The anti-AI thread

[Kaido]

do you think they sold more Ring camera's after that Super Bowl commercial?

https://bsky.app/profile/fluffynuts.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mejyrl2lcc2a

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon-to-now-create-direct-data-access-for-ice-fbe71996557f

These searches occurred even in states with laws restricting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, as reported by Reason.

Ring has also shared footage without user consent under claimed “emergency” circumstances.

 

[KMFJD]

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon-to-now-create-direct-data-access-for-ice-fbe71996557f

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yeah i can't see it spiking sales at all....but who knows, some people love to taste the boot

 

[nakedfrog]

My realtor gifted me a Ring camera after I bought my house. I did set it up once when I was out of town on a trip... inside, so I could see what the cats were up to (I did have a cat sitter coming by too).

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah this is bad, don't care what political side one is on anyone should be against this, as it WILL be used against everyone. I'm all for stopping crime, illegal immigrants etc, but not like this, as it's too open to abuse. My city has a registry where you can submit your cameras, I won't even do that. If I see some criminal activity happen I may report it and offer the footage, but I'm not going to give them carte blanche to ask me for footage or see footage at any time.

 

[Kaido]

My realtor gifted me a Ring camera after I bought my house. I did set it up once when I was out of town on a trip... inside, so I could see what the cats were up to (I did have a cat sitter coming by too).

Previously:

Ring security cameras gave every employee 'full access' to all customer video for years: FTC​

https://abcnews.com/Technology/ring-security-cameras-gave-employee-full-access-customer/story?id=99737142

New details emerge about Amazon's Ring staff spying on customers, and also reveals that 55,000 were hacked in 2019​

New details emerge about Amazon's Ring staff spying on customers, and also reveals that 55,000 were hacked in 2019

Have Ring camera employees spied on its customers? New details from the FTC reveal incidents of staff and contractors spying on people.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Kaido]

Yeah this is bad, don't care what political side one is on anyone should be against this, as it WILL be used against everyone. I'm all for stopping crime, illegal immigrants etc, but not like this, as it's too open to abuse. My city has a registry where you can submit your cameras, I won't even do that. If I see some criminal activity happen I may report it and offer the footage, but I'm not going to give them carte blanche to ask me for footage or see footage at any time.

"How it's used" is always the core issue:

1. Wearing masks

2. Entering homes warrant-free

3. Local police share Flock data with ICE

So now we have masked men, who don't need warrants, looking at home security cameras.

 

[KLin]

 

[IronWing]

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The latest update to Word 365 is ridiculous. Damn near every action prompts a copilot interjection. “You are working in a table, would you like copilot to f’ it up even worse than Word standard formatting?”


At least Wordpad lets me turn it off.

 

[nakedfrog]

They've added an entry for the right-click context menu for "Ask Copilot" on some file types too, haven't yet looked into how to disable that, but I expect I will eventually.

 

[WelshBloke]

Yeah this is bad, don't care what political side one is on anyone should be against this, as it WILL be used against everyone. I'm all for stopping crime, illegal immigrants etc, but not like this, as it's too open to abuse. My city has a registry where you can submit your cameras, I won't even do that. If I see some criminal activity happen I may report it and offer the footage, but I'm not going to give them carte blanche to ask me for footage or see footage at any time.

Waiting for you to say that this is somehow the fault of the left!

 

[nakedfrog]

Waiting for you to say that this is somehow the fault of the left!

Oh, this one is easy: "they're the ones enabling all the criminals, otherwise we wouldn't even be talking about needing cameras".

 

[WelshBloke]

Oh, this one is easy: "they're the ones enabling all the criminals, otherwise we wouldn't even be talking about needing cameras".

"Checking people's genitals before they go in a public lavatory is fine but I draw the line here as it might affect me" type energy!

 

[mikeymikec]

I had Win11 File Explorer on a customer's computer inform me that the file search I performed was powered by AI so the results may be incorrect.

 

[lxskllr]

I had Win11 File Explorer on a customer's computer inform me that the file search I performed was powered by AI so the results may be incorrect.

Precision and perfection? Is that what you want from a computer?! Fuck that shit. I like having a random dice machine. Click on a spreadsheet, and Bob Dylan starts playing. Keeps you on your toes.

 

[WelshBloke]

I had Win11 File Explorer on a customer's computer inform me that the file search I performed was powered by AI so the results may be incorrect.

Yeah. It's getting to "yeah, I'll just ask Bob at the pub" levels of bullshit.
I mean Bob at the pub is probably a bit xenophobic and vulnerable to brain dead populism so you'll probably get at least Grok level advice!

 

[nakedfrog]

I had Win11 File Explorer on a customer's computer inform me that the file search I performed was powered by AI so the results may be incorrect.

I always wondered how they managed to fuck up what had previously worked perfectly well, something that should be fairly straight-forward at this point in computing like File Explorer, now when I click on a directory rather than immediately being presented with the contents of said directory, it will sometimes pause with the message "Working on it". When did a simple directory listing get so complicated?

 

[mikeymikec]

Precision and perfection? Is that what you want from a computer?! Fuck that shit. I like having a random dice machine. Click on a spreadsheet, and Bob Dylan starts playing. Keeps you on your toes.

Randomness was always a problem to program, maybe a hallucinating AI is the solution?

 

[jpiniero]

Click on a spreadsheet, and Bob Dylan starts playing. Keeps you on your toes.

If it was an iPhone, it'd be U2.

 

[nakedfrog]

Randomness was always a problem to program, maybe a hallucinating AI is the solution?

We solved that with Lava Lamps.

 

[Kaido]