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Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:53PM (#49616861)
I wasn't talking about poisoning LLM for generally degrading performance/improvement. But for manipulating answers for propaganda/ideological reasons.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:27PM (#49616548)
It's private until all your connections start asking muse assistant to access it.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:24PM (#49616508)
The amount of usage you get is insane when you stack OpenCode GO subsidy on top of contributor.

There is already evidence of groups setting websites and "think tanks" that aren't for human but for influencing AIs scraping them.

I wonder if having the contributor model read and summarize your propaganda would be even more effective. Instead of astroturfing reddit, just feed it to the model directly. Give it generated threads and ask it loaded questions.

Re:Muse Spark 1.3 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:08AM (#49546833)
Both of them let you opt out of it on subscriptions.
Yeah, no one is obligated to engage with it. They did not dismiss the argument but refused to engage with it.

This is totally valid and the point is to send a signal to the “writers”.

Re:DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:29PM (#49030267)
Do they not bother designing airframes to withstand more because the human wouldn't survive it anyway?
Re:The moral case against equity language on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:11AM (#35006385)
I don't have an issue with using the term poor to describe people lacking money but it has other definitions and uses.

The second and third definitions I get from define:poor on Google are:

- worse than is usual, expected, or desirable; of a low or inferior standard or quality.

- (of a person) considered to be deserving of pity or sympathy.

I suspect these might be why the term is discouraged.

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:41PM (#34614328)
Things like 1+1=2, water is wet, sky is blue?
>My (naive) hope is that this might also discourage offshoring and/or reward companies employing Americans, if enough people do likewise.

I doubt that. Instead they'll probably start using a service like https://www.respeecher.com/

Yeah, they spoof local numbers. I haven't lived in the city my area code is from in a long time. Occasionally I'll answer calls from there when I'm bored and it's always a scammer.

What's even more disturbing is that I'm now getting calls from people talking in Hindi. I answer in English but they ask me to switch to Hindi. (I'm from Pakistan and speak Urdu which is mutually intelligible with Hindi). I'm guessing it's to build familiarity/trust.

They want to pay off my phone, electric and other bills and in return I pay them 50% of the amount. I give them fake info and try to keep them on as long as possible... asking them to repeat multiple times. Sometimes I'll tell how thankful I am that they came to me with this 50% off offer because I'm facing financial troubles. Not once did any of them fell bad about trying to scam a poor person. Their response is usually something like "This is exactly why we are offering this service, to help people like you".

Eventually they get frustrated and hangup. This way I can hurt their ROI just a bit.

Re:Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:24AM (#34080396)
Similar to the Facebook outage earlier. Apparently everything is managed through Facebook accounts so employees could not get access to fix the issues.
All of that is totally fine and not what people are upset about. If your entire app is just a web browser that renders your website, that should be fine too.

The problem is when they render external websites and unsuspecting users think they are using the phone's web browser. That is something Apple/Google can have rules about without banning/restricting web views.

Apple and Google have guidelines about what apps are/aren't allowed to if they want to be on their app store.

"Protecting the user" is supposed to be one reasons they take a 30% cut of all in app purchases. Apple even uses this as an excuse to not allow side loading apps.

How are they not blocking this?

>desire/appeal for a label that means "all Asians except those from the Indian subcontinent, middle-east, or central Asia",

That used to be referred to as 'oriental'. Now 'East Asian' is used.

Re:Tor is fighting and beating Russian censorship on Sunday July 31, 2022 @12:58AM (#32293293)
Torture. Getting beaten with a rubber hose.
The same was said about MoviePass
Re:How to stop junk mail on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:40PM (#31626726)
They could confirm the address you are requesting with the billing address on the card.

This is what the '$1 authorized charge' is for when you submit the address change/mail forwarding request.

Re:How to stop junk mail on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:34PM (#31626689)
Some have a prepaid envelop for your response.
Re:How to stop junk mail on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:30PM (#31626662)
>I wish I had the skills to prolong the call.

You could start by giving them more realistic car details.

I engaged them one time when I got really annoyed. Gave fake car details (but realistic), call back number of local McDonalds, and then kept asking for details about the coverage. I eventually declined it and the sales agent got super pushy with scare tactics so I hung up.

>but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison

No, it's an apples-to-nvidias comparison

Re:Browser fingerprinting using only CSS on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @12:18AM (#29805426)
Yes, this alone probably won't lead to unique user. This would be just another data point to narrow down the probable users.
If it's faster spreading, it could "overwhelm the healthcare system" in areas where Delta would have been manageable.