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bjacobel commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
ggregoire · 20 days ago
Every Google search request triggers a Gemini request tho.

Which is great… that's why I don't use chatGPT at all, having a LLM summary + a list of websites to deepen the search if I need, is just a superior user experience IMO.

bjacobel · 18 days ago
Every unique Google search triggers a Gemini request.
bjacobel commented on I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code   prahladyeri.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/pyeri
rapsey · 2 months ago
And why those countries tend to have barely any growth in their economies (i.e. europe).
bjacobel · 2 months ago
US GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was 0.1% when you take out NVIDIA and OpenAI sending the same $100 billion back and forth to each other
bjacobel commented on Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau
qwertytyyuu · 2 months ago
I expected them to give up on it. Props for not pulling a google, but I guess that isn't a high bar?
bjacobel · 2 months ago
They massively over-estimated demand [1] and produced tens if not hundreds of thousands of units that didn't sell. This is them trying to liquidate their inventory of components.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/vision_pro_bites_dog

bjacobel commented on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ   foxbusiness.com/politics/... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
mariodiana · 3 months ago
Back in 2011, Apple removed apps that crowdsourced warnings about DUI checkpoints. It remains Apple's policy today.

According to Grok, "In March 2011, four Democratic senators—Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.)—sent letters to Apple, Google, and Research in Motion (BlackBerry's parent company) urging the removal of such apps […]"

So, we have precedent where four Democratic senators pressured Apple to remove an app that allowed people to evade law enforcement.

bjacobel · 3 months ago
> According to Grok

Do you have any sources that aren't prone to hallucination and fits of partisan, racially-charged, conspiratorial hysteria?

bjacobel commented on How the AI Bubble Will Pop   derekthompson.org/p/this-... · Posted by u/hdvr
ivape · 3 months ago
AI figured out something on my mind that I didn’t tell it about yesterday (latest Sonnet). My best advice to you is to spend time and allow the AI to blow your mind. Then you’ll get it.

Sometimes I sit in wonder at how the fuck it’s able to figure out that much intent without specific instructions. There’s no way anyone programmed it to understand that much. If you’re not blown away by this then I have to assume you didn’t go deep enough with your usage.

bjacobel commented on Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime   ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/_p2zi
dimgl · 3 months ago
So now we're getting AI slop on Hacker News too?
bjacobel · 3 months ago
Hey now, I'm sure that this one-emdash-per-paragraph comment is organic and genuine.
bjacobel commented on AI's $344B 'language model' bet looks fragile   bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/thm
gsky · 3 months ago
Most of us believed that crypto currencies were trash. Look how valuable its now .

LLMs are a million times better than Crypto currencies.

bjacobel · 3 months ago
There is a distinction between "vehicle for a large volume of speculation" and "valuable". Cryptocurrency has not created any "value".
bjacobel commented on Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum   cnbc.com/2025/08/16/samsu... · Posted by u/mgh2
ZeroCool2u · 3 months ago
I genuinely think book reading is the killer app for foldable devices. A bigger screen for a movie or TV is nice to have, but not a game changer. When you have that much screen real estate you can get a really enjoyable experience reading a novel or just easily read a textbook or research paper in a way that's simply not possible on even the largest of what you might consider a typical size phone.

Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad! This is why I suspect Apple is dragging its feet on the foldable category, besides letting the screen technology mature. It will probably cannibalize some sales from that market segment.

bjacobel · 3 months ago
> Plus, you no longer need to deal with buying and maintaining a separate device like an iPad!

I've found a much easier solution to this problem.

bjacobel commented on How can England possibly be running out of water?   theguardian.com/news/ng-i... · Posted by u/xrayarx
bjacobel · 3 months ago
Ctrl-F "AI" Ctrl-F "datacenters"

No results.

bjacobel commented on AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies   apolloacademy.com/ai-adop... · Posted by u/walterbell
benterix · 3 months ago
bjacobel · 3 months ago
1. Those are revenue statistics. I am asking for you to provide data to support the claim “users are finding utility from the Metaverse”, not the claim “Meta is generating revenue from the Quest Marketplace.” Those are different claims.

2. Is it your assertion that all content offered on the Quest Marketplace is “the Metaverse?” Is the top paid application “Beat Saber” a Metaverse app?

3. The source of your statistics is Meta, a company famous for repeatedly falsifying platform usage metrics [1].

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/08/21/meta-accused-of-i...

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