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I don't use ChatGPT, I use LM Studio which runs Local LLMs (it's like AI you can run locally on your PC, I have solar and a solar battery so this means there's no co2 emissions from my queries, I primarily use this for coding questions and practice, translations from Russian/Ukrainian/French, practising french, etc), then I use mistral AI second (french based), then third perplexity (american)
I also use Ecosia.org for searches as well
I asked mistralai/mistral-small-3.2 to elaborate on what you said, Is this what you meant?
The phrase "Let’s just keep adding more and more layers like a game of telephone!" is a metaphorical way of expressing skepticism or concern about the accuracy and reliability of information as it gets passed through multiple layers of interpretation, especially when involving AI systems.
Here's what it likely means in this context:
- Game of Telephone Analogy: In the classic "game of telephone" (or "Chinese whispers"), a message is whispered from one person to another in a line, and by the time it reaches the end, the original message is often distorted or completely changed due to mishearing, misinterpretation, or intentional alteration. The user is suggesting that relying on AI systems to search, summarize, or interpret web content might introduce similar layers of potential inaccuracies or biases.
- Layers of Interpretation: The "layers" could refer to the steps involved in using an AI system to access and summarize information:
- The original web content (first layer).
- The AI's interpretation or summarization of that content (second layer).
- Any further human interpretation or sharing of the AI's output (additional layers).
- Concerns About Accuracy: The user might be implying that each additional "layer" (especially when involving AI) could introduce errors, biases, or misinterpretations, much like how a message gets distorted in the game of telephone.
- Hostility Toward AI: Given the context you provided (Lemmy users being "strongly anti-AI"), this comment likely reflects a broader distrust of AI's ability to accurately and reliably convey information without introducing new problems.
In essence, the user is cautioning against blindly trusting AI systems to handle information retrieval and summarization, suggesting that doing so could lead to a breakdown in accuracy or meaning, similar to how a message degrades in a game of telephone.
What do you mean?
It's all good, Lemmy users are strongly anti-ai and are genuinely learning right now that chatgpt, mistral, perplexity etc can search the web
chatGPT: I asked my hairstylist their uninformed opinion on a world event based on overheard conversations
LLM's have been able to search the web for a few years now
The main one outside of ChatGPT is https://www.perplexity.ai/
You can also look at hosting your version with Local LLM's:
what do you mean? it's like being angry that people bring up I googled something
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We don’t want to make Wikipedia-style appeals
do it
Hugging Face plans to release all hardware designs, software, and assembly instructions as open source, allowing anyone to build their own version.
rough start and now it's even worse, when your wikipedia page has
Human rights
Main article: Human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Further information: Sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Military macho-violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and International Criminal Court investigation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The eastern part of the country in particular has been described as the "rape capital of the world" and the prevalence of sexual violence there described as the worst in the world.[200][201]
You know it's not in a good place
sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement
I disagree it's fun, at this rate by 2035 we'll need to pay users to use lemmy
They will say something like solar went from 600gw to 1000 thats a 66% increase this year and coal only increased 40% except coal is 3600gw to 6400.
Hrmmmm, maybe these numbers are outdated? Based on this coal and gas are down:
In Q1 2025, solar generation rose 48% compared to the same period in 2024. Solar power reached 254 TWh, making up 10% of total electricity. This was the largest increase among all clean energy sources.
Coal-fired electricity dropped by 4%, falling to 1,421 TWh.
Gas-fired power also went down by 4%, reaching 67 TWh
https://carboncredits.com/china-sets-clean-energy-record-in-early-2025-with-951-tw/
are no where close to what is required to meet their climate goals
Which ones in particular are you talking about?
Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again
https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0
China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements -- the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord -- after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.
What's that saying? You hate it when the person you hate is doing good? I can't remember what it is
I can't fault them for what they're doing at the moment, even if they are run by an evil dictatorship and do pollute the most
I’m not sure how european defense spending is relevant
It suggests there is money available in the bank to fund solar/wind/battery, but instead they are preparing for? something? what? who knows. France can make a fighter jet at home but not solar panels apparently.
Prehaps they would be made in a country with environmental and labour laws if governments legislated properly to prevent companies outsourcing manufacturing. However this doesnt absolve china. China isnt being forced at Gunpoint to produce these goods with low labour regulation and low environmental regulation.
You're right, it doesn't absolve china, and I avoid purchasing things from them wherever possible, my solar panels and EV were made in South Korea, my home battery was made in Germany, there are only a few things in my house made in China, most of them I got second hand but unfortunately there is no escaping the giant of manufacturing.
