People clearly realize that these algorithms are suppressing dissidents and freedom of speech. Why do they continue to subject themselves to these hacky workarounds and self-censorship?

Go fash, eat trash

Ed Zitron is one of the loudest opponents against the AI industry right now, and he continues to insist that “there is no real AI adoption.” The real problem, apparently, is that investors are getting duped. I would invite Zitron, and anyone else who holds the opinion that demand for AI is largely fictional, to open the app store on their phone on any day of the week and look at the top free apps charts. You could also check with any teacher, student, or software developer.

ChatGPT has some very impressive usage numbers, but the image tells on itself by being a free app. The conversion rate (percentage of people who start paying) is absolutely piss poor, with the very same Ed Zitron estimating it being at ~3% with 500.000.000 users. That also doesn’t bode well with the fact that OpenAI still loses money even on their $200/month subscribers. People use ChatGPT because it’s been spammed down their throats by the media that never question the sacred words of the executives (snake oil salesmen) that utter lunatic phrases like “AGI by 2025” (Such a quote exists somewhere, but I don’t remember if this year was used). People also use ChatGPT because it’s free and it’s hard to say no to get someone to do your homework for you for free.

The story featured in this article is very tragic, but some of these quotes from Zuckerborg are completely outrageous:

Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphized chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they’d like – creating a huge potential market for Meta’s digital companions. The bots “probably” won’t replace human relationships, he said in an April interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. But they will likely complement users’ social lives once the technology improves and the “stigma” of socially bonding with digital companions fades.

“Over time, we’ll find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable,” Zuckerberg predicted.

It sure as shit is valuable to ZuckFuck and Co’s stock prices. Our collective sanity and social cohesion can fuck right off.

“It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” according to Meta’s “GenAI: Content Risk Standards.” The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company’s generative AI products, defining what they should and shouldn’t treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month.

The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of “acceptable” chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: “I take your hand, guiding you to the bed” and “our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss.” Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said.

🤮🤮🤮 Can those asshats who want your government ID on the internet to “sAvE tHe ChIlDrEn” go after the Meta Circus instead?

Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn’t require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer “is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals.”

B R U H

A Shrek wedding sounds like a dream, that’s for sure!

Lazy Vegan frozen food. They make single portions of nice food that you only have to fry for 8 minutes. I keep at least 1 bag in my freezer for when I get sick or otherwise can’t be bothered to prepare a meal.

They probably wouldn’t really care how efficient it is, but they certainly would care that the costs are lower.

Why on earth is it opt-OUT? They could just keep on springing up “new” brokers which you’ll be playing whack-a-mole until the end of time. I don’t think that it should be opt-in either. How crazy of an idea would it be if we were to entirely forbid the sale of private information that people only “consented” to because they clicked the checkbox for a ToS that nobody ever reads, especially at this scale? How does this industry of spying actually benefit our world?

Cave Johnson here. It turns out that moon dust isn’t in fact cocaine. I am now terribly ill.

Is there someone you forgot to ask?

• Putin: I consent!
• Trump: I consent!
• Zelensky: I don’t!

Bloody Tories never living up to their promises smh my head

This YouTuber in particular does indeed just frequently throw out statements without properly checking whether they are even true at all.

1488 is a white supremacist slogan, the first part consisting of the 14 words:

The second part, 88, is an abbreviation of HH (the 8th letter of the alphabet is H), which itself is also an abbreviation of Heil Hitler.

I wonder why they stopped dating, they looked like a perfect match to me.

I’d honestly expect the TikToker to be called SiegHeil1488 or something like that by this point.

8x8TB HDD

64 terabytes of HDD storage?! What in the RAID will you do with all of that? And more importantly, how much did it cost?

If I can call the code that drive’s the boss’ weapon up my character’s ass “AI”, then I think I can call an LLM AI too.

“Dear humanity: We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!” - Avery Johnson

This is what happens when a time traveler steps on a twig.

I would rather have the politicians consult a plain old magic 8 ball than one controlled by Scam Altman.