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#3383851 14-Jun-2025 09:21

You’ll struggle to find better examples than this abomination

https://matariki.co.nz/matariki-image/

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#3383879 14-Jun-2025 13:40

There's much more about that website that is dodgy than just the images.

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#3384049 14-Jun-2025 17:24

networkn:

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No reply so it's probably just +1 farming

What’s driving the need to post something negative like this? Are you OK?

It’s the most likely conclusion in the absence of any further information. If a logical conclusion is negative then so be it.

I’m quite ok.

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#3384135 14-Jun-2025 19:53

MadEngineer:

You’ll struggle to find better examples than this abomination

https://matariki.co.nz/matariki-image/

Kiwifruit, introduced into NZ by seeds in 1904

gehenna:

There's much more about that website that is dodgy than just the images.

Care to elaborate?

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#3384166 15-Jun-2025 07:42

Way off subject, being an atheist, I do find some aspects of "Matariki" unsettling.

The part that's OK for me: marking the new year / summer solstice. I have the same feeling about matariki as Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli), Islamic New Year (Hijri), Tamil New Year (Puthandu), ...

As a remembrance of the passage of time, and a periodic astronomical event, that's OK for anyone.

All the various positive spiritual aspects are always mentioned, but that Matariki ritual was not just a cultural event, it was a religious act.

It seems a all-too-frequent aspect of religion is violence, and Te Ao Wairua ("The Spirit World") share the same need for deadly retribution as Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam.

On every educational material around Matariki I've seen, the inconvenient religious aspects seem to be ignored.

My apologies for the non sequitur.

Back on subject, that website was so cheesy, full of AI slop, it made me lactose intolerant

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#3388783 1-Jul-2025 20:09

So It Begins...Is This A Real Band Or AI?

Rick Beato

There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist: Louder

"It's a sudden rise to fame, by any standards.

Two weeks ago, breezy psychedelic rockers The Velvet Sundown didn't exist. And now they've released two albums and collected more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify.

It's almost too good to be true, and it probably isn't. All the evidence (or lack, thereof) points to The Velvet Sundown being an AI-generated outfit. There's no discernible real-world footprint, and plenty to suggest that they're a figment of someone's digital imagination."

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#3388792 1-Jul-2025 21:56

Adam Conover's monologue on the risk to independent thought/learning/reasoning through outsourcing those functions to AI.

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#3389500 3-Jul-2025 17:46

Some background: OpenAI is currently facing a high-profile lawsuit from The New York Times alleging that it used “millions” of its articles without permission to train its AI models, including ChatGPT. The Times says this is copyright infringement. As proof, ChatGPT occasionally reproduces its content verbatim.

OpenAI, on the other hand, argues that its use of publicly available news articles fall under the doctrine of fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted material for purposes like research or commentary. (Note to self. If Sony catches me pirating a movie, tell judge it was for purposes of research or commentary.)

It also claims that any reproduction of Times content is rare.

Of course most bank robbers rarely rob banks. "Golly, the bus is running late. I hope I'm not late to my 9am bank robbery." Is it really bank robberies, if you do it only occasionally you might ask.

A Times reporter had this to say about OpenAI execs complaining about the New York lawsuit: "It must be really hard when someone does something with your data you don't want them to"

New York Times to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court: ARS Technica

Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs "indefinitely," including deleted and temporary chats.

But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI's request, immediately denied OpenAI's objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company's claims that the order forced OpenAI to abandon "long-standing privacy norms" and weaken privacy protections that users expect based on ChatGPT's terms of service. Rather, Stein suggested that OpenAI's user agreement specified that their data could be retained as part of a legal process, which Stein said is exactly what is happening now.

The order was issued by magistrate judge Ona Wang just days after news organizations, led by The New York Times, requested it. The news plaintiffs claimed the order was urgently needed to preserve potential evidence in their copyright case, alleging that ChatGPT users are likely to delete chats where they attempted to use the chatbot to skirt paywalls to access news content.
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#3392952 10-Jul-2025 18:10

I know this is obvious for many, but for completion: What is Whatapps and what is Andriod?

"WhatsApp": Personal communication among friends/family, small businesses (WhatsApp Business), Group chats.

18–34 years old is the most popular demographic. India has the largest user base, 500+ million.

WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Messages, calls, photos, videos, and voice notes are only readable by the sender and recipient

So unless I'm mistaken while even WhatsApp or Meta (its parent company) cannot see them, but by default Google and Gemini AI can see them in cleartext, unencrypted.

Unless users take action, Android will let Google's Gemini access third-party apps, including Whatsapp

When Android is used, typically it's a smartphones, though a few other types of devices use it also, such as tablets, Smart TVs / TV Boxes, Wearables, IoT, ...

In summary, invading privacy: Google Gemini going where Microsoft Copilot and Recall went before.

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps: ARS Technica

Starting today, Google is implementing a change that will enable its Gemini AI engine to interact with third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even when users previously configured their devices to block such interactions. Users who don't want their previous settings to be overridden may have to take action.

An email Google sent recently informing users of the change linked to a notification page that said that “human reviewers (including service providers) read, annotate, and process” the data Gemini accesses. The email provides no useful guidance for preventing the changes from taking effect. The email said users can block the apps that Gemini interacts with, but even in those cases, data is stored for 72 hours.
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#3397196 25-Jul-2025 22:05

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3397471 27-Jul-2025 21:51

Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say "I find it kind of disturbing even to watch it."

https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health

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#3401175 8-Aug-2025 23:29

I'm irritated with Google's AI search results for several reasons. To get something sensible from search index I need only a few well chosen words and the result is rapid.

- #1 The AI cannot produce a result as fast as search
- #2 As everyone knows the AI consumes a lot more power.
- #3 Implementation seems to be some weird combination of AI and PageRank algorithm
- #4 For many simple questions and any complex topic the AI 'result' is often inferior and just wrong
- #5 Google Search AI is on by default. I'd prefer a gem to activate it when I want it.

On the plus side it is excellent that it is available. On the negative side it's really 'in your face' and unavoidable. The interaction design is not subtle.

Google AI search is not Gemini that's for sure.

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#3401223 9-Aug-2025 12:30

Like searching for MS Windows related faults and it spits out the usual rhetoric you always get as a first reply on forums that never helps.

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#3401393 10-Aug-2025 11:29

"Clanker" is a current slur against AI, origins Star Wars,

Before that was there was "toaster" from Battlestar Galatica.

Someone in 2009 literally sold Battlestar Galatica toasters.

Battlestar Galactica LED Toaster: Geeky Gadgets

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#3401394 10-Aug-2025 11:32

Cylons Origin [AKA toasters]

Battlestar Galactica's Horrifying Monstrosity Who Became Biggest Foes Of Humanity

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