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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  You are missing the point. Any reasonable person would wonder why you asking a stupid question.

  Which is why when asked, the AI said of course the car is there, you. Must be asking either a trick question or for another reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A person would look at you like you are an idiot if you asked this question.

  The AI tool I asked said walking saves money, gets excersise etc.

  Asked about the car and it said the car is at the car wash, otherwise why would you ask how to get there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Its crazy to me they wouldn’t have that discussion. That would have been frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird they wouldn’t talk about it. I would have. If I ever have to work in an office again I would quit.

  I gain far too much to ever let that go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is absolutely cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My kid refused. The school district was notified that they needed to do something else, or we would sue. They changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny thing is, you should use the same tools, and that’s the scary part.

  Buy domains, connect to free blogs use sub domains.

  AI can write the blogs for you, it can include your misinformation in various ways. AI can create different voices, points of view, and people and videos to demonstrate the issue you are pushing. Have the AI create links back to each other, reinforcing that a search engine will also follow.

  The AI can create the SEO, and make posts and announcements to reddit, tiktok, Facebook, instagram and twitter.

  All of this is automated and basically an off the shelf solution today. All automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Homeland Security has reportedly demanded personal information about ICE's critics from Discord, Reddit, Google, and Meta—and at least 3 of those platforms have complied⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Digg is using AI for community moderation. I am sure that will work out well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spray n Pray⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US certainly treated the issue horribly. It became a bizarre political misinformation campaign.

  At the same time obesity and mortality from covid have a strong correlation. In wealthy countries it is one of the top factors. Helps explain your stats. Still might have been better with getting vaccines and masking of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly most of my posts about these subjects are exactly that: education, information and exposing things for what they are. My history says as much, particularly on companies and advertising.

  Maybe I should have phrased it different: everything was there that should have informed them. This was so damn obvious and people had been alerted for years. It wasn’t some mystery.

  I am saying things to this audience different then I would to others of course.

  Their is no supiorority, no higher intelligence, no autism, just common sense. These things were all around us then: don’t give out personal information, remain annonymous on the internet, corporations are evil. Pretty much the basics.

  Are people morons? Lately I really so feel that way. You can show facts, compassion, try to help, and they still do the dumbest things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious how you could liable for an algorithym. All advertising and entertainment try and capture marketshare and retain people.

  How exactly would you define that as illegal?

  I am having a hard time not just saying stupid people do stupid things, but of course that is the definition of a child, so it’s the parents that should be held responsible… For wanting to keep using something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, crazy idea, how about not using their products?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 2006 when face book launched to everyone. People had been online for years. Everyone knew the consequences of online handles, stalkers, privacy, personal identifiable info.

  Corporations and online businesses were not to be trusted, that also was obvious.

  But people, by and large, are morons so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even as a kid I got this. How you didn’t is beyond me. First rule: never real information on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t the only issue, it’s just the latest. Handing over all your personal data, to a system that would obviously combine, extract, manipulate and sell your information for free seemed like a good idea?

  It was obvious then! Downvote me, argue with me, but any person who thought about it for five minutes should have been able to figure this out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people were. It was a basic rule of the internet even then.

  So you are projecting then? Calling me stupid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was trump level stupid to realize from the beginning that handing over your personal information on the internet was a bad idea?

  That is stupid to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was obvious back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You actually ever had one???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still can’t figure out why people started using that crap in the first place, didn’t this seem really obvious?

  In any case, that also means Instagram too, you know that right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You NEED To Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Realistically it’s worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have nothing. The government shouldn’t care and no one else should either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly having to have an ID card is not a boast. It’s depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It often makes me wonder why you tube keeps squeezing then. If the majority don’t block ads it seems like it would be an acceptable loss.

  At this point, I am kind of done with youtube either way. The more I go on with life the more I want to actually do things instead if passively just watch things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish you luck I really do. If the parents insist the kids rest of day is structured I hope they get sports, or the scouts, or maker spaces, or library, or something worthwhile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article:

  She also started a parent group with 75 members that’s asking the district to allow students to keep Chromebooks at school rather than take them home.

  Seems like such a good idea to leave that at the school. I had a relative who was a teacher, she rarely ever assigned homework. She always said it was her job to teach them in those 6 hours, and the rest of the day was theirs. She did have a weekend workshop for kids that needed tutoring, and after class hours, but in general, leave school at school and be a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube is coming up with another infuriating way to force users to pay for Premium subscription or watch ads.

  Or to let us know its time to quit. I have narrowed down my youtube use a lot. If it is ad only I won’t bother at all.

  Won’t miss much frankly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree it is wrong, it is absolutely right. The car must be at the car wash, I was asking about how I am going to get there.

  But your second point is fair: An LLM follow along as you lead it, it will offer solutions based on the input. For instance my friend had a sound issue, asking about it led them to all sorts of fixes/changes that were never going to get to the problem, because they framed it as a Linux problem, so therefore its a linux solution. Turns out it was a BIOS setting that took me all of a minute to diagnose and a minute for them to change. But the AI had walked them down nearly every path of sound back end, latency, kernel modules, etc.

  You need some knowledge of the subject, which leads us back to the car thing: here the AI is not trying to wander down all the ways to get the car to the wash, you asked how YOU were going to get to the wash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which should be expected. This question infers that the car is at the wash, and you are asking how to get there, then it tries to reason the various ways to go about that.

  I didn’t realize that at first, but then it because obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just a dumb person question. You know you would need to get the cat to the car wash, the AI knows that (when asked it says as much).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvestors.