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Comment Re:Summary ... (Score 1, Informative) 223

It's no surprise that most Slashdotters have lost their sense of wonder, as they've forgotten what it was like to be children.

Despite DST existing, I clearly remember waiting for the bus in the dark for part of the year.

DST doesn't do what it's supposed to do, and it kills people. It's weird to celebrate that.

Comment Re:Hate to be that TV snob guy (Score 1) 33

Well except half the streaming services are rotten with ads these days.

Its exceptionally painful in election season too. Just ugh.

Nornally I can nuke most of it via ad-blockers, But that stupid 70" samsung TV, no such luck.

(Hey, hackers, how about jailbreaking these things. Be nice to have an alternative to loungeroom spyware again)

Comment Re:Paywalled AI Marketing (Score 2) 72

It's a regulation forced on them by the EU's AI Act, which neither companies nor users want.

The target audience for this particular rule of the AI Act isn't the producers or users of AI. It is the consumers of content that might be AI generated.

And frankly, letting people know if they see AI content or not is a fair thing to ask.

Comment Re:So what's it good for? (Score 1) 72

And honestly, "not measuring how much a human contributed" is IMHO a massive flaw in general

Fun fact: The EU AI Act considers this. It makes a difference between "AI generated" and "AI modified".

But it's hard to put this into the type of watermarking they are using. Because if you generate a text and then change a few things here and there what you are doing is degrading the watermark. But since the watermark is probabilistic, it's hard to tell if it was a weak watermark from the start or if it was degraded.

Comment Re: Meanwhile, back at the benchmarks (Score 3, Informative) 25

A lawyer friend of mine uses a little fleet of small Qwens for paperwork and general office bureaucracy (He's not prepared to let them anywhere near actual lawyering for obvious reasons*) in his one man practice, and they work shockingly well. And I'm not being colorful when I say "bureaucracy" , these things are *really* bureaucratic. They've internally come up with procedures for everything including procedures for coming up with procedures. They run off a 512gb M4 mac studio and can be a little slow, but it means he gets to run it all offline airgapping them away from doing something stupid that might expose his clients data to the internet.

*He did experiment with using them to create mock trials to battletest legal arguments, and the result WAS impressive, but not impressive enough to use as part of regular legal practice and its still ia use that could anger the gods should they screw up and cite a fake case or something, so that was more for experimental purpose, though he's convinced it'd be a pretty lethal way of filtering out bad legal arguments if he monte-carloed the mock trials to figure out what sort of arguments a prosecutor could use against his own arguments.

Comment Re: Threating to "shoot up" a police station (Score 1) 89

Is there any language in the Terms of Service / Terms of Use that declare that their service is a mandatory reporter?

I guarantee you that they gave themselves the right to review your input for any purpose and inform law enforcement if they feel the need. I haven't read the agreement, but I'd still bet money.

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