AI is analogous to guns... how? Just because this meme is about Batman snapping a gun in half?

As for your other point, AI means those machine learning models that keep eating up all the electricity and water and computer parts we can feed them and making places near where datacenters are built worse places to live and allowing bosses to fire creative workers because while their output may be worse, it's a lot cheaper, and encouraging their users to confide in them and being sycophantic and deliberately giving them an outsized opinion of their own abilities and whose makers are endeavouring to promote as a substitute for human connection with a worrying degree of success.

most people don't really use them

Lol. Lmao. Roflmfao. ChatGPT's monthly active user count is triple the population of the United States. People are asking LLMs for meal plans, exercise routines, recipes, write greeting cards for them, do their school essays for them because they think it's a better writer than they are, bouncing ideas off it to see if they're good (yikes!), you name it they're doing it.

Also more than half the flyers going up around my university are obviously AI generated.

What then, O wise one, must we understand before we can criticize LLMs for the slop machines they would still be even if we eliminated the myriad ethical problems with how they're currently deployed?

You know that when people who complains about AI say "AI" they mean diffusion models and LLMs, not the field of machine learning as a whole.

Are you defending those too? If not, why did you enter this conversation?

The people that treat it like a tool don't go around telling everyone about it.

What rock have you been under? None of the people in my social circles who use AI as a tool will shut up about it.

America bad, upvotes to the left

• Looks rad as hell
• Can talk, and can often perform computer witchcraft on a scale you didn't know was possible
• Wears rebellious clothing
• Can do pushups

Also you bet your ass there are furries in the army

Depends on whether you got an indie gender from a developer who was kind enough to include a port for your operating system, or if you downloaded a more mainstream gender from Fitgirl

Don't forget all those TikTok videos from gun nuts shooting at their Cybertrucks' side panels to "prove" it was bulletproof and having them go clean through

You're addicted to spinning really fast?

In their defense, datacenters can be built anywhere, whereas EV chargers have to be built everywhere.

That said, they definitely didn't eminent-domain people's houses to build beefier power lines for EVs.

This is not even vibe coding. This is literally just a Claude prompt that it feeds to Claude along with your input.

um. no I'm pretty sure the WWII ones were right

also the difference between the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the one now is that there were countries on earth that were not succumbing to it, and combined, those countries had an army that was at least theoretically capable of going toe to toe with the combined armies of the fascists

if the way to stop fascism is WWIII, where are the fucking allies?

why don't they make heelys in adult sizes it would be so cool

why must they stand between me and my dream of being Mr X from Amphibia 😭

I've fallen quite far down the degoogling / selfhosted tech rabbit hole.

Benefits are cool, but it is nothing but this.

I feel your pain, sister.

This is why I wear a Pebble

Open source firmware doesn't incorporate user hostile changes nearly as often

If you pirate a videogame and don't sandbox the living shit out of it, you have no one to blame but yourself.

"AI" and "artificial intelligence" are capitalist buzzwords and should not be used

proceeds to exclusively refer to LLMs as AI

cc @[email protected]

I don't do as much as I should. I run Wine (which is NOT a sandbox!!!!) inside of Bottles (which sandboxes it a little bit; it at least prevents it from accessing the real filesystem and other programs I have installed) inside of Flatpak (which internally uses Bwrap for sandboxing, which is a legit sandbox when correctly configured, although probably isn't secure against really determined malware).

I probably should use a virtual machine, just to be safe. But I don't want the headache of setting that up or the performance penalty it comes with, and I decided I trust Fitgirl enough to not try harder than Bwrap.

Can best be described as cassandraic