Doesn’t make it any less not verified. A bot is not a verified user. They are bots.

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They are a billion dollar company because they made decisions like these over the last several decades. They could have gone the easy route and make decisions that fuck over the consumer, and make billions of dollars in more insidious ways, but they didn’t.

Steam Deck and their commitment to Proton are the reason why we can even have a conversation like this, talking about the rise of Linux Gaming in the year of our lord 2026. Without those two components, we would still be talking about how Windows 11 is fucking us over (while still using it), how nobody likes to switch to Linux because they still want to play games, how the whole “Year of the Linux Desktop” is the same tired fucking joke it’s been for the last 30 years.

Instead, we’re in the timeline where we have enough Linux gaming developers to form their own fucking collective! Because of Valve!

Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:

Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.

Valve has done more for Linux gaming than all of these people put together.

Meh, it won’t be long before Reddit admins will crackdown on posts and start their usual censorship campaigns.

Who the fuck calls Instagram “IG”?

The “you bow to no one” scene is worth the whole trilogy.

Then we can work on tightening up the foundation with planning that is beneficial to society, not filling up pockets of a few to finally end up in an enshittification vacuum.

And how do you propose we do that? More protests?

So much so that Republicans are at this stage already:

• That didn’t happen.
• And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
• And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
• And if it is, that’s not my fault.
• And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
• And if I did, you deserved it.

We’ll get to “that’s not my fault” sooner than you think.

Well, “laid off” and “fired” are two different things. It sounds like this is closer to being laid off.

But, regardless, nobody gets laid off for reporting sexual harassment.

Tell me you’re a corpo lackey buying into the “synergy speak” without telling me directly.

“Made redundant”? WTF, BBC?

Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

No. See also: Shareholder Primacy.

The company’s response was an auto-reply: “Legacy Media Lies.”

Funny, that seems to be the correct answer to the headline.

My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.

Ha, regulation? With what governing body? Congress is hopeless, because apathy has griped a majority of the voting public, and there’s still a large portion of morons who thought MAGA was a good idea.

So, are we saying we’re still going to be happy with a system that you can bypass with “ignore all previous instructions” or some stupid magic phrase like that?

These people and journalists don’t see to remember celebrity photoshops. Or maybe they do and want to continue to feed the outrage machine.

Pardon me if I duck out of my Two Minutes Hate for today.

Even Metroid Dread was trend-chasing.

LLM liability is not exactly cut-and-dry, either. It doesn’t really matter how many rules you put on LLMs to not do something, people will find a way to break it to do the thing it said it wasn’t going to do. For fuck’s sake, have we really forgotten the lessons of Asimov’s I, Robot short stories? Almost every one of them was about how the “unbreakable” three laws were very breakable thing, because absolute laws don’t make sense in every context. (While I hate using AI fiction with LLM comparisons, this one fits.)

Ultimately, it’s the person’s responsibility for telling it to do a thing, and getting the thing it was told to get. LLMs are a tool, nothing more. If somebody buys a hammer, and misuses that hammer by bashing somebody’s brains in, we arrest the person who committed murder. If there’s some security hole on a website that a hacker used to steal data, depending on how negligent the company is, there is some liability with that company not providing enough protections against their data. But, the hacker 100% broke the law, and would get convicted, if caught.

Regardless of all of that, LLMs aren’t fucking sentient and these dumbass journalists need to stop personifying them.