Posts by Jedit

"that wouldn't be possible without someone with some talent"

Exactly - and that person with talent isn't getting paid. A very astute person has said that the purpose of AI is to give wealthy people access to skill without giving skilled people access to wealth.

"why on earth would any company allow it in the door in the first place?"

Buzzword bullshit bingo.

It's perhaps more nefarious than it would seem, too - and that's a high bar. Since the last Teams update, any files opened through Teams default to opening in Edge regardless of your settings. Edge, of course, reports back to MS, so you have to assume that anything you open in this way is being fed into the slop machine.

Re: Statement from Donald J Trump, President of the USA

EX-PRO-PRI-ATE!

"Or is the “AI” bit just …well …total bollocks?"

AI can be faster for iteration, as it can filter out pointless lines of enquiry rather than simply brute force everything. But that doesn't help to solve an unsolved problem, as without an extant solution it can't determine which lines are pointless.

As ever, AI cannot do anything that a human has not already done.

"that's when I'll believe they're ready to handle most anything"

If they replace their C-section with an LLM and the effect is indistinguishable, it will be an indication that LLMs aren't ready to handle anything.

Re: Wine and steak

You don't often hit, but when you do, you hit.

Re: I wonder how much data could you compress on a Laserdisc-sized blu-ray.

Not really. I bassackwarded my calculations; the LaserBlu would have a higher proportion of usable area, not lower. Annihilator is likely closer to correct on the exact figures.

(Not actually thumbing you down, you're just wrong because I was.)

"AI doesn’t take a dump without a plan."

AI doesn't take a dump, because it's a computer and the only asshole it has is the techbro using it.

I was going to say - it doesn't matter if the Star Citizen player DB leaks, they've already been scammed.

"the vast majority of the Scots Nationalist cheerleading accounts on Soshal Meejah have gone silent"

It doesn't matter which side of the independence debate you're on; up here we're all too busy laughing at how badly Labour fucked the Gorton & Denton by-election, and watching Keith dig his own grave with his mouth.

" in a serious debate, I would consider it equivalent to conceding the point"

In a serious debate, you'd reject the definition and substitute your own.

This motherfucker is so stupid that in addition to saying that AI is more efficient than humans in obtaining information, he's suggesting that the best point of efficiency is to remove human users from the equation. In which case, who's going to ask it the questions? Answers on a postcard, please, although if they don't include confining Sam Altman to an institution and keeping him away from sharp objects they will be ignored.

"I think the letter of the rules doesn't get applied when it comes to toilet breaks"

Toilets tend to only have one entrance, and it's fairly obvious when you take a suspiciously long time. Observing the stall/room should be enough, especially if the escortee has been observed directly at all other times. (Depends on the nature of the business, of course.)

"I guess I'm guilty by association."

If you had chosen to go there, yes. Most of us don't get to choose our secondary school though; we get sent to the one we're in the catchment area for. It's only people who can afford private education who get the choice. (Funnily, the British people who are in the Epstein Files do all seem to be privately educated. Because that's the province of the rich, and if you weren't rich on Nonce Island you were the entertainment, not a guest.)

Getting back to the point: these men are adults who, of their own free will, knowingly chose to associate with a sex trafficking pederast. They may not have been clients themselves, but even if they weren't they still would have been trying to exploit Epstein's contacts. They supped with the Devil; let them enjoy their just deserts.

"Big Nige ... will sort it out before retiring to France"

Well, he wouldn't be the first, would he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Post-war_politics

"Maybe the parents should get off their arses and do something about it themselves?"

They should, but time spent parenting is time not spent making money for billionaires. That's in opposition to their goal to have life for the working person consist of sleep and monetised activity. And if they could charge you to dream, they would.

"the 'won't someone think of the children' argument"

The UK government are currently discovering what happens when you employ one of Epstein's mates. You'd think it would be wise of them to not reveal that they're thinking of the children, wouldn't you?

"Epstein seemed quite keen to get Musk to the island"

I'm guessing you missed the e-mail where Musk was begging Epstein for an invite to the next paedo party and got a response that was transparently making excuses not to reply.

Not going to downvote you, there's a lot going on in those files and you can't assume people know everything - or want to, frankly.

"It is amusing to see Reform struggling to comprehend matters"

Reform as a whole may be struggling to comprehend it, but Farage isn't. Selling out the UK to his paymasters in both the US and Russia is what he's intended all along.

"Not sure if this lawsuit will do anything for Joe Public"

It doesn't involve the creator of Meta AI drowning in their own blood, so probably not.

Re: "the C-suite ought to start thinking outside its own experience"

That would be an inefficient use of resources. First, they're not specced for the task. Second, the last four words are superfluous.

Who aren't affected by this bill anyway. They're already not allowed to have social media accounts and will continue to be so.

"It took the focus away from cost of living and abused young girls"

More importantly, it's distracting from Jack Smith's testifying - today IIRC - that he has a case solid enough to convict Trump for inciting the J6 insurrection.

It's an interesting and unique legal case; because as per the 14th Amendment an insurrectionist cannot stand for president, Trump is not the president now. This raises the argument that the Republicans didn't stand a candidate in 2024, which would mean Kamala Harris is President. This doesn't just eject Trump, it takes his entire administration with him as they would all be serving under false pretences.

Powergen Italia also spoiled things by putting a hyphen in their domain name. Unlike Mole Station Nursery, who boldly stuck with their URL - probably because it attracts a lot of passing traffic who can't believe it's actually real. (They have no reason to fear prosecution, of course, because they're the other kind of nursery and the only thing they sell is plants.)

If I might make an observation...

No text, I just wanted to make everyone mentally hear Valentine Dyall.

"Grok can be told not to do something"

We already knew this, because Musk told it not to criticise him. Grok generates child pornography by design and intent.

"Have the IWF or others exaggerated the issue for ideological reasons"

They have not. This all got kicked off by someone reposting a (heavily censored) tweet/response where a person had given Grok a picture of a 13-year old Nell Fisher in Stranger Things and told it to "remove the dress, change nothing else". Apparently Grok didn't just remove the dress, either; it obligingly rendered a fully nude image. So we know the following:

1) Grok's data set includes indecent images of children, and no attempt has been made to remove them.

2) Grok can identify children in images, and no attempt has been made to safeguard them.

3) Grok has been trained to interpret any request for images of children in less clothing as a request for explicit nude images of children, and no attempt has been made to block such requests.

We also know from past events that it is possible to block requests on Grok and that it isn't even difficult, as Musk did it to prevent Grok criticising him. So if Grok is capable of producing CSAM and will do so even if it hasn't been specifically requested, then we know that Grok is working as intended.

"FaceBook which, whilst not overly fascist"

Facebook doesn't just not censor fascists. They repeatedly suspend people who criticise fascists, if they can get away with it, and when they can't because the person is too visible and has too many followers they instead suppress posts that have a lot of negative reacts.