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New comment by that_was_good in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

that_was_good — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:17:14 +0000

After they just raised 122 billion dollars?

New comment by that_was_good in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

that_was_good — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:14:24 +0000

39,345 People were killed in traffic accidents last year in the US alone [1]. Not including permanent injury. If humans were replaced by self driving cars at their current accident rate, 34,000 less people a year would die [2].

Even if every US city had Waymos blocking the street for every single disaster, as they did here. I find it extremely unlikely that even the indirect deaths would come close to that number. And that's assuming Waymo learn from this lesson. Which they will.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-estimates-39345-t... [2] https://storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/files/documents...

New comment by that_was_good in "How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy"

that_was_good — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 06:57:21 +0000

Except all users can opt out. Am I missing something?

It says here:

> If you are on a ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro or ChatGPT Free plan on a personal workspace, data sharing is enabled for you by default, however, you can opt out of using the data for training.

Enterprise is just opt out by default...

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8983130-what-if-i-want-t...