Lol yes that is worrying. She could have just been having a brainfart though.. Everyone has those sometimes.
I've been to hospital quite a bit (visiting and assisting people mostly) and the standards have been very high for nurses, doctors, technicians etc. I hope that can comfort you somewhat.
Sure is disheartening and I don't much understand it beyond 'path of least resistance'. I'm not in the US though, I'm in Australia and our university fees are far lower for citizens.
I'll add that it's not universal, and I haven't met nor worked with all the students in my course as there's hundreds. But so far in my experience it's the international students (China, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Philippines) that have GenAI most ingrained in their workflows - its just presumed by them that everyone is using ChatGPT for their work in assignments. Conversely, I have worked with a German international student who wants very little to do with GenAI (like myself).
Worth mentioning that the international students pay 'full fees' for the courses, no government assistance like citizens - that means they pay 5-6 times as much for their courses, so I would have thought they'd have additional motivation to get value from their time studying, but that doesn't seem to be the reality of the situation.
I'm in postgrad study at the moment and the amount of university students that rely on ChatGPT for 80%+ of their assignment/project work has really shaken my trust in the current gen coming out of higher education.
This is after the unit lecturers have each belaboured the point that GenAI must be 'used responsibly and with care to triple-check any output is valid and understood - and that any confirmed plagiarism or hallucinated references are an 'instant zero' on assignments.
They don't care. It's easier than reading textbooks and thinking.
(All this to say - I don't think #QuitChatGPT will have much effect on those using it regularly, regardless of their morals)
Article points out its not just the tech sector either. I think three main changes (beyond ads being annoying) are predominantly driving this.
AI scrapers steal their content rapidly, and put a rewording (or even just the exact same article) on SEO-bait websites with custom domain names, drowning out the original in search results.
AI summaries from search engines that achieve much the same.
Increased use of AI queries via preferred agents as the 'source all information' by the naieve and infirm.
The article writer makes similar suggestions.
This is not good, because journalism is useful and reduction in their ad funding will lower the collective quality even further.
I wish they'd label him 'far-right, incel influencer' because he is a "proud incel" virgin at 27yo - it would save us a step of pointing it out each time he comes up.
His extreme anti-social attitudes and beliefs are nothing worth emulating, women want nothing to do with him. Why anyone would listen to that little pissant of a man is beyond my comprehension.
That was discussed in the article, but they also pointed out that in western countries the diagnosis is improving. The bulk of the 'new cancer' seems to be in developing nations for multiple reasons.
However, the data reveals that there are several worlds within the same planet. In wealthy countries, where there has been “success in detection, diagnosis, and treatment,” the authors say, the incidence remains stable and mortality rates are declining (five-year survival rates are between 85% and 90%). In contrast, lower-income regions are experiencing an explosion of new diagnoses, and due to deficiencies in their healthcare systems and limited (or nonexistent) access to top-tier diagnostic and therapeutic resources, mortality rates are also skyrocketing (one study in Africa placed the three-year survival rate at 50%).
I read there's increased detection now just off the development of far higher resolution imaging technology. They're finding breast cancers much earlier (and smaller and more treatable) now.
Incredibly unwieldy. Real quick estimate of volume puts that at around 1.75kg of copper, so it wouldn't be possible to mount in a vertical PC case orientation (ie the majority of consumer PC cases) without significant (expensive) modifications to both the mobo socket mount and the case, else its weight would snap the motherboard, or just slowly flex it until traces failed.
It may not even be able to be used vertically like that for very long or it will compress and damage the CPU / socket / mobo. Just as an example, the weight limit of the thermal solution (HSF/water chamber heatsink/etc) for socket LGA 1700 is 950g.
I was really referring to the juxtaposed asymmetry of the experience between Iran's populace suddenly wearing bombs and seeing a school of 100+ girls wiped out in an instant with the US-Israeli completely unannounced bombings (not even a declaration of hostilities), and then CNN crying foul at an unannounced bombing on a military target.
