Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

NDAs are so transphobic how the hell do i infodump about cool stuff

hey cis people

shit's really ramping up with this whole trans genocide

you're gonna start seeing a lot of posts where trans people are trying to crowdfund an escape from one of the places where they're actively being genocided

if you're wondering what can you do to materially help trans people survive the arriving shitstorm... BOOST THESE POSTS

your boost could be the one that makes a difference and puts it in front of the right person to donate

what percentage of buttons in computer software have never been pressed

this is a hard question, especially if you include buttons that no longer exist but were not pressed while they did exist

- Edit:
Here it is, thanks to
@molly0xfff : https://incidentdatabase.ai/

- Original question:
Do we have something like "Web3 is going just great" but for A.I.?

If you don't know the project:
@web3isgreat
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

#AskFedi #ai #techbros

@requiem It's vastly disappointing how many people (including here) misunderstand both the problems associated with AI and the capabilities of AI in of itself.

* The current capabilities of AI are over-hyped and over estimated. It's fancy pattern recognition. It is by no means intelligent.

* Corporations are abusing it to steal code, art, and thus get rid of jobs.

* AI output is error prone, and always worse than what a skilled human would produce, but bad quality has never stopped a corporation from cheaping out in order to profit.

It is a multiplier in the race to the bottom. Artists, writers, etc,... are all getting massively screwed by having derivatives of their work stolen while at the same time job offers for the more simpler tasks vanish. As if creative people needed another kick while down. And their customers are being screwed by getting worse products in the end.

We're not "scared" of AI because we think it might go skynet on us. It ain't that clever. It's problematic because it gives corporations another way to exploit us. On a massive scale.

And sorry, but "Should have reviewed the code" is a lame excuse. We all know it's harder and slower to properly and thoroughly review code than to write it from scratch, especially for the trivial stuff AI would be used for at this time.

By using AI you're feeding more data to the companies running them which they can assimilate into their models. By using the tools you are accelerating the problem and actively making the world worse.

There is just no reason and no excuse to use AI. Just don't.

This from @mmasnick is so spot on:

“your reputation when you refuse to moderate is not ‘the grand enabler of free speech.’ Because it’s the internet itself that is the grand enabler of free speech. When you’re a private centralized company and you don’t deal with hateful content on your site, you’re the Nazi bar.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

I sort of want to shake people who are excited for LLMs because they might be able to synthesize information one day and be like "the reason that it's so hard to synthesize information now is because the exact same companies profit from the strategic disorganization of information by selling it back to us as search, analytics, dashboards, and platforms, and LLMs are the logical conclusion of that exact pattern."

i'm an unfluencer. i erase details of products you were interested in from your brain.

Since one of my friends was shocked to learn that library memberships cost money here: Do you have to pay for using public libraries where you live?

older drawing of an #oarfish

#SundayFishSketch #FishArt #fish

I think this may be the best explanation of how Mastodon works that I've seen in my 5 months of being here.
https://mattbrown.dev/mastodon/

How terribly sad it is when someone on one of the bigger instances *cough mastodon.social cough* is the target of trolling and bigoted harassment and that's their take-away experience of the fediverse :(

Fuck 'official mastodon', making it harder for actual genuine safe space communities to convey that actually fedi can be lovely and you don't need to be on an instance that doesn't take care of its community.

I don't want you to have a Covid policy. I want you to have an infectious diseases policy. I want you to take seriously the risk of spreading norovirus, mono, flu and measles at your event. The timeline is not split into "before Covid, when things were safe" and "with Covid, when things are deadly". You just weren't aware of the disease risk of large gatherings before now. None of the diseases are going away. Account for more than Covid.