Since I run GrapheneOS, I just install any keyboard I like, and deny it network access in the permissions panel to disable any privacy invading features.

I would rather be running a fully open source keyboard, so I’ll be watching this thread for better solutions.

It may be both.

It could be both helping save the environment and siphoning public funds into a buddy’s pocket.

The goal was to train ML enough so that humans were rarely necessary, obviously.

Yes, that’s the goal.

There’s a long rich history of AI like outcomes being mimiced by just hiding the human who does the work. That’s actually the source of the name of Amazon’s own “Mechanical Turk” service.

Not being actively watched by an army of underpaid workers is effectively still on the “someday…maybe” feature list for this thing, unless Amazon (famous for making delivery workers pee in soda bottles, and allowing warehouse workers to get heat stroke) somehow provides credible proof that they’ve actually grown past that.

I, as someone with substantial professional ML experience, won’t take Amazon at their word, when they claim the ML has alleviated the need for the army of workers watching cameras. That’s bullshit marketing promise, until proven otherwise. Particularly coming from Amazon.

Moving away from the people watching to using pure AI is well within the realm of possibility.

But good AI maintainers cost more per hour to pay than the entire army of mechanical turk “trainers”. So I am skeptical of any claim that Amazon, in particular, has done the right thing here.

So it’s very fair to assume you’re being watched in one of those stores, until real credible evidence is provided that you’re not.

That’s one season of television I will look forward to.

(Because Fox will cancel it after one…)

Joking aside, it seems like the teams on Baywatch enjoy the project? It keeps coming back the way Futurama does.

The movie was much better quality than it needed to be. I hope the balance of silly self awareness and serious respect for first responders continue in this series and the ones that will follow (after Fox needlessly axes it).

Edit: Why yes, I am still salty about Firefly. How did you guess?!

Huh. I would have bet on more than 32.

32 health issues…so far!