That's literally their first sentence. How are they saying billionaires are good people?

Not trying to reopen a can of worms but care to fill me in on what happened?

This art style gives me life~

I know. I'm trying not to use DuckDuckGo because of their AI support. I was told this was a good search engine to use instead, but it often spits random stuff back at me.

Are you fucking kidding me? A school supporting AI, it's worst enemy? Genuinely disgusting.

I second this, I wanna know

And resorting to The Mona Lisa just because it's widely considered a masterpiece by everyone else shows how little they think about art and consider it themselves. If that's your first and especially only example, you've already failed the test lol

As a Canadian, yeah, our wait times are rancid and they often get glossed over because of how bad America's healthcare is in comparison. Don't get me started on how Canadians will excuse any issue with the country because "at least we're not as bad as America" and shit like that.

But damn it, I'd still take our busted healthcare system over virtually NO healthcare system. Fuck paying to live. Oh wait, that's just capitalism.

I hardly like cheese AND I'm asexual so this question hardly applies to me lol

Thank you for actually giving me an explanation instead of just calling her comics unfunny lol

You have a point with all this, but we should all be able to agree that a speech synthesis program made prior to the big AI invasion 1. did not make use of large-scale data scraping, nor were they the product of stealing anyone and everyone's voices without a second thought, and 2. was likely made with much better intentions in mind then anything large companies are pushing currently, and 3. has far less of a negative impact on society and the environment at large. Even if the second one isn't true, what does that mean for all of us? Should we refuse to run a piece of open source software because one singular person on the dev team turned out to be a shithead? That's the direction I see this mindset going. Yes, we all should minimize the harm we do, as I am trying to do right now. I refuse to use any modern-day form of "generative" AI, so I decided to ask a community opposed to AI if there are any older, open source programs that could lend me a helping hand. No, I can't confirm that every single line of code was written with good intentions, but how could anyone, for anything? I'm pretty shocked to see this take on an anti-AI community, because this is one step away from "well, we can't stop it so lets just use it reluctantly instead of searching for other methods" which is the kind of idea that I think rarely holds water.

Wait so if the Lemmy devs are transphobic... Should there not be a fork at this rate? Also, I've heard a lot of shit talked about .ml and seemingly for good reason but what's the story with all this? How did it get this bad?

I love how this goes along with another reply saying vegans are too weak to play. Shit, man, I'd like to try paintball but if I'm forced to use marbles then yeah I guess I am too weak lmao

Eww "generative" AI get that shit away from me

I've heard Matrix was involved in some crypto bullshit and military operations of some sort. I want an alternative but Matrix is just shady enough all around for me to stay the hell away.

Fuck yeah, how can I acquire this kind of ban streak?

That's a damn quote.

I read the last sentence as "these boys will pound you."

The only commercial social media I use anymore (or at least post on) is Bluesky, and I'm getting weary of that, too. I've switched completely to open source operating systems and workflows in the past year or so. During that time I've also become vegan and am trying not to go to any sort of shop at night. That last one has nothing to do with the state of things at this very moment, but I don't want to give companies more reason to force people onto late shifts when working in retail/customer service already sucks and even full time won't get you close to a living. The last thing anyone needs is their sleep thrown off, as I know from struggling with it myself. I may not be able to stop buying things, but fuck working when you should be sleeping. Unless you're literally an essential worker, in which case those shit shifts should be cycled between people, not consistent.

...I didn't mean for that to become a rant lmao

Weird considering I need my desktop to just be a tool as well, and Mint really does that for me. Just my experience tho.