morto

@morto@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You're not a dinosaur. Making people feel old and out of the trend is exactly one of the strategies used by big techs to shove their stuff into people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  only respond to painful cookie request menus to reject cookies

  You can do that just with ublock with the annoyance list, or using an extension like i don't care about cookies. Simple and efficient, no need for an "ai agent" for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Threat Research Reveals AI crawlers make up almost 80% of AI bot traffic, Meta Leads AI Crawling As ChatGPT Dominates Real-Time Web Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren't those requests made from client devices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn't that bring more solar energy to earth and contribute to energy imbalance?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you're mixing Wh with kWh, but still, 40Wh is a lot for a single request

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will block the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a way, the entire lemmy community is the fuckreddit sub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean low value as in a low number. Sorry for the confusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it a surprisingly low value. I can store all the current debian packages in my storage media at home, that's crazy! FOSS really tends to be lean and efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Grid is currently 80% renewable energy (and 10% nuclear)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that for real, or are there some tricks, like buying energy from somewhere and not aggregating in the data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That's interesting. I feel like a lone voice in my university, trying to explain to people that using LLMs to do research tasks isn't a good idea for several reasons, but I'd never imagine that being disabled would put me into a group more likely to think like that. If I had to guess, I'd suggest that there's possibly a strong network effect being abused in our social environment to make people get into the AI hype, and we, the ones who live less connected to the "standard" social norms, tend to become less vulnerable to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is. People are personifying llms and having emotional relationships with them, what leads to unpreceded forms of abuse. Searching for shit on google or youtube is a thing, but being told by some entity you have emotional links to do something is much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laughs in f-droid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has microplastics, even newborn babies, and we have no sign of decrease in its use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC gains rare access to the Congolese mine powering mobile phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An archived version, for anyone having access difficulties:
  https://web.archive.org/web/20250713020638/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvj986l615o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and doesn't need to be exactly right

  What kind of tasks do you consider that don't need to be exactly right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its likely a very large percentage of people would choose to have been born earlier than they were if given the choice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't have high hopes for our future to want to have been born much later... climate change, economic crisis and who knows what else are already at the door.