Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.

I don’t see how these cases could be prevented even with regulation. It would take a massive change in how these things work on a fundamental level.

Yes, you’re correct.

But that rollout doesn’t make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That’s what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.

As I’ve already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn’t work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.

I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress’s phones.

But again, this isn’t a technical problem where you can just point at what’s obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you’re willing to train your family members, etc.

My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I’m not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work to try and drag people to new platform and hold their hand through the bumps… just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.

I’ll revisit as the elders age off.

I care about my privacy, but I’ve thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn’t important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.

Doesn’t have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.

Ultimately I’m just trying to give reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took the initial comment I responded to at face value. I’m not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don’t invalidate anyone else’s.

How is that fucking legal?

Give us this very sensitive information, we promise we won’t misuse it, and we’ll let you fiddle our AI as a treat.

Momentum of where friends and family are.

It’s nice to be able to say “well they’re not worth talking to then”, but at some point I need to be able to reach my parents so they can babysit my daughter. Or be able to know that family will be in town and expecting me to be available. Or be able to have any way of knowing what life events are happening to my loved ones without having to wait for it to be brought up in casual conversation months later as if I should already know.

My extended family and friends do a poor job communicating on a good day. If I try to add another hurdle, I’m not the one who wins that fight.

Don’t forget “styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels”. Fucking looney tunes.

Most still are/can be. Enough that I find it hard to believe people are missing out without podcasts through these paid services.

“Executive Innovation Corps” really? You’d think this season’s writers could think up something less on the nose.

Wait what, seriously? Killing a CEO is terrorism, but two politicians is just “normal” murder? That’s absolutely fucked.

What do you consider “going low”?

If you mean the type of schoolyard insults Trump lobs out, I dislike that but that’s just optics. Mud-slinging is whatever.

When we’re talking going low in regards to truly matching the lowest of what Trump’s base is doing, they’re literally abducting citizens. Making deals with clear persistent enemies of the state as if they’re allies. Two politicians were just fucking assassinated.

I’m not personally prepared to accept full open warfare yet. Gun violence in the streets. Too much collateral.

If that’s truly necessary already, then we’re so far beyond discussions of what the Democrats should or shouldn’t do that this entire thread (including the OP picture) is just wasting time.

If things are that bad, people would need to get off their asses and start throwing literal blood and lives to the cause of overthrowing Trump. I’m still not convinced we’re there yet. If you disagree, either lead by example and get out there with your rifle, or say more to convince those of us not up to speed instead of attacking potential allies.

Start organizing a militia and get the fuck out of threads like this one that would give the intelligence agencies reasons to watch you and kill momentum before it starts, or work outreach and do more to convince people into the cause. To do anything else is irresponsible and self defeating.

The Democrats are many many years overdue for a spine. But I still (perhaps naievely) want to believe that it’s possible to win without going low.

Maybe I’m just crazy and need my tinfoil hat adjusted, but a race to the bottom still fucks us all over.

Holding people accountable for their actions isn’t “going low”. Holding people accountable for the knock on effects of their actions isn’t “going low”. Holding people accountable for their own previous statements isn’t “going low”. Callong out blatant lies and misdirection isn’t “going low”. Actually enforcing laws equally against people privileged financially and/or politically isn’t “going low”. Calling out blatant corruption isn’t “going low”.

We don’t need the Democrats to start pushing candidates that are only following their own interests while wheeling out whatever their base wants to hear. We don’t need Democrats cutting backroom deals with businesses that screw over their constituents. We don’t need more toxic waste and diarrehia, just with blue food coloring.

I refuse to believe people actually want “Trump but saying leftist shit to appease people”.

Could be tests for a parser to convert it from string to object.

Not like your end users are going to type each piece into a separate field.

I mean, that’s at least functional grammar.

“advertiser’s creative”? The fuck is that? You aren’t cool by dropping the noun out and trying to use an adejective in its place.

I’m already seeing a permutation of this at my workplace with Microsoft’s low/no code automation frameworks. Power Platform I believe is the name. Also seeing it with some other proprietary automation tools.

While I respect the motivation of these business folks to try and automate their processes, it’s distressing watching these people slap together something of equivalent quality to what I’d expect from freshman in an intro to programming course (I’ve been an assistant for some of those classes, it’s not pretty) and then try and balance all sorts of business critical stuff on top of their mess.

What is extra frustrating is that we already have in-house software devs for this sort of stuff. They’re already understaffed, but this motivation for automation could be a perfect opportunity to right-size that team, build a proper “tech project management” group, and really start to lean hard into making the best use of all these tools. Instead, a few enterprising project managers took a single continuing education course for some proprietary automation software and somehow got the office politics clout to spin it into an entire department based around their little pet system.

Meanwhile I’m sitting here in Systems Admin and Enterprise Architecture land watching these half assed “solutions” eating absurd amounts of resources to do shit that could be accomplished with a small DB and maybe 1k lines of code.

No, you cannot have a VM with a fucking 1TB drive. We’ve seen the files that go into and out of your current systems and if you found some way to bloat those into anywhere close to 1TB then something is seriously wrong.

PowerBI especially, they keep sending all their queries to the first gateway server we built instead of spreading them over the multiple ones we have. The end up maxing out the RAM and bringing the primary gateway down. Now, it should automatically offload new queries to the other gateways when one gets full, but queries are handled by batch, so if one batch is too big it can’t split that batch over multiple gateway servers. We’ve reached the point where we can’t just add more resources to the VM, they need to split shit up better.

So I guess all this is to say that it’s already happening to a limited degree. I don’t enjoy being a gatekeeper, but so many fucking people need so much more training before they start trying to automate shit, and the ever increasing marketing of “you don’t need to have a single coherent thought in your head to become a process efficiency master” is fucking poison.

What’s the saying? Rather have a lazy smart person than an industrious idiot?

Why does this description sound entirely like someone trying to sell me something?

Gotta love the grandiose naming.

It’s not a “math statement evaluator”, it’s a “truth oracle”.

What? Corded phones exist, and most schools and offices have at least one in each room. Dumb phones exist. Pagers exist.

Smart phones are not the only singular solution for easy, quick contact.

Didn’t they just pass a site-wide decision on the use of LLMs in creating/editing otherwise “human made” text?

Why do they need to take the human element out? Why would anyone want them to?

God I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for Wikipedia. They live and die on the efforts of volunteer editors (like Reddit relied on volunteer mods and third party tool devs). The fastest way to tank themselves is by driving off their volunteers with shit like this.

And it’s absurdly easier to lose the good will they have than to rebuild it.

Other studies (not all chess based or against this old chess AI) show similar lackluster results when using reasoning models.

Edit: When comparing reasoning models to existing algorithmic solutions.

No, more like “Your marketing team, sales team, the news media at large, and random hype men all insist your orange machine works amazing on any fruit if you know how to use it right. It didn’t work my strawberries when I gave it all the help I could, and was outperformed by my 40 year old strawberry machine. Please stop selling the idea it works on all fruit.”

This study is specifically a counter to the constant hype that these LLMs will revolutionize absolutely everything, and the constant word choices used in discussion of LLMs that imply they have reasoning capabilities.