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  • AngryGF, which offers its users the uniquely unpleasant experience of getting yelled at via messages from a fake person.

    Is this the point where the Singularity bros claim that the first iteration of the Matrix where everyone was happy was rejected so naturally the only way to make it work is to introduce suffering?

  • I used to believe public institutions like the WHO wouldn't jump onto any stupid bandwagon, but here we are.

    But at least they acknowledge it's all bullshit on their own website, lol.

    WHO takes no responsibility for any conversation content created by Generative AI. Furthermore, the conversation content created by Generative AI in no way represents or comprises the views or beliefs of WHO, and WHO does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of any conversation content. Please check the WHO website for the most accurate information. By using WHO Sarah, you understand and agree that you should not rely on the answers generated as the sole source of truth or factual information, or as a substitute for professional advice.

  • So apparently when you install Logitech's mouse driver software, it'll now come with Logi AI Prompt Builder.

    Mastering prompt building enhances your efficiency and creativity.

    Did you know that 9/10 promptfondlers use a mouse?

  • Chief Vision Officer sounds like a fluff title you give to an old senior partner you can’t legally fire but want to keep as far away from any daily business as possible.

  • Microsoft is trying so fucking hard to push AI that it's become pathetic at this point.

    For some reason I still get those stupid GitHub emails even though I think I've unsubscribed from them ten times already, and it's always the same crap about "93% of developers agree that AI is making them 67% more efficient", or "86% of code is now written with the help of Copilot", or "420% of our users generate sexy catgirl porn on company time". And there's never a source for these numbers.

    Meanwhile, even the most AI-hyped marketing bozos in our company agree that Copilot is fucking useless. Even asking it so sum of some Excel rows takes more time than just writing the stupid macro yourself, and you have to double-check the macro it writes anyway.

    This really has shitty Kickstarter vibes, where they make up even more insane crap every update just to get people to pledge more while they're burning through their funds without delivering anything they promised.

    It annoyed me enough to move my own repos all over to Codeberg, so I guess that's something at least.

  • Ilya Sutskever also sings AGI chants in the lab and continues to suck major VC dick together with Altman to get more of that sweet moolah to keep developing their chatbots.

    Even though he’s apparently very concerned about extinction risks.

    In other news, please give me money so I can build a nuke in my basement, which might be powerful enough to blow up the planet, and I’m very concerned it will, trust me, I totally am, but don’t forget to give me money because otherwise I can’t build that nuke that I’m very honestly concerned about.

    Also that nuke might be slightly sentient if you squint.

  • Ah, damn, I even read that post. Must’ve slipped my mind because I just saw this on Reddit.

  • Hey Clippy, write my paper for me.

    Source (the paragraph right before the conclusion).

  • I hate that you can't mention the Fermi paradox anymore without someone throwing AI into the mix. There's so much more interesting discussions to have about this than the idea that we're all gonna be paperclipped by some future iteration of spicy autocomplete.

    But what's even worse is that those munted dickheads will then claim that they have also found the solution to the Fermi paradox, which is, of course, to give more money to them so they can make their shitty products even worse safer.

    Also:

    AI could spell the end of intelligence on Earth (including AI) [...]

    Somehow Clippy 9000 that's clever enough to outsmart the entirety of the human race because it's playing 4D chess with multiverse time travel, is, at the same time, too stupid to come up with any plan that doesn't kill itself in the end, too?

  • Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

    It’s not indexable and therefore not searchable by non-members; the content is on a remote server and they reserve the right to delete it any point; it’s a nightmare to backup; and the client itself is a fucking slap in the face in terms of accessibility. They only recently introduced colorblind-friendly modes, and they actually removed the option to choose a dyslexia-friendly font, while their standard font is fucking atrocious.

    There’s really absolutely no reason why you would ever use a service like Discord over a discussion forum, and yet people do that more and more and I find it completely baffling.

  • I was delighted to find a sci-fi story hidden between pages full of AI shilling on the website, and then disappointed because it's not even funny-bad.

  • Fix the bug that you get logged out when refreshing the page sometimes -- I've noticed this on both Firefox and Safari. The token still exists (at least it's present in document.cookie as jwt), but for some reason it doesn't get sent anymore, so Lemmy thinks you've been logged out.

    I've actually looked into this already, but didn't get very far, especially because it doesn't even happen all the time.

    Honestly, just storing it in localStorage instead of as a cookie might work ...

  • The wort part is that I really can't tell if the text on that page was written by spicy autocomplete or some marketing clown who's freebasing coke before lunch.

    Experience the ultimate skill mastery like being plugged into a Matrix-like machine!

    They didn't even watch the movie, did they?

  • Maybe don’t install shady crypto extensions next time. Or don’t log into your wallet in public WiFi just so you can accidentally show off to the person sitting behind you at Starbucks.

  • Jesus Christ, this guy read A Modest Proposal and took it as fucking inspiration.

    Why is it always eugenics and euthanasia with these chucklefucks? The idea of exterminating large amounts of humans seems to tickle something in some people’s brains.

  • I stand by my opinion that SEO basically ruined the internet. First keyword optimization made me scroll through seventeen paragraphs of someone's life story before getting to a recipe for boiled eggs, and now this.

    Why would someone go to the trouble of making a law firm out of NameCheap, stock art, and AI images (and seemingly copy) to send quasi-legal demands to site owners? Backlinks, that's why.

    Oof, back in the day all we had to do was write a nice email to get someone to put a backlink to our page into the sidebar of their Geocities page.

  • I smell bullshit written by spicy autocomplete, or at the very least it has LLM drivel pasted into it in various places.

    In Europe, GDPR directives are important drivers which will become more stringent in the coming years. Better decentralization will enable higher security especially in terms of availability for this critical domain.

    Lol what? The EPRS has quite unambiguously stated that there are multiple points of tension between blockchain tech and the GDPR, and that "decentralization == security" is a false assumption for various reasons. There's also the elephant in the room that every person maintains the right to all copies of their data at all times (mainly articles 16 and 17 GDPR), which is a problem if it exists in an uneditable distributed ledger.

    The conclusion of that study was, and I quote, "that it is not possible to assess the compatibility between 'the blockchain' and EU data protection law", and the only reason why it even might be compatible is mainly because of "the uncertain definition of 'erasure' in Article 17 GDPR". But even then they only admit that there could by hypothetical beneficial use cases but fail to find any with current blockchain tech.

    Source: Blockchain and the General Data Protection

  • I swear, OpenAI is just a bunch of clowns LARPing as a company from Shadowrun and somehow it works and no one questions it.

  • I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …

    From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.

  • He seems to have the same amount of brain cells as a GPT at least.