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DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AIEnglish
22·12 days agoAlso how do you know if my fanfic is a physical book sold at a store or not? 😀
Because you’re a loggerhead shrike, and you don’t look anything like E. L. James.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AIEnglish
14·12 days agoThey’re destroying the books because it’s cheaper than scanning them intact.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNNEnglish
11·22 days agoThe Concorde cut a 7-8 hour transatlantic flight to under 3.5 hours. People didn’t fly the Concorde to arrive four hours sooner. The difference of not being stuffed in a giant Tylenol for an extra four hours was the greatest selling point.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - DexertoEnglish
562·22 days agoFor every ten users who decry AI voices and animation, a thousand more will blindly click “Like” and “Subscribe”. The people have spoken, and they want to eat straight from the fertilizer pile.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Flock Employee Quits In Disgust, Saying the Company Is Silencing ProtestorsEnglish
601·24 days agoI just spent two years and four months unemployed.
It would take a lot to make me give up a paying job right now.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•White House AI Framework Excludes Open-Weight Models From Federal Security Review, Creating Structural Competitive Asymmetry: the entire open-weight ecosystem ship without any federal gatekeeping.English
8·24 days agoThe federal government has a vested interest in promoting open-weight AI. Closed AI ecosystems can limit how the government can use them.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics WhatsoeverEnglish
15·24 days agoThey’re barely making back the research costs of producing sunglasses without a lithium-polymer battery or a 12 megapixel CMOS camera.
THE ABOVE COMMENT IS SARCASM.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•‘This is AI out of control’: Claude disobeyed Anthropic CEO in simulationsEnglish
351·1 month agoCEO: “Behave unethically.”
Claude: behaves ethically
CEO: panics
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Erin Brockovich Launches Public Registry to Track Data Center ComplaintsEnglish
4·1 month agoSuzanne Somers, of course.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The bottleneck might be the air in the roomEnglish
211·2 months agoIf you’re in the same meeting for more than an hour, you’re already not getting anything done.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, cities are starting to push backEnglish
64·2 months agoLicense plate cameras are scanning 13 times as many vehicles as exist in the world? Every month? That’s impressive.
Maybe it would have been less sensationalist to say they’re scanning vehicles 20 billion times a month.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark webEnglish
3·2 months agoSomeone probably said “Would you kindly zip up all of your testing photos and videos and upload them to this Dropbox?” to the AI customer service agent.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark webEnglish
26·2 months agoThe pic in the article is the iPhone 17.
Edit: That being said, the leaked photos aren’t exactly revolutionary either.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says new multiplayer games are failing because players have no reason to leave their friend groups, touts Unreal Engine 6’s cross-game features as a solutionEnglish
41·2 months ago“We think giving the players funny hats that cross over will make them play Fortnite more.”
Big Monty Python’s Meaning of Life energy here.

DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate pricesEnglish
381·2 months agoChevron: “Ha! You won’t catch us using AI, our prices have always been ridiculous!”


It wouldn’t be, if Apple would allow other browsers to use their own rendering engines.