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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by chiggsy on Saturday October 28, 2023 @03:05AM (#38047811)
>I'm sure someone much smarter than me will create this at some point.

Such a person is the very last creature I want parsing every byte of content delivered to me. in order to make this service a reality it must be local.

What we need is data poisoning. Have the AI watch ads, spoof responses, while we watch ad free content. Run it like SETI, during our devices downtime. They'll try to raise fraud concerns. Understandable. Accusations of piracy? Certainly possible. Convictions, though? Probably not.

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:54AM (#38050267)
> in order to make this service a reality it must be local

Absolutely. AI should be local and under our control at all times. Local models that run on our computers is something I want very much.

> What we need is data poisoning.

Agreed. Anything reduces their profits is valid. Ideally to zero or into the negatives. Their "concerns" are irrelevant.

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by Intralexical on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:07AM (#38050370)
> Agreed. Anything reduces their profits is valid. Ideally to zero or into the negatives. Their "concerns" are irrelevant.

It would be better to produce a more profitable business model that doesn't incentivize or benefit from being shitty/harmful. "They" can then either adapt and cut it out with their shenanigans, or die out outcompeted by companies that do.

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by matheusmoreira on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:22PM (#38051006)
The best way to pressure them to come up with alternative business models is to completely invalidate their current business model.

They're virtuous capitalists who got to where they are via pure genius and will to power, right? Adapt or die. And they better not cry about it or beg the government for intervention.