p03locke
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- Comment on McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, in non-corporate, non-shitville, actual talent can do great things with AI.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 2 weeks ago:
It’s a London-based company. How would they know any better?
- Comment on Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push 2 weeks ago:
Hints? No, that’s absolutely guaranteed by GPL, backed by decades of precedent. This is an open-and-shut case.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 weeks ago:
Not sucking?
- Comment on Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows 4 weeks ago:
Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows
These two fragments are contradictory. Copilot is not going away.
Microsoft is working on a de-activation phrase for Microsoft 365 Copilot, making the UX a hands-free experience.
These two fragments are contradictory. Copilot is not going away!
It’s like the author doesn’t understand the implications.
- Comment on One in four unconcerned by sexual deepfakes created without consent, survey finds 4 weeks ago:
The Guardian: We interviewed a police officer, from an organization most of the public doesn’t trust, and he spouted off his opinion. Since he said the magic word “AI”, we jumped all over it.
I’d like to know how this is actually “accelerating violence against women and girls”. This is on the level of “video games promotes violence and creates serial killers” panic statements of the 80s and 90s.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO explains exactly what caused global outage 4 weeks ago:
Cloudflare is way way more transparent than most companies. Any other company, and you wouldn’t get a post-mortem blog article going into technical details of what went wrong.
In fact, this shitty Mashable “article” does a disservice to the more-detailed post.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
democratic centralist government run by the communist party
Sounds like a dictatorship ran by one party.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 month ago:
It’s international. It doesn’t need to be based in England.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
Lenin wanted to create socialism from the top down, establishing a dictatorship
When somebody casually says the word “dictatorship” as a serious solution to a problem, they have already failed.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
The Soviets tried socialism as a ladder to communism, were about instantly corrupted.
No, they tried communism as a ladder to socialism, entered the dictatorship of the proletariat phase, and were instantly corrupted. Because, you know… dictatorship.
Lenin’s idea of socialism will never work, because it is far too optimistic, and does not factor the corruptibility of humans.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
Capitalism ain’t the problem. Capitalism for the economy and democracy for the government is the best we humans have figured out. Problem being, money, as in any system, has been funneled to the top. The top took our vote via lack of education and media control, and their power has been snowballing for the last 20-30 years. Now we’re too ignorant and misled to vote in our own best interests. We’re seeing the end game, the end game of any unregulated system.
Capitalism was the system the rich wanted to ensure they still had a foothold. In the past, it was fiefdoms and land ownership. Then a bunch of rich Americans got together (the founding fathers) and democracy wasn’t going see the light of day unless there was some level of compromise, and they got to keep their power in some way. Democracy was supposed to be a counterbalance, yes, but capitalism isn’t actually necessary for a functional society.
Ever since humanity evolved into a barter system, the enemy has always been the rich and powerful (who also happen to be rich), and the tools they use to keep themselves in power. Never ever forget that.
- Comment on 'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced 1 month ago:
The internet was a bubble. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful. It just means that companies are overselling its value. There are too many companies jumping on the bandwagon, and not all of them with survive when the bubble pops.
It’s still bad and destructive, but I think far too many people are interpreting this bubble as “if I wait a few more years, this technology will disappear and I won’t have to worry about it any more”. No, it’s more like the internet where if people wait a few more years and don’t use it, they will lag behind and be replaced by people who understand the tech. Companies that don’t use it will die out.
I like Hank Green’s recent takes on AI.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 2 months ago:
I don’t want to use LLMs. I feel the majority of use cases for LLMs are inauthentic, lazy, unhelpful, and uncreative.
Well, that’s just your opinion. Don’t accuse everybody else who are using it as evil psychopaths, under some “LLM psychosis”.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 2 months ago:
It’s foolish to think this will just blow over, and the tech will magically disappear, no matter how you think about its ethics.
It’s better to take control of the technology directly, promote open-source models, push local usage, use it as a tool for the people, not as a tool for corporations. If you don’t take control of the situation, the world will take control of it for you.
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 months ago:
So, not heroin?
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 months ago:
That only helps some, but not enough. I would bitch and report this article to the moderators, but the moderator is the one who posted the goddamn article!
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 2 months ago:
It wasn’t. It was on a “Family Medicine” subreddit, which the name alone gives off red flags.
Don’t get medical advice from Reddit. Don’t even have “medical advice” subreddits. The bot was probably doing the best it could with the information available. But, of course, I can’t get the full context, because OP linked to a paid article.
- Comment on Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice 2 months ago:
Ahhh, yes, the “stick your head in the sand until it blows over” strategy. Because that’s always worked, right?
- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 2 months ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 2 months ago:
What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.
- Comment on Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on "Vibes" 2 months ago:
To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 2 months ago:
It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.
I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.
The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.
But, that’s not how this works.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 3 months ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
No, you didn’t. You were literally arguing for a binary choice.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 months ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 months ago:
I don’t think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 4 months ago:
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 4 months ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
