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  • AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures

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  • Instead of AI slop, that looks to me like someone that doesn't speak the language hurriedly transcribing it from paper, getting paid by the recipe, and knowing nobody is going to verify anything. AI knows how to spell turkey and kosher.

  • Woman found zip-tied in woods staged her own political attack, DOJ says

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  • Excellent point, yes. The one near us frequently has the weirdest stuff. Last summer we were browsing around and they had some fancy office desk made by some well known artist with a $40k price tag. It was just shoved back in the corner with a bunch of $5-20 desks and tables.

  • Woman found zip-tied in woods staged her own political attack, DOJ says

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  • I'm a regular customer at home improvement stores, and I make it a point to occasionally just go wander down aisles I haven't been down in a while and just browse through what's available.

    It's not uncommon for me to exclaim, "Oh! I didn't know THAT existed?" or "Oh! THAT'S what that's called/where to get those!". Other times it's, "What on earth is THAT for?!?" but then 6 months later I'll be like, "BRB, gotta go get one of those things."

    I'm of the opinion that even people that don't own/maintain their own home would benefit from the esoteric knowledge of what can be found on the bottom shelf in the back corner of their local home improvement stores. I don't care what your hobby or passion is. If you don't frequent the home improvement stores, there's probably something there that you can repurpose for your own benefit that you'll wish you knew existed a year ago.

  • I voted for Trump!

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  • they’re instantly considered scum for voting for their own interests

    Have you not noticed what community you're in here? They voted against their own interests, because the alternative was voting for a black woman /* clutches pearls */. The entire point of this community is to call out people that vote against their own interests and then whine about the outcome.

  • Downdetector is down

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  • That would be great, but this new Internet will somehow need to be able to accurately detect and block AI generated content.

    My guess is that the new social media will be people physically going to established common areas in their communities and talking to each other in person, face to face, which has it's pros and cons.

  • A refugee’s deportation rattles a deeply conservative town: ‘What Trump has done is not Christlike’

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  • Don't worry. The Democrats will put up some old milquetoast centrist with 0 charisma and expect us to vote for them simply because it's, "Not JD Vance!"

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings

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  • This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I've got a donation to go make.

    ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying "This credit card can't be used something something blah blah blah. Let's try a different one." In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • after ChatGPT found

    Did it, though? Or did it just tell you that make a probabilistic guess that those particular words could follow your prompt in that particular order, and you just credulously believed it.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • Maybe you missed this part in the snippet above.

    Those using ChatGPT showed significantly less activity in networks tied to cognitive processing and attention compared to students who wrote without digital help or used only internet search engines. Almost none could recall what they had written immediately after submitting their work. She received more than 4,000 emails afterward. Many came from teachers who reported students producing passable assignments without understanding the material. A British survey found that 92% of university students now use AI and roughly 20% have used it to write all or part of an assignment. Independent research has found that more screen time in schools correlates with worse results. Technology companies have designed products to be frictionless, removing the cognitive challenges brains need to learn. AI now allows users to outsource thinking itself.

  • Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays.

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  • Who are you calling buster, buster?

  • Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

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  • I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.

    But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.

    My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.

    And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.

  • Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

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  • You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.

    You don't know why they might want to do this thing. I also don't know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don't 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of their reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.

    And that's all I'm going to say on the subject. If you can't understand that basic fact, then I don't know what else I can say.

  • Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

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  • what reason would anyone have

    That's none of your business. You don't need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.

    Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn't mean that they don't have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn't need to justify themselves to you.

  • Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

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  • Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?

  • Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

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  • Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?

    Why would they need to limit you?

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs

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  • Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).

    Ummm, wut? I'm going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.

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  • Japan Just Switched on Asia’s First Osmotic Power Plant, Which Runs 24/7 on Nothing But Fresh Water and Seawater

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  • That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.