If you defend AI you're dead to me, I don't want anything to do with you, I'm fucking DONE
Same. I've had to go super low contact with one of the last communities I didn't need to be anon with over their fucking AI waifu drivel talk and smug "this is as bad as AI will ever be, it can only progress from here" bullshit. Stupid fucks apparently don't even have enough domain specific knowledge in ANYTHING to verify that LLMs are just stochastic text extruders.
"CHECK THIS CHATLOG OUT SEE! IT HAS A THEORY OF MIND!!IT HAS A WORLD MODEL" FUCK YOUUUUUU COME BACK TO ME WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE HALTING PROBLEM.
My (aussie) boomer lib parents literally think intifada is a call to kill Jews.
Came up after a "SOURCE?!" request to which I responded "probably read it on electronic intifada."
I gave up in frustration, then absolutely seethed for weeks when I realised the thing I'd referenced was actually published in fucking Haaretz. I really fumbled that one.
this was well before the bondi shooting.
edit: I'm self-pissed all over again just thinking about it.
FYI for anyone else trying to get things sorted out around your local areas, the correct protocol is to paint penis graffiti on things that need to be mended / repainted / repaired. You can't just do the labour directly, for all sorts of silly reasons.
Edit: re-reading this thread I decided to double check exactly where Fennec stands in relation to Firefox for Android. The main purpose of Fennec is to remove built in telemetry and proprietary shit.
As I understand it, this means they do tend to keep annoying / waste of time "enhancements" and features in base Firefox, so long as those features can be used with libre (or at least self-hostable) alternative services. So it is basically unopinionated about whether changes to Firefox are good or bad, just whether they can be used without connecting to Mozilla cloud / api shit.
This is arguably what we want most of the time, since you can just not use the features you don't like, but I'm not sure what the implications will be when AI shit gets more tightly integrated.
HOPEFULLY the Fennec team will understand that this proposed AI shit inherently compromises browser privacy, since it adds a layer of built in surveillance by design which, even if you could "swap out" the AI backend, given Firefox's fairly shithouse security would make an architectural change like this into an attack surface with very risky implications for privacy.
This is really important. I see it all the time on the net and even on here very recently.
I don't want to irresponsibly pathologise but you can tell from
<their>
eyes. they've got the same eyes as
<someone I knew who was bad>
its that dead vacant soulless stare
and it's like, bruh, have you never had a bad photo taken? I've never had a good one ffs and I don't have "crazy eyes" or whatever the fuck people think they're able to intuit psychology from.
In my experience a lot of trauma visited on children by their parents is motivated by love and fear. They can't admit their wrongs because their intentions were "pure" or some shit.
I have no words. Death to America, Death to Australia, Death to the Empire (she repeats to herself like a centering mantra almost devoid of meaning at this point.)
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