I've heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That's not the case for the rest of us, and I don't know about the rest of you but I can't afford a lawyer.
I was thinking about this today. They even have a thread over at reddit about it. The admins tried to tell people they only permaban after issueing several temp bans.
No they don't. I've only ever gotten permabans. I also don't think anything I did (some angry shitposts. No threats, harassment, or anything like that) deserved a permaban. Like they could have given me a temp ban or a subreddit ban, and I would have been fine with that. They for some reason went nuclear on me and went straight to site-wide permaban. I don't know why, I filed appeals, I sent messages. I tried to reason with them. Nothing. They go nuclear as standard practice and are completely inflexible about it.
Maybe not, but there are plenty of small niche communities that only exist at reddit. I'm a fan of some games like Voices of the Void, which has a dedicated reddit community that doesn't exist anywhere else. Also Isekai Demon Waifu, which recently shut down also has a community at reddit.
Lemmy has some generalized gaming communities but nothing like the thousands and thousands of small niche communities that exist over at reddit.
I supported DOGE's mission to cut federal spending and honestly I think DOGE was the last chance to save our Republic. The fact is the USA is a late-stage Republic and with every multi-trillion dollar spending bill we are witnessing the end of the Republic. Trump's "big beautiful bill" is going to cost 3.8 trillion dollars. Remember the COVID inflation? It's about to get even worse than that. Every new spending bill is bigger than the last, and pushes us deeper into the death spiral of hyperinflation. We are following in the same footsteps of every failed Republic before us. The Romans debased their currency, the Weimar Republic tried to print their way out. We are next.
I see a lot of left-wingers comparing this administration to Palpatine in star wars. What if I told you DOGE was the last effort to avoid a Palpatine scenario?
There are too many cronies in Washington DC. Too many entitled people who think they deserve wealth and power, who stuff our spending bills full of pork. The spending will be cut, but we had a choice. We could choose to cut spending willingly and preserve the current system, or we could go full steam ahead into hyperinflation and destroy the system, resulting in the collapse of the dollar. DOGE wanted the fed to cut spending willingly. Musk wanted to preserve the system. Now we will realize the alternative.
I suspect this has more to do with an increase of soft drink and energy drink consumption, causing people to drink less water. Supplements shouldn't be any more harmful to you than the food you eat. Linking it to supplements is an example of correlation does not mean causation, and I think big pharma has an axe to grind because they can't patent most supplements.
There could be two ways to address this problem. One is asteroid mining, which has the potential to be extremely lucrative because there are lots of asteroids with huge metal deposits.
I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I've been banned for "multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts" or something like that, which I think means they're keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.
But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn't deserved to be banned, then I wasn't breaking any rules by posting on alts.
It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I've informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I've suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?
We could build Sword Art Online, but I think we all know that this technology will be used to beam ads directly into your head 24/7. You won't be able to sleep because of the penis enhancement ads.
I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it's still banned. There's no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.
Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It's basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.
No that's not how it works. AI models don't carry a repository of images. They use algorithms. The model itself is a few gigabytes where as the training data would be petabytes - far larger than I could fit on my home desktop running stable diffusion.
It actually is close to how humans do it. You're thinking "it's copying that image" and it's not. It's using algorithms to create an image in a similar style. It knows different artistic styles because it has been fed a repository of millions of images in that style and can generate similar images in that style.
As for copyright, it was recently all over social media that AI could copy studio ghibli's art style. To the rage of social media and their fanbase, this is allowed. Studio Ghibli can't copyright an art style, and that's why AI image generators continue to include the option to generate art in that art style.
It's not an issue to me, and is completely befuddling to begin with. Training an AI on copyrighted material doesn't mean the AI violates that material when it generates new artwork. AI models don't contain a copy of all the works they were trained on - which could be petabytes of data. They reduce what they learned to math algorithms and use those algorithms to generate new stuff.
