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- Comment on I'm currently living with a person employed by uk nhs who thinks he's a super smart doctor.... 13 hours ago:
This is either bait, or you need to get the police involved for the kids and find somewhere safer/saner to live yourself.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 days ago:
Time to find a good counterfeit.
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 6 days ago:
Has he actually given up on the Metaverse thing at this point?
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 6 days ago:
It doesn’t read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government has been doing it kind of is.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 6 days ago:
This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they’re literally building two halves that don’t reach downtown now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don’t really have constitutional protections here.
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 1 week ago:
These are all Eastern European software developers, per the article.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s too far in the other direction. Zero is a very small number, and Derek Chauvin is in jail.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
I think we all no the practice of that is a little hit-and-miss.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
If it was identifying Lemmy users, it definitely would be. But, it’s a tool that reveals identities of a small, supposedly accountable group, and we’re just mentioning it, so it seems like there’s at least an argument to allow it.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 weeks ago:
Oh how the tables have turned, lol.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 2 weeks ago:
Lol, isn’t that symbolic.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s probably good to note, although in this context it sounded like you were giving a reason government help would be pointless.
Have an upvote, friend.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, some of them need assisted living as well.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 4 weeks ago:
We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and’s parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.
Yep. That’s really dumb. When people talk about government inefficiency, this is what they mean.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 4 weeks ago:
It’s not how AIs work. They’re pretty brain-like, and learn through their experiences during the training process.
It’s possible they still might be able to learn this spelling fact from some bit of their training data somehow, but they’re at an immense disadvantage.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 4 weeks ago:
It was always a kind of unfair test, when you consider words are rendered down to a token before the thing ever sees them.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 4 weeks ago:
I mean, the industry itself was onboard with regulation this time. At least some of it.
It didn’t happen in the US because the US is basically in terminal gridlock at this point. The EU passed something.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes. Someone made a GPT version of it that was much more fluent, too.
People who aren’t impressed by LLMs don’t remember pre-LLM chatbots. The first time I played with GPT2 I knew everything was going to change.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This seems like a golden opportunity to fuck with him in subtle ways. How many girls things can you disguise?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 month ago:
I worry a day will come it’s all of them.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 month ago:
Does common sense no longer exist?
Yes. A government that’s out to get you is pretty much outside Western living memory, and people seem to think that their rights are a law of physics now.
I wonder what the conversation about digital privacy is like in former East Germany.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 month ago:
Look at the Luigi situation. Police tipped accidentally that they have advanced AI they’ve been using for a decade that we didn’t even know about.
Except that’s not what did it, and I suspect any such thing is shitty corporate bloatware. In the end, distinctive eyebrows and a good-old-fashioned snitch did him in. He wasn’t anywhere close to the radar before that.
Privacy defeatism was already fully going in the days of MySpace. That should tell you a bit about how empirical it ever was.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 month ago:
Mostly the latter. Name a private thing, any private thing. most people will punch it into GoogleMetaX without skipping a beat.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 month ago:
I’m not sure there’s any way you could make a computer work that non-technical people would question, at this point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s actually pretty unusual in the big picture. I’m guessing you’re North American, maybe European? In East Asia, no such thing ever happened, and historically even in the West immigration and free markets were championed my the liberal parties. Ditto from what I know of other regions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Nationalism and communism have had pretty heavy overlap over the years, even if it didn’t start that way. If you accept conservative communism as being a thing, sure, I guess you could argue that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s more nationalism. Not all conservatisms have been nationalist, and not all nationalists are conservative.
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 month ago:
Yeah, not surprised. An experienced software engineer in the US won’t have to do unskilled labour unless there’s something else massive going on.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 2 months ago:
Holy shit, why even implement the message then? There is no good answer.