I really wish Sam Altman would treat himself with the dignity and efficiency he wants to treat us with.
The ideology of evil eugenicists didn't die with Hitler, and they didn't die with Epstein either.
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The Wayback machine is good, but it has limitations archive.today subverted. That's why people are looking for alternatives specifically to the latter
The title is a bit misleading. The issue here is data scrapers, period. They aren't being deployed by an AI, and the bots don't have any AI algorithms in them. It's stuff deployed by people, using traditional data scraping algorithms.
It's just the presumed destination of the data being scraped, combined with the fact that the people who run these bots tend to never respect consent
Couldn't you host it somewhere yourself? I guess there's a question of trust there, but trust is the reason Wikipedia has decided to stop using archive.today
Can't hear you over your false accusation of appeal to authority
Understandable. Archive.today is really good at getting website content, but their methods are proprietary and a little dubious.
If you just want to save things locally, I believe Single File is really good. It downloads the page that you see on your browser, as you see it.
Plenty of stupid rich Bay Area tech bros have thrown money into their AI agents, and they have discovered the AI agents overspend that money.
If you already agree that the contributions could very well be worthless crap, why would you use a second layer of worthless crap to gatekeep them?
If you want to care about people doing the thankless jobs, why would you double the amount of crap they have to sort through?
"We all" = not only consumer products, but literally everything that makes the world tick, and the even more invisible things that make those things tick...
Supposedly, according to the Microsoft article, ~~AI PCs~~ CoPilot+ PCs are capable of translating stuff on the fly (which sounds awesome) and generating images, all locally. Allegedly.
I have yet to run into anybody that's actually talked about these so-called innovations though. I have a PC with Windows and the beefy GPU and I would love to get live transcriptions. But the (MS) article doesn't even mention how I would do that...
Even if everything Microsoft promise was true, though, the lines sure are intentionally blurred between what runs locally and what doesn't.
Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about "AI PCs" and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)
AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)... This matters because:
- AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
- Responses feel faster and smoother
- Your battery lasts longer
(Responses are "faster and smoother" and the battery lasts "longer"... compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)
Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of "AI PCs" is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:
Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).
Well, there goes the AI evangelist claim of "democratizing" literally anything. Instead, it gives increasingly BS answers based on your social status already.
Everybody brace yourselves for the cope, which will probably be a class-based version of "you're prompting it wrong" or somesuch trash.