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Written by Simon Willison on 2025-01-04 at 23:57

First weeknotes of 2025 https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/weeknotes/

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Written by Drew Breunig on 2025-01-05 at 00:58

@simon it’s amazing how many continue to believe the microphone thing. It’s a fantastic design problem (how do you prove it?)

But I know the platforms aren’t selling ads based on this data. The perception risks are too high and it’s cheaper and just as performant to use everything else.

(I know of ONE case of a company using audio data captured via their app (android only) to target ads, but it was only to identify what TV people were watching and it was disclosed and opt in.)

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Written by Simon Willison on 2025-01-05 at 01:50

@dbreunig it's got to the point now where I can predict the entire sequence of arguments before I even open a thread - found another collection this afternoon on /r/skeptic (they were mostly not being very skeptically minded) https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1htfk5j/i_still_dont_think_companies_serve_you_ads_based/

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Written by Drew Breunig on 2025-01-05 at 02:37

@simon It’s a great example of people confidently arguing about something they know nothing about.

It brings to mind the classic Car Talk, “Andy Letter.” https://youtu.be/skPDrR5RFog?si=tHFkFqjoIuB1Yzwj

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Written by Carlton Gibson 🇪🇺 on 2025-01-05 at 19:10

@simon lovely weeknotes 🥰 — “no arguing on the internet January” just needs a catchy name 🥳

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Written by Christian Lynbech on 2025-01-07 at 13:34

@simon If you will permit yet another comment on AI term post (and yes, I also read the followup), I certainly would not fault you for giving in to the sloppyness around the use of "AI" but it frustrates me that it has come to mean machine learning and nothing else, as if the 70 years that came before it vanished.

To me, using LLM (or ML) correctly identifies the subbranch of a vast area which is AI, but I do understand that the world at large is of a different opinion.

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Written by Simon Willison on 2025-01-07 at 15:11

@mapcar yeah, my default answer to what AI means is that it's the academic discipline that kicked off in 1956 and gave us a sizable chunk of what we now think of as computer science

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Written by Simon Willison on 2025-01-07 at 15:13

@mapcar and honestly, today it feels like in the public discourse it has increasingly become a negative term for "everything about modern computing that I don't like"!

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