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LukeZaz

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  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • Considering the negative impacts LLMs have on so many facets of life today, that's kinda the problem. Running it locally only solves some of those.

    Fundamentally though, I just don't want the tech involved in my life at all anymore. I don't care if it has a niche use here or not. It can just fuck off.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it's also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

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  • You are aware translation services are available that are neither a local LLM nor Google-owned, yes? We had machine translation before ChatGPT existed, and I don't think that tech evaporated in a sudden fire just because a more harmful option appeared.

    The appropriate option for Mozilla would've been to not include AI at all. If they really, really couldn't have swung that (they could've), then the second best option would be having all AI features set to off-by-default. Instead, we've got on-by-default. That is unambiguously a terrible idea.

  • ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations"

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  • This is a good way to handle the situation and an understandable and believable scenario, so I'm perfectly willing to forgive this. I'm a little less okay with an apparent "work in spite of illness" policy, however.

    But still, it's a serious blunder, and it needs to be said that any repeat of this at all would be very damning. I can't forgive this level of fuckup twice. Any AI use is a risk, folks; treat it like one.

  • ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations"

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  • I don’t believe him.

    I know the internet is full of untrustworthy charlatans, so I can't blame you, but I'm as anti-AI as they come and I do believe him. Mistakes happen, especially in the context of rushed work done while sick. Remember that a lie by a grifter and the truth from an innocent sometimes look exactly the same; effective lies are made off of what was once a truth, after all.

  • The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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  • Just to clarify, we’re only talking about mainstream social media here, right?

    Yes, most discussions of infinite scroll center around this use, and it's what this topic's focused on. I'm aware that other uses exist, but frankly I'm not terribly worried about that. Pagination is a perfectly viable alternative for most every case I can think of that infinite scroll is used in, especially when paired with a half-decent search system, so even if a clumsy blanket ban were applied I think we'd be fine.

  • Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT

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  • I mean hey, by some definitions it'll work! "I didn't check/care that the AI output bullshit" is technically different!

  • The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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  • Were it only that we didn't need to put carets on both sides of every word for one, haha! Ah well, Lemmy issue.

  • The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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  • So, sans much context (short of a quick read on Wikipedia on the Telecommunications Act of 1996), this honestly looks like naive libertarianism, and reads like an obnoxious manifesto. Feels appropriate for the attitude of the 90s, I suppose – from what I know, there was a lot more belief in the internet as a frontier of freedom and justice, then – but it's not so fitting these days. Many of the internet's ills have spawned from an environment of shockingly little regulation, and I'd argue the all-too-common "move fast and break things" paradigm devolved into existence from that, too. Yet this appears to be rebuffing regulation writ large, in some misguided belief that the internet was perfectly fine how it was, would continue to be so forever, and that no positive government intervention was possible — rather than the reality that the internet was flawed, at risk, and that good law was possible if only a state had been willing to pursue such a thing. 1

    Which isn't to say that a low- or even zero-regulation environment can't work. But it needs specific alternatives; you can't just not fix something. And infinite scroll is definitely a something, here. It absolutely contributes to creating an addictive environment while rarely being used for anything good. Personally, even if this letter had aged well, I don't think this would be an appropriate time to reference it.

    1. Some of which was passed in the very law this article so hates! Section 230 comes from the TCA!

  • The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling

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  • That's still a separate issue. Infinite scroll is scarcely ever used in a good way, and is almost always used to encourage addictive behavior; something which affects adults just as much as children. Even on the rare occasion that it isn't being implemented as an engagement tool, it still often ends up being one anyway. It's a dark pattern and little else.

    As far as I'm concerned, banning infinite scroll could easily be a very good thing, and I'm in favor.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • Perfectly valid to be angry about Discord's current behavior, as it's absolutely terrible. I already cancelled my Nitro over this and am actively taking steps to be prepared to leave the whole thing if needed.

    Consequently, it's worth mentioning that I don't actually have any faith whatsoever in Discord's current CEO. It's just important to make sure that when we hate Israel's treatment of Palestine, we don't end up slipping into bigotry towards people just for being from the country and nothing more. Not every Israeli likes Israel's actions. Plenty of teens have chosen prison over IDF draft, for example.

    With regard to that, then: I appreciate the self-awareness and de-escalation. Not easy to do, but always good to see. Thanks for that.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • I thought this comment was going too far when you felt the need to mention they were from Israel, as though merely being born in a country is grounds to hate someone. But Jesus Christ, this is a hell of a lot of assumptions to make based solely on an individual's nationality.

    I hate Israel's genocidal government as much as the next guy, but this is just racism.

