Privacy may be dead as you suggest, but that doesn’t compel me to dance on its grave.

Eh, I don’t think it’s an outright scam, rather “just” a bad investment / overhype. The language model programs do have some real uses, after all.

I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level SE

You don’t “get it”?

AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more devs

Yes, I think you do.

I largely look at this as leadership using AI hype as an excuse to cut staff regardless of actual productivity. The house of cards hasn’t come down quite yet.

It doesn’t have to be a good implementation, it only has to be good enough for a demo to get the C-suite saying “Oh, slap a chatbot on there and then fire half the department that handles this now”.

AI isn’t destroying any jobs. Greedy “leaders” in the C-suite are cutting jobs using AI as an excuse.

It’s a sick joke at our expense.

Joke’s on them, my phone only cost $300

People at my office have a bot attend meetings. AFAIK it does speech recognition and generates notes from the meeting. Sembly maybe? I’d have to look again to be sure.

Need?

Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.

I hadn’t expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.

What is gluant? I couldn’t find it in the dictionary.

The technology isn’t there to accurately assess damage. It’s there to give Hertz an excuse to charge you extra money. It’s working exactly as the ghouls in the C-suite like.

It’s less about technology and more about evading accountability, I’d say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of “How dare you accuse the baron’s son of tipping your cows?! He’s a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless.”

It makes me super uneasy. I can easily see this type of model being expanded and applied to more and more things.

Call for a refund because something you ordered never showed up? Wrong trust chain, you’re automatically lying, refund denied.

Report someone for T-boning you? Wrong trust chain, you’re now arrested for hitting them.

Etc…

90ies

I can’t help but “hear” this as “Ninety eez”.

his gun

Is that a fact? Are you sure? Will you recant if it comes out that the police did, in fact, plant it?

Nitpick the lawyer’s phrasing all you like; it won’t actually change any of the facts of the case, whatever they may be. Myself, I’m not going to jump to “why bother having a trial? The police arrested him; he’s clearly guilty as sin” based on a Lemmy comment!

Almost like the lawyer thinks “they didn’t follow procedure” is an easier legal argument than “the police dept is trying to frame my client”.

Ah, gotcha, yeah, that makes sense.

My own city has pretty good bike lane coverage, but it’s similar – cars have to cross over the bike lane to get into the turn lane.

Basic decency…gah. Yeah, I wish. :(

Not sure what “American car centrism” has to do with Chinese traffic regulations tbh

I found this article. My takeaways were:

1. No driving in bus lanes during certain times of day.
2. No using the shoulder as a turn lane.
3. No using a bike lane as a turn lane.

I think lack of goodwill plays into this, too. A lot of smaller sites can get away with stuff like “OK guys, the servers aren’t free, so we need to run ads.” and then have people super thrilled with them if there’s an option to limit or disable ads for donors.

On reddit, I think the attitude would basically be “get fucked, spez!”