The goals of Big Tech in general - not just AI companies - is to make money through surveillance, and collaboration with fascist governments.
I’d say they’re severely misaligned with human beings, democracy and basic decency. Which is totally unsurprising considering that all tech bros are psychopaths.
The Turd Reich was born that day.
Sieg Heil!
The infographic is wrong: the cat has no owners: it owns the humans (and attacks them).
Wow, what a letdown…
Oh I know slop when I see it. I just don’t want to play guess-the-content.
The stuff I watch or listen to is either very well known, or it’s so obscure that nobody is going to make deep fake of it.
Me, be it Youtube, movies or music, I only consume pre-AI content. That way I’m sure it’s man-made.
At my age, I tend to be a bit stuck in the past anyway. So it’s not like I’m missing out on new stuff that interests me, because new stuff rarely interests me.
I’ve been busy posting technical nonsense on Reddit for nearly 2 years now - not outright, obvious BS, but subtle technical mistakes that are obviously wrong to a human engineer, but completely lost on a LLM.
And I’m happy to report, my poisoning seems to be going well: just the other day, duck.ai served me some of the shit I posted on Reddit to answer a technical question I asked it.
Ole Ben Franklin is particularly relevant here:
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
In other words, Flock can go fuck themselves with a stiff wire brush.
Well, if the idea is to bring a Swiss experience to Chicago, jacking up the price is the way to go. Have you been to Switzerland? Even breathing is expensive there.
I use GitHub. Heavily. VERY heavily. But I only use the git part of GitHub.
Why? Because:
The Waymo hardly qualifies as a car.
Just what I want: a French sugar daddy.
I’m pretty sure the sarcasm in your comment was totally lost on most people who modded you up. And just for that, have a mod point 🙂
your sister probably had a wildly different experience than you did.
How could you possibly know that? Do you know my sister?
We talked about it you know. Rather extensively. We met the same people at around the same time and went through the same kinds of shenanigans.
You think you know more than you do.
wildly different experiences with their parents
Nitpicking a bit here, but you assume what my sister and I lived through was our parents’ fault.
It was not: we both went to Catholic school. Let’s leave it at that.
My sister went to therapy all her life. I never did.
I may be wrong, but here’s my theory: she and I went through the same hardship: I allowed time to let the memory fade away in my brain (it wasn’t PTSD-inducing hardship, mind you) but her therapist never let her forget. And now decades later, she’s all kinds of messed up and I’m not.
What I meant is that you can use AI for what it’s good for by querying a model running on a AI-capable machine that isn’t connected to the internet. I didn’t say what the AI says is trustworthy: the onus is on you to take whatever it spews out with a gigantic salt crystal.
But AI is good at some stuff, and for the few things I use it for, I don’t need to share my queries with fucking Google or OpenAI.
Remember folks: if you want to do AI, the only way to do it safely is with a model running locally. Half of the problem with AI isn’t the technology itself, but what the techno-fascist US Big Data monopolies use it for: to exploit you.
We named one of our cats Snow White once. The cat was male and was bright orange ginger.
The reason we did that was this:
The cat was a street cat we had recently adopted. He didn’t have a name or anything: we just called him “The cat”. My son and I brought the cat to the vet to have him neutered. My son must have been 12 or so. The vet was a crusty old guy with overly polite, really obsequious, really old-fashioned manners. Nice guy, but zero humor and he seemed like he had been transported from the 19th century.
The vet said:
“So you would like to have your little companion neutered, do you? I see… Who’s the animal’s owners if I may ask?”
“My son is” I replied.
The vet turned to my son. “May I ask young Sir what the name of the animal is?”
“Snow White” my son said, with a deadpan face.
The guy was completely taken aback. There was ZERO reason to name that cat Snow White. But… he was too polite and too contrived to ask why.
So his face contorted with utter incomprehension for 5 seconds, then finally he said:
“I see. Then Snow White it is. Snow White… the male ginger cat…” as he wrote the name in the form.
I nearly pissed myself laughing.
Later in the car, I asked my son why he said that. “I dunno” he replied, “I just wanted to shake him up a bit with some complete nonsense. I’ve never seen anyone this old-fashioned.”
And so for the next 10 years or so, we owned a male ginger cat called Snow White 🙂
Well, I was specifically addressing AI and the fuckheads who forcibly steamroll it over our lives.
But yeah, this is a systemic problem: the rich and powerful control societies (and not just capitalist societies, to be clear), and it is my personal belief that kind men don’t become rich or powerful, because becoming rich or powerful implies making someone else poorer or taking away their agency.
So if you follow the logic to its simple conclusion, the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful only get there not by being merely unkind, but by being truly evil. And this has nothing to do with the particular field they happen to be involved in.