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- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 days ago:
Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.
Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn’t agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.
You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.
I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.
None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.
This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 days ago:
Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.
You mean drones? You’re talking about drones. What’s wrong with drones?
We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.
They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.
Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you’re arguing on right now.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 days ago:
I don’t think it’s fair to take the two items they were fighting against, and warping around the details, as a statement of acceptance, especially given how Stinky Pete wouldn’t even budge on those two.
Anthropic took a stand on a couple of guardrails, that you or I would consider to be very basic acceptable rules, but that the rest of their competition immediately lambasted, at the risk of their Pentagon contract, and even a national blacklisting that could completely take down their company. They lost, but at least they didn’t back down. And they are still at risk of being blackballed, because we live in a dictatorship where some fuckhead president can write whatever EO his wants without Congressional approval.
I’m sure as fuck ain’t going to call Dario a hero, or ignore all of the shit Anthropic did to get this far. But, I am going to call out when a company and CEO sticks their neck out in front of a crazed axe-wielding executioner.
- Comment on Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI 3 days ago:
ChatGPT is crap, compared to Claude Opus. Claude does a helluva lot better with any of the programming tasks I throw at it.
Trump and Stinky Pete choosing the worst decision as usual. I hope they don’t follow through with all of their threats of putting Anthropic on a security threat list like Huawei, but if they do, maybe that prompts Anthropic to do the right thing and open-source the model.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s because they shit awful code, with more bugs than my house this summer? And even when the code doesn’t malfunction in an obvious way, it’s harder to decode it than my drunk ramblings?
Naaaaaaaaah, that’s just prejudice. /s
- Comment on Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites 3 weeks ago:
Yep, this is what I use.
- Comment on TikTok USA is broken 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content 1 month ago:
You obviously haven’t seen certain sections of CivitAI.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 2 months ago:
Yeah, Home Assistant is the way to go, but it’s been a slow progression because every company is more interested in proprietary lock-in than trying to push for standards like Z-Wave. It’s cloud-based bullshit everywhere, which is exactly the wrong kind of thing for in-home privacy. There needs to be a better push for standard APIs and internal wireless protocols.
This shit should be fucking easy. HVAC systems are still wired like it’s the 1930s, and all it takes is one company to just swoop in and create an all-in-one solution that uses standards and monitors inside/outdoor/room temps, humidity, occupancy, etc. It could control smart vents to close off rooms that aren’t in use, turn on humidity systems when it’s too low and isn’t too cold outside, hook into other rules from HA.
Doing the right thing could earn them millions, but nobody wants to bother actually doing it.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 months ago:
This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.
Is this “journalist” an industry plant?
- Comment on McDonald's pulls AI-generated Christmas advert following backlash 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Not sucking?
- Comment on Bye, Copilot: Microsoft is making Copilot a hands-free experience on Windows 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
So, not heroin?
- Comment on Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
