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atrielienz

@ atrielienz @lemmy.world

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  • A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class.

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  • So when a kid commits suicide because the Generative AI LLM agreed with him in a harmful way?

    Edit: In before someone says something about how the gun manufacturers still shouldn't be held accountable.

    Gen AI LLM's in this instance are products working as intended/designed, and are being used in a way that the manufacturer knows is harmful and admits is damaging. They also admit that there are no laws to safeguard persons against how the AI is designed, implemented etc and these things don't even have warning labels.

    Guns by contrast have lots of laws involving how and where they can be sold and accessed, as well as by whom, and with respect to informing the user of the dangers. You don't sign a EULA or a TOS when you buy a gun, waiving your rights to sue. You don't agree to only arbitration.

  • Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators

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  • I could see them trying to make the claim that it is good for the environment because there's a lot of metals that go into those engines, and I'm sure that recycling them isn't really feasible in an environmentally friendly way. To add to that, it depends entirely on how they change out the fuel systems and such but that may not even make up for the cost of running them.

    There's also noise pollution to consider (assuming they actually switch the fuel to something renewable, which I will press [X] to doubt).

  • Gaming Copilot is Watching You

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  • Not 9/10. They literally say in the article they will use the collected data to train their AI.

  • Thoughts on Philips Hue Lights

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  • I have 19 of the Hue bulbs in my home, all running off a Hue bridge using Home Assistant. This was easy to setup, and basically I haven't had any issues with them in the almost 8 years I've owned them. I have four Hue switches and an android tablet for control of the other lights, and Home Assistant runs off a raspberry Pi.

    I don't think I can really help you much though because I bought my setup mostly on sale and haven't had other brands of bulbs or switches.

    I will warn that Phillips also sells a whiz brand bulb and this product doesn't run off zigbee and pretty much requires an internet connection to work. Do not be fooled by the cheaper prices.

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    Nicotine?

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  • My sister (who also has ADHD and has only been diagnosed for about 2 years now), sent me this. She thinks it may help, but your mileage may vary greatly.

  • Question for people running default Androids

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  • Don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Google here because honestly, Google definitely is an ad aggregation company first and foremost and the android ecosystem as well as its other apps and services are all aimed towards augmenting or facilitating that business.

    But Apple absolutely are also in the ad aggregation business and not only do they take kickbacks from Google in order to make Google the default search app on their I-devices, but they also have been fined for illegally collecting user data for targeted ads without user consent.

    They absolutely do harvest user data for the purposes of ad aggregation. Their "ethos" of user privacy should not be trusted and anyone who thinks they're the good guy in this space should probably do some research into this subject.

    https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163

    https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

    https://www.androidpolice.com/apple-google-meta-handing-over-user-data-at-alarming-rate/

    https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/apple-wiretap-settlement-privacy/

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • Am_ I? Chastising those on Lemmy for using AI, are they the cause of the dead internet theory? Or is that caused by bot farms manipulating social media algorithms? Just because a hammer builds weapons doesn't mean one should ban the hammer.

    You are when you rob those sites of impressions and click throughs. Just because there are other things contributing to the death of the internet, doesn't mean that you get to move goal posts. This is a significant acceleration of the progress of both enshittification of the web and bot driven dead Internet theory.

    You seem to be all for that because somehow you think the Internet can only be improved by removing humans from it and replacing it with bots? Is that what you mean when you say:

    I disagree, AI is likely a solution to worsening forums and the like - boring old repeated questions will be answered by AI, anything more unique and interesting will be asked of real people.

    Because there won't be a place for real people when the internet is just bots and the AI has killed every forum in existence, which is what I was talking about when I pointed out that the AI is both inaccurate but also robbing sites of their revenue and visitors.

    The difference is that the bubble that burst in the 80's wasn't caused by McDonald's. In point of fact, McDonald's was seeing significant growth then, and has largely been recession proof from the looks of things.

