Readit Newscomputergert commented on US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints apnews.com/article/state-... · Posted by u/c420
Apparently the U.S. has reached a point where it will punish foreign officials for policy decisions in their own countries simply because those decisions clash with Silicon Valley’s preferences.
Really sad to see the US sinking deeper and deeper every day.
"and all this will do is paint them a bigger target for takedowns/prosecution"
They are based in russia. And they currently do not work together so well with the west.
So it is imaginable, that if some people give Trump quite some money, to make Annas takedown part of some deal to lift sanctions after a ceasefire in Ukraine, but .. it does not seem like it. I rather suspect more effort in the west to block access to unwanted sites like this. My ISP in germany is already blocking it.
Trump threatened the EU to tax Spotify (and others) just this week. So it doesn’t look like Trump would be happy to help Spotify out, though in exchange for money he’ll probably change his mind.
I had a conversation with ChatGPT 5.2 about the new U.S. National Security Strategy, which came as quite a shock to me and many other Europeans. It sparked my curiosity about how Silicon Valley elites view and influence this direction, so I did some chatting and thought it would be interesting to share.
computergert commented on 4o Image Generation openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
It does extremely well at creating images of copyrighted characters. Dall-e couldn't generate images of Miffy, this one can. Same for "Kikker en vriendjes" - a dutch children's book. There seems to be copyright protection at all?
I tried with both PDFs and PNGs in Le Chat and the results were the worst I've ever seen when compared to any other model (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).
So bad that I think I need to enable the OCR function somehow, but couldn't find it.
I'm experiencing the same. Maybe the sentence "Mistral OCR capabilities are free to try on le Chat." was a hallucination.
Any plans to support Vue as well?
computergert commented on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
It's funny how even the latest AI models struggle with simple questions.
"What's the first name of Freddy LaStrange"? >> "I do not have enough information about that person to help with your request. I am a large language model, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions, but my knowledge about this person is limited. Is there anything else I can do to help you with this request?"
(Of course, we can't be 100% sure that his first name is Freddy. But I would expect that to be part of the answer then)
computergert commented on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now letsencrypt.org/2014/11/1... · Posted by u/gslin
Coincidentally I just got an email from a potential client, Dutch governmental institution, that they don’t want me to use Letsencrypt. They prefer paying for a certificate themselves. Not sure why, apparently they don’t trust it.