Tip:
Check your system language and country settings. Then change the language choice in “Siri and Apple Intelligence” to some other language.
If they’re different—and English (US) / English (Canadian) (or UK) are sufficiently different—Apple Intelligence will refuse to work.
This settings mismatch is tied to your Apple ID, carries over across all your macOS and iOS devices, and persists across OS updates (so far).
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Great tip. Thanks!
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They’re glorified chatbots, electronic parrots. They’re so far from achieving sentience that this is an issue to be concerned about centuries from now, or possibly never. Whoever decided to recklessly call them AI, a term absolutely guaranteed to misrepresent them and their abilities, has a lot to answer for.
The paper, published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, also warned that a mistaken belief that AI systems are already conscious could lead to a waste of political energy as misguided efforts are made to promote their welfare.
I’m sure it wasn’t the intention, but their paper and the media’s reporting on it will just spread that mistaken belief further, even if the paper itself acknowledges that we’re not there yet. Most people are not going to understand that this is a hypothetical sci-fi “what if” question and not something happening right now or a year from now.
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I can’t believe it: there is actually an unmitigated GOOD use for AI!
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Then change the language choice
Pretty much anything other than English (Neutral Californian) confuses them.
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The company worked with Jim Browning, a “scam baiter” who posts videos of himself wasting the time of criminals, to plant phone numbers on websites where they were likely to be found by fraudsters hoping to scam people
Jim Browning has some excellent videos on the YouTubes. Not content with wasting scammer’s time he has been able to get scam rings shut down.
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call me ‘unslop-timistic’ but i don’t think this will be the last time this happens
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I’m certain that the scammers are training AI models themselves to do their job for them. Soon we will have AIs talking to AIs in a completely closed loop. Just using electricity for nothing
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Cue Bernistoun reference:
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I don’t know who this writer is, and it sounds pretty sci-fi, but then, so did the idea of the richest person on earth taking over US data and financial systems.
No, that’s not science fiction, and it’s not me going paranoid crazy. It’s what Musk is planning to do. And fast.
Musk has been building giant AI programs and massive AI computing centers for years now. He just finished building Colossus in Tennessee, the world’s largest AI computing center. Colossus was just launched in September 2024. It’s a part of Musk’s xAI company, which he intends to use to completely revamp how the federal government works. All these reductions in the federal workforce and bureaucracy are a prelude to putting the entire government in the hands of his AI company, and other subcontractors.
This is technofascism on a massive scale. Musk intends to make trillions from this, and probably give Trump a piece of the pie. Would that be illegal? Sure, but Trump can’t be prosecuted for this, thanks to the Supreme Court’s rulings. He has immunity even to charges of bribery.
I think this explains Musk’s huge role in Trump’s government, and his focus on DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), which by executive order has been given immense power across the government at every level.
Trump could never do any of this on his own, much less even think of it. But Musk has dreamed of this for decades, and he has convinced Trump to back it to the hilt.
In the next few months, were going to see it happen. It won’t be noticed at first, because it’s quite complex and our journalists and media are cowered by fear and narrowness of vision. But it’s already happening. And this explains the outer confusion as to what Trump is planning, what his end game is. Turns out it’s not Trump’s end game, it’s Musk’s. And Musk is way ahead of everyone on this.
Call me crazy if you like, but this is what’s really happening behind the scenes. Trump will say all kinds of crazy shit to distract from it, do crazy things as well, but this is the real program. Don’t get caught up in all the cruelty and threats and BS being thrown about. That’s bad enough, but it’s not the real point.
Turning the government of the United States into a technofascist AI kleptocracy that enriches the investor class even more is the point. And this is why all the techno-oligarchs like Bezos and Zuckerberg and Ellison are all now gung-ho Trumpers. They will get even richer themselves through the AI government programs Musk will oversee.
Trump himself is just a distraction from the real powers remaking our country. A simple pawn enriching himself in the process of turning democracy into a computer algorithm controlled by the techno-oligarchs.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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See, that’s the thing… is he? It might very well BE his plan, but we all see how well AI is working in the real world…
Even if this is “the plan”, I think that the cruelty is ALSO the plan.
the “fascist” is the key term there - the cruelty remains the point, not just the enriching the techno-oligarchs.
So, I don’t think he’s wrong entirely, but I just don’t think that “Musk is ahead” of shit. This might be his plan, but we’ve seen how well AI works. They are imagining a thing that does not exist, and likely never will.
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I see what you mean, but I also don’t think that means that a likelihood of failure means Musk won’t try to do it anyway. After all, he’s the same person who apparently thinks, for one thing, that his ugly, ridiculous cybertruck is a winning product that will soon dislodge the Ford F150 from its top-sales spot.
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Oh sure, he totally will try it, because, of course, he thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us… We know he’s not, though, and this will all be an unmitigated disaster… much like the cybertruck!
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From my perspective, it definitely feels like eradicating trans people is part of the plan.
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Agreed, it is. 
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I hate this distraction narrative that people keep throwing out. “The tariffs are just a distraction.” Yep, because we are all lucky enough to ignore a totally artificial recession. “The attacks on immigrants and trans people are a distraction.” Cool, except that doesn’t mean there aren’t real people having their lives destroyed by them? “The talk about Gaza is a distraction.” And I suppose the US taking a more active hand in genocide, the final collapse of international law, and the resulting wars across the Middle East will just be distractions too.
When a burglar lights your home on fire to cover his tracks, that’s not a distraction, that’s arson. His motive doesn’t change that you need firefighters there. We need to care about all of this stuff if we believe human lives matter.
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True. Any thoughts about the AI thing?
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