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I forget, am i meant to be shaking with rage that the EU have regulations OR that the regulations include disclosure carveouts?

You're supposed to go blind with rage after "the EU".

I mean if you're gonna regulate, then regulate. But what's the point of making everyone do extra paperwork if there's no actual environmental effect of doing the paperwork because the big guys have loopholes

While the precedent is clearly bad individual DCs don't matter, as long as the actual consumption and environmental load correctly shows up in regional stats.

As long as they pay the quotas it doesn't matter. DCs don't eat the water, people can go and take samples, measure temperature. Heck, how complicated it will be to put out a solar panel powered thermometer with a SIM card? Or set up a drone with a IR camera to fly around a DC each day? If someone wants to carry out a crusade against DCs, sure, there's plenty of precedent for that too! (see Cervantes 1605 and 1615) And of course if hedge funds want to know when to short the AI bubble they'll be doing the same anyway, so the commission should ask them to publish their data with a few months lag.


It's that EU has illusion of regulation that is nerfed with either loopholes or lack of enforcement.

Nerfed carrying a lot of water here, neglecting the fact that big tech is successfully using the US federal government to threaten the whole of EU if they are slightly mean to Zuckerberg + friends.

That is part of it, but e.g. GDPR enforcement has been dismal since its inception, also against European companies. E.g. "Pay or Okay" is widespread, although it's clearly illegal.

https://noyb.eu/en/noybs-pay-or-okay-report-how-companies-ma...


I mean, thats the deal Europe signed up for after WW2.

Yea, regulation with no effect is just extra paperwork for no reason

An amuse-bouche of prior art:

2016: Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'

2022: OnlyFans creator has alleged that she had sexual intercourse with multiple Meta employees and it successfully reversed the ban on her Instagram account


ye olde corporate reply to all bomb .. no more emails this week everyone, we have used up our quota

> the court found evidence that he sent ChatGPT links to his staff, with testimony confirming he used the tool for "faster answers" to find a way out of the contract

That is from looking the case up elsewhere - so from his testimony + discovery found him citing chatgpt and sending links to chats to others


> a $50-100m ARR org org using baileys for internal messaging

Couldnt they just use post-it notes internally and still be a $50-100m ARR org?


Yes - the interesting part is the decision that the “risk of losing internal comms to a ban is worth it” - even at that size.

According to one of the founders there’s no better way for them to reach a lot of low-skill part-time employees reliably.

It shows the need to bring AI to where people already are and onto the platforms they already use.


browsing through the details etc, i genuinely thought they were another twitter vibe coding grifter

The world’s most successful one!

Every twitter grifter awards themselves that honorific

> what's in it for google

everyone elses product does it


dont let anyone ever tell you "you are too stupid" to be the CEO of a multi billion dollar corporation

Sky King managed it, no reason claude shouldnt be able to.

I use Obsidian to view a series of markdown files I am generating / working on with a LLM - a rendered interface if you will with pointing and clicking

There are tools for rendering like pandoc. Way more powerful than Obsidian.

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