Humans work much the same way. We are all exposed to copyrighted material all the time, and when we create new artwork a lot of the ideas churning inside our heads originate from other people's works. When a human artist draws a mouse man smiling and whistling a tune, for some reason it's not considered a copyright violation as long as it doesn't strictly resemble mickey mouse. But when an AI generates a mouse man smiling and whistling a tune? Suddenly the anti-AI crowd points at it and screams about it violating Disney IP.
It's not an issue. It never was. AI training is a strawman argument manufactured by the anti-AI crowd to justify their hatred of AI. If you created an AI trained on public domain stuff, they would still hate it. They would just clutch at some other reason.
A few days ago there was a thread on reddit about a kid wandering onto a track and an athlete sprinted into him. I think it was in r/kidsarefuckingstupid and I made the comment that in roman times, they likely would have fed the kid to the lions (which is something they did to people in the colliseum)
Got slapped with a site-wide ban. I appealed, and explained that I wasn't wishing harm upon the kid, just making an observation that his behavior wouldn't have been considered acceptable in the old days. I apologized.
Nothing. No response. I suspect the appeal page doesn't even work. I don't think they read it or care about it.
I've tried creating alt accounts but they all get banned almost immediately. I think I basically have an IP ban.
The fact that they ban me, for making a snide comment that is twisted into a "threat" but then don't actually ban people for making real, legitimate threats? That's fucking wild.
Same thing happened to me. I admit I'll rage post sometimes and sure I might deserve a subreddit ban here or there. But I've never done anything worthy of a site-wide ban. But the reddit admins act like dictators on a power trip. They LOVE to slap people with site-wide bans. For no good reason, and I don't understand it. The admins have turned the whole site toxic, and places like Lemmy are a direct response to their insane powertripping.
Right now it sucks. Reddit is still the most popular forum on the internet. I pray that someday it won't be.
Right now I can't afford a car. The USA is over 30 trillion dollars in debt and can't provide quality employment for its own citizens, yet keeps importing illegals in mass because our business owners are desperate to exploit people for less than minimum wage.
We're heading towards a collapse at full speed, with or without AI. I think a collapse is necessary. The current system so completely corrupt and self-serving and causes so much harm for the majority of our citizens that I think the best thing to do is burn it to the ground and start over with something different.
All I can say, is that I take note that humans seem inherently unable to govern themselves effectively. Our history is a long line of failed nations and we have never built a government that won't collapse into bloody revolution. We have never built an economy that won't concentrate all wealth into the hands of a despot or oligarch, and we have never had truly compassionate government that actually cares about the people. Nor do I think we have ever had true representative government, and that every republic has worn the veil of democracy all the while empowering a class of super-wealthy oligarchs.
I think there is merit in creating a new government run by AI. No emotion, no greed, no smug self-entitlement. No scorn for the lower classes. No institutionalized classism. A government run by entities that operate according to pure reason. It would be the closest thing to Plato's original vision for a society run by philosophers.
I'm still using an ancient version of Winamp. I think it's some version of winamp 5.
If it keeps working I'm going to keep using it. Your mp3 player doesn't need to go online it just needs to play your mp3 files. Why would it ever need to be updated?
I am strongly pro-AI, but right now I would say it's not as good as a one-on-one experience with a knowledgeable human teacher. A human teacher can still see where you are struggling and help you work through the difficulty. Right now AI can belch out a correct answer, even write entire essays and computer programs, but can't as easily work with you one and one, read your body language, see the confusion in your eyes, and help you understand the thing you don't understand.
But it will happen. Eventually we will get AI-powered androids. I can't wait for the day I get my fembot, with a body built for loving and a head full of all the knowledge of the internet, able to teach me anything I want, help me with my studies, teach me new skills, and also cook and clean. Life will drastically change for the better for all us miserable antisocials, social rejects, and autists.
I've heard that certain well-connected people have been banned, like wall street people and politicians, but they know who to call at reddit HQ and get themselves unbanned. That's not the case for the rest of us, and I don't know about the rest of you but I can't afford a lawyer.