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Uriel238 [all pronouns]

@ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

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  • Generated: Produced entirely from prompts and LORAsAltered: Changed significantly so that the spirit of the moment represented is starkly different from the originalEdited: Changed while mostly preserving the essence of the moment represented.Cleaned: Making minor alterations such as removing obstructions, correcting colors or illuminating details

    And then, for completion, another boilerplate would be used in official images that have been shopped (or GIMPed or otherwise altered with image-editing software.)

  • AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

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  • The US is in a unique situation in which the President has tossed all illusions of regularity out the window, and checks from Congress and SCOTUS have been completely nullified. (Though Congress is shifting as Trump is making Republicans unelectable.) The federal government has been literally captured by corporate and oligarch interests.

    Before Trump, the US was not a democracy -- not really -- but it pretended to be one, and did so convincingly for a large enough number of voters that little was done to assure rights were preserved. (For the record, a report from Oxford quantifies the US as behaving like an oligarchy with some democratic features.)

    And after the 9/11 attacks and during the International War on Terror, a lot of rights were quietly stripped away, since everyone was afraid of foreign Islamist extremist terrorists... completely ignoring the radical far-right home-grown terrorists we have. The FBI's disinterest in white supremacists through the George W. Bush and Obama eras is conspicuous.

    Most people don't realize the Bill of Rights has been gutted until they're on the business end of a police encounter. And by then it's too late.

    Anyway, depending on the results and aftermath of the midterm elections this November, the US might pull back towards democracy the way it has at prior points in its history, or go full Third Reich.

    It depends on how pissed we are without food and healthcare and an ongoing war that's being poorly conducted. But maybe the big propaganda machine will keep us wanting to own the libs and hate on trans folk (and concentrating and torturing immigrants) for a while longer.

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  • This kind of regulation needs to be enforced with bounties and fines.

    AI slop can be made realistically enough to deceive, and there should be increasing sentences if willful intent to deceive is proven in court.

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  • I'd be okay if there were a running list of disclaimer boilerplates:

    ~ Generated with AI~ Altered with AI~ Edited with AI~ Cleaned with AI~ Fixed [with non-AI image editing software]

  • BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat

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  • This is one of those things that might actually serve to push the notion that digital devices (including cars now) should be required to be capable of installing independent operating systems, especially open source ones.

    I'd absolutely require military devices to be driven by open source software. And yes, that's a security liability, but security-by-obscurity is an even greater liability.

    In the case of consumer devices, open-source access would be a means of protecting the end user from predatory software rife with dark patterns.

  • Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints

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  • It's highly likely that FC5 was referencing the song. Ubisoft is way into references.

  • Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN

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  • Let us remember ALPRs have been around for a while now, and the fervor we're building to dismantle Flock we need to quietly extend to all ALPR services actively feeding unwarranted surveillance data to law enforcement and federal paramilitaries.

  • Reddit stock tumbles the most on record as lack of new AI deals, US daily users metric disappoints

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  • To quote Far Cry 5...

    Burn motherfucker burn motherfucker burn!

  • US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

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  • I assumed this was a MAGA flex.

  • New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

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  • If that's all a CEO was, then we'd have much more functional companies. But the CEO is also the top manager of the company and dictates policies that affect how the company is run. We're seeing specific examples of what is nothing short of labor abuse by executives such as Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos. And they choose their policies for purely emotional reasons, as an expression of resentment and vindictiveness toward their own workforce.

    In fact, this is the core of their fantasy regarding AI, that with enough R&D it will be cheap enough to replace their human staff entirely with robots, who don't have opinions and don't fight for better treatment.

    If a company separated the executive suite from upper management, and instead had a brain trust to maximize profits by hard data and cold calculation, I submit human labor would be better treated, since well-treated workers operate at an improved rate of productivity, which actually makes it profitable to make sure they take their breaks and eat their lunches.

    History shows us the ownership class always thinks their workers are willfully withholding effort, and as we've seen during the North Atlantic slave era, the ownership class will work labor to death if they are allowed to do so.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • Then they aren't rare books necessarily.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • The whole point of post-enlightenment government is to serve the public good. But then it gets captured by capitalist interests (as Karl Marx explains in Das Kapital) at which point the government serves capital.

  • AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

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  • Does anyone remember circa 2014 that radical jihadists in the middle east were destroying ancient and medieval artifacts, including stone heads? And I remember here in the liberal west we thought that was awful.

    This is not the only thing that makes me think of that. Also Trump's recent calls to reduce the size of US national parks and open them up to oil and uranium mining exploitation.

  • New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

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  • I have a fantasy that someone tries using data driven systems to run business. They'd still need AI to do all the C-speak and top-tier sales work, but as it is upper management commonly resents their own workforce and enacts policy just to be vindictive.

    Imagine a game company that didn't crunch because it knew crunching only slowed productivity and wrecked the health and morale of the dev team.

    Imagine a company who didn't issue RTO mandates because it saw it's telecommuters are more productive and happier working from home.

    Imagine if businesses didn't surveillance-max and micromanage their administrative clerks and fulfillment teams understanding that doing so slows them down and makes them miserable.

    I don't know for certain that AI-assisted computers can run businesses and manage well, but we have countless examples of how upper management lets their feelings get in the way of maximizing profit and demonstrate incompetence and lack of adult maturity.

    The bar really is that low.

  • Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies

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  • Let's also remember that before the screens, we had shitty textbooks, and underpaid teachers and a serious shortage of supplies.

    Schools in the United States need more than a review of tech, but a complete overhaul and a budget that doesn't look like Republicans are literally trying to kill the education system.

  • It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History

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  • WOW! TIL!

  • OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

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  • According to Karl Marx, this is what capitalism becomes. Eventually, the ownership class captures government and turns regulation to benefit the companies that capture it, and those companies outside that loop cannot compete and die off.

    And then it gets to where one player owns all the properties and the other players are going bankrupt one by one.

    But US history shows us the capitalist will exploit labor by any means they can, ultimately pushing them into bonded servitude. (We don't like to call it slavery, but it's slavery.)

  • OpenAI and Anthropic Lobby Washington to Restrict Chinese Open-Weight AI

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  • Young companies innovate. Old companies litigate

    If you have to lobby the government to protect your company from smaller competition then your business model sucks.

    I suspect, however, that they're not going to be able to just stop Chinese offerings from being downloaded and run locally. And that is going to do most of the stuff for which people are turning to AI.

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