Google Voice was also a service designed to gather training data for speech to text / text to speech services at Google. That’s why it was free. The advent of LLMs just gave it something else to plug the data into. The Microslopening of GitHub, at its core, had similar motivations. Having effectively full backend visibility of all content on the (at the time) centralized service that damn near everyone who publicized their code was using to publicize their code was a valuable business proposition even before they shoved it all in to a training set.

Microslop bought GitHub for the training data. That’s it. That was the whole point.

The funniest part is that their model is considered to be rather shit-tier.

Well, if you leave it out in the rain, you’ll start to se corrosion appear. But a little vinegar and baking soda should clean it right up.

Idk where that purple one is coming from, though.

CVE aside, that headline is phonetically amusing

_{Blåhaj jus happy to find fren :>}

I’d buy that on a T-shirt

Hey man drugs is just personal manual neurochemistry don’t do me dirty like that

How is the weather down in the warm-water port of Corpus Christi, in Texas oblast?

That won’t stop them from trying to use “AI” as a scapegoat, and it also won’t stop investment bankers from continuing to participate in the circlejerk

It actually makes a lot of sense if you consider that the Nationalist Christians are a very core support demographic of the regime. Dogmatic adherence to absolute nonsense and radical prejudice is kind of their bread and butter.

Ok who gave the LLM prod credentials again. We’ve talked about this.

Fitter; happier; more productive

• On the idea of a kill switch: while I said that we won’t add a “global kill switch”, all of these capabilities will be delivered as Snaps to the OS, layered on top of the existing Ubuntu stack. That means there will always be the option of removing those Snaps - which I suppose acts as a sort of kill switch for the features we’re planning on shipping.
• Opt-in vs Opt-out: my plan is to introduce AI-backed features as a “preview” on a strictly opt-in basis in 26.10. In subsequent releases, my plan is to have a step in the initial setup wizard that allows the user to choose whether or not they’d like the AI-native features enabled. Because of the size of most LLMs, we simply couldn’t ship them in the installer anyway, so opting out at first run is simple: they just won’t be there.

Point of order: “you can easily remove the Snaps from your install” is an opt-out mechanism. Calling these features “opt-in” is gaslighting.

Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry

FTFY, because I’d be pissed if I was forced to use teams too

Idk man that just sounds like the market capitalism that these captains of industry purportedly love so much

My days of not using Ubuntu have certainly come to a middle

Lmfao they “removed” LLM bullshit from Notepad by removing the Copilot branding and making it less prominent.

LLM.

In Notepad.

“Fixed” with… product branding and marketing revisions.

Get the fuck out of here, Microslop.

Are we really not doing “phrasing” anymore?

Tbh this would be a good policy for literally all countries to follow, not just China.