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Strictly indoor cats are an ever expanding Gaussian distribution of cat litter, centered on the litter box. Also, some hairballs in the most visible and highly trafficked warm places.

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

This is an excellent analysis and matches my own thoughts. I was hoping someone with more development expertise could explain the use of ML/AI in Arc Raiders and unpack that both in terms of technical implementation and ethical impact on the broader industry.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

AND YET I HAVE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND CLAW TO GET EVEN BASIC VBA PERMISSIONS TURNED ON FOR SHIT, AND FIGHT THE MARK OF THE WEB BULLSHIT CONSTANTLY?
CMON YALL.

❌ A/I can’t replace real skills
❌ A/I can’t stop crime before it happens
❌ A/I can’t have real feelings or thought
❌ A/I isn’t therapy

✅ A/I is hurting the environment
✅ A/I is plagiaring creatives
✅ A/I is moderated by underpaid traumatized workers
✅ A/I can give you psychosis

🚫SAY NO TO GEN A/I🚫

Of course 10 minutes before my grocery delivery arrives is the perfect time for Nico to decide he wants to lay across my shoulders.

Timing, cat.

Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers?

Anyway.

Considering AI voices in games was the example used in article, here’s some nuance:

Voice actors are increasingly pressured into giving up their voice prints in perpetuity for some of these games. Some for cheap; others are finding these terms snuck into contracts.

Not an “extreme”, but reality.

Dana Terrace does not hold back against Disney…..

holy shit she is rightfully pissed 💀

THIS.
This is the second major vulnerability in ALL AI.
And the more you know about the model, the easier it is to make it spit out things it shouldn't.

digitail comic, panel 1/3 feo ul, the fairy king, is delighted when the warrior of light calls from the Source: "O loveliest of branches, please grant me your succor!" "ah! my sweet sapling calls for my aid-- at last!" feo ul exclaims.

digital comic panel 2/3 feo ul appears in the warrior of light's home in their small pixie form. "fret not, sweetling! your beautiful branch is here! what succor seekest thou, my--"

digital comic panel 3/3 the warrior of light is holding up a closed jar of jam, smiling. "can you open this for me?" feo ul is speechless.

this is what you asked for! #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

Attention friends! As a Cyber Sec Specialist, I feel a need to share this. If you receive an email from Ao3, alerting you to a password reset attempt, DO NOT click on the links! This is a scam to get you to provide your current password. Absolutely terrible. Safe cyber smart! #ao3 #scamalert

Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.

Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad.

I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.

Execs always claim bloated budgets increase retail prices. This is a lie.

They will always increase prices to whatever they think they can get away with. Always have, always will. AI is merely a new get-richer-quicker scheme.

And execs will never admit the most bloated costs… are themselves.

"what games will you play when everything uses AI?"

So there's this cool thing called playing older games, did you know we have hundreds of thousands of them?
Enough to keep someone busy for multiple lifetimes?
I'm not gonna run out anytime soon

Still hoping the AI bubble bursts though of course

Solid meme of our buisness cat

update

According to tiny cat, tagging someone on this post also counts. 🐾

#cat #wholesome #funny

If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:

Illustration of G'raha Tia and custom WoL for Pocky Day. G'raha kneels with his eyes closed and a pocky stick in his mouth, flanked by the Wind-Up Mystel and Wind-Up G'raha with similar expressions and pocky sticks in their mouths. Kneeling facing them, the WoL looks overwhelmed.

That's too much for just one man, even if it IS Pocky Day!
#wolgraha #ffxivart #FF14イラスト

Recent one of their apps updating: "Why do I now have a croissant in my notifications bar?"

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

This begs the important follow-up question: which Dragon King?