• Tool allows you to generate output without understanding or accountability
• Continue rewarding output only
• Extreme lack of understanding and accountability

shocked pikachu

Just to be clear: this is not about protecting people.

This is just another squeeze, wringing the next few drops of accountability out of their sector.

They’re not really employing the drivers, so they’re not responsible for vetting them. And they’re not really selling rides, so they’re not responsible for what happens during one.

So what’s next? “Oh, we told drivers to get interior cameras, we told riders to be careful, we gave them checkboxes!”

Anything at all that they can spin as a value-add to shareholders, rather than allowing for any amount of responsibility towards the well-being of people who interact with their systems.

This analysis is spot-on. I especially think you’re onto something with your reference to the commons. (Edit: The generative AI movement could be a seen as a modern reincarnation of enclosure)

These guys think of a commons in a sense of ownership: if I own something, I can do whatever I want with it.

But the real historical examples of a commons are more like a mutual obligation. It’s a relationship, not a delivery of inert goods. Yes, you get access to the benefits of the commons, but that comes hand-in-hand with accepting the duty to care for the commons as an ongoing entity.

That’s what really irks me about all of this. They didn’t “steal” something. They killed a collective organism.

Primeagen mentioned it here, noting that sqlite does this

As Cory Doctorow says:

This is prime directive of the Darth Vader MBA: “I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”

So many companies got their business-plan at the Darth Vader MBA. The ability to revoke features after the fact means that companies can fuck around, but never find out.

Midwest $3.59/gal today

Instantly crippling GPU performance by making it waste a bunch of time managing PCI messages.

Can she explain why ICE hired a company (Five by Five Management) to handle IT for detention centers that has no previous clients and seems to be run out of a residential home? And then deleted evidence and requested immunity as a condition for trying to recover it?

Every AI player right now has heaps of hardware sitting in warehouses.

AI slop

Statistically most likely random answer

I would think Reticulum would be a good fit

At SolarWinds, he took a leadership role in the firm’s nascent Cloud business division of SaaS offerings built for developers/operators working on modern, cloud-native architectures.

Hmmm…

A SolarWinds product, Orion, used by about 33,000 public and private sector customers, was the focus of a U.S. federal government data leak in 2020. The attack persisted undetected for months in 2020, and additional details about the breadth and depth of compromised systems continued to surface after the initial disclosure.[7] In February 2021, Microsoft President Brad Smith said that it was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen”.[8]

To be clear, this is when yall were still reading the code, right?

We have well and truly lost the plot.

Speed of slop-generation is not really the critical barrier here. We’re already generating more synthetic text than humanity can possibly verify.

Maybe through CXL you’ll be able to “download more RAM” (renting it, really)

They don’t want to save capitalism. They believe capitalism is about to be over, and they want to be in control of whatever it is that comes next.

They’re worried they’re not spending enough on AI.

Classic MLM tactics. “If you’re not seeing a return on Herbalife, it’s cuz you’re not spending enough on it!”

Money is fine. Financialization is not.

Slavery