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  • TIL three silos built at Malley's Chocolate factory were meant to store cocoa, milk, and sugar.

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  • Malley’s does not disclose where they source materials for their chocolates, but they did indicate that their cocoa, milk, and sugar all come from outside of northeast Ohio, bringing a tale of globalization full circle.

    Wait, you're telling me they don't use locally grown cocoa beans from Ohio, a place with a climate wholly unsuited toward cocoa production? Who could have known!?

  • ICE walked into a Mexican restaurant in St Paul, the crowd made them feel so unwelcome, they walked right on back out empty handed.

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  • Yea, Caucasian food only includes things like pizza, which as we all know, is universally hated and enjoyed by no one around the globe. Italian food? French food? All garbage!

  • "capitalism is human nature"

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  • Yea, who needs dumb things like "visible progress within my lifetime"? It barely took 40000 years to go from stone to bronze, that should be good enough for anyone!

  • Cant Decide 🤖

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  • "I'll take people shitting into my mouth over dogs. At least it's real humans doing it."

  • Cant Decide 🤖

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  • Just another flavor of cynicism for me. Before AI, I would look at most "cute" animal videos and just see an animal performing a trained trick under the guise of "Omg, LOOK my dogs love spontaneously hugging each other, isn't that cute??!!"

    People have ALWAYS lied on the internet.

  • Anti-ICE protester blinded by federal agent during demonstration in Santa Ana, family says

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  • Your cynical take is far more optimistic than mine. I am more of the opinion that these incidents will be treated like the race massacres from post-civil war reconstruction: almost entirely forgotten and barely talked about. Actually, it will be even more forgotten than those. People died in those incidents by the thousands. No one is going to remember a few protests with a handful of injuries.

  • What do people like about Star Trek Voyager?

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  • I think Neelix gets the Jar Jar comparison because he's an alien, but I believe there is a worse character on the show that no one ever talks about.

    Tom Paris. I don't understand how this guy is not more disliked by the fanbase. He's the kind of person that would sleep in a racecar bed. Neelix is annoying, but every single scene with Tom is just so fucking awkward. He is a 9 year old in a star fleet officer's body. He'd be tolerable as a side character, but as a main character he's just so grating.

    I'll take Cooking with Neelix over Tom Paris pretending he's Captain Proton.

  • Musk’s Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act | The Tyee

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  • TL;DR at the bottom.

    It's a bit more complex than that, it's not a straightforward text prompt as they did attempt to have filters to prevent stuff like this. However, this being a Musk company, those filters are shitty and people quickly found ways to bypass it, likely through a series of prompts or very highly tailored prompts.

    But thats just the nature of AI. AI generators are never specifically trained using CSAM (at least I really fucking hope not). But neither are they specifically trained to generate giraffes made out of dumplings dancing on the concept of time. However, if you ask it to make the latter, it will dutifully spit out some slop that matches. The point is, AI image generators can make ANYTHING, or at least try to. That's what they do. You can build filters and put in restrictions to try to prevent users from asking it to make certain things, or prevent those things from getting delivered, but the actual ability for the AI to make those things is still there. And due to the black box nature of machine learning, it can never actually be removed.

    Now, there is a VERY big argument to be made against AI as a whole for that reason. If you spend a little while thinking about what it actually means to have something with the ability to create ANYTHING, or at least an approximation of it, you should be scared shitless. The only real safeguards are creating filters on either the input or the output side, but filters can be worked around. You could see it with early versions of things like ChatGPT, where you could create a carefully worded prompt to have it create a duplicate version of itself with the filters removed and return a secondary response from that duplicated instance, leading to it replying to normally off-limit topics (like building explosives or committing suicide) with a generic "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.", followed by another response that gives the full, unredacted answer. Because it always has the ability to create these things, it's just company created filters which stop it from showing them.

    Anyways, this comment has gotten away from me. The point is, it's not really about Grok. It's not really about CSAM. It's about AI as a whole, but that's too big and abstract of a concept for the masses to grasp. So instead we get articles and legislation specifically dealing with one particular issue from one particular program because that's just the first thing people have become outraged at, without seeing the big picture.

    TL;DR: No, it's not as simple as a straightforward prompt, and it's far from just Grok that is at issue.

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • When I can reliably get Game Pass to run on Linux, or if Game Pass becomes not worth it.

  • Musk’s Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act | The Tyee

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  • No, this whole story is a mix of hyperbole and not understanding AI.

    Imagine there was a shitty clothing company that produced a lightweight fabric. Due to piss-poor testing and not actually giving a shit about their customers, it turns out that after a few times in the wash, the clothing essentially disintegrates as you wear it.

