It's kind of sad to see Musk fall from "nerdy workaholic" to... whatever he's now.
How much work is it really to keep goo.gl links around?
A lot.
Goo.gl has a namespace for 10 billion entries, it used to keep tracking/analytics data for each link, with a user interface, and it would happily generate them for links to internal stuff.
Just keeping it running would take some containers of server racks, plus updating the security, accounting for changing web standards, and so on.
Keep in mind this isn't some self-hosted url shortener with less than a million entries and a peak of 10K users/second, that you can slap onto a random server and keep it going. It's a multiple orders of magnitude larger beast, requiring a multi-server architecture just to keep the database, plus more of the same for the analytics, admin interface... and users will expect it to return a result in a fraction of a second, worldwide.
Customizable button: 👏🤗
"Normal people", as in 99% of people, will not bother editing the URL... most of them don't even know what a URL is. They'll just keep using whatever search window they get in their "internet" (browser).
However, Google would rather scrapers and people with ad blockers not make them waste money on AI when they can't recoup them.
Could mean FOSS but they keep the trademark.
Discord became popular because it's a more convenient integration of audio chat for gaming, with text chat: no need to set up a server (like TeamSpeak or Mumble).
People using Discord for official documentation, or bug reporting, are in a circle of hell just slightly below the ones doing the same on Reddit. Community support... they may get a pass.
Wrong question. The right question would be:
Why is AI as used in Lensa's Magic Avatars App Pornifying Asian Women?
Ask Lensa to remove the "ugly" and similar negative prompts from their avatar generating App, and let's see what comes out.
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/how-to-use-negative-prompts/#Universal_negative_prompt
For reference, check out how that same negative prompt turns a chubby-ish poorly shaved average guy, into a male pornstar, or a valet into a rich daddy's boy.
The authors mention the necessity of “creating ideological change” in the Palestinian population through a process of what it likens to “de-Nazification,” requiring Israel to “dictate the school curricula and enforce its use for an entire generation.”
Ah yes, the "de-Nazification" card... right after keeping a whole generation imprisoned under Hamas rule. How convenient. 😒
No. This is just one failure to replicate. There would need to be many more attempts, an investigation, and actual proof of how they made shit up, to confirm they were making shit up.
End-to-End Encryption is the only answer.
With OpenSource, audited, and user-controlled software.
Any software that could be ordered by a third party (like Meta) to send the E2E keys to the server, while sending all the encrypted messaged through the same server, is not to be trusted.
Customers want their issues to get solved... but that ship has sailed a long time ago: first tier support, is often outsourced to call centers which are given a very strict list of subjects and procedures to follow; if a customer's case is not in there, then they're SOL.
What's worse: call center companies, accept contracts from multiple companies that want to offer support, meaning the people working at a call center now have to learn not just one company's script and strict guidelines, but those of multiple companies at once.
If we add the fact that these call center companies pay peanuts and have poor worker retention, there is close to zero chance a customer will contact a first tier support worker who knows all the strict guidelines they're required to follow from the company the customer is seeking support for.
Chat bots are not a general solution to all customer support, despite their overhyped marketing, but they are a solution for "first tier agent knowing each and every strict guideline by heart". Now each company just needs to feed their predefined procedures to an AI, and customers will never again call someone who has barely any clue and needs to fumble around for half an hour just to give a wrong answer.
From a consumer's point of view, it's like having access to a 100% accurate search engine into the company's predefined procedures... which might not sound like much, but is still better than the current state of affairs. For anything not prepared ahead of time in the company's support book, customers will still need to ask to escalate as usual... or even get escalated transparently when the bot realizes it can't provide an answer.
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This is going to get interesting:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/30/elon-musk-x-could-face-ban-in-brazil-after-failure-to-appoint-legal-representative