GMac

I still feel (without any substantiating evidence) that having ai capabilities in my OS that can act without clarit y on user permissions or controls, feels like a vulnerability that will be exploited. Any recommendations to switch to if Mint should start introducing this stuff?

Don't want an AI to look on the internet and decide my problem could be solved by removing the French language...

In shadow of doubt that many companies have painted themselves into a corner and will find the ai revenue correction painful. That said, I'm surprised to hear its already more expensive than people without reference to maintenance debt costs. Makes me wonder if there isn't some good old fashioned malicious compliance at work too...

Great; humanity has found a new way to disappoint me today. :(

Brilliant. That will help customs agents in every other country on the planet to know when a dangerous idiot tries to cross a border outside the USA.

Brilliantly articulated. I completely agree with you.

So a Sam Altman company is coming to solve the problem of too much unidentifiable AI slop on the internet. A problem that has in no small part, been created by OpenAI, another Sam Altman company.

Hard pass.

this might have been what you were thinking of.
https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/10594175/staatssecretaris-van-defensie-tuinman-nederland-is-eind-2028-klaar-voor-een-russische-aanval Outgoing Dutch State Secretary for Defence referred to jailbreaking F-35.

Sorry but I fundamentally disagree. Privacy respecting solutions do not collect unnecessary information.

The packaging of identity validation in the OS breaches this principle by collecting more information than necessary and by collecting that information prior to the existence of a necessitating use case.

It is not necessary to prove my age to do things not restricted by age, nor is it necessary to know who I am, or to prove my exact age, to prove I am older than a certain age.

Even in the efforts I have seen to verify threshold rather than current age instead of identity, I'm not aware of any attempts or solutions that protect against timing attacks or inference attacks as users transition from failing the threshold verification process to passing it.

Most OS code is proprietary and not auditable so any baked in solution cannot possibly pass a zero trust requirement. Access gates should only be applied at the point of need, as such things have always been done in all other scenarios and environments.

Don't give the daily fail any time or circulation. Its worthless trash.

I will care.