Butterbee
@Butterbee@beehaw.org
- Comment on ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically 29 minutes ago:
I don’t think I’m quite the target of this comment because I don’t pretend it doesn’t exist or that it isn’t something that people use or care about. But I do avoid using AI for anything that matters… like at all. I also refuse to use chatgpt or any of the commercial offerings. I do play around with locally hosted stuff because the tech is interesting, but there is no way I would ever put my faith in it. Also, my feelings toward the biggest players in the industry are at best “disgust”. So I don’t want to use their products.
So my question then how exactly can I be in the room to help shape decisions? The only two levers I have to pull is whether or not to send those companies money, and whether to even use the free services or not.
What exactly am I supposed to do? The companies will just make whatever models and tune them however they feel will achieve whatever goals they have regardless. And presently, their goals do not align with mine.
I won’t be surprised when we are fucked. I promise you that. I can see that coming. But I feel utterly powerless to stop the tech fascists.
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 4 days ago:
The war thunder forums are going to go HARD for the next 4 years.
- Comment on Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? 1 week ago:
“Let’s set aside the obvious conflict of interest and ethics questions at play here —” You can’t, and you shouldn’t. "We can even skip over the security implications pointed out by a cybersecurity expert in the Times piece. " You can’t, and you shouldn’t. “As a practical matter alone, there’s no obvious reason to add another ISP in order to improve Wi-Fi coverage” It doesn’t take an entire paragraph to figure out what’s going on here let alone an entire article.
As someone from north of the USA border… PLEASE stop this man from stealing your country, Americans.
- Comment on Google is replacing Google Assistant with Gemini | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Uranus is rising
- Comment on Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online 3 weeks ago:
Or go try the demo. It IS eerily uncanny.
- Comment on BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants 5 weeks ago:
I just wish LLM felt better to say than AI. Like AI just rolls off the tongue but LLM feels like a mouthful. That doesn’t help :(
- Comment on BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants 5 weeks ago:
This feels like a “WATER IS WET!” type situation with the exception that a large part of the population would end up being shocked and appalled by the idea of water being wet.
- Comment on Google spikes its explicit 'no AI for weapons' policy 1 month ago:
In a move that shocked absolutely nobody
- Comment on Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on Extreme Boss Killer Belt: Public Notice of Challenge 1 month ago:
I know I’m not good enough to win Reign of Will: Will Defends the Extreme Boss Killer Belt Against All Challengers, Loser! Land Defense Benefit Brawl, but I will be cheering all participants of Reign of Will: Will Defends the Extreme Boss Killer Belt Against All Challengers, Loser! Land Defense Benefit Brawl from the sidelines! Good luck out there!
- Comment on Feral Science 4 months ago:
I was thinking Artificer maybe maybe
- Comment on Feral Science 4 months ago:
Wellllll, now I know what my next D&D character will be.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 4 months ago:
You’re right. It is, at least, something.
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 4 months ago:
My god, that’s brilliant!
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 4 months ago:
At least we know chatgpt wasn’t involved
- Comment on Robert Downey Jr Speaks Out About Elon Musk "Cosplay" Of Tony Stark-The Tech Billionaire 4 months ago:
“One particular point of contention for Downey Jr is Musk’s obsession with Mars colonization. The actor didn’t mince words when he stated, “This idea of, ‘It’s all okay because we’ve gotta get to Mars,’ doesn’t really hold water with me.” It’s a striking criticism that cuts to the heart of Musk’s most ambitious projects.”
Of all of the thing’s Techbro has said and done, his fakey mars ambitions are a particular point of contention for RDJR? The nazi stuff is ok, but him pretending we’re all going to mars so we don’t have to care about Earth that parts the real issue? I hope this is just editorialized and out of context.
- Comment on Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing 4 months ago:
lmao I’m sorry I am 100% for gun regulation but this some big boomer energy and NOT the way to appeal to youth. If the intent is to say “Hey, we have no idea about what you are into but we are pretty sure we know better than you. Go to your room! No video games for a week!” then it’s probably working.
- Comment on Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Journey: She Confess What Went Wrong, And The Lessons She Learnt 5 months ago:
In hindsight, the sites and services yahoo offered self imploding before they became fully enshittified is actually not the worst outcome.
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 5 months ago:
Cyberpunk, as a genre of fiction, was supposed to be a warning and not an instruction manual.
- Comment on The company building former U.S. President Donald Trump Media’s tech has historic links to Iran, Russia, and China 5 months ago:
I don’t think they care at this point. They can say and do anything and just say it’s a conspiracy.
- Comment on The company building former U.S. President Donald Trump Media’s tech has historic links to Iran, Russia, and China 5 months ago:
I’m shocked! SHOCKED! Well not that shocked.
- Comment on Looking for TV recommendations 5 months ago:
Jesus…
- Comment on Looking for TV recommendations 5 months ago:
That’s def a way to get dumber tvs! Though I’m fine buying a smart tv as long as I can keep it 100% isolated from the internet and just use the hdmi inputs and pretend the smart stuff isn’t there. idk if they have gotten quite so malicious yet that you can’t even plug one in without it demanding to be connected to the internet and forcing you to agree to a eula. Roku comes close if I remember. But those shenanigans happened because tv’s were connected and downloaded an update. So whatever is cheaper for the features I care about and I think digital signage you pay a premium for. But I won’t count it out! Thank you
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- Comment on Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres 5 months ago:
“The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies,” said Michael Terrell, senior director for energy and climate at Google." The grid needs fewer power hungry grifts.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 5 months ago:
What’s that meme? Hold on… I can dust it off since it’s still applicable. Oh, right! “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less, and I mean it!”
I don’t need it to be super epic in scope and graphically mind blowing. I just want a tight, focused, well thought out game that isn’t buggy af. And it doesn’t have to be flawless day 1, but there should be some pretty good communication and patches in the first month.
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 5 months ago:
This whole mess has flooded my youtube feed with people self reporting. If they want an anti-woke version of Godot just so when they publish their bigoted games we can SEE that they are bigoted games, that’s perfectly fine by me. The trash that takes itself out is best.
- Comment on Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool 5 months ago:
And that’s ok! Like it’s totally ok to be the os that it is. And it’s ok that it’s not for anyone. It’s certainly not for my desktop atm. But then it’s super amazing at appliance stuff. I’ve got home assistant on a minipc and truenas on a server. It’s ROCK SOLID when it’s deployed where it will shine.
- Comment on Recall: Microsoft re-launches ‘privacy nightmare’ AI screenshot tool 5 months ago:
I honestly don’t want to leave windows. I did use linux for years and I don’t want to tinker with my OS or my applications anymore. And you’re right SteamOS isn’t a general purpose OS. My comment was more in the hopes that if it were pushed out like that, that MS would respond with more consumer friendly approaches to the desktop so I wouldn’t HAVE to switch again and deal with the jank. And there will be jank. I know a lot of games work now with proton but how about the Affinity Suite? I found a github that describes how to set up the process in like 18 easy steps so you can begin to install a custom wine for it and just like no I don’t want to do that. I want to just keep using my pc that works with the OS I actually paid money for and not get harvested. I am so tired.
- Comment on Microsoft’s hypocrisy on AI: can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes. 5 months ago:
Well, if Sam “Liar” Altman said it, it must be true! AI can solve climate change for us AND allow us to keep burning as much fossil fuels as the industry wants us to!