Basically all of the AI companies get away with violating basically all IP laws and norms, and manipulating the PC hardware market to the detriment of consumers. I believe that’s what he meant by “getting away with murder”. As a point of comparison to this relatively minor kerfuffle.
I hate the culture war stuff. I also hate that the Rust core utils rewrite was done under an MIT license instead of GPL.
A gain of memory safety with a poison pill of permissive licensing is no gain at all.
I wouldn’t mind a web browser being part of a broader system of trusted software, but shoving an AI chatbot into my web browser does not make me trust it more.
What have they decided based on market data?
I think in this particular case at least Mozilla decided to introduce something that their users didn’t want without asking, and our backpedaling and are being mocked for having done the thing in the first place.
Frankly I don’t know what’s going on in their collective brains. What Firefox needs more than anything else is refinement. There are no features that it’s missing as far as I can think of.
Absolutely insanity.
It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.
Holy shit that’s fantastic.
Because when you talk about protection or safety for children or animals or [insert vulnerable group here] you can short-circuit a lot of people’s reason/skepticism.
Who would ever pay someone for their work if they weren’t forced to? Who, I ask?
AI creating jobs by requiring more human intervention for validation of previously reliable forms of information?
Okay cool, I’m here for it.
I already miss those halcyon days when if I saw a photo or video I could be reasonably sure whether or not it was computer generated.
Provenance is going to matter again, and chains/webs of trust are always a heavy lift.
I think this kinda points to why AI is pretty decent for short videos, photos, and texts. It produces outputs that one applies meaning to, and humans are meaning making animals. A computer can’t overlook or rationalize a coding error the same way.
I mean, if I felt I could control the little computer in a smart fridge without expending excessive effort to do so, I might be interested in getting one myself. Absent other concerns, a tablet integrated into my fridge could be handy to monitor the appliance, make quick or even automated grocery list updates, etc. Not earth shattering, but still marginally useful.
Wait, you can’t access it via IMAP?
And just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s ethical.
My concern is that they’ll include the equipment for spying on you, and just enable it later.
I bought a Hue because it said “no online account required!” Later they changed their mind.
I want the promise plus open standards and a base of libre software. I want them to tie themselves to the mast.
…with red light cameras.
Correct. It is a different problem.
That is actually a legitimate concern. Add it to the long list of “technologies that are cool and good except when capitalism”
Civic religion, but make it gnostic.
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