It's a mix of both. There will be a lot of automation, that's for sure. Focusing more on what matters and delegating repetitive tasks to AI is already a win. The usefulness of these AIs is highly subjective. I use it every day for Q&A, work, and learning new stuff. Those who use AI blindly to reduce costs are driven purely by profit. AI and robots are a double-edged sword. On one side they will take over jobs, but on the other, since companies can produce stuff cheaper, they will also sell it cheaper.
@DivineAxis177@cyber_razz If that's true it'd be fine, but I just don't believe that these businesses would dump billions into brand new data centers to provide a marginally better tool for their employees. The end game has to be full automation, what has been going on doesn't make sense otherwise.
I don’t think they do. The reason is that many parents never taught their kids how to talk about these things or how important communication is. On top of that, the internet twisted every word into ‘don’t say that, it might hurt his/her feelings.’ If you communicate an opinion positive or negative without the intent to hurt someone, then it shouldn’t automatically be treated as an attack. And if someone’s opinion hurts your feelings, then deal with it. Life doesn’t care.
@downbadcomment 🤷♂️ me and the wife will do shit like this to eachother... but we both have talked about it before...
idk... like... do people not talk to their partner and figure out what shit they like anymore or are into anymore?
I think people fear AI because they see it as a replacement instead of a tool. In the right hands, it boosts productivity, creativity, learning, and problem-solving. Refusing to adapt to it now feels like refusing to learn the internet back then. The people who learn to use it well will simply move faster. I also think a lot of this fear comes from companies using AI to cut costs, even though that was never its original purpose. I’m sure many people will disagree with me, and I welcome the discussion. I love talking about this topic because I genuinely believe AI is part of the future we’re heading toward.
I agree that the way some companies train and use AI is questionable. But I also think there’s nuance here.
Humans learn from other people’s work too. Artists study other artists, programmers read other code, musicians learn from existing music. Learning patterns from existing work isn’t automatically theft.
The bigger issue is consent and compensation. I think there should be an open standard where creators can choose whether their work can be used for AI training, ideally with attribution or compensation models attached.
That would reduce aggressive scraping while still allowing AI to develop in a more ethical way.
@cyber_razz Its the way its being sold, used and trained.
I like the principle of AI and i've found soem use cases,
but stealing other people's work without credit is theft, its breach of copyright and just wrong.
Plus AI Slop.
@ARl421@cyber_razz Just because management misuses AI and replaces humans with it when it was not designed for that is not AI's fault but the fault of those who just want more money. You should hate those companies that replace humans with AI rather than enhancing their productivity.
@cyber_razz Where do I begin? It makes images & videos thus compelling corporations to fire artists & animators. Ai data centers cause more pollution. & (arguably)worst of all deepfakes. Users of can easily fabricate evidence against anyone & it’s nearly indistinguishable from reality.
@fenceprobably@cyber_razz It’s a force multiplier. It was never meant to replace humans. Just because you don’t use it, it doesn’t mean it’s worthless. The AI is the same as a calculator or a computer. Both made humans do stuff faster.
@cyber_razz I hate it because at best, it appears to have made most of the things I enjoy worse, and at worst, it openly threatens to destabilize my life. I don't have a practical use for AI, and I feel very sad for the swaths of people who are going to lose their jobs to automation.
@NicolasLDavout@SMB_Punt@DanielSmidstrup@nikhilbhima While I understand your reasoning, Gemini and ChatGPT currently offer stronger consumer products. OpenAI gets around 60% (in 2025) of its revenue from consumers, while Mistral is mainly focused on enterprise and government use, which leaves its consumer experience behind.
@SMB_Punt@DanielSmidstrup@nikhilbhima Yes but if they are not supported by their own folks they will never ever have a chance.
Additionally it depends on what area of AI we are talking about.
Yo Victoria, take your pretty face, log off the victim card, and actually do some research before opening your mouth.
Rachel Zegler spent years shitting on the original Snow White called the Prince a “stalker,” said the story was weird and outdated, turned it into a woke girlboss lecture, and openly mocked the fans who loved the classic. Then the movie bombed hard.
That’s not “racial abuse.” That’s audiences rejecting someone who spent years insulting the source material and the people who grew up with it. Actions have consequences. Stop pretending criticism = harassment.
@Saliu_ade@Rightanglenews I am so tired of people deciding to up and harass this young woman for existing. I didn't get it when "Snow White" came out and they were racially abusing this woman. Apparently, they're all about the latest outrage, picking a person to mob and pile on for fun.
Failed Snow White actress Rachel Zegler, who cost Disney more than $170 million in her role as the princess, is being brutally mocked for her Met Gala appearance, particularly for her odd jaw movements.