    This AI bubble is dangerous because investment brokers and venture capitalists are putting up money saved in 401K's and IRA's and investing those funds in AI. When AI crashes that money goes poof.

    speculative investment into AI development is now the dominant force driving the US economy. By the numbers, the US GDP has grown at a rate of 1.6 percent so far this year, on pace to hit the 2.8 percent growth it achieved in 2024. That’s all well and good on paper, except for the troubling fact that two-thirds of that growth came from AI, per WaPo‘s analysis.

    Consumers spending is down significantly due to tariffs and other bullshit. Consumer spending is normally what drives GDP growth in the USA by quite a large margin quarter over quarter. The AI boom has supplanted it in a very short period of time at such a large margin that it's unheard of.

    You should probably go look up how much money is being invested in LLM's and how much money it's making the companies investing in it. Because it's pretty far into the red and it's not sustainable even if all 8 billion of us started paying for subs for it, so long as we can't make it more accurate (and as the Internet dies it will get less accurate), and we can't figure out a way to prevent it from hallucinating when it doesn't have accurate info.

    I'm also going to point out how ironic it is that at the end of that you both told me to get with the times and called me an old man, as if in this day and age in 2025 there aren't women on the internet. That's a beautiful self own, if I do say so myself. Very nice work.

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • Because once you recognize that using it is helping along the death of the internet, you start to maybe sort of not want to contribute to the sites you like visiting being scraped for information that when presented to you by a fancy statistics algorithm may not even be correct.

    But also because I like learning things and the process of gathering information and vetting it is both easier and better in quality than can be received from and LLM. Or if it isn't, a simple search engine query will suffice.

    I'm also going to point out that this isn't even the only thing wrong with LLM's.

    When this bubble bursts going to wipe out the 401K's and IRA's of Americans saving for retirement (the ones that are lucky enough to be able to save) and tank the economy. The largest companies in the world are playing a stock market shell game with other people's money and it's gonna end badly.

  • Issues with android auto

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  • Have you tried contacting the dealership to see if there's a defect or a problem you aren't aware of?

    Also, have you tried a different phone? Had a friend try to use their phone to connect and make a call using voice commands?

  • Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot

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  • The resources that the LLM you used are pulling from will cease to exist and the LLM will continue to degrade in usefulness as a result the longer people like you do not engage the actual content being collated by the LLM. This is a zero sum game. The LLM is not sustainable long term for various reasons, up to and including how it's funded and the fact that its data set is dependent on the websites and resources of other sites where humans engage with each other and the LLM is actively choking off those resources.

  • Issues with android auto

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  • Are there any updates for the vehicle's unfortunately infotainment system?

    Are there any updates for your phone?

    Is your phone hooked up to Android Auto via physical cable or via Bluetooth?

    Are there any settings on the vehicles infotainment system you can set or change?

    Are you using a voice assistant like Gemini? If so, have you trained a voice model?

  • Wall of sorrow

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  • Emotional damage goes both ways.

  • Google reportedly searching for 15 Pixel “Superfans” to test unreleased phones

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  • I was basically forced to upgrade to the 9 pro from the 8 when I dropped my phone about 25". I could either pay to have the shattered screen replaced or pay for a 9 pro with the discount. I immediately realized just how invasive Gemini had gotten and I miss my 8 every day. The 7 was too big for me, but it was a solid phone.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • Nope. It's not. I had to follow multiple guides and use three different utilities including power shell, group policy editor, and regedit, and even then I didn't get rid of everything until I got tired of them fucking with shit and used shutup10++ to just toggle everything off. And I'm lucky enough to only have windows on my work computer at this point and to have admin rights to that computer. This shit is exhausting. Every update breaks something new and brings back shit I have been trying to nuke from orbit.

  • Black Homeowners Receive Higher Appraisal After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members

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  • Hollywood pushes OpenAI for consent

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  • They probably shouldn't have released sora at all if they were worried about supporting the bill.

  • Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions

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  • Did they defend MS and Crowdstrike?

  • Hundreds of Instagram accounts push graphic real-life violence to millions, CBS News finds

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  • I feel this way about a lot of stuff including fail compilation videos. I don't know why they exist and I'm glad I don't use social media anymore because they're so prevalent. I don't want to watch someone get seriously injured or die. No thanks.

  • As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

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  • I use Bazzite. I like it a lot.