Did you get "the talk" as a kid?
ameancow @ ameancow @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 1,136Joined 1 yr. ago
Guess it’s vodka o’clock.
This reads like one of those reddit posts on like, /r/memes where some 17-year-old posts a meme or wojack of eye rolling exasperation that politics exist and people are talking about the world.
That said, yeah lets drink.
I mean, you're absolutely right, there's no need to do things by the book when you never picked up the book in the first place.
That's all complacent liberal America wants to hear, that there's NO formal declaration of martial law, thus everything must be fine!
This is going out to all my lib friends
You can name it whatever you want, and I highly encourage people to be critical of the tech, but this is so we get better products, not to make it "go away."
It's not going away. Nothing you or anyone else, no matter how many people join in the campaign, will put this back in the toothpaste tube. Short of total civilizational collapse, this is here to stay. We need to work to change it to something useful and better. Not just "BLEGH" on it without offering solutions. Or you will get left behind.
I'm a huge critic of the AI industry and the products they're pushing on us... but even I will push back on this kind of blind, mindless hate from that user without offering any explanation or reasoning. It's literally as bad as the cultists who think their AI Jesus will emerge any day now and literally make them fabulously wealthy.
This is a technology that's not going away, it will only change and evolve and spread throughout the world and all the systems that connect us. For better or worse. If you want to succeed and maybe even survive in the future we're going to have to learn to be a LOT more adaptable than that user above you.
I disagree and have also done plenty of reading on the topic.
I don't disagree to say that "you're wrong and even wild silly things are possible!" but I'm saying that it's a lot more accurate to say that we don't know what real-world systems can and cannot do. Your model is from a pure mathematical and physical point of view, which would be correct. But we don't know if our knowledge of quantum mechanics and physics broadly is even complete (probably not) so I have grown quite fond of the far more succinct answer of "I don't know."
Generally people get really invested in this because it either validates or invalidates some belief, mystical or material, about the universe, but I don't think it's an answerable question until we find out if infinities can even exist in a tangible way. Most likely not, at least in our limited understanding.
My money is on thinly veiled racism like "The National Purity Patrol" or "American Neighborhood Street Cleaners"
Yet more evidence that Americans can't identify threats with even a shred of accuracy.
Like, when we were all saying "He's gonna be a dictator!" and he was all like "I'm gonna be a dictator!" and then he gets into office and starts doing a dictatorship suddenly everyone is 😮
Silly Americans are so new at this.
No, you see that's when they announce martial law and roll out the ol' Death Squads (they'll have a patriotic name) to enforce the "new order" on the populace.
Americans gonna be shouting "Wait, this is illegal!"
Americans are still going "CAN THEY DO THAT???" every day.
When they announce martial law, people are still going to be like "Well, this is not good, I'm going to rethink my vote!"
If you're using the thing to write your work emails, you're probably so bad at your job that you won't last anyway. Being able to write a clear, effective message is not a skill, it's a basic function like walking. Asking a machine to do it for you just hurts yourself more than anything.
That said, it can be very useful for coding, for analyzing large contracts and agreements and providing summaries of huge datasets, it can help in designing slide shows when you have to do weekly power-points and other small-scale tasks that make your day go faster.
I find it hilarious how many people try to make the thing do ALL their work for them and end up looking like idiots as it blows up in their face.
See, LLM's will never be smarter than you personally, they are tools for amplifying your own cognition and abilities, but few people use them that way, most people think it's already alive and can make meaning for them. It's not, it's a mirror. You wouldn't put a hand-mirror on your work chair and leave it to finish out your day.
If I learned a friend generated AI trash for their blog, they wouldn’t be my friend much longer.
This makes you a pretty shitty friend.
I mean, I cannot stand AI slop and have no sympathy for people who get ridiculed for using it to produce content... but it's different if it's a friend, jesus christ, what kind of giant dick do you have to be to throw away a friendship because someone wanted to use a shortcut to get results for their own personal project? That's supremely performative. I don't care for the current AI content but I wouldn't say something like this thinking it makes me sound cool.
I miss when adults existed.
edit: i love that there's three people who read this and said "Well I never! I would CERTAINLY sever a friendship because someone used an AI product for their own project! " Meanwhile we're all wondering why people are so fucking lonely right now.
I don't really care what anyone wants to call it anymore, people who make this correction are usually pretty firmly against the idea of it even being a thing, but again, it doesn't matter what anyone thinks about it or what we call it, because the race is still happening whether we like it or not.
If you're annoyed with the sea of LLM content and generated "art" and the tired way people are abusing ChatGTP, welcome to the club. Most of us are.
But that doesn't mean that every major nation and corporation in the world isn't still scrambling to claim the most powerful, most intelligent machines they can produce, because everyone knows that this technology is here to stay and it's only going to keep getting worked on. I have no idea where it's going or what it will become, but the toothpaste is out and there's no putting it back.
