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GnuLinuxDude

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  • Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence

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  • I'm overtly anti-llm. I don't think it's dramatic at all to be so.

    Enough has come out about how much power and water datacenters used to train and run it consume, people being driven insane by it, investors hoping to displace jobs with it, how over reliance on it diminishes your mental faculties, people from minors to adults using it to create deepfake porn of minors (literally it's on lemmy rn https://lemmy.ml/post/32581009), its use in overt misinformation (particularly from our modern warzones and disaster areas), overt theft of writing and artistry to train these things, and last but not least: limitless spam.

    I'm affected by most of those things indirectly, but the spam affects me daily. Can't search for something on the net anymore without being served f-tier LLM-produced garbage.

    So what are the good parts? Doesn't seem like they outweigh these bad parts, whatever they are.

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • No kidding on the ads. I shared this experience not long ago.

    https://lemmy.ml/post/31496834/19167708

    And the tragic thing is there was another news site that I did the same thing with afterwards, and it was literally 2.5x worse than what I documented with The Nation.

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • I remember the wonderful feeling when Discord had a redesign in like 2017 or 2018 where they undid that awful gray-on-white design trend and made the text actually have contrast. These days the annoying trendy design thing is articles/blogs with extremely narrow width.

     
        
no i do not want to read paragraphs
that are this wide. this is making it
way more annoying to read. please
stop doing this.

    at least Firefox has Reader Mode.

  • Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

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  • oh don’t worry, the future will be worse. My prediction: full hardware attestation DRM linked to your personal information.

  • Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel

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  • How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying

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  • It's so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.

  • Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations

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  • It's gonna be funny when stuff like mid-level tech companies are fully integrated into Github Copilot and then whoopsie doopsie time for a 50% price hike.

  • OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT

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  • On the one hand he's supposed to be a very serious business genius at the forefront of the next wave of technological advancement. On the other, he's just advertising to people how stupid he is.

  • Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York

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  • What am I dogwhistling? A dogshit, decrepit capitalist society designed to exploit poor people?

  • Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York

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  • Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy

  • I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount

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  • extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt

  • Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

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  • Looking forward to alarming articles about how Greenland Internet users are rapidly losing freedom because they have to provide a home address to get service or something stupid like that.

  • Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone

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  • Looking forward to a map produced next year by some thinly veiled US-supported NGO that shows corruption in the world and America will still be not corrupt but America's enemies will be very corrupt.

  • Hong Kong workers strike against the algorithmic exploitation of Keeta, a food delivery platform

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  • I have never used a food delivery service because they all feel so fucking scummy and exploitative. Seems like they are in equal need as we are for regulatory overhaul of this business practice.

  • Why so much hate toward AI?

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  • but the flooding of the art fields with low quality products

    It's even worse than that, because the #1 use case is spam, regardless of what others think they personally gain out of it. It is exhausting filtering through the endless garbage spam results. And it isn't just text sites. Searching generic terms into sites like YouTube (e.g. "cats") will quickly lead you to a deluge of AI shit. Where did the real cats go?

    It's incredible that DrNik is coming out with a bland, fake movie trailer as an example of how AI is good. It's "super creative" to repeatedly prompt Veo3 to give you synthetic Hobbit-style images that have the vague appearance of looking like VistaVision. Actually, super creative is kinda already done, watch me go hyper creative:

    "Whoa, now you can make it look like an 80s rock music video. Whoa, now you can make it look like a 20s silent film. Whoa, now you can make look like a 90s sci-fi flick. Whoa, now you can make it look like a super hero film."

  • Why so much hate toward AI?

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  • Have you had to code review someone who is obviously just committing AI bullshit? It is an incredible waste of time. I know people who learned pre-LLM (i.e. have functioning brains) and are practically on the verge of complete apathy from having to babysit ai code/coders, especially as their management keeps pushing people to use it. As in, they must use LLM as a performance metric.

  • Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback

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  • Notably, Youtube does not consider exploiting children for profit harmful.

  • Forget Big Brother. It’s the startups silently watching workers now.

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  • Oh lord. I bet he was such a joy to be around.

  • In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance

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  • In addition to your point, literally just two days ago I saw an article about a Texas sheriff running a search through a nation-wide network of license plate readers to track down a woman suspected of having an abortion.

    Oh OK they didn't stop her on the street, they just queried the panopticon system that tracked her movement as much as possible. Want to protest a genocide your state and university are sponsoring? Sorry, MIT will muzzle you and now you are now forbidden from giving the commencement address. Wouldn't want to offend the dear leader in the white house.