Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a computer programming class surrounded by clunky towers and desktops.

Suddenly, a loud popping, then one of the machines starts belching smoke like a budget fog machine. The kid using it is calmly moved to another station while the prof investigates.

Fifteen minutes later - pop. Smoke again.

Turns out the kid was jamming a paperclip into the power supply like he was playing Operation: Arson Edition.

That was his last day.

On the bright side, computers are a lot cheaper now - and kids are still dumb. So, maybe progress?

Only the bots have rights

As you say, even with Internet connection, LLMs only infer. The software you run it on (or online) is a different story, and it’s literally already the case with everything else for decades (although it is getting worse).

We weren’t upset enough when Google started scraping everyone’s emails, or how Meta/Amazon/Google/Microsoft/ByteDance track all your Internet activity right now via browser fingerprinting.

This is literally the plot to Trillion Game.

Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted

I’m glad I read to the end; your comment got me laughing and checking my life insurance

Thanks - good notes

Great note - thanks for the contribution.

E: I noticed a couple mistakes. Lemme know if you spot others and I can edit (at time of this writing anyways)