.

Look, he’s not really wrong per se. The internet does run disproportionately on outrage, and plenty of people judge shit that they’ve got no right to be judging because they don’t actually spend time thinking about what makes good art. And not listening to people who’re determined to hate you is always healthy.

But another open-world multiplayer survival game? Really? At some point, this becomes like complaining you’ve got a coyote problem after you left a bunch of roadkill out in your yard. You can’t just make yet another entry into an incredibly overdone genre (seemingly without a USP, no less!) and not expect people to get tired of it.

Last I checked, Jeff Kaplan – a game designer – doesn’t really represent the tech industry? So this comment kinda comes off as an unhinged non-sequitur.

Good stuff, but might not want to get too excited just yet:

The [EU’s Court of Justice] did not decide the national dispute itself. Its ruling provides a legal interpretation that the Bulgarian court must now apply when issuing its final judgment.

I have no clue how effective “a legal interpretation that the Bulgarian court must now apply” actually is, but it doesn’t sound as thorough as the headline suggests. Nevertheless, still a positive.

I think it’s worth pointing out that interpreting something so benign as this in such a hostile way is indicative of a seriously unhealthy relationship with social media. I mean no offense, but now might be a good time to re-evaluate your browsing habits and maybe see if you can’t cut some algorithms out.

So, not a huge fan of posting this site in particular given that it appears to be state-run and therefore liable to lie, but this did happen. Footage of the school’s state was confirmed several times and a Norwegian org said about 170 students were present at the time, which isn’t counting adults, making the now-current death toll of ~165 more than plausible despite a thus-far lack of independent confirmation.

Considering the negative impacts LLMs have on so many facets of life today, that’s kinda the problem. Running it locally only solves some of those.

Fundamentally though, I just don’t want the tech involved in my life at all anymore. I don’t care if it has a niche use here or not. It can just fuck off.

No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it’s also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.

You are aware translation services are available that are neither a local LLM nor Google-owned, yes? We had machine translation before ChatGPT existed, and I don’t think that tech evaporated in a sudden fire just because a more harmful option appeared.

The appropriate option for Mozilla would’ve been to not include AI at all. If they really, really couldn’t have swung that (they could’ve), then the second best option would be having all AI features set to off-by-default. Instead, we’ve got on-by-default. That is unambiguously a terrible idea.

This is a good way to handle the situation and an understandable and believable scenario, so I’m perfectly willing to forgive this. I’m a little less okay with an apparent “work in spite of illness” policy, however.

But still, it’s a serious blunder, and it needs to be said that any repeat of this at all would be very damning. I can’t forgive this level of fuckup twice. Any AI use is a risk, folks; treat it like one.