KDE has a history of doing that. Plasma widgets are a gaping security hole. You can poke a hole through root. I’m pretty sure you can traverse up the JS object hierarchy from a widget and modify the whole desktop in anyway you want. At least at some point this was possible. A widget can and has deadlocked plasmashell from even loading. Their response was basically “works as intended” and closed the issue.

It could already be happening. The likelihood could even be higher than not.

It doesn’t necessarily need to be a single event. There are already AI systems being sold in healthcare. Even pre-LLMs. Who’s to say these system are being closely monitored and studied. There could statistically be patients who have died or been maimed who otherwise wouldn’t if they had real human professionals instead of someone who used a system that was sold on the doctors office.

“Boomers” are the grandparents to most of social media posters these days. Statistically the internet stays centered at about teenager to 20 year old being the peak of the normal distribution of users. That’s the Baby Boomers’ grandchildren. Great grandchildren even.

Just pointing that out, but otherwise I agree. They’re all angry at a strawman “Boomer”. That strawman in reality is demographically a small portion of the world population who are very rich. The majority of baby boomers got fucked in their own way by the rich.

You guys are all distracted into fighting each other.

Furthermore, I’m continuously baffled at how or why people fawn over the anecdotes about those who talk about their parents having a good life straight out of college and now owning multi-million dollar homes. How can you not realize these anecdotes are from rich kids of rich boomers. You guys are so hungry to eat the rich??? That’s them right there. What are you praising and fawning over them for. Start eating.

All part of the distraction. The lesser than billionaire rich hiding in plain sight, running distraction for the richest of the rich.

Humans are error prone. That goes for both sides of these jobs. I mean the engineers who run these projects.

It’s important to not get carried away with the allure of the tech industry. Especially the LLM hype. The people making these LLM models are human too. They’re not unicorn tech wizards.

I’ve seen projects where the examples they gave us on what to submit were AI slop. They did not notice. By far the most common error with them is unclear and constantly changing guidelines. I’ve seen projects where their training videos were made by someone whispering nervously into the microphone. We had to crank the volume to hear them stumble over their words while trying to explain the project.

Ultimately most of these jobs exist to harvest data for projects that aren’t that important. Forget about AGI or whatever. Think more along the lines of your weekend project. There’s investor money right now so they have to use it.

They won’t be paying people (read: impoverished third world countries) more than a few dollars an hour to grind out mountains of training data to feed into models. They’re not chasing unicorns here. It’s just slop generating LLMs. There’s investor money so they have to use it. Why would they split more of the loot with clickworker tier peons.

Here’s a bonus anecdote. One of the projects showed us literal shit in their training materials. A wet turd. I think it must have been a disgruntled employee. After hearing about how much Facebook employees hate working in the AI division, I think it must have been.

I really doubt the typical tech worker has that much conviction in LLMs themselves. It’s just what’s in style right now and it’s what’s getting them richer.