we had the misfortune of having to write up Sam Altman's adventures with the real Paperclip Maximiser
we had the misfortune of having to write up Sam Altman's adventures with the real Paperclip Maximiser
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Pivot to AI: Microsoft looks into taking over Torment Nexus development
yall remember all those fucking weirdos who appeared around when windows 10 released and couldn’t stop talking about how Microsoft isn’t evil anymore, it’s a different company now that they contribute code to linux and own GitHub? I wonder if any of those fuckers are even aware that this is Microsoft trying to own the entire open source theft and consent violation machine outright.
fucking cringe. my disappointment is only magnified by the fact that Sutskever seems to have gone back to bootlicking for Sam in record time. I want to see the worst people I know viciously fight until everything they’ve built is gone, for fuck’s sake
nah, there’s nothing selfish about that. it’s fucking embarrassing how bad Linux is with accessibility, especially when the distro model gives it the ability to specialize an entire OS around those kinds of concerns from the ground up. I’ve also stopped hearing good things about macOS for accessibility, which doesn’t feel like a good sign.
how has GitHub been for accessibility since the recent changes they’ve made? I’ve had a lot of trouble with them aggressively fucking with my browser’s keyboard navigation bindings, but if there are accessibility benefits to what they’re doing then I can’t be too critical of the effort
One of the more disturbing things that happened at work when using MS Word, was the automatic addition of alt-text images. I didn't ask for that, I didn't click any "Please send my images to the cloud, possibly leaking sensitve material, so inference can be run there, to add potentially unhelpful descriptions"
Is document editing really a task that benefits from AI?
An example of unhelpfulness:
I'm torn between at almost praising meek half-assed attempt at accessibility, and shrieking to the heavens about this unweclome shoe-horned addition.
Microsoft's goal is to have the monopoly on something they sell to enterprise. Windows and Office are still going strong, but there's always more monopolies out there.
This website perpetually relevant
If Bill Gates really wants to reduce the dangers of climate change, he should call up his old company and ask them to pull back from the massively energy-intensive, socially useless AI boondoggle......