Alice
@Alice@beehaw.org
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I tried AI once but it just kept telling me to call the hotlines. Useless.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 2 weeks ago:
Oh nvm, I wasn’t aware they’d done that. The article only talks about the outage.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 2 weeks ago:
I’m dumb; can they do that? I thought DoS attacks could be done without hacking, but a url redirect would require hacking, right?
- Comment on Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy 2 weeks ago:
I’m actually against AI art since creative professions are already lacking in labor rights, and it’s going to get worse now that they’re trying to make artists replaceable.
But one of the worst things about it, to me, is that it’s caused artists to start going to bat for IP laws. IP law is the reason you don’t get to finish that story you spent years on, because HBO deleted it in a tax write-off. You don’t even get to talk about what it might have been like, because you’re under NDA.
Now people want it to be illegal to be influenced by copyrighted things. Great.
- Comment on Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence 4 weeks ago:
Man… This was actually the thing that pushed me to delete Twitter a while back, algorithm error was feeding people gore. I never even saw any of it, but the anxiety of trying to avoid it wasn’t worth it.
The way things are going, I predict by 2026 my screen time will be down to zero hours.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 4 weeks ago:
“I want this”
“Source?”
- Comment on 5 bizarre AI TV features that simply shouldn't exist 1 month ago:
I at least like audio with the display.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 1 month ago:
I WISH reddit would end. I used to love it for the batshit insane personal stuff people wouldn’t share anywhere else. “I haven’t pooped in a month, AMA”, that kind of dumb voyeuristic crap.
It turns out that’s what everyone else loved too, and it’s profitable to have AIs write it so you can read it on YouTube for ad revenue. And y’all, it’s so stupid.
The most bizarrely specific scenarios pop up again and again, and people eat it up every time. “AITA for not giving my evil infertile sister my baby?” “My parents promised my brother and evil SIL my house without consulting me, AITA?” “My evil MIL was female aka evil, AITA?”
And then you have subreddits like BestOfRedditor updates, which you’d expect to curate these posts so the slop doesn’t come through, but in reality it’s a handful of power users obsessively following and reposting any post with “update” in the title or even just edits with the barest amount of self reflection. Posts have wild plotholes, like a 30yo being divorced for 15 years, and it’s considered “best of” as long as there’s an evil woman/autistic person/trans person, I guess.
But no, this AI shit means it will never end, because it gets numbers, and numbers matter more than anything else.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg Says He Fought to Stop E.T. Sequel From Being Made 1 month ago:
Wasn’t it Terry Pr⍺tchett who specifically put in his will that all of his unfinished works (on hard drives) were to be crushed with a steamroller?
People were so upset about that and I understand why, but creators are so dehumanized and treated as entertainment machines, I think being able to release or withhold your work on your own terms is so important.
I still feel really weird knowing that Kafka’s writings were released against his wishes after he died. I can’t even say it wasn’t a net positive, and I know he’s long dead so it doesn’t really affect him, but it feels like people don’t want artists or writers to be able to keep anything to themselves. We’re not only entitled to everything they’ve already made, but everything they could potentially make. How many times have you heard people say “we were robbed” because a standalone work didn’t get a sequel, or a TV show didn’t get a dozen redundant seasons? Like if we like someone’s work, we’re owed more of it.
- Comment on Many people left Meta after Zuckerberg's changes, but user numbers have rebounded 1 month ago:
Yeah same, I live in a small town and in addition to marketplace, I need to check it every couple months to keep up with local events. My town has a website with a calendar but they never add anything besides “weight training at the senior center”, no matter what else is going on
- Comment on Facebook Says It’s Not Forcing You to Follow Trump 2 months ago:
Am I missing something? This explanation actually seems reasonable. I swear I saw a couple people last election complain they were suddenly following Biden, because they were following the POTUS account.
I’m not trying to defend the fash propaganda that is Facebook, but also its users can be pretty dense.
- Comment on TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban 2 months ago:
Wow, this whole thing was stupid. I guess it makes Trump look like the good guy, if you’re an idiot, so thanks, Bytedance.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
That’s true. I was even more tech illiterate back then than I am now and couldn’t figure out how to switch inputs without going through the menu, which I couldn’t get to without connecting to the internet and going through the whole setup process.
No going back now since I mostly cast from my phone these days since it’s the laziest way for me to watch without ads.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
That’s what I did, hence only finding standard def. :( I assumed that was the only option, actually. If someone is even making new ones, I’d probably have better luck there.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
Any suggestions? When I moved out I looked everywhere for a dumb TV. The only catch is I’m not willing to downgrade to standard definition.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 2 months ago:
Last time I was looking for a TV I couldn’t find a single dumb TV unless I wanted to roll back to standard definition, which makes the text in a lot of modern video games unreadable.
- Comment on A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead 2 months ago:
Another dev acting shocked that a predictive keyboard trained by the internet is going to be racist 🥱
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 2 months ago:
No one, and that’s probably the point. They can’t ban porn, but they can make it so terrible for both companies and viewers that the porn companies give up.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 2 months ago:
I’m not showing my driver’s license to any porn website, that’s stupid.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 4 months ago:
Why is everyone acting like the user did something to prompt this response, and then lied to the press about it? Obviously Google didn’t create life, but isn’t it more likely that LLMs scrape from the internet, which is full of edgy and rude people? Especially since Google has its partnership with Reddit, which is a haven for cynical assholes.
- Comment on Kermit :) 4 months ago:
In episode 402 of The Muppet Show, the Prairie Dogs steal Kermit’s collar and he laments that he feels naked without it.
Per the wiki. Surely that explains everything.
- Comment on ‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud 4 months ago:
She’s also a stellar example of inequality and the mechanics behind it, imo. Being a trans woman has not made her a champion of queer rights. Belonging to a marginalized group doesn’t automatically make you a good person or even a non-oppressive person.
- Comment on Kermit :) 4 months ago:
Kermit’s froghood baffles me, mainly due to the neck frill. I was down a Muppet history rabbit hole recently and realized that he was originally just named “Kermit”, and didn’t become “Kermit the Frog” for some years. So he was probably designed as a frill-necked lizard of some kind and got retconned into a frog. Mystery solved, right? Well no, because then I realized he got the frill the same time they started calling him a frog.
I was so distraught I turned to Muppet Wiki, which it turns out has an entire section on his collar. It’s an article of clothing. 😐
- Comment on Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica 4 months ago:
I guess it’s because his Discord server was where he leaked them? I feel like someone who doesn’t use Discord could read this headline and assume he worked for the company, though.
- Comment on Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You 4 months ago:
This is horrifying for a lot of reasons but it’d be nice if my boss had to see the amount of people who yell at me for masking or tell me I look like a man every day. It wouldn’t help anything I just hate my boss and want her to feel the awkwardness
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 4 months ago:
I’ll take any reference that isn’t Wonderland!
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 4 months ago:
I really wanted that site to crash and burn. Oh well.
- Comment on TikTok executives know about the harms the app poses for teenagers, lawsuit documents allege 5 months ago:
I think it’s more that kids are the ones expected to be protected by the law, whereas adults are allowed to knowingly engage in addictive behavior, like alcohol and cigarettes.
- 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:
Yeah, the backwater slumlord who managed to avoid ever meeting me in person while bleeding me dry for three years isn’t the nicest comparison.
- 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:
GOOD. I can’t think of any other industry where I’m expected to buy broken products and hope someone will come and fix it later.
…OK, I just remembered every apartment I’ve rented and spent the next several days on the phone with maintenance. But other than that