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  • The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI | Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentatio…

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  • The problem seems to be that it takes competent employees to get anything useful out of an LLM in the first place. However, it is these very employees whom the greedy CEOs want to replace. So the result is that an incredible amount of money is being spent on absolutely nothing.

    The logical conclusion, then, should be that it would make more sense to replace these useless CEOs with AI. Since they’re just making idiotic decisions for a lot of money anyway, there could be lots of savings.

    Unfortunately, however, that will never happen, because contrary to all that talk of KPIs and such, what really matters in the upper echelons of management is never efficiency, but rather ruthlessness and brown-nosing.

  • 'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign

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  • Well, if they were to start doing this on a large scale, everything would probably collapse pretty quickly.

    If, for example, BlackRock were to pull its billions out of AI companies, “the market” would be terrified and smaller investors would start asking about the business model—then they’d quickly realize that it doesn’t add up at all, and they’d want to sell their shares as well, because even this giant player has lost their trust.

    The result would likely be the collapse of the global economic system, since such absurd amounts of money are at stake here that a crash would make the 2003 banking crisis look like a minor slip-up.

    The bitter truth is that this will almost certainly happen sooner or later—and this time, governments will no longer be able to step in to bail out the “systemically important” megacorporations, because the sums involved are so vast that even the richest countries in the world can no longer foot the bill.

  • 'Exactly how the dot-com bubble burst': A market research firm says keep an eye on this AI warning sign

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  • If even the goddamn BusinessInsider comes to this conclusion, I wonder why they don’t also realize that all stock market transactions work this way today. None of this has the slightest connection to the real world anymore. Stock prices are determined purely by how many billionaires—or rather, their concentrated capital—are betting on which companies. And here’s the key: They always win, because even with the most absurd business ideas, they can drive up the price, which only crashes after the super-rich have sold their shares.

    This makes it very easy to understand why the dumbest people in the world never lose money, as long as they’re rich enough.

    Humanity is footing the bill for this, and it’s now becoming very clear just how high that bill is.

  • Scientific fact

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  • The worst part is that negatively charged morons attract each other....

  • Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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  • The latest attempt at chatcontroll was rejected as recently as April 3 mainly due to massive public opposition. They will try again, and someday they will succeed if too many people succumb to defeatism.

    So it’s pretty counterproductive to say that it wouldn’t make any sense anyway, because that’s not the case.

  • Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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  • That is precisely why regulations such as the GDPR are so important; among other things, they set limits on automated facial recognition at the European level.

    As I said, these regulations are under constant attack, especially from the U.S.

    Nevertheless, all is not lost here, and these regulations are indeed being enforced, since the European legal system actually still functions quite well. Here, too, it makes no sense to draw a comparison with the U.S.

    Just because the U.S. system is so obviously corrupt that it can no longer fulfill its purpose doesn’t mean it’s the same in other parts of the world. U.S. billionaires have a keen interest in this, and they’re supported by the corresponding elite in Europe as well, but the world in Europe is actually quite different. While you can buy a lot of things here too, European nations are not an obvious oligarchy. The US, on the other hand, has been a de facto oligarchy for several decades. The current regime, through its utter unscrupulousness, simply makes this fact much more obvious than previous administrations did.

  • Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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  • That is fundamentally true, yet European law and the respective national constitutions set limits on unwarranted mass surveillance. Lobbyists for tech companies—especially American ones, led by Palantir—are working tirelessly to erode these limits, thought.

    Under the status quo, however, the scale of surveillance is currently in no way comparable to that in China or the U.S., as there are still legal limits in place—at least for the moment—that are also enforced, albeit only in a basic sense.

    This makes it all the more important to preserve these rights and to advocate for them. It is not helpful to equate conditions in Europe with those in the US, as this creates the impression that insisting on existing law is a futile endeavor.

  • Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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  • So Meta wants its own army of unsuspecting spies?

    I can't for the life of me imagine that this is legal. Maybe in the U.S., since the legal system there is so completely broken, but in Europe, the mass surveillance of millions of people by a private company seems likely to be a criminal offense.

  • House GOP, With Help of 4 Dems, Votes to Take Food Aid From Millions of Women and Kids

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  • I'd say it's the consequence of a lack of consequences.

  • Have you ever had a productive discussion on the Fediverse or gotten anything positive out of interacting with other users? What was the thread about?

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  • I’ve had many positive interactions with other users on Lemmy and piefed—across various communities.

    I really appreciate the Fediverse, but unfortunately I’m also familiar with the phenomenon where people go along with the majority and downvote comments or posts just because the opinion expressed doesn’t match their own.

    I think the developers of reddit clones like Lemmy should change the system so that downvotes are only available to users who have already contributed helpful posts or comments.

    The requirements for this should be left to the community.

    In my opinion, this would significantly reduce the burdensome negativity of apps of this kind, and the discussions would be better. This is all the more true in the Fediverse, since it is much easier here to create multiple accounts to influence the discourse.

    It would likely also prevent the inevitable misunderstanding that downvotes on reddit clones like Lemmy are not intended to express disapproval, but rather to flag a post or comment that are unhelpful, nonsensical, offensive, deceptive, or malicious—in short, not conducive to the discussion.

  • Have you ever had a productive discussion on the Fediverse or gotten anything positive out of interacting with other users? What was the thread about?

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  • If you feel that way, social media is no different at all from what legacy media used to be. The only difference is that you don’t want to pay for that content and take all of that for granted.

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Thank you very muc! I’m not really into jazz, but even I know these songs. It just goes to show how timeless they are—and how well-known they are, even among people who don’t know the first thing about jazz.

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Aww, that's such a classic. It seems to me that there aren't many new, heart-felt love songs like this one anymore - not the over the top flashy ones, but rather those with a down-to-earth, relatable charm. But maybe I'm just out of the loop :)

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Oh yeah, that's great, but I've always thought the Ventures' version is the most badass.

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • Yes, Yusuf Islam is truly timeless, even though he probably wouldn't be very successful in the U.S. today under his new name

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • As relevant today as ever

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • No, no, I mean songs that stand the test of time because they’re so catchy. "Son of a Preacher Man" is definitely one of those songs. I actually hadn’t heard “Just a Day” by Feeder before. Probably because alternative rock was never really my thing - but I can see, or rather hear, the timelessness in this one too :)

  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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  • What are some truly timeless songs?

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