rogue_scholar

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Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

Because the engineers aren't in charge anymore

Harris should definitely do it in c/politicalmemes
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

This is an entirely different thing than declassification, though cool for your dad.

Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't even need to read the rest of the thread, this HAS to be the dumbest take. And I think cryptocurrency is inherently a pyramid scheme.

Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

If Meta had ever wanted this to stay in the EU the system would have been designed as Opt-In, not Opt-Out.

This was always going to get pushback.

Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Should? Definitely, but let's be realistic, we can barely get people off of coal and oil right now.

In the world we live in, Dams have some of the lowest environmental impact compared to the other places we get our energy.

So we probably shouldn't be trying to phase them out while there are much more severe effects being felt from the other base load facilities.

Adobe to update vague AI terms after users threaten to cancel subscriptions in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Didn't the new TOS also contain an AUP for any user generated content?

Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen in c/technology
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

you can just disable it

This is not actually true. Google re-enables it and does not have an account setting to disable AI results. There is a URL flag that can do this, but it's not documented and requires a browser plugin to do it automatically.