Back when SpyCloud let you see what they found about you, they informed me that one of my email addresses appeared over three thousand times in their collections of leaked info. Often it would appear multiple times in the same leak. About a third of the time, the identity associated with the email address was wrong, and every. single. time. the password was wrong.

Who could've guessed criminals would think to make money off selling lies to other criminals?!

When I hear there's twice as many user/password pairs as there are humans on the planet, I can guess the source of this list is less likely successful exploits and more likely

while true; do echo "$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=9 |base64)@$(shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words).com: $(shuf -n1 /usr/share/dict/words)"; done

You're outsourcing or subcontracting your work to someone who needs to use a translator for everything you say to it, and everything it says to you.

Hell, we've already had recent news about "AI" companies doing your vibe-coding were a staff of hundreds of humans trying desperately to keep up with your requests.

it's not much of a surprise if you're shouting it at us to get clicks, now is it?

Ah, sorry, when you said the book was "a direct copy" I mistook that for plagiarism; it was unclear whether the author of the second book is the same person as the author of the first book.

The plagarist can be held accountable. But when a chatbot "fucks around," can it "find out?" Signs point to no.

> but you can't hold human authors accountable for plagarism either

And that's why banning chatbots is the easy, fast, wrong solution.

What's the appeal of building a terribly expensive server room in a place nobody can get to for fixing/replacing things, a place that is famously terrible for object that need to dispose of heat?

My guess is it was a hasty response to bots that would create a bajillion new sockpuppet accounts. If there's no technical crew behind the scenes, then there's nobody to replace this band-aid with a real process, and maybe nobody to process applications.

"AI will replace our jobs when the customer can clearly and correctly describe their requirements; our jobs are safe."

Twitter's value was diminished so much after Leon took the helm that it was worth a fraction of some tech start-up that hasn't yet reached version 1.0 ?

"Peer reviewed studies showed a caual link between drinking water and thirst." So, naturally, drinking water must cause thirst, right? Kids these days wouldn't be so thirsty if you just stopped drinking water.

"People will never be replaced by robots, because people are cheaper and the factory owner doesn't have to pay when they break."

Before chatbots: 1 hour writing, 2 hours debugging

After chatbots: 5 minutes writing, 6 hours debugging

"AI-powered search engine Perplexity is developing its own web browser..."

Sounds like "man known for dementia will read your library books to you."

Magic 8-ball, are you conscious?

Signs Point To Yes

"A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable / Therefore A Computer Must Never Make A Management Decision" -- IBM presentation slide, 1979.

Or maybe you've heard it as: "An AI can't find out, so don't let it fuck about."