RobotZap10000
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- Comment on Electricity Consumption 2 days ago:
This map is very inaccurate, as it neglects those who had consumed electrical energy through lightning striking them. That cooked flesh didn’t come for free!
- Comment on X's declining Android app installs are hurting subscription revenue 2 days ago:
Go fash, eat trash
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 3 days ago:
Damn, I never knew that Markdown (or Lemmy idk) had footers!
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 5 days ago:
I don’t think that you need to put your emoticons in a code block, you can just use escapes (backslashes) instead!
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<.<You can see exactly how I did it with the “view source” button in the web version of Lemmy.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 days ago:
Ed Zitron is one of the loudest opponents against the AI industry right now, and he continues to insist that “there is no real AI adoption.” The real problem, apparently, is that investors are getting duped. I would invite Zitron, and anyone else who holds the opinion that demand for AI is largely fictional, to open the app store on their phone on any day of the week and look at the top free apps charts. You could also check with any teacher, student, or software developer.
A screen showing the Top Free Apps on the Apple App Store. ChatGPT is in first place.
ChatGPT has some very impressive usage numbers, but the image tells on itself by being a free app. The conversion rate (percentage of people who start paying) is absolutely piss poor, with the very same Ed Zitron estimating it being at ~3% with 500.000.000 users. That also doesn’t bode well with the fact that OpenAI still loses money even on their $200/month subscribers. People use ChatGPT because it’s been spammed down their throats by the media that never question the sacred words of the executives (snake oil salesmen) that utter lunatic phrases like “AGI by 2025” (Such a quote exists somewhere, but I don’t remember if this year was used). People also use ChatGPT because it’s free and it’s hard to say no to get someone to do your homework for you for free.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 5 days ago:
The story featured in this article is very tragic, but some of these quotes from Zuckerborg are completely outrageous:
Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphized chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they’d like – creating a huge potential market for Meta’s digital companions. The bots “probably” won’t replace human relationships, he said in an April interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. But they will likely complement users’ social lives once the technology improves and the “stigma” of socially bonding with digital companions fades.
“Over time, we’ll find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable,” Zuckerberg predicted.
It sure as shit is valuable to ZuckFuck and Co’s stock prices. Our collective sanity and social cohesion can fuck right off.
“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.
The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said.
🤮🤮🤮 Can those asshats who want your government ID on the internet to “sAvE tHe ChIlDrEn” go after the Meta Circus instead?
Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn’t require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”
B R U H
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 1 week ago:
They probably wouldn’t really care how efficient it is, but they certainly would care that the costs are low.
- Comment on Data Brokers Are Hiding Their Opt-Out Pages From Google Search 1 week ago:
Why on earth is it opt-OUT? They could just keep on springing up “new” brokers which you’ll be playing whack-a-mole until the end of time. I don’t think that it should be opt-in either. How crazy of an idea would it be if we were to entirely forbid the sale of private information that people only “consented” to because they clicked the checkbox for a ToS that nobody ever reads, especially at this scale? How does this industry of spying actually benefit our world?
- Comment on Sometimes you should meet your heroes! 1 week ago:
R.I.P r/legoyoda ;(
- Comment on Priority seating indeed. 1 week ago:
P
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 week ago:
8x8TB HDD 64 terabytes of HDD storage?! What in the RAID will you do with all of that? And more importantly, how much did it cost?
- Comment on New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens 2 weeks ago:
If I can call the code that drive’s the boss’ weapon up my character’s ass “AI”, then I think I can call an LLM AI too.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 2 weeks ago:
I would rather have the politicians consult a plain old magic 8 ball than one controlled by Scam Altman.
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 2 weeks ago:
You can only say it on the parts of the internet that matter. The rest aren’t worth our time.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by this. Copyparty is a fileserver that I’m using for quick sharing of files and folders with others. “Managing multiple devices” is not what I would use it for, whatever you might mean by that. It does have one-way sync, if that’s what you’re looking for.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Broke: selfhost Forgejo (what Codeberg runs on, for those who don’t know) because nobody looks at my code anyway
Woke: access my Git repo directly through SSH because I don’t need any other feature anyway - Comment on selfh.st: improper etiquette by 2010 standards? (trackers, no RSS) Thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
My RSS reader, Akregator, has an option to open every article in an embedded web browser. I use this feature precisely for these kinds of situations. Most artists that I follow have their own websites with proper RSS feeds, but others only post on Bluesky or similar, that also only show the title and body text. If I can’t follow them through RSS, I just don’t follow them at all. I can’t be bothered to have their newsletter clog up my inbox or use some third-party service that will probably shut down when I least expect it to.
- Comment on Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About 2 weeks ago:
The people of the UK are heroes to us EU people, they try out all of the bold ideas that are sometimes floated around here, and show us all just how stupid they are. Let’s hope that this will convince enough people here that privacy is, in fact, a very delicate thing and that maybe they should actually listen to all of the technical people sounding the alarm when another overreaching regulation is proposed.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 weeks ago:
I was surprised that the church sequence doesn’t kill you. I only got shot once in the Whirling-In-Rags.
- Comment on Fedicon is happening in Vancouver, BC this weekend 3 weeks ago:
No need to fret, it will be urinated in whether it is even present or not.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 3 weeks ago:
Somehow, they’re forgetting that sex sells like hot cakes. They’re also not passing up the opportunity to marginalize minorities even further!
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 3 weeks ago:
You would sure be hard-pressed to think of any good thing involving Mark Zuckerberg, alright.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 3 weeks ago:
I almost that Donald Trump was also an actor.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 3 weeks ago:
Jack Black
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 3 weeks ago:
You had to pick the worst, not the best!
- Comment on The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign 3 weeks ago:
What exactly are “notes”? CalDav has a to-do feature that might do what you need it to do.
- Comment on The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign 3 weeks ago:
And I thought that the Dead Internet Theory was something that we were meant to strive against…
- Comment on The future is NOT Self-Hosted, but Self-Sovereign 3 weeks ago:
You may self-host your notes or calendar, but you’re forced to either recreate account systems or give up on interoperability.
I literally just finished setting up Radicale on my old laptop, and now I can access my calendar and contacts through CalDav and CardDav from every single client under the sun. Maybe don’t use AI to write your entire article.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 3 weeks ago:
Make love not hate <3
