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The AI backlash is beginning….

I am starting to see increased hostility against the AI crusade right now. Many people aren’t bothered but that has shown up as the massive drop in engagement and posts on social media in 2024… 

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Update Meta/Facebook AI

I received the message from Facebook/Meta relating to AI late last night and I decided to give it a post of it’s own rather than update the previous post regarding this. A couple of things… 

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Facebook increases use of AI

I’m hearing multiple reports that soon Facebook/Meta will start using ANYTHING you post to Facebook including links to things like Youtube to train their AI systems. The real issue here is that this is opt-out… 

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Copilot+ under fire before it launches…

Microsoft appear to be under a lot of pressure over its Copilot+ feature which can, for example, take screenshots and watch your pc activity before it even launches. I can see the backlash being so… 

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AI and its massive energy demands

Starting to see the negative aspects of the huge upturn in AI. Microsoft is saying that its energy bill is rising rapidly due to AI and the BBC has just released this report saying that… 

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Nokia 3210 re-released!

Everybody who was everyone back in the day had a Nokia 3210. Now in 2024 it is BACK! It is 25 years since the 3210 was released, and yes… it’s still almost the same….

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Beware of bad X links

Do you still use the web version of X at all? Well be careful, vulnerabilities in the Twitter to X redirect code has popped up to allow malicious links – who’d have thunked it? https://lifehacker.com/tech/its-not-safe-to-click-links-on-x

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Apple geofences 3rd party browser work

Apple really does not want to go along with the EU and its DSA. They geofence working with a 3rd party browser making development of EU work difficult. In an ideal world the EU would… 

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Google goes all AI on us…

I’m really not sure what this means moving forward, but I guess like a lot of people I’m going to have to say that generally people it is time to move away from googling for… 

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X.com has issues with privacy and cookies

Plenty of people reporting that now Twitter is totally assimilated into x.com that there are various issues with cookies and firefox and privacy in general. This is because changing a domain isn’t ever really transparent…