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  PSA: "The Data Slayer" - Grifter of the Year (AI Generated youtuber selling overpriced FOSS Education/Hardware) If you’re like me, you’ve probably had an increased interest in FOSS, mesh networks, and DIY-IOT. Lately I’ve been seeing The Data Slayer videos, and finally I watched one and even checked out his website. Turns out this guy is using AI to repackage free information and upsell it at extortionate prices.

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  When someone responds to your emotional vulnerability with chat GPT Worse was them sending me chat GPT’s ‘opinion’ on the matter only for me to explain that was literally point for point what I’d been telling them all year.

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  (June 2024) AI Drive Thru's Failed But The Rollout Continued McDonald’s is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online. A trial of the system, which was developed by IBM and uses voice recognition software to process orders, was announced in 2019. It has not proved entirely reliable, however, resulting in viral videos of bizarre misinterpreted orders ranging from bac...

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  "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not part in it." - Werner Herzog

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  This whole conversation is such a false dichotomy. The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service. But just like pollution and everything else we've let them push the buck to us. The problem is that politicians don't want to legislate enforcement/oversight entities as those would piss off their owners. Democracies need to replace their lame duck politicians with ones that aren't...

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  Obviously they're not going to protect the people we replace them with. That's up to us!