    Edit: Author of the above comment has retracted and apologized. Good on them.

  • I feel like leaving lemmy

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  • I'm kinda agreeing with this, but not as much for the reasons others are stating here.

    Lemmy reminds me of reddit moreso in the fact that there is a lot of conversation here that just... isn't really conversation. People read a headline, immediately form conclusions, and slam one-line comments down that state the bare-bones of that without any thought, without even checking if someone else has said the exact same thing.

    And I don't think most of that's bots, either. I think it's the structure of the software. Lemmy seems to be trying to be "reddit, but federated" with absolutely nothing more changed, and I think that's a massive mistake. I've seen what thread-based social media can be like if an attempt is made to actually improve on reddit, and there's several methods of doing so that work. Methods that encourage healthy interaction and behavior instead of whatever drives numbers the most. Beehaw even already implements many of them in the form of its core principles and moderation strategy!

    But that still leaves the software. And the software doesn't seem to give a damn about the problems inherent to downvoting, upvoting, having visible votes on posts at all, having the easiest thing to interact with be the comment box, etc. Lemmy copies an engagement-oriented site without stripping the toxicity of that. And it shows.

    I'm not planning to leave or anything right now – I came here for Beehaw and I still like Beehaw, and I don't browse outside of it – but man if I don't have my frustrations.

  • Bandcamp Bans All Music Made with AI

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  • Your reasoning here appears to be "this solution isn't thorough enough" with a later-added mix-in of "therefore it is all a lie to trick you." Which immediately breaks down, as perfect is not the enemy of good, and even if it was a lie (which is a non-sequitur, by the way) then banning some AI is still better than banning none.

    I'm not gonna debate it, though. I've rewritten this comment three times now because I need to say my piece in a civil manner and that's hard to do when I've just watched someone shit on one of the few pieces of good news I've seen in weeks. I've done that now, so I'm out.

  • ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

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  • which OpenAI designed to feel like a user’s closest confidant.

    "AI safety," they cry, as they design some of the most preposterous and dangerously stupid things imaginable. I swear, Silicon Valley only uses creativity when they want to invent a new kind of Torment Nexus to use as a goal for Q4.

    Making something like this should be a crime. LLMs are not a replacement for therapy and should never be treated like one.

  • ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself

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  • Hard disagree. This is overdone tripe, which is what AI is best at. Hell, it's definitionally overdone — need a large dataset to regurgitate this stuff, after all.

    At any rate, this text got a man killed, so probably best not to praise it.

  • ICE has murdered a citizen live on camera

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  • These aren't rules. What's happening is that you're new to the site and are making some mistakes as a result of a lack of familiarity, which people are noticing. Which is fine. Nobody's pissed at you, so don't take it too seriously.

    Anyway,

    i can’t find any way to update my password so i can’t login on other devices as my password doesn’t work anymore for some reason.

    I don't know if the site you signed up on works the way Beehaw does, but since it's still Lemmy, you should be able to change your password on the right side of the user settings page, which for Beehaw is at https://beehaw.org/settings and so I'd assume a simple, similar URL would be available for your instance.

  • LIVE from the protests in minneapolis

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  • ffs what are you people complaining about? a citizen is murdered LIVE on camera and all you are interested in is my lack of punctuation?

    Yes. I care about that and am furious at my government, but there's nothing I can do about that here except to say that it's horrible. I think it's safe to say we all already agree on that, so what's the point?

    The part I care about here is whether or not you're a real person, which I have more faith in now that you've replied, but which your initial posts absolutely did not give the impression of. So that's what I addressed. As for your capitalization, I don't care. That's Powderhorn's business. Though I genuinely can't tell if the reasoning behind all-lowercase is a joke or not?

    now go fuck yourselves and mind your own fucking business.

    Look, there's probably no way to link the code of conduct for this instance to you in a way that feels respectful, so just humor me and give it a skim, please?

  • YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match

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  • or Brave

    Uuhhh, yeah, no. Don't do this. Librewolf – or really any Firefox browser, even with how Mozilla is right now – is going to be a lot better choice than the homophobia-and-crypto Chromium browser.

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    Don't call it a Substack

    www.anildash.com /2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/
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    I blew the whistle on workplace abuses at ZA/UM. In return, ZA/UM tried to defame me.

    medium.com /@dora.klindzic/i-blew-the-whistle-on-workplace-abuses-at-za-um-in-return-za-um-tried-to-defame-me-7ea1eda847e0
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    That time Chris Hansen & To Catch A Predator kinda killed a guy

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    Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

    apnews.com /article/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-deportation-van-hollen-senator-81cca0ac24a9a312be97c730679f8dd1