Vanth
@Vanth@reddthat.com
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 1 hour ago:
Use of the terms “warfighter” or “warfighting” is one of the biggest red flags in my life due to the industry I’m in. Big cringe. Might as well just say “I wanna make the world more White and Christian. 'Murrica.”
- Comment on Why so much hate toward AI? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget problems with everything around AI too. Like in the US, the Big Beautiful Bill (🤮) attempts to ban states from enforcing AI laws for ten years.
And even more broadly what happens to the people who do lose jobs to AI? Safety nets are being actively burned down. Just saying “people are scared of new tech” ignores that AI will lead to a shift that we are not prepared for and people will suffer from it. It’s way bigger than a handful of new tech tools.
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- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 3 weeks ago:
This feels a bit like PTA-driven panic about kids eating Tide Pods when like one person did it. Or razor blades in Halloween candy. Or kids making toilet hooch with their juice boxes. Or the choking game sweeping playgrounds.
But also, man on internet with no sense of mental health … sounds almost feasible.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t because I don’t have the necessary depth of skill.
But I don’t say I “blindly” trust anyone who says they’re FOSS. I read reviews, I do what I can to understand who is behind the project. I try to use software (FOSS or otherwise) in a way that minimizes impact to my system as a whole if something goes south. While I can’t audit code meaningfully, I can setup unique credentials for everything and use good network management practices and other things to create firebreaks.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
Is that really the message you got? It’s worded differently than what I see in mine.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
People that like Fight Club, American Psycho, and Starship Troopers… k, but like, do you get it or are you a nut job?
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a better state-backed initiative would be to make mental health services available to this dude and to anyone else dealing with addiction issues. Especially since I assume this door guard was older than 18 and age verification, no matter how private, would have done nothing to stop his access to porn.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
you gotta admit that there are psychological effects on avid adult viewers and more on minors
Citation needed when we’re talking about implementing laws and opening up lawsuits suing for $75k+. Multiple robust peer-reviewed citations needed. Preferably not funded by a Catholic church group.
Also it’s a leap to say top-down privacy invading laws are the way the state or federal government should handle it instead of the concerned parent monitoring computer usage. There’s so many free and subscription based parental control tools out there. Comprehensive sex education would be a potential alternate way for the state to support parents and teens to educate them on porn consumption and safe internet usage.
FYI, NCOSE, the group joining (likely funding) the lawsuit, is against comprehensive sex education.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
I hope those aren’t his real initials because it seems like there’s more than enough information to identify him between the article and complaint filing. Poor kid doesn’t deserve to be dragged into this.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
Ty! TIL. I’ve probably seen it many times before, but it only jumped out at me this time given the Olathe, KS setting and strong fundie Christian vibes.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. As a lawyer friend once told me, “you can sue someone for damn near anything. It doesn’t mean you’ll win”.
I imagine the “disability and disfigurement” will get sussed out at some point and either backed up w some sort of evidence, or taked out from the rest of the complaint.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure those NCOSE assholes are the ones who said school shootings and other mass murders are because of moral decline due to gay people.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 4 weeks ago:
Jeebus, I need backup plans for Friday nights.
Page 8 & 9 of the court filing (not the article):
Through this time, Q.R. was able to access chaturbate.com on thirty different instances: […] seven instances on August 30, 2024 […]
Bruh, make sure to hydrate.
Page 13:
Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants in an amount in excess of $75,000.00 for:
a. actual damages resulting from Q.R.’s access to material that is harmful to minors, including but not limited to past medical expenses, future medical expenses, past and future lost services and disability, past and future pain, suffering, and disability […]
Page 15, looking for more details on alleged “disfigurement”:
As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ negligence, Plaintiff has suffered and will continue in the future to suffer the following damages: a. Pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish […]
It goes on to talk about pornography causing a shift in perspective on sex and possibly leading to addiction. Not finding anything specific on the alleged “disfigurement”.
I’m left to assume poor Q.R. will have to deal the rest of his life with the friction burns caused by jerkin’ it 7+ times on August 30, 2024.
His mom also demanded a jury trial, so Q.R. can rest in easy knowing 12 strangers will hear about his friction burns and give it the serious attention due.
- Comment on Call Centers Replaced Many Doctors’ Receptionists. Now, AI Is Coming for Call Centers. 4 weeks ago:
I coached my grandma to just repeat “I want to talk to a human operator, please” over and over until she got through. It worked about 70% of the time but some are nearly impenetrable.
