it really doesn’t make a difference with a key

there is some chance that earth may be ejected from the orbit into the space when the time comes, in which case this device could theoretically survive, but its users definitely won’t.

and why would that be any different? do they offer special usb-stick no-malware upgrade or what?

It also helps eye to follow the line and therefore makes reading easier. It is almost as if typographers came up with it for a reason.

and you don’t want it full of scratches, since cover glasses and protection cases will probably be quite complicated for these monstrosities?

not the point. the point was that “conspiracy of ai corporations to drive traffic to themselves” doesn’t make much sense.

chatgpt and claude were both down

And with that, hopefully we can put this argument to rest.

wow… the idea that the anecdotal evidence of some youtuber should be the proof, not the engineering and chemistry knowledge of people who designed the battery and charging system and know how it works, is on par with the belief that global warming is caused by farts of the turtles carrying the earth. sad noises.

ffs

In the marketing materials and demonstrations of Atlas, OpenAI’s team describes the browser as being able to be your “agent”, performing tasks on your behalf.

But in reality, you are the agent for ChatGPT.

During setup, Atlas pushes very aggressively for you to turn on “memories” (where it tracks and stores everything you do and uses it to train an AI model about you) and to enable “Ask ChatGPT” on any website, where it’s following along with you as you browse the web. By keeping the ChatGPT sidebar open while you browse, and giving it permission to look over your shoulder, OpenAI can suddenly access all kinds of things on the internet that they could never get to on their own.

Those Google Docs files that your boss said to keep confidential. The things you type into a Facebook comment box but never hit “send” on. Exactly which ex’s Instagram you were creeping on. How much time you spent comparing different pairs of shoes during your lunch hour. All of those things would never show up in ChatGPT’s regular method of grabbing content off the internet. Even Google wouldn’t have access to that kind of data when you use their Chrome browser, and certainly not in a way that was connected to your actual identity.

But by acting as ChatGPT’s agent, you can hold open the door so that the AI can now see and access all kinds of data it could never get to on its own. As publishers and content owners start to put up more effective ways of blocking the AI platforms from exploiting their content without consent, having users act as agents on behalf of ChatGPT lets them get around these systems, because site owners are never going to block their actual audience.

And while ChatGPT is following you around, it can create a complete and comprehensive surveillance profile of you — your personality, your behaviors, your private documents, your unfinished thoughts, how long you lingered on that one page before hitting the back button — at a level that the search companies and social networks of the last generation couldn’t even dream of. We went from worrying about being tracked by cookies to letting an AI company control our web browser and watch everything we do. The amount of data they’re gathering is unfathomable.

i suspect slahdot people are quite happy in their bubble there without the facebook and other users…

for those rolling their eyes on link aggregator linking to another link aggregator - this is the actual original article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology

yeah, we should really expect more from… checks notes… “global media platform, market research agency, and service that connects talents with hiring companies” 😂

of course it does. nasa pays the bills and they are the ones who say “we will hire or fire people, because we do or do not have money”. management from caltech says “ok, these are the people who have expertise we need”.

you don’t think they are giving money to someone and that someone does whatever they want with these money, do you?

but my point still stands;

yeah, i don’t think it does.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ -> ABOUT

About JPL JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech.

to put that into context - according to wiki, jpl has about 5500 employees

as a very minimum, it would make sense to demand safe-deleting the photo immediately after the verification process, with fucking prison time to someone if it is found they did not comply with that.

but that is clearly not the direction the society is going 🤷‍♂️

well that would be fucked up for sure. are you suggesting any existing program works like that, or are just speculating what if?

no malicious update can force you to generate a text and file it in court as your own work.