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- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 1 day ago:
The trick is giving it tons of context. It also depends on the LLM. Claude has given me the most success.
- Comment on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon 1 day ago:
My take:
- Great for helping with coding tasks (especially the boring grunt work) - with proper context and training! You have to put in the work to get better, more relevant results
- Pretty useless for everything else. I’ve tested it out for everyday tasks and it didn’t offer enough for me to really lean into.
- Comment on Cry cry 1 week ago:
Dead Internet theory is becoming more and more plausible by the day.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 week ago:
Lol their first AI instruction might as well be something like “don’t ever use facts or truth in your responses.” They’re just snatching up another avenue through which to pump their dog shit ideologies and propaganda.
- Comment on AI Is A Money Trap 2 weeks ago:
I should reframe what I said: there is not a single profitable AI-focused company. There are tons of already profitable companies that are now deeply embedding AI into everything they do.
- Comment on AI Is A Money Trap 2 weeks ago:
Like Zitron says in the article, we’re 3 years into the AI era and there is not a single actually profitable company. It’s all smoke and mirrors and sketchy accounting. Even if/when the AI hype settles and perhaps the tech finds its true (profitable) calling, the tech itself is insanely expensive. It’s going to boil down to Microsoft and/or X owning nuclear power plants, and everyone else renting usage from them.
People are making money in AI, but like always, it’s the founders and C-suite, while the staff are kicked to the curb. It’s all a shell game and everyone that has integrated AI into their lives and company workflows, is gonna get the rug pulled out from under them.
- Comment on It would get old fast 3 weeks ago:
Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.
Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.
- Comment on It would get old fast 3 weeks ago:
Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.
- Comment on It would get old fast 3 weeks ago:
That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.
My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.
- Comment on It would get old fast 3 weeks ago:
Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.
- House needs to be in the mountains
- Fuck lawns
- I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
- If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
- This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE
- Comment on I have about 55 hours of flights coming up. I’m thinking about the deus ex collection. Any thoughts? 1 month ago:
Stardew is always a good one and uses very little battery. Noita and Streets of Rogue have been fun too, and are also easy on the battery (pixel art roguelites).
I love the Deus Ex series and Human Revolution is worth checking out; even if you haven’t played the prior ones. It’s been a while since I played through it but I remember being drawn to the story and liked the stealth aspects.
The new System Shock remake is also great and is decent on my Steam Deck battery.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 2 months ago:
You’re right, the dot com bust was far worse. That feels like forever ago these days.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 2 months ago:
The VR hype was such a poor investment. It’s a tech that has never taken off in any way that’s large enough for the profits they demand I think the only place it’s gotten marginal interest in, is the gaming PC crowd, and even then, it’s still very niche. It feels like the further things progress, the more detached from reality the “innovations” become.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 2 months ago:
Yep! This is the first time the investment has been so catastrophic though. The amount of money they’re throwing at this absolutely dwarfs every past innovation spike.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value 2 months ago:
This all just feels like sunk cost fallacy at this point. Capitalism can’t do anything besides grow, even when the growth involved and the tech they’re trying to sell isn’t even remotely as good as the hype states.
Self-hosted LLMs? Awesome.
AI in the hands of corporate ghouls? Not awesome.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 3 months ago:
I refuse to pay $80 for a game and Borderlands fell off after the second one, so good luck with that. $70 was also a bridge too far for 99% of games (I made the exception for gems like Elden Ring).
- 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 3 months ago:
I have avoided working for the FAANG companies my entire career and I’m happier for it.
- Comment on Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media] 3 months ago:
I recommend skipping the article and instead skimming through the TED talk. It at least sounds like they’re using it as a tool to assist their artists, but the end result still has the same exact uncanny valley look we see on every AI video any ol’ person on the internet can make.
And there is where art truly goes to die. Suddenly every creative outlet is using the same tools and everything comes out with the same exact weird sheen. ILM is supposed to be a pioneer in this stuff and I respect that they’re not straight up replacing artists (yet) with this, but they’re ultimately sacrificing any aesthetics they’ve employed for years.
At the end of the day, all of this stuff is boils down to speed, and that endless increase in speed is driven… by capitalism. We’re sacrificing aspects of our creative processes so that we can churn more out, instead of taking the time needed to make something truly unique.
- Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy 3 months ago:
This kind of thing will 100% kill any chance of me buying another Switch.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 3 months ago:
This game is so much fun, even when I’m the loner getting my ass handed to me on my sloop (which is most of the time). Seeing a ship looming in the distance and wondering if it’s going to come after you is such a rush.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 3 months ago:
Quake 3 Instagib.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 3 months ago:
I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.
- Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account 3 months ago:
Deleting all of my social media accounts was one of the best choices I made this year.
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 3 months ago:
AI image generation is going to royally fuck up the body image for a lot of people. We’re going to get to a point where we can no longer discern between reality or fantasy.
People will get a handle on voice generation AI so that they can make the person they secretly obsess over, tell them all sorts of things without their knowledge. It can also be used to impersonate a relative or friend for phone scams.
AI glasses are going to do facial recognition on people without their knowledge, and some creepy motherfuckers are going to use it to stalk women. They’ll give you info on some building, while simultaneously making you a surveillance tool for the state.
AI bots are already flooding every platform and being used to spread propaganda. They are the employees that never sleep. We all know how widespread they are on Reddit.
This is a window into the future with AI in the hands of sociopaths and corporations. They are going to doom us to a world that is devoid of a soul or human connection.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 months ago:
It can’t self-correct, write new curriculum, etc. It’s an abyss for errors and it does not understand when you correct it. I’ve tried and watched it give me the same alternating 2 answers that I told it were both wrong. If it’s wrong, you basically have no idea. You’re putting trust in a navigator that is simply reading instructions understanding none of them.
I’ve been in tech professionally for around 18 years and have lived through trends and changes. This is by far the worst one and the most haphazard. I’m not anti-AI (I use Copilot at work and it’s constantly wrong), but what is happening now with this AI wave is just reckless. They’re throwing it at everything because shareholders love shiny new things that make line go up.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 3 months ago:
claims to care deeply about its employees replaces some employees with bots
Duolingo is talking out of both sides of their mouth.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 4 months ago:
Quoting myself from another reply:
I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 4 months ago:
I have a friend that has been buying them for years after his actual AirPods died. They get recognized as AirPods on iOS and macOS, and the ANC is the exact same. He’s bought multiple pairs and says they function, look, and feel exactly the same.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 4 months ago:
Similarly, if you want AirPods but you don’t want to pay AirPods pricing: jenny.airreps.info
The factories in China have all of the specs and info because they make the actual AirPods, so they sell tons of knockoff versions that are identical.
Americans are a captive audience for US companies to ripoff constantly and for our entire lives. We’re like livestock. Once you start to see how massively overpriced everything has been for years due to greedy western middlemen, it changes your perspective on what to buy and what you’re willing to pay.
I want to build a small website that provides alternative sources for anything people can think of. Maybe categorized into buckets. Tech, clothing, home goods, etc.
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 4 months ago:
Pretty sad state of affairs when our choices are human rights violation 1 or human rights violation 2.