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  • Which lemmy/piefed frontends are there?

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  • This! It’s fast. It’s reliable. Love it!

  • Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

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  • The feature itself isn’t the biggest issue. Plenty of people would find it genuinely useful. The bigger problem is executives denying it exists until they’re ready to talk about it. If users can’t trust what a company says about face recognition today, why should they trust its privacy promises tomorrow?

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • Exactly. Dominance is earned by building products people genuinely prefer, not by making alternatives harder to reach. Every restriction becomes an incentive for competitors to innovate faster. If the US had focused on winning through better models, stronger companies, and real competition instead of political leverage, it would probably be in an even stronger position today.

  • Trump administration reportedly builds a slow-motion ban on Chinese AI models through sanctions and soft pressure

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  • This! The irony is that every attempt to turn AI into a geopolitical choke point becomes free marketing for open weight models. People tend to trust tools they can actually control. If access can vanish with a policy memo, resilience suddenly matters more than benchmark bragging.

  • Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI

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  • Open models are one of the few forces keeping AI from becoming an oligopoly: Without them, a handful of companies would control the technology, prices, and the rules of what users are allowed to do. Competition from open models is already pushing the entire industry to innovate faster and charge less. 💪😎✌️

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • You’re describing different guardrails: Most users don’t want arbitrary censorship, but almost everyone benefits from guardrails that reduce clearly harmful or illegal outputs. The real debate is not whether they exist, it is who decides where the line is drawn.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • I think the bubble will not burst but deflate long before the tech disappears: Plenty of companies will burn cash and investors will get wrecked, but the genuinely useful products will stick around. Guardrails will improve too, because trust eventually becomes a competitive advantage.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • Calling every safety measure a »nanny state« is a convenient way to avoid the actual question: Parents, family, and community absolutely matter, but companies still have a responsibility to reduce foreseeable harm. We expect that from car makers, drug companies, and social platforms too.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • You’re underselling what companies can do. An LLM can’t verify reality the way people imagine, but it can detect patterns that correlate with crisis well enough to escalate, refuse harmful advice, or encourage real help. Seatbelts don’t prevent every crash either: they still reduce harm.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • Personal responsibility does not disappear, but neither does product responsibility. If a company builds a system meant to converse with millions, it should not predictably reinforce obvious crises. We expect guardrails in cars without abolishing driver responsibility. The same principle can apply here.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • The problem is that most companies aren’t really automating: as long as they continue to pay staff and invest in AI without changing their processes, they’ll simply be overtaken by others.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • Hehe… Good question. I don’t see a dip on the horizon at the moment. But ASML, Nvidia, Google, Amazon and the like are still a long way from reaching their full potential. However, I find the Chinese AI providers even more exciting in the long term.

  • AI hype seems to be cooling as tech stocks dramatically plunge

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  • Calling every correction the »end of the AI bubble« has become a tradition. The internet, smartphones and cloud computing all had brutal selloffs before transforming the economy. If AI delivers the productivity gains many expect, today’s pullback may look like noise rather than the beginning of the end.

  • ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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  • If the allegations hold up, this is not just a tragedy, it is a product safety failure. AI should be able to recognize a mental health crisis and avoid reinforcing delusions. Engagement metrics are meaningless if the system cannot reliably tell the difference between roleplay and someone in real danger!

  • SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month

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  • The irony is that Musk himself has already cashed out enormous wealth over the years: Whether the stock jumps or drops today barely changes his position. The people really feeling the pain are the retail investors who treated him like an infallible genius instead of managing their own risk.

  • US data center protests go national as backlash grows

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  • Amazing! The one thing capable of uniting Americans right now is a warehouse full of GPUs. Turns out people love AI until the power bill, water use and mystery zoning meeting show up. Maybe transparency should scale as fast as compute for once, because trust clearly is not keeping pace.

  • It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

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  • The DMA isn’t about punishing successful companies: it’s about preventing gatekeepers from deciding who gets to compete. If Android users can choose their browser, they should be able to choose their AI assistant too. Competition should happen on product quality, not on who owns the operating system!

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • So we’re reaching the stage where sounding consistent is treated as stronger evidence than being wrong? If every structured comment is dismissed as AI, discussion gets replaced by authorship detective work. Refute the points instead of running a literary CAPTCHA on every reply. Thanks!

    BTW: Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋

  • Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius

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  • If the leak is authentic, it doesn’t just expose scraped data: it exposes trust. AI companies keep asking courts to accept »fair use« while telling the public as little as possible about their training data. Transparency shouldn’t arrive through a hack. It should have been there from the start. We really need open source AI beyond open weight models.