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So, he became a biological machine to treat people like machines. Sounds like nothing was learned.

Yeah, no. Not buying that Elon is trans.

Trump did an abrupt about-face on Ukraine policy over the last few days and the US is going to start shipping them weapons again.

Did he say all of this, or did he do it?

Because Trump's word is worthless. Less than worthless. Like, inverse debt millionaire worthless. Every time somebody listens to him talk, he actually owes them money.

That's always been the case. Grifters grift, and they have been grifting for thousands of years.

You're never going to find it 100%, but you can at least go back and blacklist who you have seen to be lying. Reputation is more important than ever. Far too many random strangers have been believing every word from other random strangers. This is why I don't understand TikTok or other short-form video formats. Why would you take advice from some creator you've only seen once?

My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.

We're already heading there. But, it's not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they'll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.

You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.

Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I'm using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.

While there may be some truth to this, it completely ignores the cause of the BJ to begin with. It was in fact a rebellion by the people against those tools.

I think his point is that Dune is full of unreliable narrators, and history is written by the victors. Why do we take the Butlerian Jihad at face value? Because other rich elite houses retell the same story and enforce the same rules?

Or maybe the technology really did go too far, but the result was an massive, massive overcorrection that put humanity into another Dark Age.

I don’t think it can simply be repurposed for liberation, that’s a naive interpretation that ignores all of the actual ways in which the current implementations of AI work.

LLMs are a tool, and all tools can be repurposed or repossessed. Open source models and LLM tools are everywhere. Pretending that ChatGPT and other corporate models are the only ones out there are exactly what the corpofacists in power want you to believe.

By ignoring this technology and sticking our fingers in our ears, we are allowing them to reshape out the technology works, instead of molding it for our own purposes. It's not going to go away, and thinking that is just as foolish as believing the Internet is a fad.

Are parts of it overhyped and overblown? Sure. Rich assholes have a knack for taking some concept and hyping it up to a million and under-delivering. But, the technology is still promising enough that it's worth exploring where it can be beneficial, and it's new enough that we can make sure we become a part of the design.

Disgusting AI-generated add for merch halfway through.

The negative preconceived notion bias is really not helping matters.

Meanwhile, in 400 mod land:

Meh, this DLC is pretty good, but I've played SoS2 plenty of times.

To be fair, Microsoft is an indie company that probably can't afford more than one graphic designer.

It's more like it's tyranny of the majority, where some popular style or VFX or meme or dominates the landscape. Figet spinners, Stanley tumblers, bean mouth animation, Vaporwave, that time Terminator 2 came out and everybody was showing off liquid metal VFX like it was out of style, the same thing with VCR screen fuzz on videos now, etc. I think Tiktok has made this problem infinitely worse, since all it takes is some random video to get insanely popular, and suddenly people are consuming some other shitty product, or eating cleaning products, or doing something else fatally stupid.

And yes, it's incredibly easy to download some Ghibli art style. Or any art style, really.

It's more like it's tyranny of the majority, where some popular style or VFX or meme or dominates the landscape. Figet spinners, Stanley tumblers, bean mouth animation, Vaporwave, etc., etc., etc.

And yes, it's incredibly easy to download some Ghibli art style.

Did anybody honestly believe that the Trump administration would release their own incriminating evidence about Epstein? We all know Trump went to that island multiple times, raped underaged girls, and then when Epstein was caught, told his lackey Billy Barr to get rid of them, who then ordered guards in the prison to murder Epstein.

The Trump admin would never admit to any of that, no matter how many times we're going to point to some sliver on a video and say "GOT EM!"