Is Ai coming for your job? (also, updated Ai development)

[92tide]

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.

The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.

Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.

This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.

They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2021097860490723535

we have never had one, but i’m pretty sure every other house on our block does

 

[Bamabuzzard]

we have never had one, but i’m pretty sure every other house on our block does

I let other people get them and as much coverage as they now have, with my neighbor's on either side of us and across from us having one, it automatically covers my house. So if I want to see who's coming up to my house, I just ask my neighbors. LOL! I'm cheap son of a gun. LOL!

 

[crimsonaudio]

Maybe tap the brakes...

 

[CrimsonNagus]

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[crimsonaudio]

What an absolutely wild story!

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

theshamblog.com

 

[TIDE-HSV]

What an absolutely wild story!

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

theshamblog.com

Scary!

 

[Tidewater]

I saw this today. Brit Youtuber explores AI's safety protections.

It does not end well for him.
Where is Isaac Asimov when you need him?

 

[Huckleberry]

 

[crimsonaudio]

Bruh...

 

[Bamaro]

The merging of true AI and quantum computing will be game over!

 

[CrimsonNagus]

Bruh...

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This made me think of a Black Mirror episode. The season 2 epsiode "Be Right Back".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Did you see his updated blog post? https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Ars Technica admitted to fabricating quotes with AI in a story about what happened. https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/...-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

I'm not against AI, and I have fun messing around with it, but this industry cannot continue to operate unregulated. It is too dangerous and cannot be allowed to run rampant and attempt to ruin people's lives.

 

[crimsonaudio]

 

[Bamabuzzard]

My mom had a friend call her today and say she was scammed out of $2,000 over the phone by AI. She gets a phone call that she thinks is from her son (literally is his voice) saying that he is in a bind and needs $2,000. She sends the money thinking it was him but only to realize later it was someone using AI to scam her. Be careful, it's a cruel world.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

My mom had a friend call her today and say she was scammed out of $2,000 over the phone by AI. She gets a phone call that she thinks is from her son (literally is his voice) saying that he is in a bind and needs $2,000. She sends the money thinking it was him but only to realize later it was someone using AI to scam her. Be careful, it's a cruel world.

We have a code word and an agreement that we will hang up and call back, with any "emergency" call...

 

[Elefantman]

I saw this today. Brit Youtuber explores AI's safety protections.

It does not end well for him.
Where is Isaac Asimov when you need him?

Where is John Conner when you need him?

 

[Tidewater]

Where is John Conner when you need him?

I have no idea if that is not satire, but if so, it is pretty funny.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

We have a code word and an agreement that we will hang up and call back, with any "emergency" call...

Thats what the sheriff's office told her when she called and reported it. They told her she should have a "code word" with her and her family to defend against things like AI calls.

 

[dayhiker]

This interview was really interesting. It's an interview with Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark.

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