here a mislabeled “security update” was auto-installed.

To be fair, you would have to read all the way to the first paragraph to get this information from the article. Hard to blame people for not knowing this critical bit of information when it was buried so deep

? I’m not defending anyone, I’m calling out bullshit when I see it

I don’t really care that you like watching kids through their bedroom windows or whatever

If that doesn’t accurately describe your views, no worries—I said “or whatever,” so it’s fine

These articles are useless without a damn list

If you didn’t want to put words in someone’s mouth then you shouldn’t have said something like

You actually believe Microsoft will launch this and then everybody will be hacked or something.

At least K has something to do with Kleenex. It’s more like buying Coca-Cola and changing it to J

Okay, but you don’t win lawsuits based on how the law ought to be

Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years

That still doesn’t fully erase the data though. It just tells the computer that that space on the drive is available to be overwritten, but the 1s and 0s are still recoverable

Imo there should be options for standard deletion and total deletion. Standard is faster, puts less wear on the drive, and keeps the files potentially recoverable, whole total would make it totally unrecoverable at the expense of taking slightly longer and putting a bit more wear on the drive

I mean that’s what is happening if the phone used to belong to someone else

Yeah let’s encourage citizens to report their neighbors for every legal offense, this kind of thing has always gone well throughout history

Say, I’m pretty sure I saw you invite a couple folks into your home the other day, and I never saw them come out. Oh would you look at that, the SS is here!

Similarities to fascism aside, this is still an awful idea. Have you ever dealt with automated rule enforcement? It’s an awful way to enforce rules. But even if every single report had a human follow up on it, there’s also massive, unprecedented privacy issues. You may be totally fine with my insurance company knowing where I am 24/7, but I sure as hell am not. I’m super not okay with a government (which we have) gaining free access to that information for anything they want (which they would). Oh hey, we’re back to fascism

Use old.reddit as long as you’re able to. Don’t even need to log in (at least where I live), you just hit the “I’m 18” button

my only ask is that you make this article go viral by sharing it in faux-outrage that the EIC of The Verge has published an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.

Y’all mfs didn’t read the article lmao

Reddit used to be better, but now any time you search for advice on good _____ to buy, the only answers you can find are “use the search function, this question has been answered already”

Omg I can’t believe they used AI to write this article 😡

Saw a video of the other day of some guy that bought a cybertruck, and his review can basically be summarized as “it has a ton of issues, there’s rust all over it, it’s incredibly dangerous, definitely worth the $100,000”

By tesla’s logic, it’ll assume that you want to slow down, and will speed up to make you slow down faster

Why does this comic always give me Lain vibes

I see you caught the one sex reference in their comment

It’s starting early! I genuinely can’t tell if the audio is AI generated or not. How cool will it be here in 7 months when we have a presidential election? How many people are gonna be swayed by fake audio clips? How many people will assume the real shit that candidates have said is just AI generated? “Grab em by the pussy” and “you ain’t black” are so outlandish, if those audio clips came out today, I would assume they must be fake

This feels like when we saw headlines about a new virus in Wuhan back in January