• normalexit
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    1 year ago

    I hate that they are laying people off. I do however want to use some machine learning powered adblock, for those harder to block ads. otherwise I don’t feel like every app needs an AI assistant. It’s bad for the Internet generally and for the power grid.

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      1 year ago

      In theory, that sounds amazing.

      In practice, it will most likely need to send the contents of your browser to some third-party server. No, thanks.

      (Unless it’s crowdsourced, like the first person to visit a page gets dinged, but then the next persons just downloads the set of rules instead of uploading content.)

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        1 year ago

        Privacy preserving federated learning is a thing - essentially you train a local model and send the weight updates back to Google rather than the data itself…but also it’s early days so who knows what vulnerabilities may exist