MagicShel

@MagicShel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is probably a really good point. I have no issue with AI generated images, although obviously if they are used to do an illegal thing such has harassment or defamation, those things are still illegal.

  I’m of two minds when it comes to AI nudes of minors. The first is that if someone wants that and no actual person is harmed, I really don’t care. Let me caveat that here: I suspect there are people out there who, if inundated with fake CP, will then be driven to ideation about actual child abuse. And I think there is real harm done to that person and potentially the children if they go on to enact those fantasies. However I think it needs more data before I am willing to draw a firm conclusion.

  But the second is that a proliferation of AI CP means it will be very difficult to tell fakes from actual child abuse. And for that reason alone, I think it’s important that any distribution of CP, whether real or just realistic, must be illegal. Because at a minimum it wastes resources that could be used to assist actual children and find their abusers.

  So, absent further information, I think whatever a person whats to generate for themselves in private is just fine, but as soon as it starts to be distributed, I think that it must be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It ain't much, but it's a livin'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Relatable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How else are ypu supposed to check for a beam on your accelerator?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Was it boofing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was an expressway. There were no lights other than cars. You’re not wrong, had a human sprinted at 20mph across the expressway in the dark, I’d have hit them, too. That being said, you’re not supposed to swerve and I had less than a second to react from when I saw it. It was getting hit and there was nothing I could’ve done.

  My point was more about what happened after. The deer was gone and by the time I got to the side of the road I was probably about 1/4 mile away from where I struck it. I had no flashlight to hunt around for it in the bushes and even if I did I had no way of killing it if it was still alive.

  Once I confirmed my car was drivable I proceeded home and called my insurance company on the way.

  The second deer I hit was in broad daylight at lunch time going about 10mph. It wasn’t injured. I had some damage to my sunroof. I went to lunch and called my insurance when I was back at the office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one was hitting it. It ran into the tall weeds (not far, I’ll wager). I couldn’t have found it. Had it been in the road I’d have called it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hit a deer on the highway in the middle of the night going about 80mph. I smelled the failed airbag charge and proceeded to drive home without stopping. By the time I stopped, I would never have been able to find the deer. If your vehicle isn’t disabled, what’s the big deal about stopping?

  I’ve stuck two deer and my car wasn’t disabled either time. My daughter hit one and totaled our van. She stopped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m trying to figure out what that means. Like if I were to imagine a wishlist of things AI might do in a browser:

  • generate user-scripts to modify styling and perhaps even layouts through natural language.
  • Use AI to automatically detect and remove advertisements, nsfw, etc. as desired
  • identify spoofed websites and prevent them from opening
  • search through browser history by natural language so that you’ll always be able to find that one page where you read that thing
  • scan through a massive website (Wikipedia, corporate confluence or sharepoint) to find pages relevant to a natural language search
  • identify fake content (lies, veiled advertisements, seo spam, satire)

  Okay that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Those would in theory be nice features to have, although I’d be worried about the ability to reliable deliver.

  I also think all of that could be offered as a plugin for a regular browser. So in at a loss as to what would make the whole browser AI-centric.

  Also I’m only reading the quote here, but I’d they are referring to the original vision of the web, it has nothing to do with any of this shit. But if that’s not the original vision being referred to then never mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indiana Bones!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “We named the dog ‘Indiana’!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those things where home users just default to PC = Windows. But apps are all online now. Probably 99% of the time all people need is a browser. Yeah some people think they have to have MS Office or some other niche windows program, but I consider myself a power-user and the only apps I open on my PC are Games, Discord, IntelliJ, VSCode, and then maybe fool around with local AI stuff. Photos and stuff are usually on our phones, but they can also all be backed up to the cloud from a computer easily enough.

  I’ve already switched over to Linux because all of that stuff already works. (Caveat: I also have a PS5 for most gaming).

  Most people just need someone to install Linux Mint or whatever and they wouldn’t even notice the difference. The only thing really slowing Linux adoption is folks who don’t want to field support calls from their friends and family.