HarkMahlberg

So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.

I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don’t worry, your true feelings are safe with me.

This is not how you make allies btw.

Forgive me, I wasn’t aware there was a scientific definition of the term. I’m too hypersensitized to the way right wingers abuse and twist words.

Thanks for the information.

I bet she also puts sugar in her porridge.

🙄

Fascist techbros were already somewhere between wealthy and ultra wealthy.

There are plenty of non-fascist tech-savvy Americans, they just don’t control Scrooge McDuck amounts of money.

It’s a dog whistle for homophobia. Conservatives still think AIDS is “the gay disease.”

Edit: see commenter below.

A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.

In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don’t play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.

Believe me, they’ve already been everywhere you’ve been. It’s not like once you post on 4chan you’re forbidden from making accounts on every other website.

So did Bush. It’s only bad when their enemies do it. It’s righteous and just when they do it.

AI’s biggest business is (if not already, it will be) surveillance systems sold to authoritarian governments worldwide. Israel is using it in Gaza. It’s both used internally and exported as a product by China. Not just cameras on street corners doing facial recognition, but monitoring the websites you visit, the things you buy, the people you talk to. AI will be used on large datasets like these to label people as dissidents, to disempower them financially, and to isolate them socially. And if the AI hallucinates in this endeavor, that’s fine. Better to imprison 10 innocent men than to let 1 rebel go free.

In the meantime, AI is being laundered to the individual consumer as a harmless if ineffective toy. “Make me a portrait, give me some advice, summarize a meeting,” all things it can do if you accept some amount of errors. But given this domain of problems it solves, the average person would never expect that anyone would use it to identify the first people to pack into train cars.

There might be as many shit takes in this post as there are em dashes. I mean, wow.

“You look like a good Joe.”

What a gaping, wretched asshole.

Almost had me, not gonna lie!

Maybe I missed something, but ublock still works very fine for me, even on mobile. And running a pihole, while not trivial, also takes care of some ad traffic. Firefox coems with a reader mode (a feature I really like even with the adblockers!).

So why do people not want to visit pages anymore, if all these tools already existed?

In a better timeline, we wouldn’t need to cheer the victory of one megacorporation over another, they would both be the losers. But also people are still capable of holding two thoughts simultaneously.

For instance, we’d all be happy to see Apple lose the Epic Games lawsuit and be forced out of their monopoly on app stores on iOS. But those same people are aware it would allow Epic to continue being a disgusting company.

bait the anti-ai crowd

Oh I see lol

This is fantastic description of Dark Patterns. Basically all the major AI products people use today are rife with them, but in insidiously subtle ways. Your point about minimal UX is a great example. Just because the interface is minimal does not mean it should be, and OpenAI ditched their slider-driven interface even though it gave the user far more control over the product.

we must start using AI tools in our workflow and is tracking our usage

Reads to me as “Please help us justify the very expensive license we just purchased and all the talented engineers we just laid off.”

I know the pain. Leadership’s desperation is so thick you can smell it. They got FOMO’d, now they’re humiliated, so they start lashing out.

It’s true, the tech will get better in the future, we just need to believe and trust the plan.

Same thing with crypto and NFT’s. They were 99% scam by volume, but who wouldn’t love moving their life savings into a digital ecosystem controlled by a handful of rich gambling addicts with no consumer protections? Imagine, you’ll never need to handle dirty paper money ever again, we’ll just put it all in a digital wallet somewhere controlled by someone else coughmastercardcough.

And another thing, we were too harsh on the Metaverse. Sure, spending 8 hours in VR could make you vomit, and the avatars made ET for the Atari look like Uncharted 4, but it was just in its infancy!

I too want to outsource all my critical thinking to a chatbot controlled by an wealthy insular narcissist who throws Nazi salutes. The technology just needs time to mature. Who knows, maybe it can automate the exile of birthright citizens for us too!

/s

I saw an LLM override the casting operator in C#. An evangelist would say “genius! what a novel solution!” I said “nobody at this company is going to know what this code is doing 6 months from now.”

It didn’t even solve our problem.

Google, being evil: “Sold!”