And chances are, the company has got away with it before. It just didn’t work this time.

For example Twitter when it was blocked in Brazil for a little while because they didn’t want to pay a fine for not complying with some of their regulations.

Though the bigger part of that was that their representative quit, and by Brazilian law, companies that operate in Brazil must have a representative in the country.

Twitter tried to sidestep that by not paying the fine, and also not having a representative, so the fine couldn’t be applied that way. In response, the judge presiding over the cause required Twitter be blocked.

They do, but they’d still need someone to go through the flagging and check. Reddit gets away with it as it is like Facebook groups do, by offloading the moderation to users, with the admins only being roped in for ostensibly big things like ban evasion/site wide bans, or lately, if the moderators don’t toe the company line exactly.

I doubt that they would use an LLM for that. That’s very expensive and slow, especially for the volume of images that they would need to process. Existing CSAM detectors aren’t as expensive, and are faster. They basically compute a hash for the image, and compare it to known hashes for CSAM.

Although it also helps that places like BlueSky have less of a barrier to entry.

Alternatives like Mastodon are a bit more confusing, compared to a centralised site, where everything is linked in through the one interface.

Eh, I think their current products are fine (except Cybertruck, that’s ridiculous). Every company has recalls, and Tesla’s are generally pretty mild (again, except Cybertruck).

Don’t they famously have an issues with QC? It wasn’t all that long that their other cars had problems with panel gaps, or manufacturing material left inside, etc.

Relevant XKCD.

The Polyfill incident is bad (that seems to be how the hackers got into the internet archive), and the OpenSSH one could have been really nasty, if it wasn’t caught both early, and by chance (a performance engineer at a major software company noticed).

At minimum, it might also have it for the “turning on” noise.

It might also just be the default beeper for the motherboard, and it’s just been reconfigured to make a particular noise instead of the usual beep.

A considerable number of the articles written in Scots weren’t written in Scots. The most prolific writer of the Scots articles was an American teen with no knowledge of Scots, and was more or less just writing them in a Scottish accent.

I have to wonder if intentionally shitting on LLMs with plausible nonsense is effective.

I don’t think so. The volume of data is too large for it to make much of a difference, and a scraper can just mimic a human user agent and work that way.

You’d have to change so much data consistently across so many different places that it would be near-impossible for a single human effort.

Hopefully they tightened things up after the Scots incident.

But not that much more.

A consumer mobile connection is about $30 a month. A car company could get it cheaper, not just by buying in bulk, but also because by not needing that much bandwidth for their connection.

Can’t wait for the inevitable “You don’t actually own the car, you just have a lifetime licence/lease to use the car”

It probably does, like Cortana after they deactivated the servers.

You couldn’t remove it for a good while, so there was a gap where it would be stuck there.

What about the Selectric Typing-ball?

You can never quite trust an organ you can’t see.

They might have confused it for a head transplant?

Although neither patient was alive at the time of the transplant.

I don’t know if a full brain transplant would be feasible, or even a good idea. Not only would none of their senses and motor nerves work for weeks while the brain and nerves re-established themselves, but they would be walking around in a dead person’s face, body and speaking with their voice. That seems genuinely horrific.

Yes, but they’ve got the advantage of having done it for longer, and not stirred the pot.

I honestly don’t think it would have been an issue for Microsoft if they just decided to sit on Internet Explorer instead of trying to push everyone into using Edge.

You do what the police do, and provide a proportionate response.

A gun is only to be used if you are in imminent danger of your life. A robbery is arguably not that, unless they’re trying to steal your organs or prostheses.

There’s a reason your average supermarket security guard doesn’t immediately whip out the Mini-Nuke the moment they see a shoplifter.

There’s also something to be said about the place you’re living in, where you’re to be terrified of stabbists and robberers the moment you step out-of-doors. Do you live in a hive of scum and villainy?

Larger than your average claw hammer or ball peen, at least.

Especially when it causes law enforcement to become so paranoid of the citizens they’re ostensibly meant to protect, that a mere hailstone landing on the car roof immediately causes them to believe they’re being fired upon.

That just sounds like a terrible time for everyone involved.

At that point, you’re basically turning the constabulary into soldiers.