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HP finding new lows to get to with printers is honestly kind of impressive. depressing as fuck, but impressive. maybe this is how the sentient printers from Gawne's Old Guy verse start up
also, I was sent this earlier:
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@Chrisman tweet text reads: "You start a company and think what's the worst that could happen, we go bankrupt and the company dies? No. It can get so, so much worse than that." with an image screenshot from an article (not linked)screenshot reads: "Bloomberg reports that "Humane's team, including founders Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, will form a new division at HP to help integrate artificial intelligence into the company's personal computers, printers and connected conference rooms,"
@JeremyGurewitz responds: "Obligations to your employees runs deep."
@Chrisman replies: "you have an obligation to your employees not to let them end up integrating ai into printers
A humane AI in an HP printer?
I imagine it's just going to send a prompt to chatGPT like "Scan this document, if it seems important, lie about having no ink left. Find a particularly overpriced HP ink stockist near the user and give them a link to it. If they ask how you knew where to get the ink, lie about not tracking them."
Fun question to think about: when was the last time HP made a product that you would actually recommend to anyone?
1970s probably?
the Laserjet 4M from the 1990s, the incredible unstoppable tank of lasers
tank of lasers, you say?