curbstickle

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[–] curbstickle 2 points 1 month ago

At work, a CTO for a firm we were designing a solution for got upset because hardware was in customs, and tariffs needed to be paid.

He didn't understand why the manufacturer wasn't paying, and it had to be pointed out (by someone from the other company bringing this hardware) that tariffs are a tax on importing, not exporting, and for every single contract they have ever had, tariffs are paid by the client.

This was not a small company, either. We're talking about a fairly large firm in finance. And the CTO didn't understand how tariffs work.

We're fucked.

[–] curbstickle 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

I dont advocate for corporate AI.

I'd also mention most users on db0 are far more likely to be using fully open models and models they've trained themselves (which is what I do, mostly log/error eval stuff).

That said, "fixing" AI will solve nothing, because capitalism is going to find yet another way to screw them over. Banning AI tomorrow isn't going to provide job security or a stable income, it wasn't before and it isn't now.

I work with a lot of creatives, and so many are contract based and struggle between them. Several of them have been finding work cleaning up (as in, creating new) materials that were AI generated and look terrible.

So again, the issue is capitalism, and AI is just the most recent conversation piece. AI isn't the root of the problem, nor is the problem "solved" without it.

[–] curbstickle 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yup, was getting an uber (I can't drive for very long or the pain starts), he was chatty and excited about Trump.

Asked what he thought about the anti-immigrant talk (oh obviously thats the bad ones!), and the fact that there was a pandemic and prices skyrocketed (Biden's fault even though that all started before he was in office), etc. Paraphrased obviously.

I don't know what can possibly be said to these folks to have them understand, but as a result, we have... Well all this current nonsense.

[–] curbstickle 10 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Thats a capitalism problem, not an AI problem. AI is just the most recent example.

They shouldn't have to rely on maybe getting paid so they can have food, shelter, and other basic things for living.

[–] curbstickle 9 points 1 month ago

This is one of those cases where an algorithm carefully trained on only relevant data can have value.

Hopefully more people learn that this is the important part.

It becomes nonsense when you just feed it everything and the kitchen sink. A well trained model works.

[–] curbstickle 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

8 months ago:

Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.
FFS.

I'm curious what that guy thinks today. Or if he's still in the US.

[–] curbstickle 6 points 1 month ago

So brigading small communities can be easier?

[–] curbstickle 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The 1yr old and 2 yr old were left alone in a car, for ~~90~~ 150 minutes.

This was negligience long before a child died.

Edit - misread the times, its so much worse.

[–] curbstickle 7 points 1 month ago

Thats what I thought.

Ive seen the "We have salt beads!" one recently, but none with the plastic microbeads.

[–] curbstickle 0 points 1 month ago

My mistake then, it read (to me) like you were saying you down voted once, in each of the communities you were banned from.

Then all I could guess was timing. Multiple communities might depend on what client they are using, but in any case a single downvote to a ban rings as mod silliness to me, I agree.

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