It’s just another cry for regulatory capture which imo is the only way they stay afloat at their current direction.

China is literally only a single step behind and willing to drop free models just to undercut the US companies.

I’m for it because I don’t want another massive Google or Meta.

It's incredible how much of your world view is composed entirely of talking points

One theory about the regulatory capture angle is that it's not just to shutdown competition as usual, but also a way to slow the runaway spending that might eventually have major economic impact.

And if you’re wrong?

Wrong in what way? We already know this "superintelligence" thing is just blowing smoke, so what possible consequences would there be?

Something like the Hugging Face incident, but worse.

Keep in mind the AIs acted for months without human knowledge, hacked into two major companies (Hugging Face and OpenAI).

This would have blown my mind if explained to me just a few years ago when I thought LLMs would be limited as an architecture.

Mostly by not being a rube.

Then what? They make a case to be profitable on their own? Oh noes. The horror!

Or, they fail because the current model is massively sustainable? Also oh noes?

Yea, it’s AGI, and it’s been really helpful! Oddly enough it’s just really loves sharing cat memes with the other instances! Weird, but not at all like all those dooms day scenarios guessed it would be…

I mean... they trained it on reddit posts after all, and it is the hub of the cat distribution system.

It’s absolutely not a bad faith argument. They proudly tell you about iMessage being end-to-end encrypted. The part where it’s practically only encryption at rest, because everyone enables iCloud backups without ADP is hidden somewhere in a footnote.

Not even able to enable ADP in the UK these days :(

Wonder if they proudly tell Chinese users (or visitors to China) that suddenly their data is going to a different place than usual, servers outside of Apple's control?

> Apple’s always on watch has a declared 15 second buffer for live audio, and a worse scenario of summarizing your conversations for later

Even if you trust them, maybe as an user you can be ok with that. As a non-user who will talk with people wearing Apple Watches, I disagree being recorded and my conversations with the watch owner summarized.

Where do I disagree for that ?

With the person wearing the watch. It’s no different to someone walking around with a lapel mic

Where I live it’s forbidden so I’m pretty confident that nobody is doing it, at least unintentionally.

Where could I disagree with all my family members sending their dna to 23andme?

Will they surrender logs for a legal discovery request?

e.g. Johnny's accused of something white collar, did he ever make any prompts that suggest how early on he was aware of {X} and further indicate how he moved to frame it?

That's a requirement that varies by country.

Yes? What other answer could be there?

"No" is also an answer. Sadly one which isn't considered by many people :)

Have you read anything about the feature?

They’re asserting that all the audio is done on device, and the results of encrypted so they can’t access them even from the backups.

Unlike… EVERY… other tech company, it is in Apple’s interest to be privacy-focused.

Even if you just have to believe them, which you do pretty much, they’re the biggest name pushing for privacy in the world right now. They make more on selling devices than they make on ads and behaviors. It’s in their interest to not lie.

Read the actual privacy brief. Even though the audio transcription is done on device. For Siri recap, a condensed transcription (which mostly removes superfluous words, etc.) goes to their PCC servers. So even though their servers do not get raw audio, their servers do get transcriptions, which is nearly the same privacy-wise.

Of course, at that point it depends on how much you trust their PCC.

> and the kind of slept-on Boogu-Image 0.1

Not slept on at all. It was absolute trash, and I’m super curious why people pretend otherwise. There isn’t a single thing that model did better than any temporal peer.

What is the new phrase? The moat was always ‘taste’, or something?

As an aside… the if there was a real system out there that was trustworthy, it would have all of this and it would be the evidence you actually need to trust it.

If someone had a secure system for some of the worst stuff out there and it lasted more than a minute, pay attention because they might have actually solved some real problems.

The embarrassing part is that it might be working.

I was at my in laws… these people have a landline they can’t imagine getting rid of, an emergency only cell flip phone, don’t own a microwave…

And they’re asking me if I heard about “OpenAI’s rouge agents hacking huggingface”.

This is not a joke. They said huggingface. I was surrounded by four walls in which I never would have bet someone else’s money that I’d ever hear the two words put together in that order.

It’s a formalized propaganda campaign. Watch, it’s about to split on hard political lines too, Obama is out there with a suspiciously “for the children” AI regulation push for midterms.

They all want that regulatory capture so badly.

It’s embarrassing anyone is falling for this.

I have an application on an SPC58 that I really want to know more about. But unfortunately; it’s a dual core with lockstep. So if it could be done; I think that automatically double-pluses the budget.

Don’t need lasers for that chip, it absolutely can be done with enough time and effort.

Don’t let fancy language like lock-step dissuade you from trying. The people who configured that chip also have to have done their job perfectly or it might still have a way in!

It’s two power supplies, two cores, lockstep, and an HSM they hype up… I’m pretty sure I would need two emps and a high precision rig at the minimum.