DandomRude

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is: it is no longer necessary to burn fossil fuels for transportation or energy production. The idea that this is still necessary is a narrative fueled by the money of a few unscrupulous people, which is what this random post is about. It is a lie that will lead us all to ruin.

  We simply cannot continue the status quo. This conclusion is not just my opinion, but a proven fact that, to my knowledge, no reputable scientist would dispute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, the Eppstein case proves that not even this is their downfall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I enjoy studying history. And I find it terrible that apparently no one learns from history, because otherwise fascism would not be back in vogue.

• Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the AI audio translation on YouTube, which Google now seems to be imposing as standard, to be the most absurd thing of 'em all: even the intros are so poorly translated that it couldn’t be more ridiculous.

  I’m sure many users don’t realize that this is supposed to be a “feature” and mistakenly believe that the foreign-language video they deliberately clicked on is obviously AI-generated because the audio track is so horribly bad.

  Well, another reason for Peertube…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

  Please don’t get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won’t pay the author a single dime?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of business school MBAs is nothing more than networking. These degrees cost a fortune, and that’s exactly the point: to bring opportunists together. I’m almost sure it’s next to impossible to fail this degree, because it’s not about knowledge at all, but merely about gaining entry into senior management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Training an LLM is extremely expensive and, for this reason alone, simply not feasible for private individuals. However, this is not necessary. You can also build your own bots and use what is already available. This does not even require fine-tuning with your own data.

  It is unfortunate, however, that this seems necessary in order to be able to offer any resistance to the goddamn Nazis.

• LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look really says it all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You must have a very fragile personality if you interpret this post in this manner. Your response to my comment only confirms this: truly pathetic!

  If I, as a man, have anything to be ashamed of, it is people like you who, for whatever reason, feel the need to defend the scum of humanity, which is exactly what the two men pictured here are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look really says it all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here we see two completely degenerate men. And your comment makes it clear that you identify with them. That says everything there is to know about you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are significant differences: Radio works according to the sender-receiver model, whereas with social media, anyone can be a sender - and that is just the fundamental difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kim Jon Un would do the same. And billionaires get away with abusing children, even though there is hard evidence against them. That doesn’t seem like much progress to me in 400 years. Call it what you will, but the balance of power hasn’t really changed all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it?

• If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confused over here⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Santa Claus took over, Germany had the Christkind, a little girl who brought gifts to children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just like nonna used to make⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Straight to jail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We still have debtors prisons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One reason for this may be the fact that prisons in the US are run as a business in which private companies earn billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How Spotify’s $109 Billion Market Cap Stacks Up Against Other Music and Entertainment Companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nevertheless, Spotify makes more profit than any music label, even more than all the remaining music labels combined. This is how it works today: music, literature, journalism, and art no longer exist according to this logic - only content. And as disrespectful as the term sounds, that’s how it’s paid for - with scrabs because that’s the business model.

  Your pirate approach is no longer up to date, because it is no longer directed against large corporations, but robs artists of the little they have left. This will only accelerate the trend: no one will try to make a living from art anymore. If you think that people will do it anyway because they want to express themselves, I think you are absolutely wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify absolutely deserves to be singled out for its exploitative practices, especially since this company is largely responsible for musicians not being paid fairly for their hard work. It’s just a shame that there’s hardly anything to steal here other than people’s hard work, to which Spotify has contributed nothing - but that applies to all companies that are successful on the internet today. Without exception, all of these companies are built on the same platform logic: the content that these companies exploit is paid for with starvation wages, if at all (not at all in the case of LLMs).

  Therefore, I cannot see anything positive in this because it does not change the underlying problem in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those responsible for the Antisemite award deserve other awards themselves. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one of the few media outlets there that still retains a spark of humanity, hints at this in the following opinion piece: This Is the ‘Crime’ That Got Ms. Rachel Nominated for ‘Antisemite of the Year’

• There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ignorance has always been one of humanity's greatest problems - and it still is⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s exactly what I mean by ignorance. It only occurred to me later that the term has a much more international meaning in my native language (German): what I meant was not so much a lack of knowledge, but the deliberate ignoring of facts, expert knowledge, or scientific standards out of selfish arrogance. I believe in English this is called willful ignorance - this distinction does not exist in German; for us, ignorance always means that someone deliberately ignores things because they simply do not suit them. And I think that this, or rather the fact that we allow it, is responsible for the precarious situation our world finds itself in today: people could and do know better, but they ignore the facts out of selfishness.

• Ignorance has always been one of humanity's greatest problems - and it still is
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but culture has also been a business for a long time. What you see and hear is the result of this, because there are media that reinforce your awareness of your senses. If you think that you would remain unaffected by this, you don’t understand my point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is dictated make-believe still culture? I don’t think so, but that’s what it boils down to.

  Honestly, I can’t understand how you can’t see that, because it’s been the case all over the world for a very long time. Take a look at the so-called social media applications. Do you seriously believe that what people see there has anything to do with who they really are? With their every day lives? What they understand as culture based on their experience there?

  Yes, of course, the real world still exists, but do you really think it’s independent of what people see online?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is what the future will look like when culture is created by machines. This is already very evident today with all the social media bots and the logic that directs the attention of the remaining human users. The result is already quite dystopian, don’t you think?