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- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
whoever employs LLM
incumbent upon the handler to assume liabillity
I agree. If you make any kind of real-world decision based on the output of AI, you should be liable for it as if you’d made that decision yourself.
But I remember reading some news stories about cases where people (often minors) chatted with chatbots and managed to get those chatbots into states where the chatbots encouraged that the users harm themselves (in some cases even commit suicide?). As tragic as that is, I don’t see how it’s morally right to hold the AI companies responsible for that unless it can be shown they did this on purpose. All the AI did in such cases was what it was advertised and understood to do: generate plausible-sounding text based on user input. Those are the cases I’m talking about.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 day ago:
I don’t, not in general.
There are good and bad uses of AI. For example I used AI to generate my profile picture here on Lemmy (would you have noticed?). In general the creation of art is one of the best uses of AI I can think of; it doesn’t have serious consequences if it goes wrong, and it can easily be reviewed by a human whether it looks as it should.
But using AI to make actually meaningful business decisions without any human review at all? Using AI for customer service? Any company that does that deserves VERY negative consequences.
I don’t agree with talking points like “AI companies should be required to pay copyright holders of their training data” or “AI is bad because of the environmental impact” or “AI is bad because of RAM prices” or “AI companies should be legally responsible for any mistakes the AI makes (such as libel or encouraging users’ suicide)” or such things; I think all of these are nonsense.
I believe in general that AI gets too much attention in the media. It’s really not that impactful.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 day ago:
It’s just the normal way of doing things I grew up with, only much later in life did I find out that this isn’t normal in all cultures.
- Comment on Why do we eat dessert? 1 day ago:
why do we eat dessert when we do?
speak for yourself?
In some cultures, such as mine (Austria, but also in Germany) it’s most common for the main (hot) meal to be eaten around the middle of the day, and if dessert is eaten, it’s with that meal. In the evening we usually just eat a relatively small amount of cold food (ham sandwiches or similar) and no dessert.
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- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
prove your identity. If you are an American citizen
how do you verify someone is a citizen if you don’t make them prove their identity?
I live in an EU country and absolutely do have to prove my identity when I vote. I do not have to “register to vote”, or more precisely, I’m already required to register my residence with the government, which doubles as voter registration (the government knows my DOB and citizenship, so knows whether I meet those criteria). Getting disenfranchised for criminal convictions is a thing here, but only very rarely and AFAIK only when specifically sentenced to it.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
Who else should pick judges except for another branch of government?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
Excluding people from running for office because of criminal conviction provides an incentive for authoritarians in power to prosecute their political opponents, so it’s a question that definitely has two sides. :/
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 3 days ago:
A fork works better for most cakes, but it may depend on the exact consistency.
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 5 days ago:
The UK government decided in 2022 not to amend the Gambling Act 2005 to include loot boxes, saying no evidence showed a “causative link” to harms.
Since when is that something that stopped the UK government from trying to regulate technology and curtail its citizens’ digital freedoms?
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- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 6 days ago:
The way I remember it, on old phones before smartphones, speakerphone was a very obscure feature that many users didn’t know how to turn on. I certainly didn’t (I was a child at the time) unless someone showed me.
On modern smartphones it’s very easy, maybe that should be changed again. 😁
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 6 days ago:
I use speakerphone a lot in my own home too when no one is around. It’s just more comfortable to hold my phone in front of me instead of to my ear. Never in public unless specific other people need to hear it.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 week ago:
maybe that too, but mainly it was the move from desktops to smartphones and tablets, which Flash was (at minimum) not very suited for if it was supported at all
This may be the only good thing caused by the existence of iOS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 week ago:
Everyone who liked free and open source software and open standards and such things, which Flash was very much the antithesis of.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 1 week ago:
They’re different but compatible pieces of software.
A major difference is that Lemmy doesn’t allow following individual (microblogging) accounts, only communities. The other three allow following both AFAIK.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
What do you expect when everything you post is instantly copied (“federated”) to something between dozens and thousands of other servers? They might not all properly process any deletions. :/
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That link doesn’t work for me, and I’m pretty sure that’s generally how Lemmy works, you yourself can still see things you deleted on your profile, but other people can’t. Try opening your profile logged out (e.g. private browsing mode), I think you won’t see deleted posts or comments there anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you don’t trust deletion to federate to other instances, why would you trust edits to do so?
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
I am not. I am from a country whose constitution starts with the statement that it is a democratic republic.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don’t even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that’s hardly an explanation without more elaboration.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 1 week ago:
In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.
What do any of these laws have to do with serving the people? Do they have anything to do with the will of the people?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
“Fediverse content” is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?
But it usually doesn’t show up very prominently, and which instances’ copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 2 weeks ago:
You can name them with a string that helps you identify them while you’re editing, then only when you’re finished run search and replace to replace those names with numbers.
Or I guess you could write it in MediaWiki which does exactly this automatically with its references feature. 😁
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- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the US to some extent because of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 3 weeks ago:
Yes and Romance languages of adjectives, not really what OP asked about tho… 😉
- Comment on Anon is going to be rich 3 weeks ago:
Even at 16 I would have understood that I can’t force that clerk to accept such a bet and that clerks will probably recognize me after a few times of doing that in the same place.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 3 weeks ago:
I agree with that of course.
- Comment on California Just Killed Open Source - YouTube 3 weeks ago:
and it seems to be not true at all that “California just killed” anything, so far the bill has only been introduced, not passed as the title implies