Notices by Max Leibman (maxleibman@beige.party)

Our journalist has gone rogue and described a tech company setting up a computer to do whatever an LLM tells it to, lowering their security restrictions on it, and repeatedly prompting it to take action as "an AI going rogue."

Classic oppositess attract situation—she’s into Bauhaus, he’s more bounce house.

Using a gyroscope to detect Greek food.

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117313890186116093

“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.”

Facebook in 2026: You’re still the product, but also you have to pay.

By not being one of the millions.

#SavedYouAClick

#AndALotOfFutureTrouble

"Share your location with us!"

No. Get your own location.

I have spent far too much time and energy today fighting with people on Mastodon, so from here on out, I am only going to post about uncontroversial things, like all the ways Windows is better than Linux, or how the Fediverse could benefit from advertising.

There's no "not taking sides" when you're standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz.

Me: We need to get our dicks in a row.

Them: Don’t you mean “ducks?”

Me: Get them in a DUCK?! What the fuck is wrong with you?

Look, I'm not here to defend people who still use Twitter.

That's it. That's the toot.

The entire “friction“ discourse is just “grit“ dressed up in shiny mindfulness robes.

Are you in the 1%? No? Then literally none of your problems are the result of not having enough friction, and the level of friction you experience now is not some optimal, natural state that must be preserved.

RE: https://mastodon.au/@nigl/117063080892127255

I need to know who’s responsible for the Gooder Living account, because it’s fucking amazing.

I believe in picking my battles. You may not agree with the battles I pick, but that’s ok. There are more than enough battles to go around.

@bomkatt That's totally fair. I think on reflection part of why I'm not sweating it is everyone's devices are already listening and processing sound for their wake words and buffering a few seconds of audio in case a wake word is followed by a command. This feels more like an extension of that than a new intrusion. On the other hand, to your point, it *is* an extension, because they are processing for content in new ways.

@bomkatt I got the fear when they first started talking about it in the presentation, that this was going to be their version of all of the creepy AI pendants and pens that record everything.

In this case, I think they're walking the line very carefully: it's analyzing everything it takes in, but it seems it doesn't store it for more than a few seconds (processing time or the 15 second "rewind" buffer, whatever is longer) in a secure, on-device exclave. They make their usual "not stored anywhere, no one can access it (even us!)" claim.

That may be a distinction without a difference, but I think it's enough. Enough that I won't be giving Apple Watches side eye like I would pervert glasses.

Once again, Sisyphus clicks the “Remember me on this website” checkbox.

I’m not saying I’ve never seen anything useful done with generative AI. But I definitely have not seen generative AI produce anything cool or useful enough to justify increasing the number of gas turbines in use.

https://marketwise.com/investing/spacex-gas-turbine-parts-ai-data-centers/

William Faulkner: The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

William Gibson: The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Me: Jesus Christ. No wonder I don't know what day it is.

If AI is inevitable, why are they upset about the critics?

If there's that much real demand for it, why is it so unpopular?

If it could actually do your job, why haven't they replaced you?

If it wasn't a bubble, why are they afraid of it popping?

If this was a better use for all of these now-unaffordable components then what you were going to do with them, then why isn't your (anyone's?) life better now?

If the AI trade makes sense, why is only one major tech firm making a profit on it?

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117226382768682330

Regulation under the second Trump administration has gotten so lax, it’s not even safe to inject bleach anymore.