It's also not as SEO-gameable (since fediverse domains are inherently more fragmented than a large, high-reputation domain for SEO algorithms to rank highly), and doesn't have an inherent monetization system (unlike platforms like Twitter with their ad payouts), so that's a couple more things going for us.
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Some of the really expensive chairs like Herman Miller are not only really good chairs, they’re also designed to be beautiful pieces of furniture
Plus they last a while and are pretty repairable/refurbishable due to how widespread they are. Meanwhile most random folding chairs or generic office chairs will have some random part break and then you'll have to face the unfortunate reality that nobody sells that one random part you need, so now it's junk.
Make sure to sign up via a creator's link! (the ones they'll put in the sponsored section of a video where they are "sponsored" by Nebula as one of Nebula's creators)
Gets you a pretty good discount and drops it to about 30 bucks a year.
True, but that also depends on the circumstance.
Again, a lot of people just use LLMs now as their primary search engine. Google is an afterthought, ChatGPT is their source of choice. If they ask a simple question with legal or medical implications, with tons of sources, that the LLM answers with identical accuracy to those other publications, should they be sued?
I think it would be a lot better to allow people to sue if it provides false advice that ends up causing some material harm, because at the end of the day, a lot of stuff can be considered "medical."
Maybe a trans person asks what gender affirming care is. Is that medical? I'd say it is. Should that not get discussed through an LLM if a person wants to ask it?
I'm not saying I wholeheartedly oppose this idea of banning them from giving this type of advice, but I do think there are a lot of concerns around just how many people this would actually benefit vs just cutting people off from information they might not bother to look up elsewhere, or worse, just go to less reputable, more fringe sites with less safeguards and less accountability instead.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this, even as much as I want AI companies to be held accountable for things like that.
The reason so many people turn to LLMs for legal/medical advice is because those are both incredibly unaffordable, complex, hard to parse fields.
If I ask an LLM what x symptom, y symptom, and z symptom could mean, and it cites multiple reputable sources to tell me it's probably the flu and tells me to mask up for a bit, that's probably gonna be better than that person being told "I'm sorry, I can't answer that"
At the same time, I might provide an LLM with all those symptoms, and it might hallucinate an answer and tell me I have cancer, or tell me to inject bleach to cure myself.
I feel like I'd much rather see a bill that focuses more on how the LLMs come to their conclusions, rather than just a blanket ban.
Like for example, if an LLM cites multiple medical journals, government health websites, etc, and provides the same information they had up, but it turns out to be wrong later because those institutions were wrong, would it be justified to sue the LLM company for someone else's accidental misinformation?
But if an LLM pulls from those sources, gets most of it right, but comes to a faulty conclusion, then should a private right of action exist?
I'm not really sure myself to be honest. A lot of people rely on LLMs for their information now, so just blanket banning them from displaying certain information, for a lot of people, is just gonna be "you can't know", and they're not gonna bother with regular searches anymore. To them, the chatbot IS the search engine now.
Mullvad does have this issue. That is why in their logging policy explaining what they don't, do, or have to log, they explicitly state:
For credit card, PayPal, Swish, and bank wire, we do use third parties: Stripe, PayPal, and our bank SEB (which handles both Swish and bank wire). These kinds of companies log everything. For that reason alone, it is out of our control that they have records showing which people have paid us money (i.e. processing of personal data).
As a customer of their services, these entities would allow us to request this information if we chose to do so. In short, your payment actions with these two methods are not anonymous and the GDPR and other relevant data protection regulations may apply if you are making a payment by credit card, PayPal, Swish or by bank wire.
This person would have been just as easily unmasked had they paid Mullvad and had that account found by the government, as they were when the government found their Proton account.
They don't provide specific numbers, but here's GitHub themselves acknowledging it's a big enough problem that they're planning on implementing a feature they've ignored community requests about for like 10 years.
Like someone else said, the stuff made to make someone look militaristic, or more like a strong/scary dude, at least in their eyes.
Gun rights themed stickers on their phone, thin blue line patches or hats, way too much camo, having a massive, overly expensive truck with blacked out windows, and honestly at least in my community, just having anything with an American flag prominently visible on it tends to mean you're a person that's... not that nice to be around. Also sometimes common with people that've got way too much Christianity themed items, though that's more of a higher likelihood than a strong certainty.
To give you some examples of what people with any of that have said/displayed to me:
- "I want to be a prison guard so I can boss around the inmates and make them clean the floors while I watch. I might get to taze them too!"
- "I wish those people (homeless woman and her children) outside would stop begging and get a job, I don't like being asked for money..."
