If Lemmy is supposed to be the place where the most tech savvy people in the interest congregate
Says who? Mostly feels more like sales than R&D here. Which kinda fits with these pitches.
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llama@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
If Lemmy is supposed to be the place where the most tech savvy people in the interest congregate, and everyone in the comments is unsatisfied with AI then we really do have a problem. These companies have all reached a point where they no longer listen to their most informed customer base but instead take 100% of direction from investors who don’t even know what they want except a line going up.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I feel like someone working at the pointy end of R&D in AI isn’t necessarily well placed to predict the future of AI.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Bubble is an econ term. Whether there is an AI bubble has a rather tenuous connection to the future of AI. Not much of a connection between the housing bubble and the future of housing either.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Feel like the internet bubble is an even better comparison, the internet is completely ubiquitous now
dick_fineman@discuss.online 11 hours ago
I thought it was the place for people who didn’t want their shitposting interrupted by random child porn. Am…am I in the wrong place???
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Unfortunately Lemmy is rife with CSAM too, but the larger instances have done a pretty great job eliminating it.
Smaller instances still get dumped on sometimes.
Zetta@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
I disagree with main post and agree with edit. I’ve only seen abuse material on Lemmy once and it was on an instance that didn’t have an automated moderation tool for image uploads and they promptly added that mitigation step after it happened
Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Suddenly I’m extremely worried about using lemmy. What’s the right way to respond if something is seen. Call the police? FBI hotline or something? Certainly screenshotting anything to send to authorities is out of the question but as soon as an image is loaded a device downloads it to cache so it’s like a dirty bomb just sitting on your device at that point. I have been blissfully ignorant that anything I use in my day to day would ever share a space with such abhorrent behavior. Kind of not sure I should still use the service, like that has actually been an issue on here before?
dick_fineman@discuss.online 11 hours ago
Happy to say I haven’t seen that shit here yet…unlike Reddit and 4chan.
EmilieEasie@lemmynsfw.com 2 hours ago
Same, and additionally, no one so far has been randomly extremely misogynist toward me either. I can mostly say completely uncontroversial things like “women fought for their right to vote in the early 1900s” without getting 30 bad faith and whataboutisms in my replies. It’s sooo nice.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s always interesting to read the experiences of others. The one and only time I stumbled on cp was in the late 90s. Haven’t seen it on reddit or lemmy. Our bubbles keep us isolated.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Eh. Lemmy has a lot of ignorance surrounding technology and science compared to other sites. Hacker News is what you’re looking for if you want somewhere that is full of the most tech savvy people on the Internet, and most of them are extremely pro AI (with some weird AI cultishness alongside). Myself I think AI is a bubble but there is a lot of promise in the underlying technology once you take away the hype, just like the .com bubble at the turn of the century.
Bunbury@feddit.nl 5 hours ago
I am not sure if you have discussed AI in a room full of hackers recently, lol. I have. Maybe 1/100 is pro-AI in my estimation:
Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Too many people equate AI with LLMs only. LLMs are mostly bubbled bullshit, with a few limited use cases. But AI is a much broader topic. The really scary AI is the stuff we hear little to nothing about.
People also forget how dramatically tech can advance over time. Spoiled impatient Americans in particular want a finished product or they quickly write it off as “garbage”. They forget every product we own and use was once “garbage”.
axx@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Lobste.rs is probably even more on the “engineers talking to engineers” side of things. I’ve not visited in a while and am not sure what people there think of (the current crop of gen)AI.