Google and other search engines link (after the AI response and ads) to information hosted somewhere created/published by someone who is usually not Google.

OpenAI et al are creating the information and publishing/delivering it to you. Seems like a more direct facilitation.

Of course, after all knowledge is centralised in an OpenAI deatacenter I'm sure they will be happy to deal fairly with the liabilities /s.

What does democracy have to do with electronic encryption? Democracy existed before computers.

There are legitimate reasons for governments to intercept information, with the correct oversight -- enforced legally in an "checks and balances" manner. The fact that there is a breakdown of trust between government and people won't be solved with more encryption.

A core tenet of Truecrypt + Veracrypt (developer guarantee) has always been no backdoors, even if requested by government.

If in a democratic society, the majority agrees that government should have backdoors (with the correct oversight). Then it follows that Veracrypt should be illegal as its use is not in alignment with the will of the majority.

I personally don't agree with the majority here but can you fault the logic?

Most forms of democracy do not have a direct correspondence between "the will of the people" and the actual policies enacted. As another poster mentioned, tyranny of the majority is a thing, and robust democracies have evolved institutions to deal with it. Otherwise there's nothing stopping the majority from periodically voting the minority off the island, Survivor style, until only a single dictator remains.

In the U.S. in particular, there's strong respect for individual rights enshrined in the Constitution, and a key role of the judicial branch is ensuring that those rights are respected regardless of what the majority thinks. The majority cannot enslave the minority, for example, regardless of what the legislature votes. Nor can it deprive it of speech or free assembly, or guns, or a right to trial by jury.

It's pretty hilarious to me that you think the Constitution is anything more than a piece of paper. Or that the judicial branch cannot be co-opted. It's not magic champ. It's maintained by consensus.

Ah so the iron law of oligarchy becomes our salvation

if only it were so simple

That's why specialized agencies exist within the government body: FCC, FDA, etc.

aka leave it to the experts because the majority isn't qualified to make such decisions.

I'm not. Parents are very much in favour of restrictions on what can be accessed online.

Parents can't control what their children are doing 24/7, and neither should they. But they should expect a society where children are protected from billion dollar corporations stealing their attention and radicalising them, at least until they are old enough to leave mandatory schooling.

There are many "real world" age restrictions that exist, and we have decided those are of benefit to society in general. The "online world" is no different.

If we can't have age restrictions online then they should just be abolished in the real world as well, in the name of preserving "privacy and freedom". The online world doesn't exist in isolation like it did in the 90s and 00s.

You call 111 if you don't want to bother the 999 guys. 111 will tell you what you need to do, including "go to A&E".

What is wrong with going to A&E for an (as you said yourself) emergency?

A pharmacist dispenses medications and should know about their safe usage. They won't tell you how to bandage a wound.

Getting a minor wound bandaged up is not what A&E is meant for, it's for life-threatening injuries.

Going to A&E and waiting there also means you're losing 4 to 6 hours.

111 you just get some robot asking you a never-ending list of inane questions before someone tells you to either self-care at home or go to A&E.

A pharmacist should be able to administer the supplies they sell, particularly wound dressing and care. It's a requirement in some other European countries like France (where pharmacists are doctors), but in the UK the reality is that most are unable to do so.

111 do a lot more than that, they will get you a GP visit even if the GP claims to not have slots, and they will get medical professionals to come to you.

If it was in hours, I'm surprised they didn't get a nurse appointment for the cut.

Pharmacy. Not pharmacist.

Pharmacies provide much more than just medicine.

It's the ONLY thing that Russia has the resources to do. Apart from fighting their smaller neighbour to a standstill.

And what's that way?

Come on it only has happened more than 100 times, clearly it's the fault of everbody else.

As one whose musicianship involved a great deal of generating sounds and samples myself, via modular synthesis and the occasional use of a programming language for DSP, I assure you I find that idea of using genAI for an assist on that front offensive.

Could you use the bullshit machines to generate sounds that were nuanced, musical, and original, with enough time and effort?

Maybe. I'm not sure original is something they can do, but it's not totally implausible.

I would strongly recommend learning to use other tools for that purpose, instead of feeding the plagiarism monstrosities.

The aversion people like you have for AI is uncomfortable to me.

I understand your entire world model is shaped by your past and that this machine is changing the fundamentals.

As an outsider to music, I'm excited that I have access to something I previously did not through the use of Suno and other tools. I'm excited that I can come in and just try things and not hit a skill wall or quality barrier that would cause me to quit with the limited time and effort a working adult has. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time, but just never had the time for.

Attempting to learn costs thousands of hours before you can even start to feel good about it, and I don't have that time. Life is short and I'm already thinking about the end.

I used to be sympathetic to folks with your view, but now that programming and engineering are impacted by this - I'm in the crosshairs too. I'm subject to the same forces.

I've decided I love this tech even more. Claude Code is a tool, just like all of these other tools.

This rising tide of capabilities is so awesome. This is the space age stuff I dreamed about as a kid, and it's real and tangible.

So no, I won't restrict myself to your set of pre-approved tools. I'm going to have fun and learn my way.

And it is fun.

You can keep having fun the way you like to. What other people do shouldn't be ruining the fun you have, and if it is, then you should reevaluate why you do it.

Isn't the non-LLM generated text becoming more valuable for training as the web at large is flooded with slop?

Preventing new human generated text from being used by AI firms (without consent) seems like a valid strategy.

No.

Modern LLMs are trained on a large percentage of synthetic data.

This sentiment is largely legacy (even though just a couple of years old).

Maybe, but BMW are at least trying. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/electric-3-...

At least the Chinese tech will be available to European consumers, nothing says insecure like pretending a competitor doesn't exist.

At the expense of European companies...good luck.

External factors can be a quick recovery. Internal factors are often a long road. Accounting and corruption failures sounds internal to me.