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It’s the growing suspicion that all of the time effort and knowledge we are sacrificing is actually making the world worse and hurting people.

Please please please understand that when you see media stories about stuff like this from AI companies, this is PR. They wrote this story and pitched it to media outlets. None of this is real. OpenAI does some version of this every six months or so. It didn’t happen. It’s fiction designed to attract attention and seed the idea that their technology is oh so powerful, so scary powerful that even they might not be able to contain it. This is meant to attract investors. That’s it.

I worked in technology PR for eleven years. That was before the AI bullshit, but it’s the same game. Believe me. There was a brainstorm meeting when they came up with this and someone wrote it on a whiteboard (or maybe these days it was a figjam). Actually, now that I think of it, they probably just had Claude write the pitch.

It. Didn’t. Happen.

Also, be aware that the media outlets reporting this slop also know it’s bullshit.

Be aware that if your city cancels its contract with flock, that doesn’t mean the cameras cease operating. It just means that your city cops probably don’t have direct access to the data. As long as they are physically installed, the cameras are still tracking you and violating your rights.

Serving capital has been the primary organizing function of the Democratic Party for at least the last 40 years.

The bright headlight thing has been a pet peeve of mine for a while. So, I’m glad to hear that government is apparently trying to fix it. That being said, why would anyone assume that a company like Tesla would comply with this regulation? That company has a long history of violating and flouting laws without consequence. I just have no confidence that US society does “laws” anymore when it comes to corporations.