zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states 2 weeks ago:
Why would it be a threat to the entertainment industry? I thought they were all excited about being able to cut costs with AI.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
AI will reinforce delusional thinking. This is definitely not good.
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 2 weeks ago:
When you share with Facebook, you share with Trump.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
You’re saving an already low-quality stream into a lossy format. Just use Soulseek.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 2 weeks ago:
Evidence?
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
It’s hypocritical for the United States to demand that other nations not have nuclear weapons when we have so many. The safest path is to use diplomacy to achieve a peaceful, mutual disarmament. Either everybody gets nukes or nobody does.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 3 weeks ago:
Attacking civilians doesn’t automatically make it a genocide. If that were true, then pretty much every war ever was a genocide.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 3 weeks ago:
Why did the authoritarian regime wait until now to turn off the Internet?
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 3 weeks ago:
Or it was just a weird network issue. A week is a long time, though.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 3 weeks ago:
Same on FireDragon with Garuda.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 4 weeks ago:
There are speech police in the real world. Workplaces don’t allow you to use slurs or to harass your co-workers. That’s just one example. In fact, any social group that I can think of will punish you for saying something. Some are more lenient than others, but every one has a line that you cannot cross.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 4 weeks ago:
No newsgroups? No IRC?
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 4 weeks ago:
Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain’t so great.
I don’t think the phrase “third-party fact checkers” (plural) implies a central authority.
Neither is having classes of people who you aren’t allowed to offend.
Facebook can’t stop you from offending people. What they can do is make it slightly more difficult by disallowing slurs, etc.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 5 weeks ago:
Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.
Because they’re two completely different things.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 5 weeks ago:
Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Donald Trump does not have “all the power”. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be acquiescing to the courts at all. It’s wild to me that you think that the US government would do a worse job of running SpaceX and Starlink than Elon Musk.
You’re treating it like simply replacing one CEO with another, but that isn’t what it would be. I know that Trump wants to be king, but he still isn’t.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got the feeling none of y’all read past the headline.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, let’s leave all that power in the hands of one narcissistic egomaniac who’s frequently going on ketamine benders. What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Trump has been impeached successfully. Twice. What I assume you mean is that he hasn’t been removed from office. That could be the consequence of an impeachment, but not necessarily.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
The solution should be something that isn’t just free, but also open-source.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
Mango Languages doesn’t have Esperanto.
- Comment on Industrial Light & Magic's Chief Creative Promotes AI Slop During His TED Talk 1 month ago:
I’m sure I won’t be tempted. It’s damn hard to get me into a theater these days as it is.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 month ago:
Oh, goody! I hope they use that TikTok lady’s voice! It’s my favorite!
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 2 months ago:
Additionally additionally, as it says in the article, reddit sells its content to OpenAI, and in order to do that, they need it to be organic. If you feed AI output back info AI, it makes the output worse, not better. So, there’s another financial incentive to ensure that the people talking on reddit are actually human.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 months ago:
I haven’t had any issues with webcams or conference software (Jitsi, Zoom, and Discord).
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 2 months ago:
Where are you getting that statistic from?
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 2 months ago:
People expect the villains to be cool, because that’s how they’re portrayed in movies.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 2 months ago:
And they all think by having more money and being more popular will fulfill that human need.
If that was all it was, then I’d feel sorry for them. No, they’re trying to fulfill that need by being Great Men of History with Mighty Plans, but their Mighty Plans are all terrible, because they’re horrible people.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 2 months ago:
The Illuminati were real, too. That doesn’t mean that they’re still around and controlling the world, though.