On cars it can of course identify the make and model but it’ll also catalog things like bumper stickers and custom rims for that car.
I think the bill covers that. It additionally states that it’s anything that “identifies, locates, and tracks a vehicle through the license plate or other persistent visual identifier of the vehicle”
While it’s kind of a ban, to be extremely clear, this is not a direct ban!
This would prohibit federal agencies from using ALPRs or accessing data from them, and it would block federal funding for ALPR systems, but locally-funded systems would still be allowed:
https://www.gadgetreview.com/bernie-sanders-aoc-and-jeff-merkley-just-introduced-the-ban-flock-act
I would be concerned about language collapse (i.e. models incrementally forget vocabulary + fail to adapt to new terms leading to language becoming incrementally worse) before I would worry about knowledge collapse
Why so?
The exact same mechanism is on display here. Ask an LLM for information, and it’s more likely to condense an answer, not display additional relevant information, and slowly but surely produce less and less outputs including that given information.
Sources then begin to be generated by the AI model that adds less and less of that information over time, LLMs cite those new sources that don’t include that information, etc, etc, and now that information is just not present in a majority of sources, and is never stated in any LLM responses.
If anything, this is more likely than models forgetting certain vocabulary, because while the underlying tokens for a lot of that vocabulary still exist in the model, the subsequent combinations for a given piece of information are substantially less likely, and the models’ finite size can only store a subset of that actual information in statistical averages. (i.e. you can store the alphabet and a dictionary of every word in the English language, and many simple phrases, in a tiny fraction of what the sum of Wikipedia is, and Wikipedia itself will contain a subset of all information on the internet, and so on, but you can still theoretically write any English content you’ll find on Wikipedia or the internet using that alphabet and dictionary)
Feels to me like this is AI assisted but not entirely AI generated. Lyrics’ timing is a bit off and the sounds of the instruments blend together in a sort of odd way, but it doesn’t feel like what you typically see from something pumped straight out of an AI model in its entirety.
I hope I’m wrong, since it is genuinely a fun animated video and is the general sort of style of music I like, but I don’t want to support someone using generative AI to displace people who put actual effort into making their music.
You could make a super long argument against this but I think there’s a few simple points (that you can use any number of, you don’t really need all of these at once for most people) that usually get it across to people, at least from my experience.
There’s the moral/emotional argument:
“You do have something to hide. Wanna unlock your phone and let me go through all your messages/photos/emails, leave the bathroom door open all the time, and never close your blinds? Even if you aren’t doing something illegal AND have no problem with me seeing all your conversations and data, privacy is still a comfort for many people”
…and there’s the monetary arguments:
“If a company is collecting that data, it’s because they make money off it. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry, and it’s the only reason Google, Facebook, etc can physically exist. If they know more about you, they can manipulate you into spending money with advertisers easier, allow political campaigns to manipulate your opinion more effectively, etc”
“You might not have a problem with how your data is used now, but if the law changes, or a corporation decides to do something different, suddenly data about your health and finances that was just for ads might then become a way to increase your health insurance pricing to the max you can afford”
Entirely lacking disk encryption for typical users due to not having a secure element is a pretty major flaw.
It’s also missing hardware accelerated virtualization which is necessary for much of GrapheneOS’s sandboxing, has weak security for other keys in the OS keystore, is missing hardware memory tagging which makes it much easier for apps to use overflow attacks, doesn’t have proper verified boot support once a custom alternative OS is flashed, and leaves exposed debugging APIs even when the phone is locked.
This breaks:
At that point, GrapheneOS can’t physically provide you essentially any security anymore.
It wasn’t just the update cycle either, it’s that they don’t have the physical hardware chips to support Graphene’s minimum requirements for security, which would severely weaken any benefits you actually get from GrapheneOS.
A combination of CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown so it’s compatible with most markdown formatting people are used to. Also supports LaTeX and HTML. (and of course any custom syntax modifications you make with custom CSS or plugins)
That’s why I use Obsidian! It’s not open source, but all my notes are just… pre-emptively saved as markdown files on disk. If they fuck me over I can just leave and open it in literally any markdown editor 😭
If they used a proprietary format, I probably just wouldn’t have used them in the first place and would have had to use a shittier alternative.
3D prints are almost always worse than injection moulded plastic
Entirely depends on your use case. 99% of the time it won’t matter to most people with a 3D printer.
If I’m making a Gridfinity setup for my desk, it doesn’t matter if it’s injection molded, it sits in my desk and doesn’t come into contact with any food or liquids and isn’t put under high stress. If I’m making attachments for my IKEA Skadis board, it doesn’t matter if they’re injection molded, nothing I’m putting on them needs highly scratch-resistant plastic or marginally heavier weight capacity. If I’m making replacement mounting for a bar on an item I own to make it more convenient to use, it doesn’t need injection molding to work just as effectively as an injection molded part, it’s holding a few grams of weight pulled by gravity and has no other stresses or contact with food or liquids.
Injection molding is only necessary if:
If I wanted molds made for all the things I’ve printed to have them injection molded instead, I’d be in debt hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.
Not a single thing I’ve printed would have been cheaper, truly better quality (unless I had simply picked a badly made design in the first place), or more usable if it was injection molded, and I’ve been printing things regularly for the past 8 years.
Seems like the original was actually created with that exact image, at least according to KnowYourMeme:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fight-like-youre-the-third-monkey-on-the-ramp-to-noahs-ark-and-brother-its-startin-to-rain
The original post is from 2026 though so that version could have very well been AI generated, but to me it gives off less AI generated vibes and more “some dude photobashing some art he found together”