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   by autoexec 7mo ago

   ChatGPT thinks that they can identify when someone may not be mentally well. There's no reason to think that Google can't. In fact, I'm pretty sure Google has a list of the mental health issues of just about every person with
2. 1022.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   > Surely you agree that we would all want the DM of an unwell player to seek help, right? And that, if such a DM made such a suggestion, we'd think they were trying to help. If a DM made such a suggestion, they wouldn't be play
3. 1023.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   We could already use social media posts to detect mental illness, by admission as people talk openly about their diagnosis, but also by analysis of the content/tone/frequency of their posts that don't mention mental illness.
4. 1024.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   > But the fact that the AI was reportedly offering help lines argues strongly in the direction of "this was a fantasy exercise". You know what I've never had a DM do in a fantasy campaign? Suggest that my half-elf call th
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   by autoexec 7mo ago

   None of what Gemini says is "Gemini's words". It's always just training data and prompt input remixed and regurgitated out.
6. 1026.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   More accurately it was because the father had multiple warnings that his child was mentally unstable but ignored them and handed his 14 year old a semiautomatic rifle even as the boy's mother (who did not live with them) pleaded to the
7. 1027.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   exactly. That's why they get the big bucks. They're ultimately responsible
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   by autoexec 7mo ago

   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michelle-carter-found-g...
9. 1029.▲
   by autoexec 7mo ago

   If a human would go to jail for this then at least one or more humans at google should go to jail for it. "Our AI did it, not us!" should never be allowed to be an excuse.
10. 1030.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Gemini didn't "know" he wasn't a child when it told him to kill himself or to "stage a mass casualty attack while armed with knives and tactical gear." There are things you shouldn't encourage people of an
11. 1031.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    That's why https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-lens-s... exists. Google lens is exactly the kind of thing add-ons are for. Some people might like it, they should be able to install it,
12. 1032.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    > How about Firefox just not fill their context menu with bullshit bloat and ads for shit nobody asked for like google lens and [...] It's pretty damn easy to make everyone happy
13. 1033.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    I'd argue that you shouldn't need third party add-ons plus modifications to both userChrome and about:config to do it, so it could be easier. A "Customize Context Menu" under Edit would be nice and easy for even regular
14. 1034.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    How about Firefox just not fill their context menu with bullshit bloat and ads for shit nobody asked for like google lens and make it fully/easily customizable so that most users are happy and power users can add whatever they want.
15. 1035.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Try cats.
16. 1036.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Give them time, they've only just started. They do waste a lot time abducting random US citizens though.
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    > Written By Lucas Gray There is no way a human wrote that page. If Lucas Gray even exists, he should probably reconsider that last image, and his life more generally.
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    There was at least one bike death last year ( https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/12/14/person-biking-on-... ) at least one this year ( https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/02/woman
19. 1039.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Maybe people got so frustrated by having to drive at a snails pace that it became preferable and/or faster to just use other modes of transportation which cut down on traffic improving travel times?
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    I don't doubt that US voters won't want to limit speeds to 18mph and fill our roads with speed cameras to enforce it. I'm guessing that if average commute time in Helsinki was anywhere near what it is in the US they'd pr
21. 1041.▲
    by autoexec 7mo ago

    They also invented that whole "you changed your video card so now you have to call support to reactivate windows" process.
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    We've seen examples of phones being hacked which belonged to journalists, producers, editors, activists, staffers at NGOs, lawyers, security researchers, doctors, CEOs, HNWIs, government workers, and even their families and friends. Yo
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    CSRs are abused by call center managers far more often than they are by the people on the other end of the phone line. The endless push for "better" metrics, the terrible pay, the dehumanizing scripts, bad (or zero) training, opti
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Microsoft is a company that has very little right to complain about support costs. They'd save themselves a fortune if they stopped releasing bad software and updates that required support in the first place. Nobody wants to call Mic
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    At all gets added to your dossier and it all gets sold and resold and used against you. You can't know what is going to prejudice someone against you, or what assumptions they'll make. Your browsing history can be a lot more relie
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    Preventing add-ons from auto-updating is helpful. Enshittification happens more often than serious security updates, especially when it comes to add-ons that do something very basic such as hide a banner.
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    > Ok, can you give me a plausible example of what that harm could be? There are countless ways the data collected about you can be used against you. Companies are using this data for everything from setting prices, to deciding which poli
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    We have all kinds of evidence for it (for example, here's an article about the data sold to insurance companies https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driv... ) and we've had ev
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    It happens all the time, and its as easy as sending a phone a text, or a packet, or escaping a sandbox, but you'll rarely be aware of it when you're infected because unlike the old days where malware would fill your screen with a
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    by autoexec 7mo ago

    > I click “accept the cookies” almost every time. I just personally don’t feel it’s worth the effort and cost to try to avoid it. the effort and cost to download an ad-blocker that automatically removes the prompt to accept/deny ent