RIP also to all those little startups that use Sora to make ai video clips that popped up everywhere, especially the ones which offered lifetime access options..

Agreed; most of the political game from the conservative side, from having two Trump-voter parents (who praise him when prices are low, and then blame others when it is high) seem focused almost exclusively on taking especial pleasure in getting "libs" to show any emotion and essentially bathing in their tears. I am forced to listen to a lot of what I call AM hate radio (whereas my parents who listen to it feel it is a beacon of truth) when we go on long trips, easily 90% of it is ranting about basically how fun it is to make liberals squirm, and then nit picking every single out-of-context quote they can find is a sign of the broad pattern of how "the liberals" are actively trying to ruin the country.

It's like a cookie cutter format of every show: long rant about how the liberals are ruining everything, a random caller phones in with a long rant, the host and the caller agreeing about the libs trashing the place, how fun it is to see libs get their knickers bunched up about their plans being foiled, and then tons of paranoia-based advertising like prepper supplies for the holocaust. It is absolutely baffling how they don't see right through it.

I once borrowed the car from them while mine was in the shop, and the first ad that came up when the pre-tuned radio came on, was for a "kinetic gas canister" launcher, that doesn't require any permits to own or operate, so you can be prepared when your home is invaded. The literal demographic for the ad was people anticipating home invasion.

I think the problem with dynamic pricing will be a new industry spring up of dynamic buying, where someone who is able to buy it for less, will buy it for you, and their fee comes out of the difference, so that you'll still be paying less for the item overall, but they get a cut of the difference.

I didn't say the name was sensitive; it's the fact that (no matter what the name is) the name is being discussed publicly when it is reserved for internal usage.

> "unrelated to dynamic pricing"
except that both dynamic and pricing are in the patent description. Only those two things.

I guess everypony in the UK responsible for issuing the fines, didn't check their jurisdiction.

So the headline should instead read, "Human fails to double check AI answer leading to security incident" and it seems like a low key security breech to be posting the names of Meta's internal security alert names.

Home computers will be eventually deemed data centers by lawmakers who don't understand computers, and they will fall under the security protections required of those.

Your response to their response is similarly untoward.

The foremost reason behind my insistence to not see a film at the theatre, is because there are around 30 minutes of forced-watching ads before a movie now. I remember when videos that weren't movie trailers first began showing before a movie, and it felt out of place and wrong, that it did not belong there, especially since I am literally paying to watch the film. I don't mind trailers, because that is at least relevant to the movie experience, whereas being forced to watch a 7 minute car insurance ad is absolutely the wrong place.

The infiltration of forced ads being shown before movies, upwards of 30 minutes solid of just ads, makes the movie-going experience absolutely unacceptable.

I would like to see a company make overhauls optional, especially since a lot of tools developed by other companies which use Google Maps, would have to develop different systems to account for the new change. You just watch and see how many more people use the overhaul version than the previous version, to see descriptively whether that overhaul was a good idea, rather than whether some middle manager or hot new startup consultant that middle manager is sleeping with thinks an overhaul will perform.

If anything, make any new UI optional, so that old integrations will not be affected. For example, the 811 system, which has an integration with Google Maps in order for regular citizens to use the web to mark where they plan to dig so utilities can come mark existing underground lines, could make the 811 integrations mess up. I use 811 a lot, and even just changes like when Chrome started making its downloads go to the top instead of a row at the bottom, 811 had to completely redesign its training to account for that UI change, because their training still relied on "the download will appear at the bottom" when instead Chrome could have just made such a big UI change opt-in.

I rarely use it, and success has been hit or miss, but several hits. I occasionally need a word-processing something, like
- a way to "find one word and replace it randomly from a bank of other options without 2 of the same word replaced in succession," or
- obscure calculator ideas that I wonder about, like "If Atari's Superman game costs $27.99 on a 4k ROM in 1978, how much would that cost-per-KB rate translate to a modern game KB/MB/GB size with an equivalent modern dollar" that don't have any real impact on anything than idle curiosity, or
- if I want it to tell me a story for entertaining reading that I'm not going to republish somewhere and merely consume on the spot.

GPT is good for making a self-contained HTML that I can use repeatedly to accomplish those and use privately on my own web space, without having to query GPT every time each time, or good at telling me a story on my parameters. It's even helpful to ask it along the lines of, "before you generate this, tell me about potential conflicts I need to answer, that could arise to make the file work better" etc. It can troubleshoot its own ideas within its original question, if you ask it to, so you don't need to run it and find the errors manually.

I also use it sometimes to help brainstorm a mixture of symptoms, by having it list potential conditions which connect those dots, for me to research independently the names and traits for, from different sources to cross-reference, instead of relying on it directly for advice.

I once asked it about more efficient ways of approaching a recycling problem because I was encountering small obstacles, and it actually actively discouraged me (or rather, used predictive language which I found helpful toward understand why I ought to be discouraged) from pursuing the hobby, since it could lead to potential toxicity or fire issues, and I was glad it pointed that out before I ever got that far (storing of mixed plastics outside in Texas summers, via large eco-bricks to detour plastics from landfills).

Hopefully the next CEO will will realize how morally suicidal it was to force Adobe users into a subscription model, regardless of whether it is profitable, and will restore Adobe's honor and rely on (a) buy one license, keep one license without renewal, and (b) completely separate all AI with a killswitch option for people who refuse to participate in that, while removing the forced AI training inclusion language to the terms. Both of those things absolutely trashed Adobe's reputation as a reliable company, demonstrating it opted for evil profits instead of honorable profits. I absolutely will not ever use any Adobe products with those practices in place; it is moral forfeiture in the name of progress and profit.

Legally it must be receipt of money directly as the prize. Anything else is just risky behavior. "gambling with your life" is not illegal per se (and even noble, within the context), but the specific catalyst which determines the illegal kind of gambling is that you must win money paid by the party which declares the win of the gamble. There are millions of kinds of risk, and the industries like Pokemon cards which can get away with it, is specifically because of the extra step between winning the item and the item being traded elsewhere for money.

The valid defense, is that in order to count against the law, you must win actual money directly as a result of the win. Not something you can trade for money later, but you must win the money directly; the money must come from the party which declared the win. This is how Chuck E Cheese can get away with allowing children to "gamble" by risking money to buy tokens to win tickets to trade for prizes to potentially be sold -- they throw in extra steps between the "risk money, win money" formula for the gambling crime, that obey the law. Buying a digital currency (keys) to open a treasure box of a random non-monetary prize, which could be sold outside of the system for money, can not could as gambling. Gambling isn't purely risking something; it is risking something specifically money to win specifically money, directly.