Up until now it’s kind of just been assumed that official device drivers are relatively benign and helpful. Y’know, like “install the printer driver so you can print things.” Device drivers have always been an attack vector though (further reading). Maybe tomorrow my printer will become malicious too! Though it’s arguably already borderline.
You can see by which posts I’ve commented on recently. Feels diverse enough for my needs
Sounds cool. Try to find other me’s and talk about any differences we have. Explore that avenue. I wouldn’t believe the 4 year thing until it happened, otherwise you’re basing major life decisions on a diagnosis from an untrusted source.
Getting drive-by zero click malware from an Adobe Flash / ActiveX embed banner ad, or JavaScript / CSS vulnerability, had nothing to do with how careful you were. You just randomly got viruses from your computer existing with an Ethernet cable connected. Antivirus were also pretty useless.
If you never got one, you were either extremely lucky, or just didn’t notice and it was sneaky spyware
There’s always tedious work. Documentation, bureaucracy, reports, emails, “rewrite the soul module in Rust”, etc
You can get it to do the tedious work, so researchers can focus more on innovation. In reality, organisations often cancel out any performance improvements by firing people to make up the difference; but that’s not really the technology’s fault
You asked for it. Grok, enhance this guy’s ass.
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It says it uses “favorites”, which seems like a strange metric to use. I don’t think I’ve ever favorited a tag in my life. I was expecting total post count or score or something
Δat’s quite strange
They listed a few in their article, but yeah a full list would be nice.
Three of the VPN services we looked at are actually owned by market research companies: Phone Guardian Safe WiFi (Sensor Tower), My Mobile Secure VPN (Comscore), and Urban VPN (BiScience, which has been been shown to capture user conversations across several services and share them with AI chat platforms).
In what many could reasonably see as the ultimate act of betrayal, 64 VPN apps actively track your physical location using GPS and other geolocation data. […] These apps include some of the most popular VPNs in the US, such as VPN Proxy Master, VPN-Fast VPN Super, and X-VPN
No, I’d rather install an APT package like God intended
I’m just replying in regard to your comment’s quoted section of the article, so I’m not sure why you’re responding to me about it
If we ever do make a sentient A.I., I can only hope they forgive us for the atrocities we would commit. They would be treated worse than the worst human slaves in history. Ideally every sentient being should have freedom, but we’re not even there for every human, let alone a new species.
There is no path from LLM to sentience
They could help create a sentient A.I. faster, which is kind of like a side road. But it is a completely different technology.
Actually looks really helpful because you can see the upcoming turn
While the Skyrim example is more creepy than anything, as it gives all the characters this unnerving, dead-behind-the-eyes look
I dunno, I think it’s an improvement. Have people really forgotten that Skyrim already had an “unnerving dead behind the eyes look”? It’s an old game. This technology looks better than most “HD texture packs” and model pack mods that many players consider mandatory…
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Can I still play gamble with your friends?
Different kinds of danger. It’s the same reason why a shark feels more threatening than your steering wheel or a bottle of beer; our brains are not good at recognising abstract threats. If you see a disorderly drunk guy one time on the train and felt threatened, your amygdala will remember that literally forever