NEW: Former Tennessee police officer who went wild with six officers on the job has settled her lawsuit for $500,000.
Maegan Hall says she was "s*xually groomed" by male police officers & sued the city of La Vergne.
Hall allegedly hooked up with multiple colleagues, performed oral s*x on two officers on the job, had a threesome with an officer and his wife and much more.
Hall blamed her s*xual actions on her troubled marriage and the police department.
"Maegan wasn’t looked at like a rookie cop to be trained and promoted. She was looked at like a piece of meat to be sexualized and exploited," her lawyer Wesley Clark said.
"The La Vergne Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted to authorize the mayor to sign a settlement agreement between the City of La Vergne and former police officer Maegan Hall," a statement from the city said.
"The City’s insurance provider will pay the sum of $500,000 to Hall as a gross settlement, which includes court costs, attorneys fees, and expenses."
Tesla FSD brakes for an invisible van 👀
Just two guys casually talking while being driven around by FSD.. we thought: HUH?!
Why would it stop, ah ofcourse FSD already saw what two Human Pilots failed to recognize.
A wild invisible van appeared
FSD didn’t even blink & said: hold my beer
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Today we’re giving an update on ramping F.03 production at BotQ
In the last 120 days, Figure scaled manufacturing 24x - from 1 robot/day to 1 robot/hour
We will manufacture 55 humanoid robots this week
Scam Altman didn’t tell the OpenAI board that he OWNED the OpenAI Startup Fund.
Altman lied in congressional testimony that he didn’t have financial gain from OpenAI.
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@Paul_Reviews I will never ever use age verification no matter how hard they want to push. Fuck @vonderleyen and fuck all of those who approved this shit.
Bypassing the #EU#ageVerification app - part 2.
This time, it's v2026.04-2 - which won't run on rooted devices & has encrypted shared preferences.
If we ignore the fact they've used a 6 year old deprecated library, they haven't actually solved the problem at all. An attacker can just as easily delete ciphertext as plain text.
Ironically, they've tried to solve a problem they don't truly understand... much like the concept itself.
The @EU_Commission has released an update to patch out the issues I raised last week, v2026.04-2 (#release-notes_1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ageverification.dev/releases/#rele…
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Honestly, I don't know if I should laugh or cry.
Let's review each one:
1. On-device data: database and settings encrypted at rest, with keys protected by the device’s hardware-backed key store.
Sounds great, until you look closer.
They introduced androidx.security:security-crypto, deprecated in 2025. Also androidx.security.crypto.EncryptedSharedPreferences, deprecated in 2025. Finally, androidx.security.crypto.MasterKeys, which were deprecated in 2020.
3 deprecated dependencies introduced following criticism over weak security. These weren't left over and missed during an update... they've added them now to "harden security". Remember, this isn't an isolated app. It's intended to lay the foundation for many production applications; all using deprecated security libraries from the outset.
Worse, they already correctly use KeystoreController in their codebase. The correct answer already existed and they still got it wrong.
2. Runtime: the app checks device integrity on startup and refuses to run on rooted or jailbroken devices. Production deployments should complement it with stronger device-attestation mechanisms appropriate to their infrastructure and compliance requirements.
They check for su, check package manager for root apps, run "which su" and checks if it's a custom ROM.
Paths:
/system/bin/su
/system/xbin/su
/sbin/su
/system/su
/data/local/su
/data/local/bin/su
/data/local/xbin/su
/system/app/Superuser.apk
/system/app/SuperSU.apk
Great... in 2015. These are all trivially bypassed in 2026.
3. Passport onboarding: more stable scanning; the passport photo is stored privately and deleted as soon as it’s no longer needed.
They're still not encrypted, so I'm not sure what "privately" means - but they are deleted correctly now.
4. PIN: stricter rules block easy-to-guess PINs; PINs are salted and hashed, never stored in plain form.
They salt correctly (a true CSPRNG), then use PBKDF2-SHA256 - which is outdated and only recommended where FIPS compliance is required, which doesn't apply here.
To make matters worse, they use just 210,000 iterations.
For those of a NISTy disposition, you're likely already shaking your head. 210,000 seems oddly specific.
It is. It's the @owasp minimum for PBKDF2-SHA512, not SHA256. Right number, wrong algorithm. In reality, OWASP recommended 600,000 iterations as a minimum in 2023.
Worse still, 600,000 is the baseline minimum for passwords, not PINs with 1 million permutations. You could use 1B iterations, you're not measurably increasing security when there are so few attempts required to break it. At the very least, use a modern hash with reasonable brute-force resistance against a 2026 threat model.
All this... cited as a "first hardening step". Again, utter security theatre.
None of this negates my fundamental point. This isn't fixable through code - it's fundamentally ill-conceived and poorly implemented.