With that said it's one thing for me to sit here and tut tut at China, but I realise I am not most people, the most clearest example is the extreme anti-ai, anti-billionaire bias on this platform, in real life most people don't give a fuck, they love Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Apple etc, they can't go a day without them.
So I consider myself a realist, if you want people to buy your stuff then you will need to make the conditions possible for them to WANT to buy your stuff, not out of some moral lecture and Europe isn't doing that, if we look at energy prices:
Can someone actually point out to me where this comes from? ... At the end of the day energy is a small % of EU household spending
I was looking at corporate/business energy use:
Major European companies are already moving to cut costs and retain their competitive edge.
For example, Thyssenkrupp, Germany’s largest steelmaker, said on Monday it would slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division by 2030, in a major corporate reshuffle.
Prices have since fallen but are still high compared to other countries.
A poll by Germany's DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce of around 3,300 companies showed that 37% were considering cutting production or moving abroad, up from 31% last year and 16% in 2022.
For energy-intensive industrial firms some 45% of companies were mulling slashing output or relocation, the survey showed.
"The trust of the German economy in energy policy is severely damaged," Achim Dercks, DIHK deputy chief executive said, adding that the government had not succeeded in providing companies with a perspective for reliable and affordable energy supply.
I've seen nothing to suggest energy prices in the EU are SO cheap that it's worth moving manufacturing TO Europe, and this is what annoys me the most.
I've pointed this out before but they have an excellent report on the issues:
Then they put out this Competitive Compass:
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/competitiveness-compass_en
But tbh every week in the EU it seems like they are chasing after some other goal.
This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago.
Agreed
ngl same :|
For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don't care
Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don't want to support him in any way
Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people
As explained by the user below
capitalist growth-focused approach
Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!
We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again
Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:
At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted
China also continues to increase coal generation by more than renewables.
I don't believe this:
https://ember-energy.org/countries-and-regions/china/
In 2024, China approved 66.7GW of new coal-fired capacity, started construction on 94.5GW of coal power projects
Even if you add these 2 together and pretend they were finished the same year it's not even close to:
China’s renewable energy sector made remarkable progress in 2024, adding 356 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar capacity
They have missed every single renewable target and goal they’re set.
I don't believe this is true either unless you are referring to some other targets?
In 2020, China set a goal to install at least 1,200 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power by 2030. By the end of 2024, China had already surpassed this target, reaching this milestone 6 years ahead of schedule. This was made possible by aggressive investments, government policies, and a surge in solar and wind installations.
China’s solar capacity grew by an incredible 45.2% in 2024, adding 277 GW. Wind capacity also saw a strong increase of 18%, with an additional 80 GW installed. Overall, total power generation capacity rose by 14.6% in 2024, driven mainly by renewables.
China is only %27 renewables while the EU is 47%.
Don't worry, just like everything else I'm sure that will flip in the future
Europe has plenty of money apparently to suddenly:
NATO leaders on Wednesday confirmed their commitment to more than double defence spending by 2035 banding words like "crucial", "momentous" and "quantum leap"
Just why does it take an emergency to make some proper progress:
Global energy storage owner-operator BW ESS and Spanish energy storage developer Ibersun say a new joint venture is intended to build eight four-hour battery projects across the country, with a combined capacity of 2.2 GW, 8.8 GWh.
Where will the batteries be made I wonder?
On top of this energy prices in the EU are ridiculous and for some reason they still can't get off the gas, which leads to an unreal point of France giving more money to Russia for gas than in aid to Ukraine, so they have high energy prices and they're funding Russia's invasion of Ukraine and their companies and manufacturing are leaving them... to go to China...
https://aussie.zone/comment/17361559
But I appreciate your scepticism (I gave your post an upvote because China does sometimes get a little bit too much credit), they are the worlds top producer of CO2 by FAR but I do want to address
Greenwashing
This is something I've wanted for a while:
It requires EU importers to pay a levy corresponding to the embedded carbon emissions in 303 emission-intensive products
I've long disliked that places like the EU and the rest of the west can export their dirty manufacturing over to China where companies take advantage of lax or no environmental regulations, it's a false economy and makes the west look a whole lot greener and cleaner than it would if we were manufacturing what we used back at home
‘China has Apple by the balls’: How the rising superpower captured the tech giant
edit: boy I sure do love to procrastinate and talk about energy and co2 instead of studying :|
You use AI for writing prompts? That's pretty cool, a lot of people use AI for writing prompts, a lot of writers say it's great for getting rid of writers block