Posts by Dinanziame

Re: So what's the difference between a cruise missile and a "suicide drone"?

The rocket engine, I assume?

"Emailing it back"...??

Re: Yahoo???

Important to note that Yahoo Japan is not related to Yahoo US, and the search results have been provided by Google for at least 15 years

Re: USA!!!! USA!!!! USA!!!! Yeah..nah

According to the "communist" Guardian, Trump has said: "My goal is to not let any windmill be built. They’re losers."

The "woke" NYTimes is reporting that A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide.

Re: Ban it

Germany would like a word, and the word is verboten.

Re: Overflow

Does Google even make money in UK? I'm pretty sure that all that lucrative ads business is technically operated from Ireland, and the big offices in London are effectively a consulting and support business which barely breaks even. I believe that UK insisted on this being legal, because they hoped UK-based companies would siphon off money from the entire Europe while only making profits in the UK. They thought they had the most corporate-friendly regulations in Europe, but they never saw Ireland coming. Thanks to that, Ireland's GDP per inhabitant is now twice that of the UK.

"I'm rich and you're not, fuck you"

Re: Is that all?

The internet estimates his current wealth to over $300M. It's not very surprising considering the importance he had at Microsoft, and how the stock market went up since. It's more surprising that with this kind of money he still cared so much about his exit package.

Re: "his personal Google Cloud account"

All the criminals who are caught are idiots. As the saying goes, there are old pilots, and foolish pilots, but there are no old foolish pilots.

Re: They've had a play at The Verge

To be fair, this is the worst way you can try to use the tool — attempt to recreate existing, polished games. And then complain that there are glitches. And that the experience created in minutes by an AI is not as good as a finished product. Duh. The point is to try to imagine a new game that is completely different from what exists, check how it would possibly look, make changes, explore, find new ideas. When you think you have found something nice, implement the game yourself.

Re: Late stage

You seem to have missed the point of the article in your haste to peddle a conspiracy theory

Re: Why is anyone surprised?

Well it's starting well, since he's restricted this automated image creation/publication to paying users

Re: Been there!

Maybe it's legal issues? In some countries (like mine) it's not allowed to have cameras filming office workers. We have cameras on entrance doors and elevators, pointing away from the desks. I suppose moving those cameras would be technically illegal...

And why would anybody even bother? It's not like there is a shortage of porn on the internet.

You cannot be that naive. First there is never enough porn, second people create sexualized images of women they personally know, whether for their own gratification, or for harassing said women. Check e.g. this year-old story about South Korea for the problems this causes

Re: Wat will Grok take down ?

If you create sexualized images of children with Photoshop, you are guilty yourself, not Adobe. If xAI allows anonymous people to create sexualized images of children with Grok, xAI is guilty. And if Twitter allows people to post these images, Twitter is guilty.

UK politicians particularly have the habit of going "who will think of the children" as an excuse to ban useful technologies like encryption or VPNs, so it's not surprising they are reacting to this. I will admit that I think xAI bears more responsibility here than a random chat app with encryption — There are a lot of image generators, and the vast majority of them have guardrails in place to prevent this very specific issue. Either xAI have not written any guardrails, or they suck at it, or they deliberately set a very low guardrail. Out of the three, I would advise them to plead incompetence. And Twitter definitely should have barriers in place to prevent the posting of such images as well. It is likely that Twitter deliberately omits safety mechanisms for images generated by Grok.

Re: Google TV

Why not buy a monitor then? Or even a projector on a white wall. Simpler.

Re: What?

Please try to understand posts in their context. It will help you in your social life as well.

Re: POP3S

I suspect that from their point of view it is a feature they need to maintain, and that very few people use. Why bother? It's even risky for them to work on something like that. Everybody at Google is measured by how much impact they have. The one who has the least impact in a team gets a "Not Enough Impact" rating, loses their bonus, and is on track for getting fired. And if the feature you work on is used by less than millions of users and has nothing to do with AI, it's likely to be you.

That said, the number of people who both know how to set up and use POP3 correctly and are using Gmail is indeed likely to be tiny.

Reminding people every two hours

"Hey John, just reminding you that I'm an AI and not a hu..."

Shut up Alexa it's 4am and I'm trying to sleep!!

Re: For the paranoid

Rather than chemicals, wouldn't a simple fireplace be enough?

Re: FSCK Google

I've had to block SIX site scrapers so far this month

I take it you mean scrapers that have nothing to do with Google... Unless you found that Google scrapers are not respecting your robots.txt file? To my knowledge they do, but maybe there's something new?

Re: Scapegoat?

It's Accenture who reported the situation to the government "following an internal review." So either somebody reported her to the top brass and they threw her to the wolves, or the top brass knew all along and eventually decided it was too risky and threw her to the wolves.

And the Swiss gave Trump a a kilogram of gold to make him sign a tariffs deal. I'm not sure they would call him a pal, though...

Judging from your repetitive posts, you don't seem fit for much yourself

Very good news for the EU

They can keep fining X for not respecting EU regulations. X can then choose to pay or to stop serving in the EU — That's a win either way.

Re: End to end encryption is not enough

According to the article you linked, the toothbrush story was fake.

Re: An issue...

Because a similar scenario has happened with the US before, and the issue of EU trying to protect the private data of its citizens from US judicial orders is a decade-long soap opera with way more ramifications and importance. The way this story turns out has implications for the larger story. It's important context.

Re: Blue Check

Let's be serious, if they had a blog on the official DHS website, nobody would ever read anything they write.