New scam just dropped. “I am the government. Please verify your identity by sending your birth certificate and credit card info.”

I have no idea who most of those characters are- which gives me an idea.

What if I just made a bunch of AI generic anime characters and symbols and put those stickers on my car? The hardcore anime guys would be like, “Wait, what show is THAT from!? That looks awesome… What’s it from?” Just to passively drive a very specific type of person crazy trying to look it up.

I always do. Feels wrong not to. Just get in the habit of ALWAYS using them and it becomes a no-brainer. It’s just a good habit to have.

Good men don’t need any rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

It DOES have a higher fire fatality statistic than the Ford Pinto so…

In person socialization? Is that like VR chat?

See- this is a problem. Illegal immigration means one thing, but people hear it and think of a family speaking spanish in the grocery store and assume them to be what ‘illegal immigrants’ are. People just ascribe anything vagely unknown to them as ‘illegal immigrants’ and want it gone not realizing that most of the time the people they are imagining are here legally. It’s still racism but with a technically safe cover word, but many are hearing one thing and thinking another.

So when everyone is talking about illegal immigrants they could mean completely different things depending on who you talk to.

I think it’s a legal issue, honestly. When printers first came out there was a fear that people would just print money and other illegal things, so printer firmware had to print out security identifiers on everything in yellow ink so it can be traceable. That’s also why yellow ink always goes out first, and why it complains about yellow ink when trying to only print black and white.

If that’s law, then it could be illegal to use firmware that does not have these features, and anyone making fimware that ‘just prints’ may be held liable.

Thus is all just an educated guess though, but seems plausible.

So… Is guy like- lowercase man?

I don’t think its even paid shills. We have generative AI now, and can VPN with fake accounts pretty easily as regular consumers. If we can do it, they can do it on a larger scale and professionally, and not just ‘their side’, but global rivals.

If another country wants your country to do something stupid, all they have to do is get a bot army to upvote bad ideas and pump out memes and comments supporting whatever policy you think will negatively impact your rival.

If they’re NOT doing this already, then they’re terrible at their jobs, and I don’t think they’re honestly that incompetent.

That said, don’t assume they’re only trying to influence everyone other than you. All that social media data created a system to predict who you are and what buttons to push to get you to act.

https://youtu.be/TXlHKTPfLVA?si=mTjZ7t-3sosVLcgt

Reminds me of this scene.

I fuck around by the melvins

I had an iPad tell me I didn’t have permission to delete a photo that I took with the iPad. Somehow I didn’t own the picture I took of my own dog.

Large LLM model?

Tastes better. Probiotic, so can be healthier. Risk is very low of contamination, low enough that the mandate for pasteurized milk was kinda overblown, but technically safer.

I find the posturing the funniest. Conservatives trying to act tough by drinking raw milk is hilariously tame. It’s like being proud of not wearing sun screen when mowing the lawn. Like, that’s arguably fine either way, but sunscreen is a little safer but…why would you brag about that?

Imagine he’s playing Eurotruck simulator.

Agreed. It gives results that appear promising, and if they were correct all the time it would be amazing… But it’s not, though sometimes it is.

I have one I was messing with that would scan through a document and answer questions about it with sources cited from the document. I feel like that’s the best path to trusting the output.

Also, I think game questions are best suited to asking solutions to linear quests that have a defined answer. I asked it about a good Destiny build, and it answered but what it gave me was a pretty basic build that doesn’t work the best in the current meta, but I kinda knew it couldn’t give me a good answer there.

Because it’s not always totally correct, you can’t trust it. Investors are shown examples where it is correct and incorrectly extrapolate the trend.

“Ai” is largely a gimmick. It can be an impressive gimmick at times, but the failure rate and misses are too common to really trust. I’m an enthusiast, so I have been dabbling a lot with what it can do, and theoretically there are some really cool applications - but we’re not there yet. I’ve got Gemini on my phone, and yeah… I can talk to it about things, but like… Why? The most useful thing I’ve done with it so far is ask it specific game information like, “hey, I’m in x level and I see a chest. I can’t see a way to get it right now, is it something I can come back and get later? Or do I have to figure it out now?”. And it can answer that.

Saves me from having to look up an ad riddled guide, but that’s not a killer feature. Integration with aps could be huge, where it can actually do whatever task for you, or automate something tedious, but that’s still not super common. I’d rather personally and directly control anything vaguely important.

It’s really a solution looking for a problem.

My guess is the DCIM mount is for things like photo kiosks designed to plug any photo device in to print pictures. It would kinda suck to have a smartphone that couldn’t talk to such a system, but a modern one could easily get around that now, and digital cameras are far less prevalent.

As for mounting it as mass storage, usually there is a notification you tap into that gives you options. Most of the time it defaults to charge only and you have to opt in to full storage access to prevent plugging in to some random “charging station” and have it copy data to or from your phone.

This is why so much research has been going into AI lately. The trend is already to not read articles or source material and base opinions off click bait headlines, so naturally relying on AI summaries and search results will soon come next. People will start to assume any generated response from a ‘trusted search ai’ is true, so there is a ton of value in getting an AI to give truthful and correct responses all of the time, and then be able to edit certain responses to inject whatever truth you want. Then you effectively control what truth is, and be able to selectively edit public opinion by manipulating what people are told is true. Right now we’re also being trained that AI may make things up and not be totally accurate- which gives those running the services a plausible excuse if caught manipulating responses.

I am not looking forward to arguing facts with people citing AI responses as their source for truth. I already know if I present source material contradicting them, they lack the ability to actually read and absorb the material.