Unrelated, but I love your Netscape avatar.

The War Crimes That the Military Buried

So... all of them?

The Hanging Dumpsters of Babble-on

"The internet is the blue 'e' swirl thing on my computer's home screen."

Speaking as an infosec professional, security monitoring software should be targeted at threats, not at the user. We want to know the state of the laptop as it relates to the safety of the data on that machine. We don't, and in healthy workplaces can't, determine what an employee is doing that does not behaviorally conform to a threat.

Yes, if a user repeatedly gets virus detections around 9pm, we can infer what's going on, but we aren't tracking their websites visited, because the AUP is structured around impacts/outcomes, not actions alone.

As an example, we don't care if you run a python exploit, we care if you run it against a machine you do not have authorization to (i.e. violating CFAA). So we don't scan your files against exploitdb, we watch for unusual network traffic that conforms to known exploits, and capture that request information.

So if you try to pentest pornhub, we'll know. But if you just visit it in Firefox, we won't.

We're not prison guards, like these schools apparently think they are, we're town guards.

Schools literally, legally, are not companies.

School is not work. Work is compensated. Work is voluntary. School is neither.

Sure, it's possible to make AVs into basically drone swarms that have perfect coordination, the problem is that unless you also kick all human-controlled cars off the road, it's not going to work. Drone swarms don't have human controlled drones, or even drone swarms from other manufacturers, flying through the middle of them, or they would be crashing into each other all the time.

The arachnid version of wife guys.

IA is still operating under the misunderstanding that the US is not just several large corporations in a trench coat.

the purpose of my car is to get me from place to place

No, that was the purpose for you, that made you choose to buy it. Someone else could have chosen to buy a car to live in it, for example. The purpose of a tool is just to be a tool. A hammer's purpose isn't just to hit nails with, it's to be a heavy thing you can use as-needed. You could hit a person with it, or straighten out dents in a metal sheet, or destroy a harddrive. I think you're conflating the intended use of something, with its purpose for existing, and it's leading you to assert that the purpose of LLMs is one specific use only.

An LLM is never going to be a fact-retrieval engine, but it has plenty of legitimate uses: generating creative text is very useful. Just because OpenAI is selling their creative-text engine under false pretenses doesn't invalidate the technology itself.

I think we can all agree that it did a thing they didn’t want it to do, and that an LLM by itself may not be the correct tool for the job.

Sure, 100% they are using/ selling the wrong tool for the job, but the tool is not malfunctioning.

Libertarians and ancaps are only anarchist in the most facile sense; they're not actually anti-authority or anti hierarchy, they're just anti authority-over-themselves. They have no issue mandating actions to others. Rules for thee but not for me/ rules that bind the outgroup only, is the hallmark of right-wing ideologies, and is ancaps and libertarians to a 't'.