I hate to break it to you, but AI isn't going anywhere, it's only going to accelerate. There is no comparison to NFT's.
Hint: the major governments of the world were never scrambling to produce the best, most powerful NFT's.
I am one of the biggest critics of AI, but yeah, it's NOT going anywhere.
The toothpaste is out, and every nation on Earth is scrambling to get the best, smartest, most capable systems in their hands. We're in the middle of an actual arms-race here and the general public is too caught up on the question of if a realistic rendering of Lola Bunny in lingerie is considered "real art."
The Chat GTP/LLM shit that we're swimming in is just the surface-level annoying marketing for what may be our last invention as a species.
I am not a woman but I have many female friends and family members and a partner who talk about the things they deal with, so let me give a few examples of things you may deal with as a woman online or off, in increasing levels of severity and threat level:
- Being condescended to and ignored, talked over and interrupted constantly.
- Being excluded from things and patronized for wanting to talk about certain topics or activities.
- Guys who cannot stop making sexual advances and sexual comments and have to try to steer every conversation towards sex. Always cracking sexual jokes towards women and looking for a response.
- Getting sent dick pics and other pornographic imagery without prompt or reason.
- Guys in gaming groups or discord servers who act friendly and slowly become more and more obsessive and threatening and feel entitled to your attention.
- Men who fully act normal and decent and integrate into a social group but have secret obsessive impulses and they try to spread rumors and lies about the woman or women in their circle, creating stories to try to isolate the girl they're interested in, or attempts to get the female members of the group ejected because they feel insecure around them.
- Men who can't distinguish between being friends and being intimate, and suddenly feel like they're your boyfriend and entitled to know everything you do and everywhere you go, making threats to harm themselves or you if you don't reciprocate the "relationship."
- Stalkers who find your personal information online and send you pictures from your social media or other personal items to show that they know where you live.
- Being followed home or stalked by actual people who find out who you are.
There are a lot of social "rules" that women have to deal with, and a lot of men aren't even aware of them. Like how they never leave drinks unattended when out with friends. When being dropped off at their house, they ask the driver to wait until they get all the way inside with the door closed before the driver leaves.
I often hesitate to give these kinds of examples because invariably there will be someone who claims it's all lies or exaggerated, or they dismiss it and say "I wish I got that kind of attention online!" and other mind-meltingly dense, stupid or aggressive takes. This is why I asked if you have talked to real women you know about their experiences, because they don't talk about this stuff, particularly online to people they aren't close to. As soon as you get close to any women you learn exactly how much sexual predation they endure their whole lives and yeah, they do "get used it" in that they don't go around telling everyone about every interaction. 1 out of 5 women are raped or have been assaulted/attempted rape. Of these victims, 1 out of 3 had it happen between ages of 11 and 17.
Most women who are murdered are murdered by a spouse, boyfriend, acquaintance or someone who met them once or twice.
Women have very good reason to feel afraid of strangers, online or off, if you're actually interested in learning more and reading actual examples there is a WEALTH of information online and plenty of women's stories on major forums, from Lemmy to Reddit to twitter threads.
There are a lot of things you probably aren't even aware of that are normal for women, I would really encourage you to broaden your social sphere and make friends of other genders and backgrounds and listen to what other people deal with.
You probably don't even know how much harassment and threats you would face just being a woman online, it's not exaggerated, there are a LOT of people who really enjoy making women feel unsafe, it's a game to them. Most girls I know hide their identities online and pretend to be men. Imagine not being able to express yourself freely even on the internet because you don't want to feel unsafe or hated.
Our nation still has the delusion of "Someone is coming to save us."
I look behind us and I just see a red road. It's all red lines, all the way back.
My parents raised me out in the wilderness in a literal compound and hour from the nearest convenience store with no phone or even a mailbox.
So yeah.... I had to learn everything about the world through a little black-and-white TV in my room that had big ol' rabbit ear antenna that if I moved just right, I could get PBS from another town that had a lot of educational programming. As long as it wasn't about "evolution" they were fine with me watching PBS.
If it wasn't for PBS I would probably be dead. Seriously, that life doesn't do a person well, both my parents and a sibling drank themselves to death, others are on the way. I however, learned science, and biology, and how to read and how to do math and a host of other topics that I am going to be an eternal sponsor of PBS for. There was one special that explained sex to some degree, but was still heavily censored. My parents were too busy being high and religious to dream of having an awkward talk with their son, so I was totally on my own.
Thankfully, I learned where to find the "relationship" books on my rare ventures into town to visit places like bookstores and managed to learn a lot about sex from pilfering a book from the sex and relationship section and reading it in the kid's books section.