This is what happens when you don't take a stand against this shit. He brought it on himself.

You need to be more precise. Assistant was using traditional voice recognition technology, which is "AI" but has been around a lot longer than LLMs have and doesn't have any of the same problems. It's tried and true.

Voice controls have long been a beneficial technology both for navigating hands-free as well as an assistive technology.

AI is an entire field of computer science, and purpose-built models have many practical applications and are much, much better than shoehorning everything under the sun into generative language models.

The primary issue of LLMs is everyone trying to use it for things it was never intended to do. They are a decent model of human language, and can produce text that is a reasonable facsimile of text a human might produce. Not semantically, but in form. They are not a search engine or source of knowledge or reasoning, as so many try to use them.

But despite this mismatch, AI companies just try to brute force the problem away with scale by creating astoundingly massive models from all of the data on the internet in an attempt to encode "knowledge" present on the internet in a very incidental way. This makes for something that can sometimes incidentally produce that encoded information, which fools people into thinking it's "intelligent", when it is, of course, anything but. It's a very roundabout and unreliable way of doing things, which is why it's so incredibly dumb that people have lost their fucking minds over it.

There's still a bunch of us that refuse to use it.

I suppose that's true, but it's mostly out of bewilderment that can possibly think any of this shit is a good idea. It just feels like suddenly being surrounded by a bunch of aliens.

It's given as an example of "choosing again".

Yes. They are con artists with a proven track record of lying and stealing. We shouldn't take anything they say seriously, especially when the reporting reads much more like marketing rather than an incident report.

Sounds interesting but I'm not sure I can provide proof. I work on closed source software for a company and don't really have any online presence outside of this account.

I do everything the normal way (no LLMs) and am probably the only person left at my company doing so.

Yeah that's fair, I guess maybe it depends on your definition of "slide right in". I meant it as "there shouldn't be any signficiant resistance to insertion", which was qualified by needing lubrication/arousal for that to be the case. And I guess it should be further qualified that the thing being inserted should be lubricated as well.

But that being said, I am not a woman, so what I'm saying should certainly be taken with a grain of salt.

Sex is very different from physical examination at a doctor's office. A doctor may need to do things that you wouldn't do for pleasure but are still important for checking on your health. Some of the things they may need to do may be uncomfortable/painful for some people with vaginas. It's also a psychological thing: pleasure during sex/masturbation has a fairly significant psychological component. It's rarely the case that anyone automatically enjoys any interaction with their genitals (male or female genitals, actually). It's very context dependent and dependent on one's frame of mind. Most people are not going into doctor's appointments with any desire or expectation for pleasure, so the experience is just very different from the get go.

Another possible reason for asking you to take a deep breath is that deep breathing can relax muscles and the mind, which can be helpful during an examination.

Similar to other comments, that kinda sounds like vaginismus from what I've read of it. Obviously people have different preferences, but it's not supposed to be painful, assuming you're well-lubricated via foreplay or otherwise. It should be plenty wet inside and not dry. Things should slide right in and not be difficult to insert (important note: I do not have a vagina, this is just based on my sexual experience).

Plenty of people with vaginas don't particularly enjoy penetration for one reason or another (and plenty do), but actual physical pain is another matter, I think.

Wow. Are German websites just full of CVEs all the time?

He hasn't done any real software development in decades, and it shows. His books are chock full of terrible ideas and his ideas of "clean" anything are anything but.

One of the best examples of his hackery is this tweet: https://xcancel.com/unclebobmartin/status/982229999276060672#m

Completely false misinformation presented as fact from an "authority".

Also apparently probably a fascist, based on this and some other tweets I came across while trying to find that one: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1398671193922805761 (apologies for the X link, can't seem to find this one on xcancel?). I would need to look further since it's news to me, but it's hard to imagine any other interpretation of that tweet.