recentSlinky

@recentSlinky@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As they actively destroy any chance of progress in computing? Probably even degressing it by supporting the AI bubble? Good luck with having robots that can do more than 5% of the basics of what an average human can do :)

  Sure it’ll be able to do it very “efficiently”, but that efficiency is extremely relative at best, and sacrifices way more in the background making it less efficient overall.

  Too bad the people running these companies can’t see beyond their next quarterly numbers to know this, or know how business, technology, the economy, or how humans work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies always need to grow?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably same reason cancer always needs to grow. It’s a fundamentally broken part of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, that doesn’t sound bad, as long as it’s clearly communicated and has opt-in/opt-out.

  I wouldn’t mind selling some of my data that i choose consensually, and getting fairly compensated for it.

  Especially when comparing that to how most (if not all) current major companies just covertly steal all they can about you and sell it behind our backs to whoever.

  Saying all that, i don’t support current AI model training practices at all. So i agree (for now) with the means, not the end results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So genocide is totally fine with microsoft, but the precious terms of service of data storage? Now that’s consequential to them 😒🙄