Uh-huh. Do you have any evidence to back up your beliefs here, or are we just working from the presumption that the parents are always to blame
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I feel like his father should also slap himself unconscious for raising a fuckwit?
So, a chatbot grooms somebody into killing himself, and your response is... Blame his father?
Apparently, the last (2020) MacBook Air, which is much more capable, is only $700 to $750 if you can find it on the market. But it's getting phased out right now. Heaven forbid consumers have anything better for less than $1100. Not from Apple.
People who don't want their family getting suspicious, perhaps. The Target Incident comes to mind.
Of course, disabling these options doesn't mean Google stops knowing about mental or physical issues. I'm sure you know the best way to prevent that is to just avoid Google and add some together. This is probably just Google's way of looking less creepy to the average person.
That's just one explanation among many. A more reasonable guess is that the Ars writer went to his webpage, then asked an AI extension, which would have total access to an open tabs, to pull out quotes or something similar. LLMs find it hard to not change text, even when instructed to.
There are more egregious examples of the author overestimating AI on the same blog post...
AI tools are both sycophatic and helpful for laundering bad opinions. Who needs experts when Anthropic's Claude will tell you what you want to hear?
Anthropicβs AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran - used alongside Palantir surveillance tech.
This will be a first, if the plan materializes.
It's hard reading this while remembering that your electricity bills are increasing so that Google's data centers can provide these messages to people.
Except in this case, Google is one of the companies promoting the chatbots to its users, telling them to trust them. They create TV ads telling people to talk to them. Today's scammers are the stock market's Magnificent Seven.
Google, of all companies, probably has a better psychological profile of their users than the average doctor. They even offer a public-facing option to disable ads about gambling, alcohol, or pregnancy.
Exactly my thoughts/concerns. I seem to remember Motorola has a decent reputation when it comes to unlocking bootloaders, though.
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