• perishthethought@piefed.social
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    mainstream

    I’ll believe that when my sisters start saying this. Till then, it’s just us privacy fans screaming in a dark cave, enjoying the echo.

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      It’s always like this. We get a ton of articles on how everyone is suddenly boycotting/deleting [insert thing] but when you ask someone in real life, they usually have no idea what you’re talking about.

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        so explain it to them gently. you won’t reach everyone, but you’ll reach more people than accepting this status quo

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        The one thing I will say is that there does seem to be a generalized dislike for AI that has all the investors and upper management types nervous. Even by their own studies do people generally either not care about AI in their products or actively dislike it/find it intrusive. There was a study by a phone company from this past summer or fall that concluded that 80% of their users had no interest in AI or found that it actively made their experience worse, and there have been plenty of pretty damning reports about how useful it’s been in various industries (just look at Microslop). That is not conducive to convincing investors to fund your product and does not show a viable path to making a profit in the future.

        We’ve seen similar things happening recently with car manufacturers walking back on their big touchscreens (with some help from regulation in civilized places that care about things like “pedestrian fatalities” - like Europe) due to consumer sentiment. They tried for nearly a decade to push bigger and bigger screens into cars and remove physical buttons, and now they’re moving in the other direction. Completely anecdotal evidence, but the last time I went to buy a car I told the salesman at the dealership that I wasn’t interested in cars newer than a certain year because that was when they increased the size of the screen and put them in a more obnoxious spot on the dashboard, and he said that he heard similar sentiments from practically everybody who came in looking to buy a car - everybody hated the bigger screens.

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      I had a coworker tell me how cool Copilot was because he asked it a question and it found the answer in an email in his outlook mailbox. I thought, “you needed AI to search your email?”

      We are probably cooked.

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      I know what you mean. It’s a pretty vague term though. You could argue that as soon as it enters the midsection of the bell curve at all, it’s “in the mainstream.” It doesn’t have to have captured a full 90% of the bell curve.

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      Sorting my feed by top for not having used Lemmy in a while

      But it did go mainstream enough. It created a user split, and Claude went from niche and for developers to pretty much generally used.

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    Canada recently has had its 2nd worst school shooting ever. The killer had many interactions with ChatGPT that warranted banning her account. A whistleblower has claimed that they wanted to inform Canada’s police force of these comments but were denied by ChatGPT’s management.

    They had a chance to stop the death of 8 people, most of which were young children, but failed to do anything.

    FUCK CHATGPT AND THOSE BASTARDS THAT RUN IT

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      Sam Altman is just some fail upward money guy, he’s been eventually removed from basically every prior position he has held.

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        Seems like his career has largely been lying and making impossible promises, so. The folks who do that well always manage to exit the stage before the magic tincture is revealed to just be piss 🤷‍♂️

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        The more I learn about this guy, the more amazed I am that his staffers stood up for him when he got fired. I guess they just hated the board more.

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      Anthropic is scum, accepting money from foreign dictators, forcing their software on minorities while insisting it was conscious and had emotions just like them, praising the Trump administration, making up scary stories to get more funding…

      …In many ways, they’re worse than OpenAI. They’re just running with the same playbook that Sam Altman used to use to pretend he was a good guy.

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    Use for “all lawful means” is quite the grey area considering no one was arrested or fired, or any law updated, for what Snowden leaked. If the NSA does it, no one will arrest the NSA.

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      I laughed when I read “all lawful means.”

      Those are almost the exact words that you’re supposed to use for a NFA form 1 / 4 when registering certain types of firearms / firearms parts that require a tax stamp, and additional scrutiny.

      When I did my SBR registration, it was “all lawful purposes…” but fuck, close enough…

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    The Department of War isn’t a real thing. Its called The Department of Defense. That’s not my opinion either, its officially/legally called The Department of Defense.

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      I can’t believe now we (Americans) have to pay for it with our tax dollars.

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        Even if there weren’t defense contracts, these companies are enjoying massively reduced water and electricity access, while it becomes more inaccessible and more expensive for everybody else.

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      Many times it’s mandatory. Like when your employer forces it upon you and makes it automatically invoke ChatGPT whenever you open a pull request.

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      🫡 I’m going to try pressure my employer to do the same. Like is this thing saving anybody money??

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    After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

    I think people are a little bit missing the important bit. This government wants to send out autonomous weapons along with mass surveillance. They’ll just murder anyone they want, if the AI gets it right in the first place.

    Here we are in Running Man and no one sees it coming. This is why Stephen King is so against this administration. He predicted it.

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      Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

      Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

      They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

      I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

      OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.

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      A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.

      Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.

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    So many companies are cozying up to the fascist regime as this is the late stage of capitalism.

    A list of some of these companies: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2024200204296061089?s=20

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    I’d argue that an armed uprising would have a greater effect than a smaller internet-based boycott but I’m just some random guy on some niche internet forum so… who’s to say?

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      Quite frankly we don’t have the organizational infrastructure for that. An army, including a rebellion marches on its stomach. Small protest organization feeds into larger scale organization down the road. We’ve got to start somewhere.

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    Dude the only guardrails are

    1. No fully automated killings

    2. No mass surveillance

    You could literally do anything else, you could automate killing people with a person approving.

    Trump booted anthropic because they couldn’t lift these two guardrails. Fuck me