Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
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Attached: 1 image Seen on Bluesky: Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.
    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
      791·
      3 个月前

      Why did you have to post this follow-up? Now I’m all angried up.

      I don’t agree with hitting children as a means of discouraging bad behaviour, but I’m convinced some adults would benefit from being hit a bit more.

      • flandish@lemmy.world
        181·
        3 个月前

        I have said before if we invent time machines their sole legal purpose should be to only travel back in time to when some ass’s mom was pregnant with him and to point at her and say “see this bump? in 25 years he’s going to be an insufferable asshole.”

        then we offer mom a pill.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      38·
      3 个月前

      Gotta love how people don’t understand that “nonprofit” doesn’t mean “we don’t pay our employees and do everything for free”

    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
      23·
      3 个月前

      I have the benefit of heighten pattern recognition

      Wow, his brain must be truly amazing to see that ai is being added to almost everything when no one else saw it.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      3 个月前

      I have the benefit of having hightened pattern recognition

      I gotta start using this.

    • fubarx@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 个月前

      He’s an idiot.

      But if Signal wanted to, on the next Apple OSes and current Android version, you can invoke a small, local LLM without sending user data off-device.

      Personally, not sure where the value is: composing messages? summarizing them? Both have been tried and they’re pretty useless.

      • TXL@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        3 个月前

        Comes from Apple and Google? It will absolutely send data off device.

      • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
        4·
        3 个月前

        Google and co have been trying to extract information from my emails for years. It’s presented as a way to automatically make appointments etc but in reality is probably used to build a thorough profile for advertisement

    • sthetic@lemmy.ca
      28·
      3 个月前

      If he had said, “I don’t believe you. I think you’re denying it publicly, but in secret you have probably already directed your engineers to lay out the groundwork,” that would be fine.

      He would be accusing her of lying, rather than assuming she was an ignorant female nobody whose knowledge could not compare with his insight of, “but other companies did it.”

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        3 个月前

        But well, you see, he has the benefit heighten pattern recognition skills because penis.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 个月前

          When is that power available to said penis owners? I feel like my life would benefit from heightened pattern recognition.

      • teslasaur@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 个月前

        Realistically what happened is that he got a notification that someone sent “no ♥️” as a response to his rant.

        He clicked “would you like to reply?” without thinking about or checking who sent it. Why would you? Chances are higher that it’s from a bot.

        The fact that he doubled down afterwards is funny though.

  • 18107@aussie.zoneEnglish
    11·
    3 个月前

    The problem is that if you made this claim about every messaging app, you’d probably be right more than 50% of the time.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      3 个月前

      The problem is people on social media wording their guesses as if they knew something the reader doesn’t. “The engineers have already began” etc, just total useless bullshit.

  • xep@fedia.io
    7·
    3 个月前

    There is financial incentive to make claims like this disregarding the facts during a bubble, because it indirectly makes the line go up. This phenomenon is most clearly visible in cryptocurrency communities.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      135·
      3 个月前

      It’s not overtly, as the guy doesn’t seem to care whom he’s talking over. The guys just an ass.

      However, because it could be mansplaining, someone’s gonna decide it must be; can only be. Like some fascist screeching “anti-semite!” at the drop of a hat, calling every ass a man-splainer cheapens the term, chills actual discourse and increases the man-splanation amount.

      Buckle up.