brianpeiris
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- Comment on The threats from AI are real | Sen. Bernie Sanders [15:02] 2 days ago:
Sounds like Geoffrey Hinton got in Bernie’s ear and did a good job convincing him of the fears. Hinton is a good guy, but he’s drunk too much of his own kool-aid. I think the bubble will pop at some point, but I’d prefer the fear-mongering over the hype, because the AI companies and governments do need more scrutiny.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 days ago:
Already happened with Discord. 70,000 government IDs leaked. discord.com/…/update-on-security-incident-involvi…
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 days ago:
It was a reasonable assumption, but the distribution didn’t pan out that way.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 days ago:
It is 49% of the population. I did the math: lemmy.ca/post/56198025/20385158
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 days ago:
I did the math and it’s 49.37% of the population, based on the 2024 census data, or 49.94% if you exclude Puerto Rico and D.C. I suppose mostly due to Texas and Florida being in the list, but also Ohio, George and North Carolina with over 10M people each.
Here's the raw data
Based on the table from Wikipedia, and the list of states in the article. |State |Population (2024)|Requires Age Verification|Population Requiring Age Verification| |--------------------|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------| |California |39,431,263 | |0 | |Texas |31,290,831 |x |31,290,831 | |Florida |23,372,215 |x |23,372,215 | |New York |19,867,248 | |0 | |Pennsylvania |13,078,751 | |0 | |Illinois |12,710,158 | |0 | |Ohio |11,883,304 |x |11,883,304 | |Georgia |11,180,878 |x |11,180,878 | |North Carolina |11,046,024 |x |11,046,024 | |Michigan |10,140,459 | |0 | |New Jersey |9,500,851 | |0 | |Virginia |8,868,896 |x |8,868,896 | |Washington |7,958,180 | |0 | |Arizona |7,582,384 |x |7,582,384 | |Tennessee |7,227,750 |x |7,227,750 | |Massachusetts |7,136,171 | |0 | |Indiana |6,924,275 |x |6,924,275 | |Maryland |6,263,220 | |0 | |Missouri |6,245,466 |x |6,245,466 | |Wisconsin |5,960,975 | |0 | |Colorado |5,957,493 | |0 | |Minnesota |5,793,151 | |0 | |South Carolina |5,478,831 |x |5,478,831 | |Alabama |5,157,699 |x |5,157,699 | |Louisiana |4,597,740 |x |4,597,740 | |Kentucky |4,588,372 |x |4,588,372 | |Oregon |4,272,371 | |0 | |Oklahoma |4,095,393 |x |4,095,393 | |Connecticut |3,675,069 | |0 | |Utah |3,503,613 |x |3,503,613 | |Nevada |3,267,467 | |0 | |Iowa |3,241,488 | |0 | |Puerto Rico |3,203,295 | |0 | |Arkansas |3,088,354 |x |3,088,354 | |Kansas |2,970,606 |x |2,970,606 | |Mississippi |2,943,045 |x |2,943,045 | |New Mexico |2,130,256 | |0 | |Nebraska |2,005,465 |x |2,005,465 | |Idaho |2,001,619 |x |2,001,619 | |West Virginia |1,712,278 | |0 | |Hawaii |1,446,146 | |0 | |New Hampshire |1,409,032 | |0 | |Maine |1,405,012 | |0 | |Montana |1,137,233 |x |1,137,233 | |Rhode Island |1,112,308 | |0 | |Delaware |1,051,917 | |0 | |South Dakota |924,669 |x |924,669 | |North Dakota |796,568 |x |796,568 | |Alaska |740,133 | |0 | |District of Columbia|702,250 | |0 | |Vermont |648,493 | |0 | |Wyoming |587,618 |x |587,618 | | |343,314,283 | |169,498,848 | | | | |49.37% |
- Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull'www.cnbc.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 30 comments
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- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 2 weeks ago:
I’d like the bubble to be true so that we can move past this nonsense phase, and it may well be true, but I could also see it being extended for years potentially, since there’s so much money being pumped into it, and governments are also buying into the hype.
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- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 weeks ago:
You and I are not at odds, friend. I think you’re assuming I want to ban the technology out right. It’s possible to call out the issues with something without being wholly against it. I’m sure you would want to prevent these deaths as well.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 weeks ago:
A friendly human spell checked me and probably used less than a peanut worth of energy.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 weeks ago:
Whoops. Fixed, thanks.
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- When Will the AI Bubble Burst? (Gary Marcus with Murad Hemmadi) | Attention: Govern Or Be Governedwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex) 2 months ago:
Emily has also started posting videos on her channel after coming out as trans: www.youtube.com/@emily-young
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
The steam/itch situation is a bit complicated. I think the organization behind that action has bad motivations, so it’s not the best example for the long term. My guess is that itch will update their NSFW policy to allow for some NSFW content, but not content that depicts truly heinous material.
The reason I would support that type of activism, to an extent, is that it was effective against Musk when he started turning twitter into a hellscape: freepress.net/…/stop_toxic_twitter_coalition_open…
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
I pointed to an actual thing that already happened. How is that fear mongering?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
What are your thoughts on this? Is this not an effect on open-source due to regulation? home-assistant.io/…/removal-of-mazda-connected-se…
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
When I mentioned the TAKE IT DOWN act, we were talking about regulations in general. I did not equivocate laws to EOs. That said, this EO will have effects on regulatory agencies. Therefore, it will have an effect on software as we discussed, open source or not.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
When you say that Trump’s EO’s only affects the executive branch, it sounds like you’re trying to say the EO doesn’t matter. My point is that it does matter.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
I know this. Are you saying that it doesn’t matter that dozens of government agencies will now have reduced AI regulation? Have you read how many agencies and departments will be affected? www.whitehouse.gov/…/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
Sure. My understanding of your original comment was that Trump’s EO won’t matter to open source AI because regulations, or lack of regulations, won’t affect open source AI. My point is that regulations do affect open source AI in some significant way.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
I agree with this, mostly. The tech is real – The blockchain has solid math behind it. I don’t know if I agree with its value though. The viable usecases are significantly limited compared to the hype behind them. Bitcoin for example is still inherently inefficient compared to conventional payment systems. AI feels a lot like that – lots of hype with very little substance at its core.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
I’m not sure if this has happened yet, but in theory the TAKE IT DOWN act could be used to shutdown an open source deepfake code or model repository. In that case you’re right that there will be copies that spring up, but I think it is significant that popular projects could be taken down like that.
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
You’re saying that EO’s are not policy?
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
I was giving an example of regulation that has an effect on open source AI
- Comment on America wants AI that doesn't care about misinformation, DEI, and climate change 4 months ago:
Okay. My argument is that the semantics don’t matter because what matters is policy.