The Copilot app says, "Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes." I think they could be more clear, but they didn't bury it in an EULA.

It's not going to stop spammers and foreign disinformation campaigns. Making companies responsible for what their AI can generate without giving them the option to provide it as a no-liability no-guarantees tool is just going to make them clamp down harder on censoring and lobotomizing their models to make sure they're incapable of making false claims even if it renders them semi-useless. I do think they should need to make it abundantly clear that their language models can and will lie and make stuff up.

I was just woken up by a leaf blower again. I feel ya.

It doesn't count if it costs money, which mail does.

I resolved to never give Epic a dime when I got a popup forcing me to agree to a binding arbitration agreement in order to launch games I already have installed and in my library. It tells me that they think people will have good reasons to sue them in the future.

All I'm trying to say is that they're not necessarily doing the same thing now that they were back then. They'd have a strong motivator to be better than google nowadays instead of just copying their results because google's results suck now.

This is funny, but it was also 13 years ago. A lot can change in that time. I don't personally use Bing though, so I don't have firsthand experience either way.

I see, interesting. Do you know if there's a way to completely prohibit an app from running in the background other than just using the "restricted" battery mode for it, which doesn't stop it completely?

I only have 1 app active in the background and it's a custom DNS. I'm very good about keeping all my apps closed when I'm not using them and notifications are disabled for most apps.

Phone batteries still do that

I can see why you'd prefer braces in that case. I actually personally prefer {} over indentation as a matter of opinion, I just see them both as working fine 99% of the time. I'd also definitely take indentation over some shenanigans like start/end to define scopes.

I don't understand why people complain about their Python code breaking because it relies on indentation instead of explicit {} syntax. I've never had an issue with it and it's not just because I'm used to it because Python is the only language I use that relies on whitespace like that. I think the complainers just don't know how to indent properly, which makes me really glad they're writing in a language that forces them to instead of pushing unreadable garbage in other languages.

So it's sort of like Minecraft structured like Roblox? (Minus the corporate greed)

That sounds too completely absurd to be real, which is why I believe it. Yikes.

I think you're giving humans too much credit. If our future ends up going down that path, the people raking in profits will never give up their power and the government won't force them. Mass surveillance will make any resistance effort futile.

We need to make it illegal to charge different people different amounts of money for the same service based on any criteria other than a poverty discount and a senior discount.

They're both pushing for it. It was probably the idea of someone with more influence than either of them.

This is about dividing the working class and making them resent each other instead of the 0.1%. Too many people just aren't racist or homophobic enough for those divisions to be as effective as they used to be, so they needed to come up with something new that can even turn non-bigots against each other.

It's because what happens post-singularity is dramatic and flashy, but what's happening now is depressing and boring. AI is being used and will continue to be used to oppress people and extract as much value from them as possible, but post-singularity AI might launch all the nukes!

In all likelihood, post-singularity AI will probably just do what current AI does to screw people over, but even better.

The dog wants to go outside