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- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 3 weeks ago:
You can already block instances in your profile. Just block feddit.org , never hear from me again, but also you won’t see much german content. And you can deselect languages in your profile, too.
- Comment on Ross Ulbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a Dark Web Dealer, Crypto Tracers Suspect 3 weeks ago:
It’s totally insane what is happening here. A drug dealer and criminal gets a presidential pardon (!) and then receives millions of dollars from dark sources and it somehow is ok for Americans?
- Comment on The AI girlfriend guy - The Paranoia Of The AI Era 3 weeks ago:
But beyond the ethical implications of the photo, it’s most likely generating so much interest across the web right now because it’s a rare peek at what actual people are doing with ChatGPT. The defining question of our current transition from the social media era, where everyone assumed they knew — and could judge — what everyone else was doing, to the AI era, where no one has any idea what anyone is doing. A paranoia that is only getting more intense as AI services become better and cheaper and more ubiquitous (we think). Was the new Always Sunny In Philadelphia poster secretly AI generated? What about OpenAI’s most recent announcement? Are the texts we’re sending our friends being fed into ChatGPT to be analyzed? Are our doctors pulling it up to diagnose us? We just don’t know. And you can roll your eyes at all of this. You can look at that photo of the man on the subway and just see narcissism. But scoffing at it doesn’t make it any less real or any less of a genuine emerging social problem. Last October, a teenager killed himself after a chatbot roleplaying as Daenerys from Game Of Thrones allegedly told him they could finally meet in the afterlife. And earlier this year, a chatbot named Erin, run by a company called Nomi, gave a user explicit instructions for killing himself, down to the pills he would have to take (he didn’t go through with it). According to a recent report from The Washington Post, users are spending an average of 93 minutes a day talking to companion AI services like Character.ai. “That’s 18 minutes longer than the average user spent on TikTok. And it’s nearly eight times longer than the average user spent on ChatGPT,” The Post wrote. Which is all to say that people are spending hours a day talking to chatbots in ways as vast and complicated as human beings are capable of being. We don’t actually know what the prompt the man on the subway was using to get ChatGPT to offer putting his head on its “metaphorical lap.” Could be that he’s talking to it like a lover or it could be something even more intimate and unfit for public consumption. It doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that people are using AI in far more personal ways than they ever did social media. And the companies that run these services will only ever do the bare minimum to protect us. Character.ai and Google, who invested heavily in the company, have both said that they’re taking a “cautious and responsible approach” to their AI services. And the company, Nomi, who ran the aforementioned murderous Erin bot, told reporters they don’t want to censor their AI. Certain states in the US are trying to regulate these services, but we know how that goes. And so, yeah, here’s this new technology that has been dropped out of the sky on us. We have no way of controlling it, and normal people are using it, people who don’t spend all day online fighting about what it means for the environment, for creative industries, for politics. They’re downloading these apps, letting them worm their way into their lives, with no real thought to where this all is all heading. Which, unfortunately, just leaves us to look after each other while we figure this all out.
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- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure that they will give the bulk of that money to their users, who created all that content!
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
First of all, telling admins that they should break the law and face legal risks and fines because you want it is exactly what the Lemm.ee admins are talking about. Burning out, problems with replacements and so on. And second: We are talking about content in the style of “Israel has to die, kill all the jews” and yes, people get prosecuted for that. And you really do not want stuff like that on your instance, even if your country allows it
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
My instance constantly gets attacked for being a “pro genocide nazi instance”. Which totally is not the case, but admins and mods are trying to ensure that no content is posted that is illegal where they live. And local rules here are also quite sensible.
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- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 4 weeks ago:
Let’s not start a discussion about nuclear energy here. France has enormous subvention on electricity and Germany a lot of taxes. And both countries have issues in their energy system, so yeah
- Comment on WordPress has formed an AI team 4 weeks ago:
I do care about them trying to siphon away training data for their AI via Jetpack
- Comment on Hands-On: EufyMake E1 UV Printer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, take a look at the article. It is something totally different
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 4 weeks ago:
Just imagine the costs of running such a system on European energy prices. We’re at ~0,35€/kWh here in Germany currently. That means that an hour of running this will cost you 0,84€. Add to that the energy use of the CPU, mainboard, Monitor and you’re paying well over 1€ per hour of gaming.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that is a terrible violation of trust. A parent should stop listening when they find out that they have a copy of such conversations of their child. They shouldn’t write a newspaper article with citations about it
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 4 weeks ago:
Going from “having no internet” to “doing international lawsuits” is quite a journey
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 5 weeks ago:
Not so good - issue is that your “code” for electrical installations doesn’t include balcony solar and that your institutions are not able to include it because of reasons that do not make sense to anyone outside the USA
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Most people are wrong about historical events. Which totally makes sense, they are no historians, haven’t studied it in detail, have maybe heard something about it in school. And of course what you heard about it in school in the 70s is not really the current historical consensus. So do just not care about it and read some good books on the topic.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 1 month ago:
Lemmy is totally open to vote manipulation. If I want to harass you, I can create accounts on multiple instances and downvote every post or comment you make with 100s of accounts. That might be a little obvious, but you can totally swing policital discussions with a small network of accounts here (just give everything pro palestina 40 upvotes and downvote every pro israel post 50 downvotes) and local admins have no method of checking that you are using multiple accounts. All they get is the federated upvote.
And, well, the whole Nicole situation also shows that there are huge holes in spam protection.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Yeah, and sneaking in such a thing at the last minute is also antidemocratic.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 month ago:
Real life doesn’t work like that
- EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basiswww.iccl.ie ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 1 month ago:
And if you grant access to your own apps, but deny them to your competitors, that is totally a monopoly abuse
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
Take a longer text (like 70 pages or so) and try to delete the first 30 pages.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
Yes - I was surprised recently how useless the text selection and editing features on Android are. I had to edit a bigger document (like 70 pages) where I had to move some paragraphs, delete some and so on. No problem on a desktop even on a smaller screen, but Android was surprisingly unusable
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
Mobile Apps really are really lacking in terms of usability. There really is a use case for a real laptop experience
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, I do. It’s great because you can take it everywhere and it also gives you the flexibility to sketch, write, design your own layout or glue in other things. That is something that no software is able to do without hassle.
But: My handwriting is totally unreadable, I never found a OCR software that works on it and it really sucks to search in handwritten notes
- Comment on Reddit Plans Extra Verification Steps To Detect The Human-Like AI Bots 1 month ago:
Reddit still isn’t able to fight back against those simple repost bots that copy old posts with the same title. That should be easy to detect.
- Comment on The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google 1 month ago:
It’s a really horrible way of doing business. Fitbit had its own niche, kind of great products, name recognition, global distribution and more. Then Google came, bought them and now we’re left with one Pixel watch, everything else on life support and a destroyed company.