JJ Abrams would be proud.

There’s something uncomfortably familiar about that second picture…

"You ever check out the view from 10-Forward?” “Yeah.” “You ever check out the view from 10-Forward… on Ketracel White?!”

Look I’m not saying some part of me isn’t interested in seeing what this would have looked like, but Undiscovered Country is one of my favorites so I’m glad we got that.

“And do not call me Shirley, sir.”

Hand to God thought this was an early makeup test for the Borg.

Unfortunately true, there will always be a workaround.

Good point, because of privacy protection laws, exactly the kind of laws we would need to pass to do something about this issue.

That’s literally the point I’m making. In some places it is common place to see streamers broadcasting in public, and I’ve seen plenty of videos of not as obvious streaming as well. This will continue that trend, and the question is whether we pass laws to change that. The technology only makes it more accessible.

That’s… not even close to what I’m saying. That’s like saying using computers to steal money is illegal therefore using computers is illegal. Someone walking around with a camera is fairly commonplace, the problem is this tech makes it less easy to see and more accessible, which is a problem because of the number of people who would want to use it for something illegal. Remember back when they started making digital cameras which could take pictures silently, which was a big privacy issue? Then they started making mandatory sound effects when a picture was taken… until they stopped doing that?

Yeah that’s kinda my point.

Here’s the problem, it’s not doing anything people already couldn’t and weren’t doing, it’s just making it a lot easier and making it more widely available. Honestly it’s the exact same issue with “AI”, every bad aspect about it was already being done with existing LLMs, they were just the domain of a much smaller subset of people.

I have been working with LLMs for decades. I know what they can do and what they can’t. I admit they have grown in leaps and bounds in the last few years because of the hype, but therein lies the issue: there is still way too much hype, it’s not the end all solution some think it is, it’s driving up hardware prices, the environmental impact is horrendous, and it’s a new bullshit business marketing term that serves only to artificially inflate stock prices. “Agentic” is the new “data driven”.