Among his many other faults, he’s a Modi toady.

They must have high hopes of monetizing us further with AI, to relentlessly push it on us like they’re doing.

Ask ChatGPT.

There are surprisingly few customer-facing tasks that don’t require accuracy and truthfulness. LLM-style AI cannot guarantee either. So the only AI-enshittification options that are really available are at organizations who don’t give a shit about their customers (e.g., Republican-led governments), fraudsters, or the replacement of humans in doing unimportant tasks (which a sensible business would just stop doing altogether).

Day trading, like compulsive gambling, is a sign of innumeracy coupled with self-sabotaging behavior.

Yeah, so much for all those promises of disintermediation being a benefit of the web.

And fuck the region-blocking that often comes with cloudflare.

Where I work, we’ve been looking into data compression that’s optimized by an ML system. We have a shit-ton of parameters, and the ML algorithm compares the number of sig figs in each parameter to its byte size, and truncates where that doesn’t cause any loss of fidelity. So far, it looks promising, really good compression factor, but we still need to do more work on de-skilling the decompression at the receiving end.

I wouldn’t have thought LLM was the right technology to use for something like this.

Pre-order. So it’s not on the market yet.

How is it a downgrade to disable a torrent of shit you don’t want?

Drop some small change on a mobile-data-enabled tablet if you want Google Maps. Even better, use one of the many GPS apps based on Open Streetmap, or even Here We Go. Some of those have an excellent disconnected (from mobile data, not GPS) operating mode and route-finding that’s no worse than Google’s.

It’s a more talkative, more delusional Clippy.

like they must have a team somewhere that spends its days going, how can we kill this golden goose?

I wouldn’t put it past Bezos to have an actual enshittification department.

YouTube is crawling with it. It’s unlistenable shit. The prosody is badly implemented, pronunciation is infuriatingly bad, and a lot of the text that these TTS are reading appears to be AI-generated. Otherwise, already dire standards of literacy are getting worse at an accelerating rate.

Has Musk ever met a dictator he doesn’t like?

That should never be allowed in court. What a crock of shit.

The Vatican is not part of Italy.

No wonder the rightwing US archbishops and cardinals hated him.

“We lose value on every unit, but make it up through volume.”

Darth Depends.

I’d pay to see that movie.