Jrockwar

@Jrockwar@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making it sound like it’s choosing to misgender her, it’s not. It’s not fucked up because it’s a text extruder making a mistake, there’s no good or bad intention here. It’s shitty because the current state of glorified hallucinating autocorrects is shitty, but not because evil Grok is choosing to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m not going to defend training AI with copyrighted works… But I’m not going to waste energy siding with anyone who was okay with X. If you stayed in X, you’vr made your own bed. Now don’t cry because the owner is an AI-pandering nazi, we all knew that already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-Trans Groups Want a Bathroom Ban. Judges Aren’t Giving Them One⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is ridiculous. If it goes into effect, the same women will complain when they see a big trans man full of tattoos in the women’s bathroom because the law has forced them to go there.

  Purely and simply transphobia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still debatable, the weights are the code. That’s a bit like saying “X software is not open source because it has equations but it doesn’t include the proofs that they’re derived from”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In 2025? Is that even a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately I’ve seen this happen before, in Spain.

  The national flag of Spain, when used by an individual, rarely ever represents “I love Spain and all that it entails” but rather “I have right-wing views, I only accept the catholic religion, gays aren’t natural, and immigrants should go back to their own countries”.

  I don’t know if it can be taken back to just be the national flag, but if it can, Spain hasn’t managed to achieve it in the 20 years since it devolved into a narrow political symbol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low-income areas in England and Wales face worst air pollution, analysis finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen over an over an “environmental” measure that causes this: disallowing cars only in central areas.

  This means that people who actually need to use the car to get to work have to drive a much longer distance, only through less affluent areas, as if pollution didn’t matter over there.

  I was in a situation a few years ago (not in the UK) where I had to drive to work because the only other way to get to the office/factory in time for the morning would have been to take a train the night before and camp in front of the factory. During that time there were some similar measures by the local government and I kept thinking how bonkers it was that using more fuel could be more “environmentally friendly”. It wasn’t - I was just polluting near people the government didn’t care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. If you could go into every single store, house, nook and cranny of Cyberpunk 2077, and talk to all the NPCs, it would feel absolutely humongous. Gameplay significantly affects perceived size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Source? I’d expect a more realistic claim is running a microwave for 30 seconds to a minute.

  I don’t think generating a sora video can definitely take 2-4 hours of GPU time as your claim suggests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Comparison 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you ok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kurzgesagt – AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kurzgesagt? I didn’t know this, how come?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Much Energy Does It Take to Power Billions of AI Queries?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These figures are too cherry picked for the shock value. You could go the opposite end and say that (these are all true, I’ve tried my best to research them):

  8.5 Wh (average of all daily queries for a user) is also…

  • Equivalent to running a 2000 W hair dryer or a kettle for 20 seconds
  • Equivalent to idling a car during a traffic light and not turning off the engine
  • A quarter of the energy required to reheat a ready meal in the microwave (roughly 45 Wh)
  • The power usage of a Macbook screen over just 30 minutes.

  850 MWh (whole consumption of all AI queries in the world) is also equivalent to…

  • The power consumption of ONE single cruise ship for 12h (link)
  • Charging 0.002% of the 75 million electric cars in the world
  • The energy stored in the fuel tanks of 2000 petrol cars - a small stadium car park in Europe
  • The amount of energy the largest solar plant in Spain or Germany generate… In a couple of hours.

  So yes - AI bad… But for other reasons. This is a diversion. Datacentres powered by coal are bad. Cruise ships are worse.

  The problem isn’t that the whole world needs less than a solar farm’s worth of energy for AI. The bigger problem is the social damage of AI - including the fact that this “expansion at all costs” is justifying getting that energy from non-renewable sources.

  But seriously, one single cruise ship uses more energy than all of the AI in the world. They serve no useful purpose and there are hundreds of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duh. It’s weak because of Brexit, it needs to be soft touch because it’s lost the influence to be anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My flatmate used to call that Tomb Raider (the first of the new trilogy) “PTSD Simulator”. It’s as you say, the first few deaths are entirely survival-driven, with her constantly crying and then she becomes an emotionless one-woman army.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would recommend people buy their books off ZLibrary instead, where they come with no DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I think Keir Starmer is actually a covert conservative trying his hardest to undermine and destroy the Labour party for decades to come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The paradox of tolerance. You’re quoting an racist remark - there’s no need to tolerate intolerance as the social contract is broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK phone retailers lock shop doors while trading to tackle rising thefts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the iPhone X was released (2017), the £1000 pricing was considered ridiculous. Most flagships at the time cost about £600 (this is what the 2016 iPhone 7 cost at launch, with the iPhone 7 Plus having a starting price of £720).

  Obviously this didn’t stop Apple from selling them like hotcakes and establishing an immediate +30% increase of the flagship smartphone prices.

  Today, a Galaxy Z Fold starts at £1800. This is a +146% increase over the 2017 release price of the Galaxy Note 7.

  According to the bank of England, we’ve seen a total inflation of 34% in the 2017-2025, while phones have increased their prices by >100%.

  So yeah, no surprise there. As phones keep rising in value, they are going to continue becoming an increasingly desirable target for thefts. A gym bag full of smartphone boxes can easily have over £20k at retail prices, and easily fetch £10k when sold at a hefty discount, but a smartphone store doesn’t have the security measures of a jewelry store. I can see how it’s attractive to thieves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England Trials Smartphone Rail Payment System with Real-Time Phone Location Tracking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you consider the UK’s ticketing system outdated? There’s oyster in/around London and QR codes everywhere else.

  What are you missing, is location-based surveillance what would be needed to modernise it in your opinion?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened was, they realised that Arc was a niche product that had a fervient userbase but would never become a mainstream browser, so they declared the development was “complete” and they were moving on to Dia so that they could jump onto the AI bandwagon create the next generation of browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing The Browser Company ever did was unintentionally making someone else decide to create Zen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very mildly pro-AI, in the sense that I remain optimistic there will be at least a few cool use cases and I’d love to find them.

  So I tried Dia… And uninstalled it a few hours later. Why would I want to “chat with my tabs”? Even if I didn’t think this was a rubbish use case, every browser comes with a chatbot sidebar/extension/whatever, why would I want to change browsers just for that?

  Heavy pass. Also, after how they abandoned Arc, I don’t think they can be trusted to develop a product and not pull the rug from under the users when it becomes mildly inconvenient to keep working on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The generation of Amstrad, Spectrum etc had the games on tape. I would say they were the closest thing to a console pre-NES, so 1980s. I had an amstrad that was handed down to me by a friend of an older sister and it had tapes like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t be the one calling the UK blameless, but that’s rich coming from the country that’s doing what they are with ICE (which is just the latest one in a long list).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the countries where healthcare has existed (and worked) for decades, there are additional taxes to alcohol, sugar, tobacco, petrol to cover for this.

  And also yeah, and I have no problem whatsoever knowing that a small part of my salary goes towards saving the life of people who wouldn’t be able to afford private healthcare. That’s called empathy - and I wish that’d sink in as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he might not be “Middle Eastern” or “Dictator” but he behaves exactly like “some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine what we could have achieved globally if we had spent all that money on a different cause.

  We could have managed to establish a colony on Mars, or perhaps we could have even finished developing Star Citizen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance AI IDE Trae telemetry continues even after opt-out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, if anyone is surprised after the two red flags that are “ByteDance” and “AI”,it’s on them.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🙌 Communist Trump is making all textbooks free 🙌