Yeah, ain’t it great that judges can be easily swayed by some bullshit? Good country, ethics really well here.

What? Come on! It made the judge “feel” something! Not like someone’s died or something! /s

This reminds me of that one judge that let prosecution use an AI approximation of a dead man against someone that killed the dead man to speak in the dead man’s voice and I just wanted to throw the justice system INTO THE OCEAN cause wtf. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/tech/ai-courtroom-victim-impact-statement-arizona/

That’s fucking… why would a patent office let that be a thing? FUCK

The people in charge of these companies are absolutely at fault for being greedy and evil but these companies have ALWAYS been evil and greedy at their inception. Which is why I bring up Bezos. He was cut throat in the way he started and managed his company, same with Gates, same with xyz. You don’t amass the amount of influence that Amazon and Microsoft achieved without a lot of backdoor deals and cutthroat tactics. You cannot divorce what these companies are from where they started and HOW they got to this point. History is important to look back on.

I’m not absolving anyone of anything, they all fucking suck. AND ALSO if you think that Jeff Bezos doesn’t have a hand in his own company anymore, come on now! Once again, he’s a billionaire! We can’t keep being this naive about what these assholes are saying in private conversations outside of the eyes of the public. Bezos is in the Epstein files for crying out loud!

I’m well aware he’s not CEO but… come on. He set up the company, the dynamics, etc. Amazon is still all about doing everything they can to break up unions, he still gets most of his wealth from Amazon, Amazon will still give up Ring camera data to police departments, etc etc. COME ON.

A new company will pop up to replace Flock. Amazon will gladly work with them next, assuming Flock doesn’t go under. Do not be fooled, Jeff Bozo is an evil man

The problem here is that no one that makes these LLM/AI/whatever are doing ENOUGH DUE DILIGENCE to make sure the data that they’re scrapping is good and accurate to improve the AI’s output. This has been an issue since the beginning and with how much data they’re taking, there’s no good way to get it to 100% accurate. And there was a study put out last year that said it doesn’t take much bad info to poison the AI output. And this is the stuff that these big tech companies are trying to force us all to use in our day-to-day. ALSO YEAH it is Google’s fault because it’s their dog. Their dog is taking the data without understanding WHAT the data they’re taking is, they trained the dog, they have the responsibility for what the dog does out on the internet. It the dog is leading people off a cliff, that’s on Google.

This is problematic because anything on your web pages might now influence unrelated answers. You could have outdated information on some forgotten page, or contradictory details across different sections. Google’s AI might grab any of this and present it as the answer. If you allow user-generated content anywhere on your site (like forum posts or comments), someone could post fake support contact info, and Google might surface that to users searching for how to contact your company. Now scammers have a direct route to your customers.

OH FUUUUUUN

https://youtu.be/vMjY1F1JAs0 Me anytime I see Roblox anything.

So I kinda walked away from this to think about what’s being said a bit and I just kinda have to disagree? Like, being clear and concise and accurate in defining something is hella important… to the people that care about those things. The thing we see though isn’t lacking definitions, especially in a legal sense, but people not pushing back enough whenever bad actors start bringing up terrible arguments. There are people out there that you can bring up the best, most logical points in the world and they will still twist and twist and twist until your original point is lost. We can make the most robust, perfect definitions and some people will STILL either find ways around it or completely ignore what was rationally established. The definition doesn’t matter, the problem is fascists want to monitor the world and make whoever they want disappear and people kinda just let it happen.

And to be clear, I’m trying to say you’re completely wrong. Defining things is important to establish a shared common framework of understanding and policy making and regulations are SO SO SO IMPORTANT cause they save lives in more than just one way, but problem isn’t clear cut to be solved with “we need to define things better.” We have a culture issue. Culture issues need more than one approach to resolve.

Good for you, honestly. But not the point I’m trying to make at all.

What I’m saying isn’t that you should or shouldn’t delete social media accounts. What I’m saying is that eventually they’re all going to HAVE to do it to be able to operate within certain countries. The account deletion/boycott/etc isn’t enough, you have to go after the political leaders that are FORCING companies into these deals cause governments are GOING to continue to go after companies to force the whole of the internet into surveilling users. Policy and laws need to be changed. The work HAS to be done.

People need to realize that this isn’t JUST a Discord issue. This is a policy issue AS WELL. Fucking pay attention to the politics around you. And this isn’t just a United States issue as well.

At this point, I would also second MacOS/iOS just because of how much the two synergize with one another. But if you’re just doing basic shit and web browsing, iOS cause at least you can hold onto your phone for a long while before feeling the need to upgrade again.

HEY! What’s up with this website’s data collection/cookie prompt? Feels like they made it hella confusing on purpose. If I’m “opted out” does that mean out of wanting to not have my data collected or does that mean a reconfirmation that I don’t want my data collected?

NOW the question is, will they listen? Cause we’ve seen so many times where a company says they’re taking feedback and then do the thing that their audience didn’t want them to do in the first place anyways. Now, of course, they could have more data and metrics that says people don’t care or do want the BS, but I doubt all the companies that DID go hard into AI actually looked at legit numbers, since all the big heads are now saying “why aren’t you people using this stuff?”

This guy is absolutely a grifter and playing both sides so he ends up with “the winning team”, don’t fucking trust his ass.