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Every YouTube ad I see now is an AI-generated scam ad hawking everything from free electricity to anti-aging products to birdhouses hand-carved by an AI-generated senior citizen. I've seen some multiple times, days or weeks apart. Their advertising standards are a complete joke.

>Across the two years, pasture beneath the panels produced 38 percent less herbage than the open field, with the fully shaded strips directly beneath the panels growing thinnest.

>That figure describes pasture production, not the amount each lamb ate.

Thank you, Captain Obvious? Trying to clear up a misconception that nobody actually has just ends up creating more confusion. I find myself rereading the previous sentences to make sure I didn't miss something. This seems to be a fairly common AI writing pattern that would best be removed by a human editor.

Oh cool, as soon as I saw the title I was wondering what the useful shift was!

What country uses that type of electrical plug?

When will we see the world's first fully autonomous company?

The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)

It sounds so simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment

I suspect commenters so far have missed the fact that this isn't a fuzzy LLM-powered surveillance device. It actually doesn't require an Internet connection, it doesn't record or upload what you say to it, and it doesn't talk. It just senses your emotions and responds with cute noises. "AI" appears to just mean that it learns to recognize your voice and respond to you in unique ways. (To be fair, it's not obvious from the linked page.)

This page has a better description: https://www.casio.com/uk/casio-blog/blog-post/moflin-vs-othe...

> They have no cameras, no Wi-Fi or cellular connection, and no direct internet access. While Moflin can connect to the app via Bluetooth, they cannot independently send or receive data without user interaction.

> Moflin does not listen to, or record conversations. Instead, they use speaker recognition to detect and distinguish voices based on non-identifiable audio patterns, without processing the actual content of what is said. All data is stored locally on the device and is only uploaded securely via the MofLife App if you choose to create a journal or support features like servicing or recovery.

This seems key: "So, I now limit written papers to two pages and base students’ grades more heavily on oral discussions of their work, which allows me to probe their thought process and challenge their decisions."

Oral discussions. That's probably the way education should work, but it requires the professor to spend time talking to each student individually, so it might not scale to large classes with hundreds of students.

There are many types of houses in between suburbs and skyscrapers. This is "missing middle" housing. Duplexes, townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc. Look at Old Town Alexandria, VA on Google Street View, for example.

I guess for me, blatant LLM style reminds me of LinkedIn-speak. Both are distracting and come across as fake. Somehow it's more interesting to read something in another human's unique style than to read something that's obviously been passed through a filter.

You start reading. Then it hits you. The short, choppy sentences. The stock phrases. This wasn't written by a human — this was generated by AI.

Maybe a more general focus on getting students to practice critical thinking and fact-checking would be better. AI could be addressed as a small part of that, since chatbots are everywhere and students need to know how to filter out their BS.

But are NSF grants really necessary for this? To what degree is this funneling taxpayer money to buy ChatGPT subscriptions and advertise to students by getting them to use AI in the classroom?

You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop!

Let me do that now: hmm, this article seems to be a complaint about applications that waste energy.

Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?

I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.)

I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.

Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.

You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?

The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.

Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone.

The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resumes and prepare for the worst. The best people start looking for other opportunities and find them. If specific employees are told they're going to be laid off, some seek revenge.

Much better to immediately notify those impacted, revoke their access, give them generous severance instead of expecting them to work, and let everyone else know they're safe.

Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work.

But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they had been working for years. That should be 6 months minimum.

I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually verified this.

About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.

It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.

Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.

Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.

I'm not driving, officer, I'm traveling!

Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.

The author mentioned closing their VPN port so people would stop trying to break in, but this also cut off the author's access.

Tailscale allows you to connect to your home network without opening a port to allow incoming connections.

Just learn to program if you are interested in it. Tech skills in general are a good investment right now. And if AI does get good enough to replace your programming job, it will soon replace all other jobs too.