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MattDaEskimo··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
It's the collective action of losing access to information that's the issue, not the potential of the book itself.

Regardless, these books were available. Researchers, hobbyists - many people have and will find value.

Justifying the destruction of information for a for-profit company is bizarre.

MattDaEskimo··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
If we ignore the massive amount of books being destroyed, the outages and increased usage bills for once free websites (some resulting in closure), the increased difficulty to access public information such as Reddit and Twitter, and lastly ignore the amount of conversations being taken away from the public in favor of LLMs, I would agree.
MattDaEskimo··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Feels like their purpose is to test the boundaries, take the hits, and eventually sell off
MattDaEskimo··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Compared to BL (Before LLMs) when all human-authored pages were completely reliable?

In either case it's important to verify information, and LLMs are increasingly more capable of fact-checking.

MattDaEskimo··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
It'd be nice if you could back up your feelings with some reasoning.

The neighborhood is safe enough and the community is cohesive enough that kids can congregate along their way to school: go to their friend's house, meet at a park, etc.

It's researched enough that you can go and learn about it and challenge your feelings.

MattDaEskimo··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
In what world should a citizen be required to provide their details to a foreign, for-profit company in order to view the updates provided by their government?
MattDaEskimo··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Never had an X account, never will.

Now I'm completely locked out of police reports & municipal updates in my area because it's the only platform they post on.

MattDaEskimo··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
People don't like to be watched and recorded. That's it.

This data - which includes their facial features, geolocation, and activities is not yours to take and immortalize.

This should be intuitive to any empathetic human being. One person saying "this breaches my sense of safety and privacy" should be enough for you to understand.

MattDaEskimo··on Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Because you're not _just_ recording your kids. You are a walking surveillance camera that nobody has consented to.
MattDaEskimo··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
As I recall they actually used closed models, were rejected by cybersecurity guardrails, and then used open models
MattDaEskimo··on TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
> Sorry, you're out of tokens until next week!

What, last I checked I had 15%!

> Apologies, I was searching for the closest <Large Franchise Restaurant> since you are typically hungry around this time

MattDaEskimo··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
How is it misleading if this would be the consumer's cost?

Eventually Codex's subscription subsidization will diminish to near-zero, like the rest of the providers.

It's extremely important that people understand how expensive these models currently are. Even $300k in raw API costs is alarming for the output.

MattDaEskimo··on Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different
If a transaction is locked then subsequent requests would return a 409, ideally with an error message indicating that it's currently being processed.
MattDaEskimo··on Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income
This makes sense.

Initially, the focus was consumer use of AI. People needed to feel safe, they needed to feel part of something better.

Now, the focus is enterprises, and they need to know that their tokens aren't going to spike in price from taxes

MattDaEskimo··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
I wonder how many are account farming.
MattDaEskimo··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Exactly this. I can't count the number of enterprises with their whole stack inside of Microsoft's ecosystem.

Many of these enterprises are grid-locked with the IT department and AI usage.

MattDaEskimo··on French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Might be cheaper & safer to buy an identity than use my own.
MattDaEskimo··on OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
I have similar experiences. Asked to find and list a bunch of suppliers near a specific city. It started showing me places that were >5 hours away, claiming them to be a "short drive".
MattDaEskimo··on The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts
This is the top comment. This is a blatant breach of policy, nevermind user privacy, security, and trust.

The age of quickly digesting and generating data, and yet the most primitive things like aligning with policies are still ignored

MattDaEskimo··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Really? You don't know the difference between having a door lock, and using it?

MFA is typically enforced by organizations, forcing discipline. Individual usage of MFA is dramatically lower

MattDaEskimo··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
There are solutions, the problem is almost always discipline.
MattDaEskimo··on Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND
What kind of outcome results from misuse? Clearly a hammer's misuse has very little in common with a global, hivemind network used in high-stake campaigns.

Now, if I misused a hammer and it hurt everyone's thumb in my country, then maybe what you said would have some merit.

Otherwise, I'd say it's an extremely lazy argument

MattDaEskimo··on GPT-5.4
Same reason why Wikipedia deals with so many people scraping its web page instead of using their API:

Optimizations are secondary to convenience

MattDaEskimo··on When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
Accountability then
MattDaEskimo··on You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools (2025)
What's also wild is this being the first comment to mention it!

Although there is an underlying truth: using LLMs for large-context tasks like coding is still extremely expensive.

MattDaEskimo··on We Will Not Be Divided
This was a brave, heartwarming read. Thank you to the teams
MattDaEskimo··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Makes me wonder the ratio between LLM commenters versus those aligning with an LLMs syntax.

Not sure which is scarier

MattDaEskimo··on Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
Surely safety does not exclusively mean guardrails, but the philosophy and ethics instilled during training?
MattDaEskimo··on OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine
What can those do from a separate country, who unfortunately had their identity verified through Persona (LinkedIn in my case).
MattDaEskimo··on Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
I'm very confused here. The monthly plans are meant to be used inside of Google's walled garden, but people are somehow able to capture (?) and re-use the oAuth token?

Regardless, I thought it was pretty obvious that things like OpenClaw require an API account, and not a subsidized monthly plan.

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