The Copilot app says, “Copilot uses AI. Check for mistakes.” I think they could be more clear, but they didn’t bury it in an EULA.

It’s not going to stop spammers and foreign disinformation campaigns. Making companies responsible for what their AI can generate without giving them the option to provide it as a no-liability no-guarantees tool is just going to make them clamp down harder on censoring and lobotomizing their models to make sure they’re incapable of making false claims even if it renders them semi-useless. I do think they should need to make it abundantly clear that their language models can and will lie and make stuff up.

It doesn’t count if it costs money, which mail does.

I resolved to never give Epic a dime when I got a popup forcing me to agree to a binding arbitration agreement in order to launch games I already have installed and in my library. It tells me that they think people will have good reasons to sue them in the future.

All I’m trying to say is that they’re not necessarily doing the same thing now that they were back then. They’d have a strong motivator to be better than google nowadays instead of just copying their results because google’s results suck now.

This is funny, but it was also 13 years ago. A lot can change in that time. I don’t personally use Bing though, so I don’t have firsthand experience either way.

I see, interesting. Do you know if there’s a way to completely prohibit an app from running in the background other than just using the “restricted” battery mode for it, which doesn’t stop it completely?

I only have 1 app active in the background and it’s a custom DNS. I’m very good about keeping all my apps closed when I’m not using them and notifications are disabled for most apps.

Phone batteries still do that

If he likes making simple games, consider introducing him to Scratch. It’s not monetized at all and last I checked, was much better moderated than other online platforms for kids.

Oh yeah, I hate sites that do that.

I’ve had some sites bug out on Firefox that I’m pretty sure weren’t really related to Google or Microsoft in any way. I still use Firefox obviously, but it’s annoying.

It’s definitely gotten a lot worse within the past year or two.

I’ve noticed an increase in posts on reddit that follow the format of:

• Post with either a problem that can be solved by a product or a showcase of the functionality of a product
• Comment from a different account naming the product and basically giving a good review
• Multiple replies from different accounts corroborating the original comment and sharing their own positive anecdotes

It’s very sus, especially considering the amount of blatant repost/comment-stealing karma farm bots.

It’s illegal not to disclose when something is paid promotion. Worst case scenario, the ad blocker blacks out your screen while it detects the ad notification and auto skips when it can. We’ll never actually be forced to watch the ads.

Oh yeah, maybe it was a package deal and they only really cared about the training data.

I don’t get why Google would agree to pay for anything. Google can survive without Reddit, but Reddit would be hurt without Google and would eventually be forced to give in. Where’s that corporate greed when you need it?

This is unironically the answer. You can’t make a general-purpose captcha solver AI if every website or group of websites uses a completely different kind of captcha.

It also means that people with no friends already using it simply can’t join. Big oof for them.

Invitation only services are bad.