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 @wrosecrans @evacide Also, what I really don't get is the actual use case. Why the hell risk everyone's security and privacy AND require far more space and processing power requirements (this is going to be a complete nightmare for gamers who run highest settings, even with the privacy issues aside - it will make these machines literally unusable for running high-demand anything)? I just don't get it. Like WHY 8 comments
 @wrosecrans @mybarkingdogs @evacide I have been using computers since the first crappy ones where you had to use arrow keys to move the cursor. Not once in all these years did I ever wish for this stupid feature. Tech companies are going off the rails @wrosecrans @mybarkingdogs @evacide Absolutely nobody: @wrosecrans @evacide (also, since gaming, graphic design, animation, film editing, and other high demand graphical applications are reasons people use Windows machines - e.g. because their favorite game or the program/app they need to use won't work/work well on Linux ... this is going to shoot them in the foot even outside of privacy issues, by making slow, buggy machines unsuited for those uses) @mybarkingdogs @wrosecrans @evacide because we're in the AI gold rush where we have solutions looking for a problem  @mybarkingdogs @wrosecrans @evacide I think the actual use case is transparently obvious: surveillance data harvesting for further AI training. @datarama For right now, MS is insisting that it won't be used for training. So it seems to be some sort of long term plan to dishonestly insist that it's not what it is. So it's both something their users don't want, and something they are choosing to drag their reputation through the mud to lie about. Which makes me even less excited about the end state. @wrosecrans I think they, like basically every other large tech company right now, is salivating about the prospect of creating AI that they can sell to other businesses so that they can get rid of their human employees. If you have *that*, what do you need consumer trust for? Every enterprise in the world is dependent on you now, and you don't need consumers anymore. (If they can pull it off is another matter. But it's clear that this is the dream.) |
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@mybarkingdogs @evacide Yeah, so far the arguments I've seen for it are just "You are an idiot and I'm assuming it's not really dangerous."
But, "We spent millions of dollars of R&D on making a perfectly spherical beryllium sphere for our new car model. It's not dangerous, it just takes up room in the trunk" would be a terrible sales pitch from a car company. That seems to be the strongest argument in favor I've seen so far, even if you accept the wrong claims about it not being dangerous.