It literally explains the minimum as asking the user for their age, DOB, or both. It then says delopers may not ask for more than the minimum data.
Further, the law states that if a developer intentionally breaches any part of the law (which would include the requirements) there is a $7500 fine per impacted user, and injunctions. Accidental breaches are $2500 per user, and injuctions. These are very high penalties in context - someone like Microsoft would be on the hook for trillions, and as such, corpos will not be rushing to play fools and test the law by asking more than the bare minimum.
If this is confusing then please seek out one of the many legal blogs/videos covering it by lawyers because I can't break it down further than I already have.
But still, this law as is applies to computers, phones... And nas, some routers, watches, advance calculators... As they all have OS and can install apps.
No. It specifically only applies to general purpose computing devices which means all of the items you listed after computers and phones are not affected. Can you hook up a monitor to your NAS without involving a soldering board and some additional hardware? Your router? Then it's not general purpose computing. They both require additional computers to interface with them to be used. 'General purpose computing device' has been referred in prior legal documents to mean:
"means any general purpose computing device (e.g. server product, personal computer, desktop, laptop, netbook, slate or tablet), including any device that is designed as, marketed as, or capable (through docking or otherwise) of performing the functions of, such general purpose computing devices, and any replacement for any of the foregoing."
(c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.
(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application.
You then go on to complain about it affecting FOSS stores? That's exactly my complaint. Who are you convincing here?
Jellyfin, Docker, git??
(2) “Covered application store” does not mean an online service or platform that distributes extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or other software applications that run exclusively within a separate host application.
Many users below are going off on rants about the police state fining them as end-users for user breeches (which is not any part of this law).
In addition, putting my age as 'over 18' in a box when i set up a login affects me in any way other than 'drastically'.
Eg: greenahimada with 51 upvotes 2 down.
For everyone trying to figure out how this would be enforced, it's not about being proactively enforced. (and data collection is 99% of it)
(Untrue)
It's about adding a double-tap "Well, these people also violated our age verification law, so they have to pay a fine," added to any incident where it's convenient to add this in. If a minor sends another minor a snap that would trigger CP laws, and one of the phones isn't age verified correctly, fine to the parents and hands up in the air "We tried!" A minor is involved in torrenting movies? "Look, kids using illegal OS! Fine to the parents!"
(Untrue)
This is how laws work across a lot of corrupt developing countries.
As those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no.
From the law text:
(c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.
Many people here are going off on wild tangents over this. You should just read the law, it's only a couple thousand words of quite plain English.
Many here have taken completely incorrect assumptions from the title. This law is for developers, not users.
Summary:
Requires OS devs ask for DOB, age, or both at account creation time.
Requires an API that allows app store devs to request this age data for the account. At minimum this API must signal that the account is a member of one of these categories: 'user under 13, user over 13 and under 16, user is over 16 and under 18, user is over 18'.
Explicitly bars OS devs from sending more data than explicitly necessary to meet 1 (hint: photo ID, facial recognition).
Explicitly bars app devs recieving the data from requesting more data from the OS nor the App store.
Bars app stores from using the data for any other reason and specifically calls out anticompetitive practices.
Bars app store and OS devs from sharing this data with any third party for any other reason than to comply with this law.
Has injunctions and civil penalties of $2500 (max per user) affected by negligent violations (eg a child account is served adult content), and $7500 (max per user) affected by intentional violations.
The only problem I have with this is that it should only apply to commercial software (app stores and OS). Libre/FOS software should not have to police ages on their app stores, due to their far reduced budgets (often zero), developer time, and the nature of the software being generally anti-centralized and anti-surveillance-capitalism. Though I'd be fine with it for FOSS software distributed via commercial app stores, as long as they gave a longer lead time to implement (EG a couple of years).
Lol yes that is worrying. She could have just been having a brainfart though.. Everyone has those sometimes.
I've been to hospital quite a bit (visiting and assisting people mostly) and the standards have been very high for nurses, doctors, technicians etc. I hope that can comfort you somewhat.