Probably would do little to prevent it from listening though.

while unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models⁠.

So either they don't track what goes in their training data, or they do but their LLM is unable to precisely credit sources. Maybe a bit of both. That's convenient, this way they claim great discoveries without crediting all prior work they're relying on.

LLMs are a great plausible deniability generator. These allow one to plagiarize while saying with a straight face no one knows what source material the result are based on.

They also spend the equivalent of something like 15% of that university's mathematician research budget for the past 50 years to do this one proof, using plagiarized data to do so.

I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about training, and I did not get an answer.

Wow I had suspected this would eventually happen, but for it to be this blatant this quickly is alarming. They feel so emboldened due to the complete lack of consequences for stealing.

This is a known feature that is not hidden which is not automatically turned on by default.

You must set your TV to a different standby mode and enable LG voice control.

When you do this, it very plainly tells you that it can listen with the screen off so you can control the TV with voice.

Failure of User Awareness, not some nefarious spyware.

People will literally buy anything that invades their privacy

Surprise surprise...

Fastmail is another option that supports custom domains and wildcard addresses. It's about $5 a month. Once you start utilizing your own domain, you can easily change email hosts if you don't like one. The hardest part of this process is changing every service from your current Gmail or whatever address because you have to do it one at a time.

Fastmail will be your email host and you can send email using From addresses in your domain.

Minority Report, in the sense that it's specifically designed to get minorities reported to the Stasi, SHM my head

i am not heppy with any surveillance but the article mentioned two concrete cases.

1. samdesk a global crisis monitoting tool warned an executive of a demonstration that might put him in harms way. they used anthtopic's model to plan an alternate root.

2. a guy typed into claude that he had just bought an ak-47 and had the ceo in his sights. anthropic alerted the police but still wouldnt hand over the user's chats citing privacy policies. soooo thats zero surveillance.

the article states that based on some jobs postings, the article writer had concluded that anthropic is creating some pre crime unit. i cant say they aren't but the article can't say they are.

I use proton pass for now but with a custom domain so I can keep my accounts if I choose to jump ship. This was enough work the first time to set up - I’m not locking myself in or doing it twice!

service.randomword@mydomain.tld

data privacy

That's fine until you realize they can just parse on the + and store additionally or any other sun address token. Have worked several places where that was requested. Anything being given to a third party was the stripped form.

I'd love to see a guide about how to remove the microphones from the tv. I'm not brave enough to just open up my TV hoping I can find all the bugs in it.

That's a software one

That's perfect, thank you for providing those links.

You can find a few guides online such as https://blog.holtzweb.com/posts/unlimited-email-forwarding-address-aliases-using-cloudflare/ and https://fyx.me/minis/create-infinite-email-aliases-using-cloudflare-email-routing/

I can't remember which ones I used specifically, but that first link covers the basics; I just set up the worker to be a lot simpler using regex to map a whole range of possible aliases through instead of hardcoding anything.

For the moment I'm routing things to Gmail (I'll likely shift to Proton at some point), but I was able to set up labels using my templates (specific prefixes and formats) to easily identify emails I get. For example, the stuff that comes from my site gets its own label for French or English stuff (the site is in both languages) because it's always formatted as site.{en/fr}.{semi-ranfom-value}@my-domain.com.

GamersNexus just dropped a pretty damning video on LG's data collection practices. Their TVs record absolutely everything from their microphones and cameras (if equipped - some are), sniff out everything using wifi and bluetooth within its vicinity, and sends it ALL back to LG. It does this even when the TV is "turned off", storing the data until it's reconnected to the internet. And yes - that includes the remote's microphone.

My theory is that this is why modern "smart" TVs end up grinding to a halt after a short-ish period of time when not connected to a network. Data just sits and fills up the internal storage until there's no more space for other processes to function. This happened to a Vizio we bought recently - I ended up factory resetting it and suddenly it worked perfectly. Never connected to the network.

Have you been living under a rock? Microphone-equipped remotes have been a thing for years.

I'm still leaning on the side of stupidity instead of malice, but they've done some stupid shit. I watch them for their journalistic integrity and documentaries though, and haven't seen that falter.

Fair enough. I certainly don't have the schematics for any of those devices made in the 2020s.

I don't know how they work but I would assume that the mic is not always streaming, as you say it can't be due to battery.

I do not feel comfortable to assume that there is ZERO possibility that the mic can be made to stream without the physical button pressed ...

... unless I did the work to understand how it's wired and controlled, something I don't care to do. So I'll just assume they are unsafe spy devices until proven otherwise.

I've been using the paid version for couple of years and it's working great. There are alternatives but I think it's a good way to support good company.

yeah, but maybe you're blind and mostly just listen? I don't know.