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  • Exactly, the whole point of the project was to create a new system image, not to modify the existing system images.

    Nobody would see this except the people who wanted it.

    The way the articles and the social media discourse was framing it made it sound like Fedora was pushing this out to everyone, that isn’t remotely the case.

    I think the capitalist frenzy around AI is destructive too, but I also understand that the technology is much larger than a few US tech companies who have too much money to burn.

    Machine learning and the related applications are not going anywhere and if there are not open source tools available then people have no way to access that technology without going through some tech company who’s wrecking havoc on the world.










  • I don’t think that it’s actually providing the phone numbers that it knows are specific people.

    It’s generating a string of numbers that’s formatted like a phone number and many of those happen to be valid. The people calling phone numbers from chatbots are the reason that all phone numbers in movies are 555-5555 or similar, because otherwise there’d be hundreds of people calling the poor person who happened to own that phone number trying to speak to James Bond personally.