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House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Apple over AI censorship
Cool. So Rachel Maddow has nothing to fear from the Administration despite the saber rattling, and the DoJ and FCC won't be weaponized for a political agenda from the "other side". That makes me feel better.22july2013 said:People here believe that private companies should be allowed to censor their customers and employees, and that the government should not be allowed to stop it. While this is true, the government has many "100% legal options" at their disposal, such as not buying any products for their own employees from companies that censor free speech. Therefore, investigations serve a purpose.
Besides, an investigation is itself protected under free speech laws, since Congress cannot censor itself either, and people typically forget that constitutional rights also apply to elected officials.
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Apple is lying about Apple Intelligence, John Gruber says -- and he's right
"If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....KalMadda said:I think people are being way too hard on Apple over this. For all we know, it sounds like they actually did have these features most of the way completed, but ran into issues later in the process, and so now have to spend time repairing and reworking elements. And the ads they ran were very clear that those features weren’t available yet. Sometimes things come up and happen, I’d rather they spend the time to fix whatever issues they ran into with it then them rushing it out for release…
Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form? And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when.
Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
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Apple confirms that Apple Intelligence Siri features are taking longer than expected
Somewhat shocking opinion piece by John Gruber. In general he's always been pretty upbeat about Apple, but not today.
"What Apple showed regarding the upcoming “personalized Siri” at WWDC was not a demo. It was a concept video. Concept videos are bullshit, and a sign of a company in disarray, if not crisis. The Apple that commissioned the futuristic “Knowledge Navigator” concept video in 1987 was the Apple that was on a course to near-bankruptcy a decade later...
Last week’s announcement — “It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” — was, if you think about it, another opportunity to demonstrate the current state of these features. Rather than simply issue a statement to the media, they could have invited select members of the press to Apple Park, or Apple’s offices in New York, or even just remotely over a WebEx conference call, and demonstrate the current state of these features live, on an actual device. That didn’t happen. If these features exist in any sort of working state at all, no one outside Apple has vouched for their existence, let alone for their quality....
Why did Apple show these personalized Siri features at WWDC last year, and promise their arrival during the first year of Apple Intelligence? Why, for that matter, do they now claim to “anticipate rolling them out in the coming year” if they still currently do not exist in demonstratable form?
And now they look so out of their depth, so in over their heads, that not only are they years behind the state-of-the-art in AI, but they don’t even know what they can ship or when. Their headline features from nine months ago not only haven’t shipped but still haven’t even been demonstrated, which I, for one, now presume means they can’t be demonstrated because they don’t work."
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_the_state_of_cupertino
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Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing
What was the search? I'll try it with Google and with Gemini just as a comparative test.ihatescreennames said:
My wife has a sub to ChatGPT and uses it all the time, several times a day. Just 30 minutes ago we were coming back from the market and a question arose about the dates and times of an upcoming play at our local high school. She did a quick google search and got no results that matched what she was looking for but DID get ads and sponsored links and other cruft.badmonk said:
You could make the argument that all should be broken up but I suspect AI will change the story on search sooner than we expect.
Then she opened the ChatGPT app and asked it for the dates of the play and mentioned the name of the school. I was expecting it wouldn’t work since the info she is looking for is so recent and about a small event at a relatively small town. It came back with 3 days and the times it was showing. No ads, no sponsored links, just the answer she needed. -
Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing
Tim Cook did, on behalf of Apple. It gave them deniability.ihatescreennames said:
I thought I read here and at other places that Apple did not contribute to Trump’s inauguration. Has that changed?AppleInsider said:The case brought by the DOJ is in spite of efforts by tech companies to curry favor with the new administration. Google, like Apple and other tech giants, contributed to President Trump's inauguration in January. This has resulted in an inquiry in the US Senate over the donations.