    The story breaks, but for some reason, all the headlines all say "Company sells clothing which falls off when little kids wear them, leaving them naked!" While technically true, anyone who spends more than 5 seconds looking into it will recognize how much that headline twists the actual situation. But they print it anyways because people already hate the company and are eager to accept anything negative at face value. Plus, accusing a person or group of child exploitation is a time-honored strategy of criticism because not many people will push back against it as they don't want to be seen as defending child exploitation, even though they're really just pointing out the truth.

  • Blender

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  • Don't breathe this!

    Seriously some of the best marketing. I know almost jack shit about blenders, but as soon as I saw this post, I immediately thought of Blendtec. Why?

    Because I watched the owner demonstrate many times that his blender could turn things like smartphones, other blenders, and even an entire fucking rake into powder. If I'm shopping for a blender, I think I'll go with the one good enough to literally blend other blenders.

  • Bill Clinton faces being held in contempt of Congress after he and Hillary refuse to testify in Epstein inquiry – US politics live

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  • Right. All the people here upset with the Clintons for not going to "explain themselves" are missing the point. They have already tried that route, it led nowhere. Remember how many times Hillary was called in to explain her emails?! Trump and the Republicans decided that Congress has no power and the rule of law doesn't matter. Nobody should comply with them.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • So what?

    Seriously, so what?

    Chatbots have been around for ages, way longer than the current "AI" trend. It's always been possible to get them to say some version of "kill yourself".

    ChatGPT didn't gaslight a guy into killing his mom. A mentally ill man killed his mom. If a fucking chatbot is the thing that triggered it, then anything could have. Same thing with the people killing themselves because a chatbot told them too. That's just cold Darwinism. We didn't suddenly ban Catcher in the Rye because some schizophrenic guy decided it was telling him to kill John Lennon; we recognized that there are simply crazy people in this world who could be set off by anything.

    The "safeguards" you want in place are not feasible because you want them to account for people with mental illness, or people so stupid that something else would have killed them first.

    You want the real story to this article? Dumbass dies from using drugs irresponsibly, parents blame anything they can except their son because they are too blinded by grief to recognize that their precious little junkie was a fucking idiot. ChatGPT did not force him to take drugs. ChatGPT did not supply him with drugs. That was all him. The only one to blame for his death is his dumbass self.

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • People will always find a way to kill themselves no matter how many warnings and guardrails are put into place. This is just Darwinism shaking the tree.

  • Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'

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  • And the source of this belief is... what? The long history of people like this completely getting away with it? Look up how many people were actually prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials compared to the total number of Nazi's. I'd be extremely surprised if even a single dozen ICE members face any consequences.

  • Birth Control

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  • So, until recently, do you honestly believe that they just didn't test female contraceptives? Or do you think they tested them on males instead? Or maybe that argument is a little bit nonsense in this case because while women as a whole are underrepresented in medical testing, the idea that they never, ever, tested on women (especially in the case of drugs exclusively made for women) is a little bit of a ridiculous concept.

  • Birth Control

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  • Man bad.

  • Nobel is out, Leonor is in

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  • Too fucking stupid to recognize that people can't predict the future. Too fucking stubborn to accept that you're wrong when people point out what broken, dumbass logic you're trying to use. You're fucking cooked mate. Maybe get some sleep or grab a snack before you keep trying for the "Dumbest Comment of the Month" award.

  • Perspectives

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  • No, that is not a bright and sunny outlook, no matter how you cut it.

    For those of you cheering on the death of the American Empire and the rise of communism from its ashes... You know you're never going to live to see that day, right? Maybe your children will, more likely your grandchildren if it happens at all. But between now and then, there will be a new Dark Age and it will last for DECADES minimum.

    Get ready for food shortages, water shortages, critical infrastructure like power and Internet going out. Get ready for wars, bloody conflicts, authoritarian crackdowns that make today look like a cordial dinner party.

    Like, you guys get that right? It's not just a switch being flipped. If you want to kill the beast that is the American Empire, it's going to thrash HARD. It's going to cause a LOT of fucking damage during and immediately after its collapse, and it won't be fast. It will be long, slow, and marked with untold amounts of suffering before something, if anything, can be rebuilt.

    Yea, yea, society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they'll never sit under. Just make sure you're ready to struggle for survival for the rest of your life if you really want that shade to exist.

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    Why isn't steam from power plants harnessed, condensed, and used to power gravity fed water turbines?

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    Vampires are evil because they're incapable of self-reflection.