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Nice argument you’re having with yourself there, buddy. Seems like you have quite a lot to pour out.

I don’t have any affinity for China, but I also don’t like the gratuitous hate they get all over the internet, nor the reduction of Chinese people’s experience to work drones (what you’re doing).

I had hoped that Lemmy wasn’t gonna be like that, but alas.

I’m sorry you live with so much gratuitous hatred in your heart and I pray you can recover some day.

Actually it’s the other way around.

The internet is all about “China Bad” so calling it China Battery is a way to depreciate this obviously positive discovery.

I am trying to get away from the philosophy actually 😅 in the end what matters is how these tools are being used, not so much their inherent characteristics.

Can you envision a world where AI chatbots will be used to lead you down certain political beliefs (e.g. capitalism good, socialism bad) product recommendations will be made based on how much brands are willing to pay for ad placements, and your psychological state will be measured and molded to the interests of the AI owner? I can. It’s also already happening.

It doesn’t really matter whether it’s the Machine or the creator.

The point is, AIs can be programmed to lie, much like Grok does. And if they can be programmed to lie, then they are not reliable for anything at all. We are going through a decent period where AI can be used for a few things reliably, but even these will surely be enshittified.

Great! Now you just have to ensure you stay at your job for at least 48 years so that this automation really starts to pay off!

ut could just be outplayed by a big corporation with enough money to copy this idea and sell it everywhere before he can even start production.

Which is also why Anti-Trust laws exist in pretty much every country and, when enforced, actually stop companies from becoming gargantuan Hydras.

In the US they haven’t been implemented for too long, of course.

I really don’t understand the EU.

While the US has Trump threatening Denmark’s sovereignty, threatening to pull out of NATO, making up lies about the EU being created to screw the US, have multiple US billionaires and his whole administration lobbying EU countries to degrade EU unity, the EU goes out in full bend-over mode to whatever the US wants.

Want every EU citizens Medical data? Go ahead. Want to regulate our industries? Why not. Want us to implement Chat Control? Fuck it, we’re all part of the same Epstein class anyway!

That’s also a fair point, in hindsight. I associate shitty to being insecure, slow, and borderline unusable. I have a middle of the road view on the privacy aspect because Chrome exists, it doesn’t care about your privacy but I think you’ll be hard pressed to call it shitty.

That said, I wouldn’t hold my breath and I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few months time Chrome comes with Gemini integrated by default. All your private data, straight to Google’s servers.

In fear of playing devils advocate a little bit:

Edge is not a shitty browser. Ad-infested, controlling, overwhelming, disrespectful, annoying yes. But not shitty.

It’s chromium-based so it’s quite fast and secure (unlike Internet Explorer that everyone loved back in the day) and it integrates well with the overall OS.

I wouldn’t use Edge, but it’s a decent default if you’re okay accepting Windows antics or too young to remember for how long Microsoft has been desperately trying to play catch up and failing.

It’s an opinion, don’t kill me. 😶‍🌫️

Edit: unrelated to the topic, but I’d like to thank everyone for not downvoting me for wrong think like what would happen on that other platform. Why is this community so nice? 😭

I’ll never forget how in university there was this girl I was flirting with (it was mutual) who got upset and broke off contact when I let the streak with her on Snapchat drop lol. This was after I installed Snapchat just to talk to her, too.

Blessing in disguise, in hindsight.

Proton and Tita aren’t entirely free either, 500MB is just 1-2 years of emails and after that you’ll start paying if you want to keep your mailbox.

Right.

“We hate capitalist oligarchs which is why we are moving to another oligarch-owned platform.”

It’s all so tiresome.

At this point The Great Firewall is looking more like it’s protecting people from this AI slop. I have no idea how websites are in China, but I think I would be okay with Europe raising a great firewall against US owned companies.

The damage US far-right influencers (along with Russian funding of local parties) is doing in Europe cannot be underestimated.

You just reminded me of this lol

https://youtu.be/7ZcKShvm1RU

It’s okay if your penis is small - in fact I prefer it.

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