Its great isn't it. We're quite literally paying the price of a speculative bubble generated by some tech giants throwing the same "investment" money around in a loop hoping nobody will notice no actual money is being made
I hate to tell you, but there are plenty of brain-rotted kids out there too. It'll get anyone that spends long enough online.
Social media addiction is plenty real, pretty sure I've got at least a mild case of it - which is why I try to limit how long I spend here and other sites.
Certainly my guess. No way he was actually dumb enough to pay over £600,000 just for an image someone could "steal" 1:1 just by copying and pasting.
It was almost certainly a way to move money somewhere while retaining plausible deniability, just like with all the other scams projects he's been part of over the years
Honestly I don't think that would be enough. Some people just can't put the link between Trump and all this senseless violence together no matter how much it costs them
Trump has literally said that he doesn't intend to let the DOJ go after any of those bloodthirsty hounds.
He doesn't want them on a lead, he wants them as a force to weaponise against his dissenters - the more rabid the better, as it makes people more afraid.
Proton is for data privacy, not true anonymity. They'll keep your data safe from data collectors and the like, but they still have to comply with the law if they want to continue being a business.
So ofc if you pay for your Proton account by conventional means tied to your identity, then your details are tied to your account. Proton says as much on their website.
The only way around that is to use a service like Posteo that accepts posted cash or cryptocurrency - where they physically can't know who you are.
But even then you're busted if you ever access that account without a VPN... which you would also have to pay for with cash or cryptocurrency, and hope to god they have a robust no-logs policy.
Honestly, seeing a stock photo guy or woman in a thumbnail nowadays screams AI-generated content.
I stay away from those at all costs to prevent YouTube deciding to recommend me more
Exactly. At that point the only leverage he had over anyone was the secrets he held on his elite "friends".
There's no reason to think he wouldn't have spilled to save his own skin, so all the more motivation for his elite "friends" to prevent that by force
Do we need to remind people that LLMs don't actually have a brain, and really, really shouldn't be in charge of anything with real life implications?
They aren't actually doing a cost-benefit analysis on the use of Nuclear weapons. They're not weighing up the cost of winning vs. the casualties. They're literally not made for that.
They are trained to know words, and how those words link in with other words.
They're essentially like kids doing escalation of imaginary weapons, and to them nuclear bombs are just a weapon particularly associated with being strong and deadly.
You mean to tell me that all these years of the UK Gov refusing to increasing the NHS's budget to match inflation - in effect cutting their budget - has resulted in worse care outcomes, as it incentivises shorting on staff and cutting corners to meet targets?
Writing rules and procedures can't get you out of a problem caused by said rules and procedures not being followed due to external pressures.
The UK Gov loves to fixate on dealing with symptoms rather than the actual problems behind them, then goes all Surprised Pikachu when their "fixes" don't work. It's been the same routine for decades now.
What a terribly bad faith argument. Not a single bit of that actually matters to the substance of this discussion.
My direct input on this keyboard is what ends up on the screen. My interpretation, my words, my creative decisions (or lack thereof), and my mistakes.
You AI is instructed by you. It takes your words and interprets them according to its own training data. It uses its own words, its creative decisions, and makes its own mistakes.
If you can't see the difference between those two things, and why someone might think a person having done the latter but claiming the former might be seen as insulting, then there's no point in having this discussion.
As I said in my reply directly to you, I don't have an issue with vibe-coding itself.
And I do understand that our interactions of the world are mediated by tools, but those tools are things we use to assist in our direct input.
... And even independent tools like autocompletion requires me to actually type the words I intend to use. I have a direct input on what the autocompletion does, because its completing my words, not typing them for me.
Prompting an AI to do something isn't actually doing the thing, it's managing another entity that does the thing for you.
It's a tool, but it's a tool that thinks entirely for itself.
So when vibe-coders say the "coded" something the AI produced, or vibe-artists say they "drew" something an AI generated, it grinds my gears - because its not the same, and will never be.
If you code enough, if you draw enough, you get better at it. If you prompt an AI enough, you don't get better at either of those things - you just get better at prompting the AI.
Yes, because I directly typed on that keyboard. My fingers pressed each and every key to make each and every letter of this text you're reading.
The keyboard is a tool to interface with a computer, in the same way you need a hammer to push a nail, a screwdriver to drive a screw, or a knife cuts through things.
I didn't ask somebody else to go hammer the nail, screw the screw, or cut the thing then take credit for doing the thing I didn't do.
Managing a process isn't the same as doing the process, and in the same way, prompting an AI to make code for you isn't the same as actually making that code, and never will be.
Edit:
I should say I don't actually have anything against Vibe-coding itself, apart from the environmental implications of AI, and for personal projects I imagine it's probably quite useful.
What grinds my gears is when people say "they" coded something, knowing full well they didn't write a single line of code. It's like Vibe-artists saying they "drew" something DALI made.
Its fine to do it, but just admit that's what you did, rather than trying to take credit for a thing you didn't do.
In the nicest way possible, it's extremely naive to expect that the law makers currently benefitting from this wave of facism are going to make laws that actively hinder them from doing so.
You need a much more honest and socialist government before you get anything close to this ideal.
Its great isn't it. We're quite literally paying the price of a speculative bubble generated by some tech giants throwing the same "investment" money around in a loop hoping nobody will notice no actual money is being made