they have an obligation to reach as much of the populace as possible…

Then their responsibility is to broadcast important information over an open medium that doesnt require registration, and isnt owned and controlled by a foreign adversary

I have the same issues with my gov’t at all levels. So annoying.

Lol… people downvoting stanford university

Lemmy is a wild place… left wing maga, i guess

but super fast.

that’s already making an “impossible” into a “possible”… and in my books, that’s a useful tool if you take all the value judgements out of it.

My parents also said the same thing about electronic music

“it’s not real music, the computer makes it!”

every new technology that lowers the barrier of entry gets derided every time. Tale as old as time.

Every new technology that enables more of the masses to participate will obviously mean more low quality stuff gets made. That doesnt mean the tool is worthless.

Is there a lot of AI slop art? Of course there is… but i hate these anti-AI extremists (especially concentrated in the fediverse) that reject ANYTHING that has even touched AI to be worthless.

“oh what a nice picture… wait what? The artist filled in one corner with AI? it’s total trash!”

Isnt the voyager doctor also part of thr holodeck who can somehow walk around outside?

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say “nah i don’t need to see that” as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video…

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

Exactly…

The reason i run ad blocking at every level isnt to show that i’m too smart for marketing…

It’s because ads work on me… my brain rejects certain ads for sure, and it says “psssshhh, how can people be dumb enough to buy that shit???”… but that doesnt mean i’m too smart for advertising and that it doesnt affect my brain in subtle other ways.

Or… live in a place or advocate for a place where spyware cars arent a necessity for simply existing…

When something is 100% required for life, someone WILL exploit it

The pagerank algorithm worked fine for many years in the 2000-2010s before google transitioned into a full time advertising company

All the prior cases from these chatGPT lawyers should be reviewed. What other shortcuts were they taking before? Did an innocent person end up in jail because of some prior negligence?

I’m not giving up a small pleasure like butter just so that a billionaire can buy another private jet and wipe out whatever tiny carbon footprint savings comes from giving up butter

“Look behind you! A three headed monkey!”

Seriously…

They can have all the blood they want. Just stop leaving itchy bumps and stop flying into my ears

Toronto Dominion Bank

I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter… What’s INFURIATING is that gov’t agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??

Sometimes i use ai to analyze spreadsheet data for me and spit out an excel sheet with the answers. It says “thinking” for like 10 mins, and i can just imagine some GPUs on fire in a datacenter somewhere…

Sure, but why do meta/goog/MS need to be there? Are they opening up research to each other?

I dont really understand their business model.

Hosting these huge model files. Why cant facebook/goog/m$ just do that on their own?

How did these massive ai giants end up relying on huggingface for everything?

There’s a bit in the simspons where activists burn down a lab and a robot runs out of the building screaming “why??? Why was i programmed to feel pain?”

Webrings ftw!!!