- Deliberately misgendering my coworkers (after being directly verbally corrected by them)
- Preaching so much to me and my coworkers (about specifically hyper-conservative christian values. She goes to a church where women aren't allowed to be pastors or preach at all) that one of my Christian coworkers who had a cross necklace had to hide it because the woman got so excited from seeing it on him that her nonstop preaching made him have a panic attack
- A cop telling me I'm doing my job wrong, after I showed him the state law saying I was allowed to do that (he proceeded to do nothing about what he was called there for, and leave after chatting with the security guard for 10 minutes, on the clock)
- Sexually assaulted one of my coworkers
I've never had any experiences even remotely close to that from people who just... didn't feel the need to compensate for their masculinity with guns and big trucks, or justify their actions with Jesus and "patriotism." Sure there's always some general rudeness or people just being ignorant or inconsiderate, but nothing on that scale.
on *a yet-to-be-released Motorola phone, which will be the only Motorola phone to support GrapheneOS.
Treat it similarly to how you should treat posting on any social media service.
If you make a post, that is federated to all kinds of other instances. They might process your delete request, or they might just ignore it and keep old posts stored for as long as they want. It's the same with if you make a post on Reddit, someone sends that thread's URL to the Internet Archive, and now there's a permanent record of your account there.
If you post publicly, expect it will be recorded by someone publicly viewing it, and it will not be guaranteed to be removed.
I've noticed a few, but nothing crazy. Just the occasional post where I can tell this is an automated account that isn't marked as such, posting shit like short-captioned AI slop images 1-3 times a day, usually on Mastodon and not Lemmy.
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Randomly flipping through a book and picking some words that stood out to me!
The doctors who used it daily said it worked fine, and it did. Then those doctors became 20% less capable at identifying tumors in their patients.
The Meta AI security researcher literally said, and I quote: "It’s been working well with my non-important email very well so far and gained my trust on email tasks" when asked why she'd give it access to her primary email, where it subsequently started trashing her whole inbox.
All of the participants in the cognitive debt paper's research had the AI actually produce the results they were looking for, but they all became less capable mentally as a result.
And when a woman in South Korea killed two men using advice given to her by ChatGPT, it worked fine for her, didn't it?
That's not to say your use of AI makes you a murderer. Far from it. But we have quite well documented evidence of LLMs simply making people dumber. You are not an exception to that, unless your brain biologically operates entirely differently from everyone else's.
When you use neurons less, the connections become weaker, and less new connections get made. When you offload work to something else, like an LLM, you stop training your brain to get better, and you let parts of it slowly die.
Using AI is like using a hydraulic robot to bench press for you. You're going to move the weights, but your muscle mass ain't growing.
The more you outsource the very function of thinking to a chatbot, the more reliant your brain will become on that chatbot to think as well as it used to, and when that chatbot regularly hallucinates faulty answers and logic, ignores best practices, inefficiently implements solutions, and gets things wrong, your brain is not improving as a result of that.
This doesn't mean you should never use AI. I use it to automatically clean up the transcriptions of my voice notes sometimes, and all that does is save me time from correcting the output of the text I just spoke. It's genuinely helpful, and doesn't meaningfully deskill me in any way. But if I used it to try and do everything for me, not only would it have made a ton of mistakes, but I'd then be even less capable of fixing them.
"doesn't work" doesn't mean the AI literally does not produce any output or do anything, it means it has so many flaws it's just a fundamentally bad technology to be using.
And don't worry, I've got sources.
LLMs still routinely hallucinate, and even implementations being used by AI safety researchers can't help but automatically wipe email inboxes without permission. They atrophy your brain the longer you use them, cause both general dependency and emotional dependency, as well as deskill you at your job, they produce content favored worse by both humans and the AI models searching for trustworthy sources, and to top it all off, scaling laws are already failing to improve AI models enough to fix these problems, companies aren't seeing returns, the economy gained essentially nothing from AI investment, usage, and growth, and public perception by the people actually affected most by AI is only getting worse while the people financially incentivized to keep building it say it's going to get better, all while datacenters accelerate global warming and LLMs keep killing people.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather not support a technology that makes you get fundamentally worse at most cognitive tasks, damages the planet, burns money that could otherwise go to something more valuable, all while randomly killing mentally vulnerable people.
I'm honestly surprised they never got hit for this. It's one thing for our antitrust system to be shit, but to look at a policy that explicitly states "you have to give us the best possible price otherwise we will kick you off our platform and take away the majority of your possible customers" isn't even burying the lead at all.
or I guess in this case, shit.
Same here.
Go to Android Developer Settings > Display Cutout, set it to one of the other options and it should shift the app down a bit so you can access the buttons. (change it back after ofc)
I used "waterfall cutout" but others might work depending on your phone model. Afaik no other fix is possible without the app's code itself being modified.
So if my fist spontaneously uses force against a fascist's face, it's legal? Oh wait, I forgot, laws only apply to the people who don't like fascists now.
What I hate is that as much as I try to repair things, I just can't do it because of companies not giving a fuck.
My monitor has been regularly having major display glitches, and I think it's due to a cold solder joint, but my monitor is just glued and welded together in such a way where if I tried fixing it, I'd crack the screen and make it even more useless, so now I just have to... get a whole new monitor.