Posts by MOH 358 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2012
I suspect the reason both of missed that fact is because there's a load of links labelled "more context" which would tend to indicate the end of the article.
It's not at all obvious on mobile that half the article is below the links.
But that's even worse: a company in charge of password management effectively encourages employees to use the same password for personal stuff and highly confidential corporate systems.
LastPass should be toast after this
I dont understand why you're being downvoted.
If corporate policy encouraged this, and encouraged one of four people with the required decryption keys to exploit the attack to use their personal device for work then nobody should ever use LastPass again.
There's a place for BYOD. This is not it.
Yep, that's exactly it.
The whole thing is an ever increasing (or decreasing) hype bubble.
AI companies who gave invested billions are desperate to sell their products before they collapse, despite the fact they don't offer any real value and their capabilities have been vastly exaggerated.
The senior management who have fallen for the hype and spent a fortune on inadequate AI products are equally desperate to justify their spending.
It's like Blockchain all over again, except the shilling is better now. At least that time most people worked out it wasn't actually useful in most cases before they spent a fortune on it
My perfectly functional but slightly dated W10 PC attempted a forced update last week that somehow trashed the OS.
Had a Linux Mint USB lying around, installed they, and it's like a new machine. Everything just feels more responsive. Plus I don't have to worry about random windows crap constantly filling my system drive even though it's 3x the recommended size.
I won't be going back
I used to watch a lot of football.
And then go home and watch Match of the Day.
Where games I'd watched earlier were frequently almost unrecognisable due to the chosen highlights. Which often seemed selected to reinforce whatever narrative the pundits were pushing that month (“this team is in trouble", "that team are running away with the title", "this player is overrated", whatever)
Realising how much they were prepared to distort a football match to push a narrative made me question their coverage of other events. BBC News went from a regular source to probably the last place I'll look for information these days.
That "deal" has been broken for years, with Google increasingly placing larger snippets at the top of the SERPs or in sidebars to discourage users from clicking through.
The whole "AI overview" thing is just taking that practice further, but it's not new.
Given how bad search has become, we must be reaching the point where it's worth considering whether everyone should be blocking both AI and search index bots by default.
There's minimal benefit to sites with real content, at best you'll end up listed on page 3 behind dozens of identically inaccurate pages of AI-harvested dreck.
"Although AI's potential may, at present, be 'over-sold', it nevertheless shall greatly impact knowledge-use and education."
Good point. Right now it's churning out garbage that people believe verbatim.
But perhaps there a slight chance tha the utter unreliability might help peoplet learn that believing the first Google result doesn't equate to knowledge.
We can only live in hope
It's almost as if advertising is a giant pyramid scheme where the efficicacy of ads is irrelevant to the beancounters, since the advertising cost will be baked into the product price anyway
So nobody really bothers to check where their ads are shown, because ultimately they're not paying for it
And the general public pay extra for everything to cover the cost of advertising, which also hoovers their personal data, and now apparently fund exploitation sites
Yeah, nothing to see here
This is the same "distinguished analyst" who told us 7 years ago that millions of jobs would be replaced by AI by 2020.
And 8 years ago that the business value-add of Blockchain would be 176 billion by 2025.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/
Why do reputable publications keep regurgitating his nonsense?
Yup. I accidentally clicked on something on the start menu that opened Edge on a new W11 machine.
Which then immediately triggered a modal popup with multiple tabs asking me to agree to various T+C's or import data which I had no intention of agreeing to.
It ignored attempts to close it with Alt-F4 or from the taskbar.Had to kill it with Powershell.
It's pretty pathetic and desperate, like much of MS these days.
This seemed suspicious:
" GitHub's inadequately explained graph that shows 60.8 percent of developers using Copilot passed all ten unit tests while only 39.2 percent of developers not using Copilot passed all the tests."
Bit of a coincidence that they add to 100? I thought maybe they'd meant the of those who passed all the tests, 60.8% used Copilot
In fact, the graph in the linked GitHub blog post shows that of those not using Copilot, 39.2% passed all the tests and 62.2% didn't. Out of 101.4%.
Meanwhile, of those who did use Copilot, a total of 98.6% did or didn't pass all tests.
It's possibly the percentage are supposed to add vertically, but that's crap presentation.
Either way that graph looks like AI produced garbage.
The same "Distinguished VP Analyst" at Gartner predicted 6 years ago that:
"The year 2020 will be a pivotal one in AI-related employment dynamics — Gartner predicts 2.3 million jobs will be created and 1.8 jobs will be eliminated."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/
How much do these people get paid for churning out endless tat?
And why haven't they been replaced by AI yet?
It's the one thing it's actually good for
If I rewrote this and every other Reg article with mild paraphrasing along the lines of:
"AI newcomers Perplexity have responded to a legal claim that they're stealing content from..."
and then based my business on publishing that content, I'd (rightly) get sued.
Mind you they should be sued just for the sickening tone of that blog post alone
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