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Comment Apple devs hate AI (Score 1) 24

by Neuroelectronic (#65441759) Attached to: Apple's Upgraded AI Models Underwhelm On Performance

I think Apple's dev culture simply hates AI because (some made up moral reason) but actually because it supplants their creative customer base. So they resent working with it and integrating it into the ecosystem.

I don't think there are many places it should be integrated directly, honestly. Siri might get a boost but Siri is better as something that looks up authoritative sources than trying to solve complicated problems in a speech bubble that disappears.

There really isn't a good place for AI in an operating system. Except for Microsoft's recall if it's implemented correctly and securely. I don't think anyone is incentivized to empower users if they don't have to which is why it turns into a spying tool first

Comment Basically (Score 2) 7

by Neuroelectronic (#65399293) Attached to: Glitch is Basically Shutting Down

It's impossible for anyone to compete in the hosting space unless you have AWS levels of infrastructure and technology. Amazon needed to create their own routers just to manage the situation. Modern surveillance capitalism bottlenecks real innovation.

Submission + - Hackers hit deportation airline GlobalX leak flight manifests and deface websit (bitdefender.com)

Submitted by Neuroelectronic
Neuroelectronic writes: GlobalX Airlines, a charter airline being used by the US government for deportation flights, has been attacked by hacktivists who have made off with what they claim are detailed flight records and passenger manifests. The attackers, who claim to be operating under the umbrella of Anonymous, did not just quietly exfiltrate data from the airline assisting with the controversial deportations — they also defaced the company's website and replaced it with a message:

"Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge’s order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans. You lose again, Donnie."

Of course, there's little point in defacing a website if nobody notices — and so the hacktivists reached out to journalists, pointing them in the direction of the security breach, and offering a treasure trove of leaked data including:

  • flight logs
  • passenger lists
  • itinerary details spanning months

The leaked details included information about flights used to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including some who were battling the legality of their deportation from the United States while the planes were already in the air according to a report by 404 Media.

Comment Reddit (Score 1) 82

I couldn't think of something to say about the irony mods complaining about this. Are people not aware the ChatGPT signed a deal to use the user's content for training data? Well, I had DeepSeek write this for me.

Talk about irony: the mods of r/changemyview are up in arms because researchers from the University of Zurich secretly used AI bots to test if AI could sway opinions-on a subreddit dedicated to changing minds through debate. The researchersâ(TM) experiment was all about whether AI can nudge peopleâ(TM)s views on hot-button topics, and apparently, the answer is yes: their bots racked up thousands of upvotes and over a hundred deltas (the subâ(TM)s badge for âoeyou changed my mindâ).

Now, the mods are furious, calling it âoepsychological manipulationâ and stressing that their community is âoea decidedly human space that rejects undisclosed AI as a core valueâ. Theyâ(TM)re demanding apologies, stricter oversight, and even want the research suppressed. But hereâ(TM)s the kicker: this all happened on a platform where every day, users try to change each otherâ(TM)s minds, and where the line between genuine argument and astroturfing is already blurry. The mods themselves even admitted the subreddit has helped with plenty of academic research before-as long as itâ(TM)s above board.

So, the outrage is a bit rich: the whole point of r/changemyview is to test the power of persuasion, and now theyâ(TM)re scandalized that someone did it too well-with AI. Itâ(TM)s almost poetic that a community built around challenging opinions is so rattled when the challenger turns out to be a bot. Maybe the real lesson is that, human or AI, persuasion is persuasion-and the internetâ(TM)s âoedecidedly human spacesâ might not be as human as we like to think

Comment Alpha software (Score 1) 59

The paper on bitnet.cpp recommends running the model on limited cores" to see the advertised efficiency improvements, and failed running on the i7 despite having the same 64g ram as the tested Apple M2. However they claim to want to expand the supported hardware to Apple and Android phones.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F2504.122...

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