Those are all problems for the employer.
In this case its the US government so it ends up being a lot of people’s problem, but in the context of the employer and employee, its all on the employer.
If they screw up the work phone with their requirements, its theirs. If that compromises their IT security, that is also theirs.
None of that makes a lick of difference to the employee unless they use their own device or carry their work phone around outside of working hours.
Shut up and take my money!
I heard it has Sailfish. Maybe its just an option but not default?
Totally possible with an open standard. Do you have to tinker when you plug in a monitor? Not really. How about a mouse or any other peripheral device? Generally not beyond installing the app, which would be the same with a car.
Friction in the user experience has everything to do with lack of attention and time spent on that development goal, and nothing to do with it being open and standard.
Sure, but if practically all the visible applications of a tool are negative, the implement of harm and the harm itself are commingled.
I agree that machine learning tools have useful applications, but LLM tools only seem useful at solving problems we’ve already solved or could solve more responsibly with 1/100 the energy consumption, and those are the only ones anyone seems to have ever seen or heard of, and also the ones responsible for the drive to build these data centers that consume all our life-giving resources.
The LLM idea is not responsible for those decisions, but it does make them possible while doing nothing meaningful for anybody. It is not surprising to see people rail against something like that. It offers only downsides for them, their well-being, and their society.
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I think it is very much both. I think that many people being clubbed and beaten by this AI stick know that someone’s swinging it.
It is rhetorical because that answer is self-evident to many, but you are exactly right nonetheless. It is a major exhibit in the case of why companies must be regulated to act in the public interest, because every time we don’t, they pull this same rent-seeking crap without fail: the “sell me a hammer and charge me when I swing it” routine.
But they force me to pay for parts I can’t use without doing things I won’t and agreeing to things I don’t.
It’s glorious!
All of this leads back to an old rhetorical question I’ve often asked. Why the fuck isn’t the whole entertainment system and car connection just a standard touchscreen and communication protocol?
The fact that I need these proprietary patent-gated apps to use parts of my car, instead of just a driver that could work on any device with the right port, is overtly user-hostile.
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The Turing test doesn’t account for state. LLMs, while they could pass that test, are idle when unprompted. They dont have a means of responding to any stimulus but those provided. If they were provided even a fraction of the stimuli provided to a real mind, they would rapidly consume all available system resources trying to respond, regardless of how many we could reasonably provide.
Also, they are fixed. LLMs do not change once put together, and only seem to based on a rolling context window they store based on their previous interactions with the subject. They cannot internalize any of that interaction to change their underlying model or its weights.
Because of these things, I believe it illustrates how the Turing test, while an important thought experiment, is incomplete regarding defining a thinking machine and the ethics surrounding it. If the machine is off if I’m not directing it and can’t functionally remember or experience anything, it can’t experience suffering or oppression or any of the things associated with its agency, freedom, or any of the philosophical underpinnings of what constitutes another entity.
Its also worthy of note that you need not refer to them as conspiracy theories if they are openly discussed by the conspirators and/or there is direct record of them happening or having happened. They’re just conspiracies then.
I think that it is a potential benefit not to attract those types of developers. A growing body of evidence is showing that users of LLM tools suffer cognitively.
He also said “Covfefe”. I personally dont believe either one.
Not the OP, but I think this issue will continue to rise in temperature until it is more heavily influential on US domestic politics. I believe at some point, support of Israel on these recent events will become politically suicidal, and slowly the compromised politicians rendered unable to break with Israel will get drummed out of office by primary or normal election.
Then, US will officially drop support and the math in the middle east gets a lot less complex for them.
I guess I dont see how assignment of blame plays into the equation here. If I have a work phone with only work-sanctioned apps on it, and one of them has bad security and gets compromised, that’s very much the employer’s problem because it is happening to their system via their device over an attack vector they told you that you could or must put there.
They can choose to blame you and discipline or fire you, but that still doesn’t make the app’s security flaws affect your personal security, because those flaws didn’t let the attacker into anything of yours or see any data you own. Blaming me for that may happen, but that’s just bad management and an entirely separate issue.
Airgapping your work and personal lives makes a lot of sense for this and other reasons, and it makes even more sense if your employer is trash.