Fast, cheap, good. They’re going for 1 out of 3.

I can’t help but think “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” with this news

That’s Stellantis. It’s the same company that’s building cards that are now showing ads when the car stops at a red light.

And if when the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

How “Les Misérables” of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.

It’s why somebody make this. They too were missing the keyboard

38% of the population as user. 20% daily active users. The classic way to grow is to squeeze the users and advertisers more and more with fees, subscriptions, tiers, … I guess the exodus at X has them spooked of what could happen if they continue with that plan, so they’re trying this AI thing.

Meta is probably screwed already. Their user base is not growing as before, maybe shrinking in some markets, and they need the padding to cover it up.

Opponents point out that encryption backdoors might not significantly improve law enforcement’s

There have been cases where police was granted access to the data, but the crimes it was supposed to stop just continued. Not enough personnel, equipment, too difficult or some excuse like that. But if you don’t have enough resources to use the data in a meaningful way, why grant access?

That brings us to the next part, abuse of that data. There have been cases where the access to the data is used to go after organisers of legal protest against environment or labor. Going after certain political parties to harass them, usually left wing, also happens. And there have been cases of police using their access to stalk an ex.

It doesn’t seem to be a net positive.

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Of course they’re conveniently ignoring refineries catching fire or even gas station explosions. That seem to be regular events.

I just wanted simple updates from the people i follow in a chronological order. But no, it had to be by the algorithm, all in seemingly random order, and the feed full of slop I didn’t ask for being force fed like I’m a turkey being prepared for the holidays, That’s why I left.

Social media has a very good ratio of information spreading versus effort required. It’s also why it’s a popular thing for misinformation and influence campaigns.

In contrast, if a government agency wants to make a website for this, it probably needs a proposal, budget request, approval by a commission, a bidding process, and other bureaucatic procedures put in place by politicians that wanted to lower spending.

Relaunching Stadia?

The article does mention that when the AI bubble is going down, the big players will use the defunct AI infrastructure and add it to their cloud business to get more of the market that way and, in the end, make the line go up.

Ah, an upgrade for Lenny the chatbot. It can drive scammers nuts.

And soon they all complain how top talent from other companies stay where they are and for some unknown reason don’t come to interviews anymore.