Nothing inevitable about it. That kind of thing only happens when you’re defeated in war, taken prisoner by your enemies, or when your entire country sees and regrets the course it has taken. Bush and Cheney faced no consequences, and Kissinger faced no consequences, because no one in a position to bring that about wanted to. Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest will face no consequences unless Israel’s apartheid regime falls. And that looks unlikely in the near future.
They’re still preparing, gathering names for the day when they have enough force:
I have no idea how he manages to do so many things so well. Some people just seem to be built like that.
Another case of AI = Actually Indians.
Benn Jordan’s video on Flock is worth a watch.
I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:
He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…
Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.
I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.
Even more efficient: humans do the specs and the implementation. AI has nothing to contribute to specs, and is worse at implementation than an experienced human. The process you describe, with current AIs, offers no advantages.
AI can write boilerplate code and implement simple small-scale features when given very clear and specific requests, sometimes. It’s basically an assistant to type out stuff you know exactly how to do and review. It can also make suggestions, which are sometimes informative and often wrong.
If the AI were a member of my team it would be that dodgy developer whose work you never trust without everyone else spending a lot of time holding their hand, to the point where you wish you had just done it yourself.
The hard thing about debugging other people’s code is understanding what they’re trying to do. Once you’ve figured that out it’s just like debugging your own code. But not all developers stick to good patterns, good conventions or good documentation, and that’s when you can spend a long time figuring out their intention. Until you’ve got that, you don’t know what’s a bug.
It also means introducing censorship of all messages and movements that don’t support fascism.
to ensure that all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties within the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction do not contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living (including persons living in colonial times), and instead focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people.
It all sounds so goddamned Nazi. Because it is.
It means you must not say that anyone except straight Christian white men has ever done anything good for the country.
Maybe if we send Trump enough poutine we can get this thing over with quicker. Send him 12 servings per day!
Canada’s being sneaky and allowing weapons sales to Israel via the USA. It gets to look virtuous while still receiving that sweet blood money, and the Liberals like it this way.
https://www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-would-anger-u-s/
Archive: https://archive.is/GldMU
If ID verification is required but not practical for small independent websites, these laws effectively make it impossible to run an independent website. So only big corporations can serve content on the internet.
There’s evidently a concerted international effort to end anonymity and privacy on the internet, disguised as protecting children. It would be worrying at any time, but it’s particularly alarming when authoritarian fascism is also on the rise pretty much everywhere. ID verification (sold as age verification) is a major step towards making it impossible for political dissidents and victimized groups to organize resistance or read uncensored information without being put on a list, to find, support and defend each other, or to travel freely.
Capitalism is destroying the world. We need to rise up against that. The AI bullshit is just one manifestation of the whole world being geared to serve capital and the handful of people that control it.
This reasoning, “I’ll do the bad thing because if I didn’t someone else would,” could justify anything. If that’s your moral standard, it’s effectively no moral standard. Whether it’s an individual or a country, someone has to step up and act better than the worst.
Canada’s code of conduct is “We’ll fuck anything up for money.” See also our mining corporations, oil companies, etc.
Because of the modern-day $$.
I’m Canadian and I disapprove of this message. It would also be nice if we stopped selling weapons to Israel.
If there’s any silver lining to this, perhaps we can get a renewed interest in efficient open-source software designed to work well on older hardware, and less e-waste.