Anker owns Eufy right? The company that had all their cameras recording to a publicly accessible cloud storage?

Yeah not trusting them either.

Oh, I don’t think it’ll work. They’ve sold their own snake oil to themselves. It’s a modern day Mechanical Turk. They’re in love with Eliza.

LLMs are quite fast at summarizing large blobs of data though, and they’re so desperate to be first to market with this capability. They think they can become the all-seeing eye of Sauron (I mean…Palantir? Cmon), and they are salivating at the chance that it will work out for them.

But they will fuck up computing for everyone else to get the chance. Already have, in fact.

I think HAMs are required to?

It doesn’t look like it will even be a single building. For a site that size they’re going to need maintenance buildings and a power plant, grounds crews, security, climate services, offices, cafeteria, reception; probably put some R&D labs out there. It’s almost certainly not going to be one huge monolith, although it will certainly be mostly server buildings.

Microsoft angle is that they can run their AI on your documents and files (it’s all on OneDrive now remember?) and “know” about you and the world as a whole collectively at all times. The panopticon wet dream of advertisers and governments alike. Plus hardware will be too expensive for plebs and we’ll all have scaled back dumb terminal tablets that connect to Microsoft Azure Copilot Windows for $49.99/month

There was a tip line call about him being present for the execution of his own bastard newborn and then discarding it into a lake. I mean yeah that’s not evidence but who makes that shit up? Knowing that he was putting girls into those kinds of situations etc and then calls the FBI tip line with it?

Like, you really gonna call them up with a lie about the one of the most prominent people in American society? How do you think that’s gonna go for you?

So, yeah my conclusion is that there is stuff in there that would make rotten.com look tame.

Microsoft wants developers to have local access to models but end users are 100% corralled into OneDrive and Copilot. I’m not sympathetic to them at all.

It’s simple, really.

You’ll save everything to the cloud. Your work really likes this, as they don’t have to maintain their own share drives anymore. All your files are on OneDrive.

Home users can no longer afford their own computing. The PC is dead. All the parts have been scooped up to build out massive AI data centers. All they can do is afford “dumb terminals”: cheap tablets and laptops that can’t do much on their own, but can stream cloud apps, videos, games exceedingly well. Most don’t care because they don’t want to be bothered with “all this IT stuff. God, those computer guys are annoying!”

LLMs are only actually “good” at one thing, analysis of text (including non-English languages and also computer file formats).

Microsoft and others will use their new trove of information, with their new tools of analysis, to get ahead of the market. Imagine what companies would pay for the “intelligence” of knowing what their competitors are thinking, as they type it out. Imagine what governments would pay for near instant knowledge of who disagrees with them. Imagine what advertisers might get for bids for when they can guarantee someone’s thought pattern will result in a successful sale.

And big tech will charge us all for the privilege, or we will get left behind and unable to participate in society. When Microsoft turns off the lights, you’re basically homeless and unable to work.

It needs to crash and burn before this can ever happen. It needs to be ended now.

No, they just show lower prices on the shelf than what rings up at the register.

The excuse? “The display takes time to update at the shelf”

lol I feel like I’ve seen you name before, but maybe that’s just because active members here tend to stand out a bit? Anyway keep on doing what you’re doing. I love this place and I’m glad there are others who do too

I don’t think they’re just posturing anymore…

FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT

I’ve been screaming this since Crucial closed up

Think about the power Microsoft has when they have every business document on earth and an AI that can summarize vast quantities of them on an ongoing basis.

They’re taking control of free markets, of political movements.