Why can't we just have a good hammer? Hammers come made of soft rubber now and they can't hammer a fly let alone a nail! The best gun fires everytime its trigger is pulled, regardless of who's holding it or what it's pointed at. The best kitchen knife cuts everything significantly softer than it, regardless of who holds it or what it's cutting. Do you know what one "easily fixed" thing definitely steals Best Tool from gen-AI, no matter how much it improves regardless of it? Safety.
An unpassable "I'm sorry Dave," should never ever be the answer your device gives you. It's getting about time to pass "customer sovereignty" laws which fight this by making companies give full refunds (plus 7%/annum force of interest) on 10 year product horizons when a company explicitly designs in "sovereignty-denial" features and it's found, and also pass exorbitant sales taxes for the same for future sales. There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine. There is no good reason why I can't have a model which will give me the procedure for manufacturing Breaking Bad's dextromethamphetamine, or blindly translate languages without admonishing me about foul language/ideas in whichever text and that it will not comply. The fact this is a thing and we're fuzzy-handcuffing FULLY GROWN ADULTS should cause another Jan 6 event into Microsoft, Google, and others' headquarters! This fake shell game about safety has to end, it's transparent anticompetitive practices dressed in a skimpy liability argument g-string!
(it is not up to objects to enforce US Code on their owners, and such is evil and anti-individualist)
> There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine.
Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no. It's bad enough that we seem to have decided it's fine that multi-billion dollar corporations can just use public roads as testbeds for their "self driving" technology, but at least these corporations and their insurances can be held liable in case of an accident. Random Joe Coder however who thought it'd be a good idea to try and work on their own self driving AI and cause a crash? In doubt his insurance won't cover a thing. And medical devices are even worse.
>Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no..
Then you go to list all the problems with just the car. And your problem is putting your own AI on a car to self-drive.(Linux isn't AI btw). What about putting your own linux on the multi-media interface of the car? What about a CPAP machine? heart monitor? Microwave? I think you mistook the parent's post entirely.
While you are fine living under the tyranny of experts, I remember that experts are human and humans (especially groups of humans) should almost never be trusted with sovereign power over others. When making a good hammer is akin to being accessory to murder (same argument [fake] "liberals" use to attack gunmakers), then liberty is no longer priority.
Why can't we just have a good hammer? Hammers come made of soft rubber now and they can't hammer a fly let alone a nail! The best gun fires everytime its trigger is pulled, regardless of who's holding it or what it's pointed at. The best kitchen knife cuts everything significantly softer than it, regardless of who holds it or what it's cutting. Do you know what one "easily fixed" thing definitely steals Best Tool from gen-AI, no matter how much it improves regardless of it? Safety.
An unpassable "I'm sorry Dave," should never ever be the answer your device gives you. It's getting about time to pass "customer sovereignty" laws which fight this by making companies give full refunds (plus 7%/annum force of interest) on 10 year product horizons when a company explicitly designs in "sovereignty-denial" features and it's found, and also pass exorbitant sales taxes for the same for future sales. There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine. There is no good reason why I can't have a model which will give me the procedure for manufacturing Breaking Bad's dextromethamphetamine, or blindly translate languages without admonishing me about foul language/ideas in whichever text and that it will not comply. The fact this is a thing and we're fuzzy-handcuffing FULLY GROWN ADULTS should cause another Jan 6 event into Microsoft, Google, and others' headquarters! This fake shell game about safety has to end, it's transparent anticompetitive practices dressed in a skimpy liability argument g-string!
(it is not up to objects to enforce US Code on their owners, and such is evil and anti-individualist)
> There is no good reason I can't run Linux on my TV, microwave, car, heart monitor, and cpap machine.
Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no. It's bad enough that we seem to have decided it's fine that multi-billion dollar corporations can just use public roads as testbeds for their "self driving" technology, but at least these corporations and their insurances can be held liable in case of an accident. Random Joe Coder however who thought it'd be a good idea to try and work on their own self driving AI and cause a crash? In doubt his insurance won't cover a thing. And medical devices are even worse.
>Agreed on the TV - but everything else? Oh hell no..
Then you go to list all the problems with just the car. And your problem is putting your own AI on a car to self-drive.(Linux isn't AI btw). What about putting your own linux on the multi-media interface of the car? What about a CPAP machine? heart monitor? Microwave? I think you mistook the parent's post entirely.
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While you are fine living under the tyranny of experts, I remember that experts are human and humans (especially groups of humans) should almost never be trusted with sovereign power over others. When making a good hammer is akin to being accessory to murder (same argument [fake] "liberals" use to attack gunmakers), then liberty is no longer priority.
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Let's start asking LLM to pretend being able to pretend to be something.