Affidavit

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  slow clap

  FYI, I’m not here to win a high school popularity contest. I’m perfectly capable of admitting that I am a flawed human being (as already acknowledge in my ‘second reply’).

  I’m happy for you to be the big boy/girl here. Here’s a cookie: 🍪.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, make a liar of me will you? I should have read the replies before stating I wouldn’t be responding. But I hate blatant misinformation.

  I could create a quadrillion JSON files using Python if I was aiming for quantity alone. For context, I was creating character profiles for video game characters that were derived from the public wikis. Good luck creating a Python code to read through an NPC’s wiki entry (and related entries) and then generating their personality, background, significant events, and relationships into a logical JSON file with ‘a few dozen lines of Python’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m not going to respond to the replies. I thought I made it clear; I already know that Lemmy has a collective ragegasm whenever someone says something positive about AI. You don’t need to tell me how much you hate it, I know. I just don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike 110% of the Lemmy community, I am legitimately impressed by AI. LLMs have increased my productivity both at work and with my own personal hobbies.

  Tonight alone, I created dozens of JSON files using an LLM for a game mod I’m developing that would have taken me days if I had created them manually.

  My issues with Microsoft have nothing to do with AI (as a concept). Personally, I equate most people who oppose LLMs with the Luddite movement.

  Microsoft has many, many issues. Their focus on forcing AI on people who mostly don’t want it is a stupid business decision IMO. They should focus their energy elsewhere.

  I’d rather they fix Teams and remove the 4,738 completely useless Clippy notifications they send me daily (on my work computer—fuck using Windows at home).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many primary school kids will never have a male teacher, and experts say that's a problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Firstly, there is a large economic factor, and that is, on average and compared to women, men can earn more in other industries,” Dr McGrath said.

  “Second, there are social expectations around who belongs in the teaching profession — teaching is often associated with stereotypical traits of being caring and nurturing.”

  Pretty sure neither of these are the actual reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s because it causes all of Lemmy to have a collective ragegasm. It’s kind of funny in a trollish way. I support OP in this endeavour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alt+0151

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a lazy response. OP is talking about actions individuals can take and you provided a single word response with a link to overall climate change sources, most of which individuals have no control over (beyond voting).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “…for multi-step tasks”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually like AI overview, though I use DDG, not Google. It’s especially helpful when you just want a simple answer e.g. stuck on a level in a video game, wanting to know the major exports for a country, checking the release date for a movie/game, basic troubleshooting questions.

  Website developers typically bloat simple questions like this with irrelevant rubbish to waste your time and keep you on their websites longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The posts on this thread are evidence that people don’t actually care about the policies; if there is an oompa loompa behind it, it must be bad.

  Almost every move the current US administration has done to cut red tape has been utterly stupid. This one actually makes sense. Having a separate citizenship database for every state is just silly.