Yup, see how long it lasts when companies in California can't install anything on their servers because they get Rejected for Legal Reasons responses to their package requests.
Because the "store" never confirmed that Cloudflare is 18.
I did something similar with OpenClaw (using claude) and my SO's old work. They were going to deduct money off her final check without written consent, after she quit, and were also late on paying her at all. I told OpenClaw the basic situation, and I told it to research applicable laws and cite it's sources.
Once I verified what it found was good, I had it write a demand letter specifying all the statutes that were being violated, and what remedies we would be entitled to if we had to chase it up.
She got a phone call within an hour of delivery saying her pay is being sent to payroll with every penny intact.
Also: I don't give openclaw access to any of my personal info, I literally just tell it to research stuff for me and take advantage of it's ability to store stuff in files.
My girlfriend migrated to Claude from Gemini and she's not techie at all. She says she likes the answers Claude gives a lot more in general because Gemini is too dramatic. Claude is definitely beyond the tech sphere.
Incel doesn't usually pertain to every virgin male out there. It's typically with a connotation for a certain type of male. Usually the more narcissistic sort that blame their own failings on women and take it out misogynistically.
> [...] the same people claim that AI is both a bubble but also fear job losses from AI. But also think that the billionaires get rich out of this. How all of these things can happen together, I don't know.
One can believe the thing is a bubble, while also acknowledging the existential fear that if it isn't, then it might come and basically ruin your life. It's a balancing scale, and one side is weighted much more heavily than the other. Plus, as we've already seen, some executives are really jumping on the bandwagon and using AI as an excuse for massive layoffs, and finding a job in the current market unless you're particularly valuable is difficult.
So in that last case, AI can be a useless bubble that takes your job anyway because of trigger-happy CEOs.
Ironically we live in a time that, overall, is probably better for artists than the world any of those guys grew up in. People have always valued art but not the artists, and many artists through history, including the famous ones, died broke with their works only posthumously attaining value.
These days, through commissions, art is a much more viable profession than it ever was.
It was until ~2021 and it going rapidly downhill. I know some people that are really good at art and they got work on commission from publications, venues and so on. They have seen a significant drop in their bookings and the ones that they do get negotiate hardball because (1) everybody else is desperate too and (2) if they can't get to a deal then AI is now an alternative for the not-so-discerning public which was a fairly large chunk of the usecases.
So you were making book covers? Ah, so sorry. Nobody really cared that it was you.
And you can probably extend that to what's between the covers...
Burger King already was doing this at their drive thru to check if employees were saying keywords like "you rule" and determining the customer's mood. Also saving a recording of the interaction for who knows how long. BobDaHacker got into their system with an auth bypass and exposed it[1]. It's very draconian.
The screenshots of the backend “Assistant” in [1] pretty much seem like this is what Burger King is expanding upon. It seemed already able to determine out-of-stocks and was gathering cleanliness data for the bathrooms.
It also sounds like they’re basically confirming [1] as well out loud — “He adds that the company is currently testing the AI drive-thru technology in fewer than 100 restaurants.”
Of note, I recall back in the mid-2000s there was a swing-down device near the order packing zone in the Burger King kitchen and it had a screen and a keypad on it and was labeled the “Manager’s Assistant” (or maybe “Kitchen Minder”?) device. From what I understood it was tracking production, providing reminders to check the bathroom, and providing projected order volume information.
> Cyble Inc. is an AI-powered cybersecurity platform and DMCA takedown service startup backed by Y Combinator. Their complaint specifically states that our use of the "Burger King" trademark was unauthorized and creates "a high degree of confusion among the public that the website is in some way endorsed by/or linked with our Client."
Way to reinforce the stereotype about their clients.
The ironic part really is that the average middle management job is probably among the more simple jobs you can automate away with AI at scale. Tell it your metrics, your targets, and other relevant info, and it can feed directions down to employees at scale.
I don't buy this at all. There's significantly more to management than tracking and hitting metrics. You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.
I'm sorry, but vomiting up another bulleted list is NOT management. Its giving orders and then culling the % that don't comply. Wildly different things.
> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.
Which is why it’s surprising that management is salivating at the idea of replacing employees and expecting 1 employee to do the work of 10 with the help of AI agents. If the value you bring is to manage people, you shouldn’t be happy at the idea of fewer people having jobs.
Again, what exactly are their jobs? You can’t automate them but you won’t need them either. If an org shrinks from 1000 engineers to 500 or worse, do you really keep those managers/directors/VPs around?
> You have to actually do the hard part of interacting with people and understanding their needs and so on within the context of work.
How many human managers actually do that, though? How many websites performed satisfactorily before AI arrived? How well has technology matched what consumers really need or want? Maybe, as a society we have underperformed and nescient AI performs well enough (or even better) in comparison.
I understand not restarting from a stop unprompted. There are simply too many situations on the road where automatically moving from a stop may be undesirable in case the driver isn't paying attention. Stop signs, four way stops, yield situations, probably more. Safer overall to make it an intentioned action by the driver.
I kind of get it but it reality sucks in bumper to bumper. But why cut off at 25mph? Like I can’t use it in a camera zone to maintain snail speed below the camera threshold
My SO did IF and strict calorie counting for around 2 weeks to a momth, and it drastically reduced their appetite to something more akin to a normal level. Now, they can barely finish a large meal at McDonald's without leftovers.
They've cut quite a bit of weight since then and mostly have just focused on keeping their appetite low, and eating healthier more fibrous meals in general.
Because the "store" never confirmed that Cloudflare is 18.
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