Yep.

And if anyone doubts this, 15 years ago I had made a tool that created these types of profiles as a proof of concept.

I had scraped tons of subreddits, then you could pass in a user and based on both their subreddits and key words would categorize users across a few axes. That was just using naïve bayes, but worked pretty well.

The AI is just much much better at natural language processing to pull out more detailed info about patterns.

This is a great example of how profiles on all of us are going to be made by governments and corporations unless we take privacy seriously.

Those offers for new grads were always insane and never going to last. That was entirely a sign of the zero interest rate bubble during covid.

The GPT5 launch would give me pause if I were a prospective investor

They’re still losing money, performance is only increasing marginally, and that launch looked like it had no validation or due diligence. Plus Meta is trying to siphon off their employees with offers of 10s of millions of dollars.

Anthropic has mostly taken over the dev space, GPT is lagging on MCP and tool ineroperabilitiy locking them behind a paywall with limited use…

Then the CEO comes out and days they’re in a bit of a bubble, but want half a trillion dollars to make more capital expenditures.

Unless the design of chips dramatically changes the economics are borderline, and OpenAI is fumbling on the PR/mindshare front.

I visited /r/myboyfriendisai and it was not funny.

It was genuinely fucked up on so many levels.

I wish i had eye stalks.

Did I lock the door ?

I must have, I’m pretty sure I remember, but I’m not totally sure…

They have to go there, come back, then go again, and they’re still winning?

Yes. Please mail it to 1600 Pensilvania Ave, Washington DC

This is looking like a pattern.

Don’t you think it’s weird there’s no satellite imagery inside the interior of Greenland online?

What’s the deal with that

Fucking disgusting.

It’s a valuable lesson.

Dogs and cats communicate very differently. And cats sure as hell are not prey animals to be trifled with.

I’m pretty sure an eagle could best a cat in a fight, but they hold their own against many dogs.

I feel similar.

The AI is great for low value tasks that eat time but aren’t difficult nor require high skill, nor are they risky. That’s the stuff that’s traditionally really difficult to automate.

When I’m actually doing the core parts of my job AI is so awful it’s clear humans are not going anywhere.

But those annoying side tasks need to get done.

I’ve set up a bunch of read only AI tool and that’s enough to speed up huge amounts of work.

His second act better be wildly different.

Not hearing from him at all since the election was awesome.

Yeah that’s fair, and I do agree with Cloudflare stamping out that behaviour.

What I’m trying to say is there are cases where AI agents act for the user in what the traditional user agent role of browsers would be.

ETA: That doesn’t excuse things like not having a search index to prevent mass scale access, this would be near 1-1 access patterns per user, which would be infrequent/spaced out

He makes people angry. That’s about it.

You could replace him with a talking doll with a pull string that says things like “The radical liberals are ruining the country” and “the carbon tax killed the Canadian dream”.

Nothing he’s said in the last 6 months has any substance except to say everything is awful.

And many things are, but to govern you have to try and fix those things.

For a lot of AI search I actually end up reading the pages, so I don’t know how much this stops that

Cloudflare runs as a CDN/cache/gateway service in front of a ton of websites. Their service is to help protect against DDOS and malicious traffic.

A few weeks ago cloudflare announced they were going to block AI crawling (good, in my opinion). However they also added a paid service that these AI crawlers can use, so it actually becomes a revenue source for them.

This is a response to that from Perplexity who run an AI search company. I don’t actually know how their service works, but they were specifically called out in the announcement and Cloudflare accused them of “stealth scraping” and ignoring robots.txt and other things.

I actually agree with them

This feels like cloudflare trying to collect rent from both sides instead of doing what’s best for the website owners.

There is a problem with AI crawlers, but these technologies are essentially doing a search, fetching a several pages, scanning/summarizing them, then presenting the findings to the user.

I don’t really think that’s wrong, it’s just a faster version of rummaging through the SEO shit you do when you Google something.

(I’ve never used perplexity, I do use Kagi’s ki assistant for similar search. It runs 3 searches and scans the top results and then provides citations)