Comment by benrutter
1 month ago
Yup, 100%. A lot of the comments here are "people should know better" - but in fairness to the people doing stupid things, they're being encouraged by the likes of Google, ChatGPT, Anthropic etc, to think of letting a indeterminate program run free on your hard drive as "not a stupid thing".
The amount of stupid things I've done, especially early on in programming, because tech-companies, thought-leaders etc suggested they where not stupid, is much large than I'd admit.
> but in fairness to the people doing stupid things, they're being encouraged by the likes of Google, ChatGPT, Anthropic etc, to think of letting a indeterminate program run free on your hard drive as "not a stupid thing".
> The amount of stupid things I've done, especially early on in programming, because tech-companies, thought-leaders etc suggested they where not stupid, is much large than I'd admit.
That absolutely happens, and it still amazes me that anyone today would take at face value anything stated by a company about its own products. I can give young people a pass, and then something like this will happen to them and hopefully they'll learn their lesson about trusting what companies say and being skeptical.
> I can give young people a pass
Or just anyone non-technical. They barely understand these things, if someone makes a claim, they kinda have to take it at face value.
What FAANG all are doing is massively irresponsible...
Cue meme: "You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?"
... Except perhaps with phrases like "major company" and "for profit", and "not legally actionable".
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