- Comment on Descentralized AI book reading server 4 weeks ago:
Ah, you want specialized instead of general.
Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?
Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.
- Comment on Descentralized AI book reading server 4 weeks ago:
If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?
Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 month ago:
You’re on an open forum here, versus a substack where people are encouraged to subscribe and donate to writers they like.
Which do you think is more likely to offer comments with narrow perspectives?
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 month ago:
Is environmental impact on the top of anyones list for why they don’t like ChatGPT? It’s not on mine nor on anyones I have talked to.
The two most common reasons I hear are 1) no trust in the companies hosting the tools to protect consumers and 2) rampant theft of IP to train LLM models.
The author moves away from strict environmental focus despite claims to the contrary in their intro,
This post is not about the broader climate impacts of AI beyond chatbots, or about whether AI is bad for other reasons
[…]
Other Objections, This is all a gimmick anyway. Why not just use Google? ChatGPT doesn’t give better information
… yet doesn’t address the most common criticisms.
Worse, the author accuses anyone who pauses to think of the negatives of ChatGPT of being absurdly illogical.
Being around a lot of adults freaking out over 3 Wh feels like I’m in a dream reality. It has the logic of a bad dream. Everyone is suddenly fixating on this absurd concept or rule that you can’t get a grasp of, and scolding you for not seeing the same thing. Posting long blog posts is my attempt to get out of the weird dream reality this discourse has created.
IDK what logical fallacy this is but claiming people are “freaking out over 3Wh” is very disingenuous.
Rating as basic content: 2/10, poor and disingenuous argument
Rating as example of AI writing: 5/10, I’ve certainly seen worse AI slop
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 1 month ago:
I’ll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 1 month ago:
Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.
Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant: California’s Diablo Canyon. 2 months ago:
My company recently released a beta “AI” tool to do similar.
What I’ve found but was 0% surprised by, our documentation has conflicts. It still takes an experienced, knowledgeable person to notice that there’s a conflict, then dive into source documentation to resolve them.
What going to happen is they think they can cheap out on hiring/retaining employees with those abilities.
I would bet a dollar the documentation in nuclear has similar conflicts and similar if not greater experienced human knowledge to resolve them.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 months ago:
Making it even tougher for Frameworks to win a customer like you over, even without 40%+ fuckery in pricing.
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 months ago:
This is a hardware startup trying to attract customers away from the likes of Lenova, who has simpler products, a more mature supply chain, and economy-of-scale to their advantage. No way are they pricing to absorb 40%+ with day-to-day swings.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Really hitting the, “rah rah, America is the best” propaganda in this article.
Note that Aziza Almanakly, the lead author of the study, is a PD Soros Fellowship recipient.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides merit-based funding for New Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants, who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia.
Paul Soros is George Soros’ brother and less visible partner.
If the current US administration had their way, the leader of this “American achievement” would be in a prison in El Salvador.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s World launches Mini Apps 1.2, lets devs build-to-earn 2 months ago:
Pool of $300,000 of cryptocurrency?
A developer of a top game can expect $25,000 in the cryptocurrency?
So they’re expecting, say, four “top” games for three weeks and then the pool is used up. Feels like a new evolution of crypto scam.
- Comment on The Great TikTok Migration: Western Extremists Flock to RedNote. 2 months ago:
Keep reading. It’s not saying all Westerners migrating are extremists. It says extremists, like neo-Nazis, are among the Westerners migrating.
- Comment on Can Twitter X control journalists and politicians? The shocking revelation from Musk's Italian trustee gives pause for thought 2 months ago:
Yeah, but as government officials. Not as shareholders. Like through a warrant or whatever official process Italy uses.
Can I buy a few shares and get the same access? That would be insane.
- Comment on Meta will roll out its AI chatbot with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, nearly a year after pausing. 2 months ago:
Do you know anyone who actively uses Facebook anymore? Not Instagram.
I’m in the US, East Coast, and know no one here who does. I believe I still have one aunt, ages 55+, living in the Midwest, who still uses it. She’s very much the stereotype, she’s been sucked into believing COVID is a conspiracy, all immigrants are dog-eating rapists, and trans people are going to break in to watch her pee in her home bathroom. She represents the average US Facebook user in my mind.
