theparadox @ theparadox @lemmy.world

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I replied to the following statement:

I could look up my dad's name and all I get are articles about a serial killer who just happened to have the same name

I countered this dismissal by quoting the article, which explains that it was more than just a coincidental name mix up.

You response is not really relevant to my response, unless you are assuming I'm arguing for one side or the other. I'm just informing someone who dismissed the article's headline using an explanation that demonstrated that they didn't bother to read the article.

Nothing is wrong with the tech (except it doesn't seem very useful when you firmly know what it can't do), but everything is wrong with that tech being called artificial intelligence.

If the owners of the technology call it artificial intelligence and hype or sell it as a potential replacement for intelligent human decision making then it should be absolutely be judged on those grounds.

ChatGPT's "made-up horror story" not only hallucinated events that never happened, but it also mixed "clearly identifiable personal data"—such as the actual number and gender of Holmen's children and the name of his hometown—with the "fake information," Noyb's press release said.

Don't know about getting money back, but it is something of a coop. My link includes a recommendation to vote "withhold" in the current election, why they recommend the action, and how to do so.

REI. Just another corporation in a "Good Guy" costume. https://www.ourrei.com/2025-rei-board-elections

Union busting, problematic supply chains, pulling PPE from staff. Hell, officially supporting Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Interior because I guess they can't help themselves.

I try to spend consciously and it's fucking depressing. The list of companies I avoid grows and grows and grows. If it isn't some antisocial billionaires throwing their weight around trying to get more money or change the world to better fit their vision with complete and utter disregard for normal people, it's pressure from the millionaires to increase share value so they can try to get their turn.

The need to increase profit, or more recently increase the rate of growth (the line that shows how fast the line goes up has been discovered so now that line needs to go up), has ruined everything.

If the company isn't completely, directly captured by these antisocial forces they are indirectly captured by the environment that is dominated by those same forces. Monopolies, anticompetitive business practices, hostile takeovers, vulture capitalists, ladder pulling, or just people strapped for cash that just buy whatever is cheaper regardless of the human cost involved.

Now everyone else is being squeezed and struggle to live a decent life or find dignity. Those responsible for this environment just use those struggling people. They'll redirect them to squeezing each other - scams, pyramid schemes, MLMs. They'll keep us fighting amongst ourselves - blame immigrants, minorities, DEI.

Now "AI" is continuing to get hyped and pushed even if it sucks at its job and demands insane amount of energy. It's way cheaper than people, or at least the cost is easier to pass on to others and it might be even cheaper eventually... so everyone is investing in it.

From an American perspective, it's just so much and I feel like things are only getting worse and fast.

There is also the corpo verified id route. In order to avoid the onslaught of AI bots and all that comes with them you'll need to sacrifice freedom, anonymity, and privacy like a good little peasant to prove you aren't a bot.. and so will everyone else. You'll likely be forced to deal with whatever AI bots are forced upon you while within the walls but better an enemy you know I guess?

As another IT guy here, it could also be a shitty method of analysis that he got from ChaptGPT. As an amateur coder/script writer, the kinds of code I've seen people use from these bots is disturbing. One of my coworkers asked me for help after trying to cobble together something from bots. There were variables declared and never used, variables that were never assigned values but that were used in expressions... it was like it attempted to do that ransom note made from magazine letters but they couldn't spell coherently.

he may not have expected such a strong response

I feel that's rapidly become a neoliberal democrat feeling. Not that they'll ever learn from it.

Not yet, but apparently the White House thinks the Panama Canal and Greenland are great excuses for war.

thrown away on a whim?!

It wasn't thrown away on a whim, it was dismissed without prejudice. It was transformed into a gun held to the corrupt mayor's head so that the Trump administration can extract as much value as possible from him while he still has some power.

In my opinion, it's even more fucked up. Double corruption - corruption charges put on hold so that so the defendant can be extorted.

I would say enforcement never prevents any crime and enforcement is about punishment not prevention. So when is it worth it? What level totalitarianism an authoritarianism is worth it? How much abuse and Injustice is necessary to assuage your fears about the other? Surely you're not going to sit here and tell me only fear of punishment is what stops you from murdering people?

What if we focused on resolving systemic issues that might provide motivation to prevent crime? What if we focused on rehabilitation instead of punishment for those that commit crimes anyway?

Sure, you can take any idea to an extreme strawman and shriek things like "authoritarianism!" but that means nothing.

The only AI company that responded to Ars' request to comment was OpenAI, whose spokesperson confirmed that OpenAI is already working on a way to fight tarpitting.

Ah yes. It's extremely common for one of the top companies in an industry to spitefully expend resources fighting the irrelevant efforts of...

One or two people

Please, continue to grace us with you unbiased wisdom. Clearly you've read the article and aren't just trying to simp for AI or start flame wars like a petulant child.

It's important that while we are looking for solutions for the now that we also reflect on how it could have been prevented. If this is burned into our memories, maybe next time someone that represents us gains power we'll force them to prevent something similar from happening again in the future.

Get people outraged about stupid shit while they burn important shit to the ground.

Literally the third paragraph, and they are short paragraphs.

The IRC gets about half of its funding from the US government and part of its work is to help resettle refugees in the US.

If you keep reading...

As a result of the IRC’s suspension of healthcare, hospitals in the refugee camps have had to discharge all their patients except for emergency cases and stop seeing outpatients, according to healthcare officials working in the camps.

While it's not nothing to joke about such things Trump is, intentional or not, a grand master of generating outrage around less meaningful words and actions while work is performed in the background that should really be getting more attention.

It might be on purpose or it might be that he's just being deployed by those manipulating things in the background. He doesn't give a shit so long as he keeping growing his power, money, attention , and fame.

Ah yes, children being told by both their families and society in general that you need to go to college in order to not work a fast food job for the rest of your life agreed to take on the debt. I guess they deserve a lifetime of ballooning debt even though the degree didn't stop wages from staying stagnant and inflation destroying their dream of being as successful as their parents.

Lol, I fixed the auto capitalization but didn't notice the spelling change.

Hopefully it helps the troops make the right call when the orange VP and President Musk declare marshall law.

Kathleen technically fills the specified criteria if you remove the context of the conversation, which is whether or not Lucas shared a morally acceptable portion of the billions of dollars of wealth generated by LucasFilm that he took for himself, including the $4 billion he made personally from it's sale to Disney.

Your other two of your allegedly obvious examples are absolutely not from LucasFilm and one of them has a net worth of $20m, which is definitively not "hundreds of millions".

I presume, therefore, that you either argue in bad faith or don't try very hard. In either case, you aren't worth my time anymore.