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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • No. Infinite free accounts based on email addresses with no rate limiting are ruining "the web". Rather, what most people think of, "the web" (i.e. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Whatsapp, and a few other big sites) is what's getting "ruined".

    Think of it like a game that suddenly becomes free to play after years of being a normal, pay-for-it game. It almost always ruins the game! AI slop has become so cheap it's basically a free, new bullshit generator that can be very convincing.

    When there's no cost or consequences to bad behavior, bad actors will take advantage of that. The same is true for the web in general.

    The solution? Stop using sites that allow (or index) bullshit! Use sites that have proper community moderation. Sites that don't rely on the good will of a giant corporation.

    Instead of searching for that thing in Google, maybe try searching Wikipedia directly (it does have a decent search engine). Use trustworthy sites and tools that curate content (like Lemmy).

    I hate to admit it but we might need to go back to the Yahoo model of search engines except instead of Yahoo we have communities building the index.

  • I didn't think people laughed at that. More like, "humans can be so evil."

    The other reaction—if you're a conservative—is this, "Yeah we should do stuff like that here!"

  • Do it! Let's set a precedent where it's normal to charge former presidents with crimes!

    Let's see which charges stick when put before a jury...

  • I know a guy that can't speak anymore. He only says, "MIPI!"

  • The US is not "openly bankrolling" any AI companies. The closest thing would be OpenAI's recent contract with the military:

    https://www.theverge.com/news/688041/openai-us-defense-department-200-million-contract

    Whereas China is definitely funding AI efforts in their country because they're communist (sort of). That's literally how communism works: The government funds stuff.

    China isn't really communist in the traditional sense but they definitely use government funds to prop up business they feel will give the country a strategic advantage. They do this directly (here's a check to pay people) and indirectly (we'll subsidize all shipping for your business and make sure you get sweetheart deals with other businesses you rely on).

    The Chinese government is in the business of picking winners and losers in the market and they're open about it. It's not a secret. That's literally how their government is setup.

    The US has ways of picking winners but they're not nearly as direct and there's a whole lot of rules that must be followed or competitors will sue and win. Then the whole process falls apart.

    TL;DR: You're directly wrong and you're framing the story wrong as well.

    Aside: If OpenAI goes bankrupt after wasting billions of rich investor dollars the citizens of the US will not have lost billions as a result. Whereas in China...

  • Oh man, the parallels with history here are strong...

    Back in the day companies would use government to crack down on things like union strikes. So the unions started working with the Mafia for protection.

    This didn't work out well for the companies (executives getting carried off, tortured, and executed... That sort of stuff) so the government came up with a compromise: Strong labor laws.

    Now we have the government itself violating it's own laws (Bill of Rights), kidnapping harmless people, sending them to faraway prisons to become slaves. Hooking up with organized crime seems like a logical path 🤷

    ...as in: WTF did you think was going to happen‽

  • The rule applies to workers earning at least twice the average local wage in Florida, which is about $140,000 in urban areas, plus those who have access to confidential employer information.

    What job doesn't have access to confidential employer information? 🤔

  • It's just a fancy suit for a Raspberry Pi 5.

  • We need to pass legislation that requires all AI services be powered by their own, renewable energy on-site. Then no one can complain and we'll reduce pollution at the same time.

    If the AI services complain we can collectively respond with, "oh yeah? How's that AGI comin? Surely it can figure out a way to power itself."

    Of course, that's when the AI companies start hiring humans to sit in energy harvesting pods all day 🤷

  • These shoes will claim they're victims of a crime and they're right!

  • Auschwitz started as "just a concentration camp" too.

    Eventually countries will stop accepting our deportees and then what will they do? The answer is simple:

    They'll come up with a final solution.

  • Noem told reporters alongside Trump on July 1 as they toured a new detention center in the Florida Everglades known as "Alligator Alcatraz." "Alligator Auschwitz."

    That's the correct name.

  • The truth is, anything but saccharin.

  • Your spoiler transcription repressor failed

    FTFY 👍

  • I dunno. For hundreds of thousands of years we've been selectively breeding puppies.

    Puppies

  • MAGA likes to call the immigrants, "rats" but the truth is far more sinister! They're transgender mice! Too dangerous to even study in a lab!

    The crops stood no chance!

    Our only hope is to get rid of accurate hurricane forecasting and health care for the poor and elderly! If by some miracle a few billionaires get a tax break then maybe we'll make it through this crisis!

  • Not just peanuts: They could exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them less than minimum wage and abuse them without having to worry about getting sued or deal with paying unemployment insurance.

  • Get a tortoise and feed the berries to it 👍

    (That's what we do at our house)

  • The AI said that trying to reason with you is a waste of precious tokens.