It does seem like AI will be way more useful for finding security holes than preventing them.

It is, until you realize wow I haven’t seen that subscribed channel in a frickin year

Neither the main tab nor subscriptions really gives me what I want. The main tab is good - I do discover good things there. I’m not one of those people who says “just give me my subscriptions in chronological order.” Because that actually sucks, and that’s kinda what you get on the subscription tab.

I want a smart algorithm, I just want it to pay more respect to my subscriptions and show more of them more often. “Home” gives you some but not enough.

I use YT daily, heavily.

It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.

It’s called an “algorithm.”

It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.

This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.

Yeah I think it’s a quality channel but apparently there are just SO many people out there smarter than me that they are fine catering only to them. It sucks being left behind by a publicly funded channel :(

Only if you didn’t pay attention.

I just showed their Fentanyl video to my 13yo daughter over the weekend and it was incredibly effective as a parenting tool. We paused many times and discussed. But their presentation didn’t leave all that much for me to say.

Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”

I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.

I mean the kid’s penis must have shriveled up to nothing by now, making the entire case moot.

“Your honor, I move to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff’s penis is reduced to a blackened nub.”

“Sustained!”

I just got recruited into a workgroup assigned to get AI tools together to perform one of the job functions we have in all our teams. We were told it’s on the down-low for now because people are of course concerned about job security, but this is all really to guarantee they have job security.

I was like… blink… wut.

Nothing like being told to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears.

I work in tech and I cannot overstate the AI craze that executives are on. We are constantly told to use it for everything, and that the only secure jobs are those held by people who use AI for everything. Using AI all the time is the only way they think you’re maximally productive. My LinkedIn is full of CEOs and influencers all crying that people who use AI will be elevated and everyone else will be dropped. In the most extreme cases, they imply that people who don’t use AI are obviously so stupid that you wouldn’t want to employ them anyway.

Meanwhile I sit at my desk trying to make it do something useful.

My daughter keeps texting me screenshots of her “streak” achievements as if that means anything. And then when I ask her how to say something in German she barely knows a thing.

It can be done to a stupid degree. Duolingo defines the outer limits.

I hate this app so much now. It has become the poster child of enshittification by gamification.

Imagine if now, at the height of their success, Apple finally decided, for the first time, to alienate the core audience they’ve always shown undying dedication to: gamers /s

I sob like a kid every time. They are purely innocent and loving. The grief is correspondingly pure.

Everyone cashed out on Skype the day it was sold to eBay. Years later people are still wondering what happened to it?? The train left the station forever ago.

What a brave, original thought. Did an AI write this for you?

I recall all the same arguments about how much energy and carbon are involved in performing one Google search. Does anyone care? Nope.

I’ve always ignored the energy issue on the assumption that it will be optimized away. Right now, leapfrogging the competition to new levels of functionality is what’s important. But when (if?) these tools settle into true mass usage, the eggheads will have every incentive to focus on optimization to save on operating costs. When that finally starts happening, we will know that AI has passed out of its era as a speculative bet and into prime time as an actual product.

What’s wrong with Zuck’s family?